Next Avengers Heroes of Remnant
ESKK: Well the next chapter is here let's begin Excelsior!
*Insert Fight as One by Bad City
Start the opening music as the scene showed Vale as smoke rose from a distance showing it was under attack. Then it showed a large Grimm roaming about it roaring before it fired a beam from its maw causing the building major damage.
-Our world's about to break! Tormented and attacked!-
The screen began showing Weiss Schnee at the SDC Vale Branch during her visit from Beacon as she observed the attack before taking her leave to suit up. The scene then showed a man in disguise before his eyes glowed green. He then proceeded to turn into a green muscle bound for before roaring out.
Weiss hand was then scene in some skin tight suit as she moved the scene to show another one.
-Lost from when we wake! With no way to go back-
The scene then showed James as he had the Star Shield out and the Widow Magnum and fired at the Grimm and threw his shield at some White Fang Members. The scene then showed Torunn flying in the sky summoning thunder as Salem and Cinder were nearby and afar observing and glaring at her. She summoned forth Thunder before flying to the fight with the after image of Asgard in the place of Vale.
Weiss hand then appeared again before she showed the image of Azari, Pym, and Hawkeye in action as Pym went big smashing the smaller Grimm before going small to take down the Fang. Hawkeye with his new Bow and Arrow set fired off his Arrows showing them to be more like his fathers each with a different gadget to it. Following it up Azari charged in with thunder surrounding him before he mauled a few Grimm before spin kicking the White Fang who attacked.
-I'm standing on my own! But now I'm not alone! (Avengers Assemble)-
The scene was then moved by Weiss once more before she armored up in her Mk 7 armor before she launched through the tunnel.
-Always we will fight as one! Till the battle's won! With evil on the run! We never come undone!-
The scene began to show the group fighting off both Grimm and White Fang member as well as a few other foes about. James threw his shield and even converted the Widow Magnum into a sword slashing through his foes while holding back against the Fang and humans. The new Hulk came in smashing the foes as Pym flew and ran around in his small form before going big again. He then went for the big ones with Hulk before Tureen flew in.
-Assemble, we are strong! Forever fight as one! Assembled we are strong! Forever fight as one!-
Weiss or Iron Heart was then joined by the rest of Team RWBY as the team worked together taking on any foe they came across. Tureen and Cinder were seen duking it out with Ruby helping Torunn. Torunn fired off a powerful thunder blast from her sword as Cinder fired her strongest fire blast causing the two powers to struggle to overpower the other. Ruby then came in and broke the fight up before smiling to Tureen.
Ruby then ran over to James before helping him out as the two stood back to back taking on the Grimm side by side. Following, this up was Yang and Hulk both smashing to their hearts content before the two knuckle bumped each other. Next up was Azari as he and Blake worked in true symmetry as the Black Panther and Black Cat proved to be a powerful duo here. Pym was then seen helping out Weiss before Tureen came in to provide her support with James. Weiss fired a repulse beam at James causing it to reflect off his shield hitting the Grimm nearby.
The scene began to end with the two groups gathered around while glaring at the Grimm and White Fang surrounding them. The Grimm roared out but the Team was ready because despite being from separate world these Avengers had Assembled.
*End Opening Sequence
(Start Beacon Academy Air Docks)
The Air Ships were coming in for a landing as once they were docked the vomiting boy was he first to come out and vomit into the nearby trashcan as next was James and Pym, who returned to his normal size, and finally was Ruby and Yang departing the airship.
"Wow this sight never ends does it?" Pym asked as he saw the school before him.
"Yeah way better then Ultra City right?" James joked wondering where Azari, Francis, and Torunn was.
Ruby was amazed by the sight of Beacon and they were just in the entrance yard. "Well sights in Vale has nothing on this." Yang said just as potential students and returning students passed them and Ruby saw the weapons they carried.
"Look that girl has classical staff." Ruby said before looking at another. "And that guy has a fire sword." Ruby said with a smile only for Yang to grab Ruby's hood.
"Easy there little sister there just weapons." Yang said assuring Ruby they weren't real people.
"Just weapons?! There an extension of ourselves a part of us oh there so cool!" Ruby gushed as James and Pym looked at her with concern.
"Here! Here!" Came Torunn's voice as the two saw and were met with Torunn.
"Oh you have a cool looking sword!" Ruby called out looking to Torunn.
"Hey Torunn." James greeted as Yang saw the two knew each other.
"Wow over compensating is your sister?" Yang asked to which Torun glared at her.
"Over compensating for what?" Torunn asked clearly not liking what Yang was implying.
"I mean the Gold armor and cape there… kind of seems presumptuous of you?" Yang asked to which Torunn was about ready to go off on Yang.
"I'll have you know that my Asgardian garb was a gift from my father as proof that I had faced my own humanity where others had failed and earned my place as a Warrior of Asgard." Torunn called out but then Yang smirked.
"Oh so gold armor from daddy man you must be loaded." Yang said unaware what she was messing with.
"The richest of Asgard know no bound no hold thy tongue before I remove it for, ye!" Torunn yelled but Yang smirked.
"Try it bet that sword isn't as heavy as it looks!" Yang yelled as Ruby realized where this was going.
"Very well come and try!" Torunn yelled before stabbing the sword into the ground.
"Oh boy." Pym said realizing where this was going.
"What?" Ruby asked confused as to what was going on.
"You'll see." James said as Yang smirked to this.
"To easy." Yang said but the minute her hand touched the handle Torunn smirked. Yang then pulled but the sword would not budge for her. "Huh?" Yang asked as she tried to pull it again which served to anger her. "Come on why won't, you budge!?" Yang struggled as Ruby was shocked by this.
"Wow." Ruby said never once seeing Yang struggle to lift something.
Soon Yang's eyes turned from violet to red as her hair began to flare out showing her semblance was being activated. The ground beneath Yang's feet began to break while she struggled to even attempt lifting the sword in question. Soon she reached that peak and roared out before her hands slipped off followed by her semblance blowing up around her. Yang got back on her feet and glared at the sword and the smirking Torunn.
"How can you lift that thing!?" Yang demanded as Torunn then began to walk to her sword.
"Simple answer." Torunn began before pulling her sword back out and swinging it with ease before sheathing it. "You're not worthy." Torunn taunted but before Yang could punch her James jumped in and blocked it with his shield Yang was shot back by her own attack due to the Vibranium in the shield.
"Calm down and cool down both of you!" James called out as things began to calm down.
"Nice trick goldilocks." Yang said as she smirked at Torunn.
"Aye but we can agree I'm stronger, goldilocks." Torunn replied before the two had a brother like handshake.
"In your dreams girl." Yang said as the two shook hands as it was clear what happened.
"Oh my god I think Torunn met another Torunn." Pym said as he knew once these two hit Beacon… it may end up with a higher expense for classroom repairs.
"Oh that's her name." Ruby said as she looked to Torunn noticing this. "Yeah she and Yang are gonna get along great. It's like Yang met Yang." Ruby said with a big smile on her face as James and Pym were both afraid of them getting along.
"I'm scared." Pym confessed as Ruby was confused how these two meeting would be a bad thing for everyone involved.
"So… why do you like weapons so much?" James asked as Ruby looked to him as Yang and Torunn were having some kind of sister bonding moment right about now.
"It's like meeting new people… but better." Ruby said but James then gave her a playful look.
"So I'm guessing you didn't like meeting me and some of my friends." James teased a bit before Pym joined in.
"I'm hurt." Pym said while play pouting causing Ruby to go wide eyed at this.
"Wait I didn't mean it like that. I mean it's like your meeting the person who made the weapon through said weapon. I mean it's an extension of yourself and designed after you." Ruby said before James gave one a go.
"Then Widow Magnum and Star Shield say hi to Ruby and tell them all about myself and my dad." James said as Ruby was now blushing in embarrassment.
"Yang can you stop flirting with Torunn and helm me out a bit… meeting new people sucks." Ruby complained but then Yang and Torunn pulled a fast one.
"Well actually, I'm going to introduce Torunn to my friends who are here then meet her other friends. Gotta go catch up and introduce. 'Kay, see ya, bye!" Yang said in a blur as she and Torunn went off with Yang's friends to do the whole meet and greet as they passed by Ruby and the two Avengers causing them to spin out.
Ruby got dizzy-eyes as she said, "Wait, where are you going?! Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing." and with that Ruby fell over backwards before Rey could catch her as she landed in a set of luggage which was followed by someone yelling, "What are you doing?!"
Ruby got up and was shocked she knocked over a crabby looking girl in white's luggage. James of course kept his footing and managed to grab Pym before he fell but the damage was already done. "Uh, sorry." Ruby apologized as she looked at her screw up.
"Sorry? Do you have any idea the damage you could've caused?" The girl asked revealing it to be Weiss.
But then Ruby realized who Weiss was as she then had a fangirl scream causing Weiss to be shocked. "Oh my god your Weiss Schnee AKA Ironheart!" Ruby called out as Weiss was in shock but began to calm down as Ruby quickly took out her scroll. "What did you use to make the Ironheart armor? Is it true when they say the Mk. 1 armor was made welding and putting together random junk that you then used to escape the White Fang?! Also how many armors DO you have?!" Ruby fired off questions left and right as Weiss tried to keep up but then began to calm down.
'Iron Heart?' James and Pym both wondered as they remembered Tony and from what they were hearing Weiss and Tony shared a similar Origin Story.
"Um well… I can't give you exact details but after the Mk.1 and Mk.2 armors I started using an iron like alloy that to handle an icing problem I had when going upper orbit. Though I won't reveal much on it the fact is thanks to this action I had hatched a few ideas with General Ironwood to start mass upgrades to the CCT Towers." Weiss said almost boasting about this achievement. "No spoilers but let's just say we've been working on a little project that could make the CCT Towers a thing of the past." Weiss boasted as James and Pym heard this.
"Sounds like she's talking about a Satellite." Pym whispered when she heard Weiss boastfulness about her achievements thus far before Ruby noticed the briefcase she was holding.
"Oh is that one of the armors?" Ruby asked looking at the case in question as Weiss looked.
"Oh this… well for the time being it's a surprise." Weiss countered but Ruby had one more question on her long list of Ironheart questions.
"Is it true Atlas and your 'brother,' tried to take your Ironheart Armor using legal means and you basically ousted the White Fang, and other criminal groups trying to mimic the Ironheart armor with your brother being chief among them." Ruby asked as she wanted to see the good in people but Whitely was making that debatable to which Weiss sighed.
"Regrettably yes. In fact I've had to deal with my brother trying 24/7 to steal my armor specs that I had to transfer all the data to a different server altogether." Weiss said happy to meet a fan.
"Awesome… oh by the way!" Ruby called out before going into her bag and pulling out papers and stuff. "I know it's not much or even worth your time but I had these ideas for your armor please take them!" Ruby called out as Weiss sighed and took them and actually was surprised when she saw them.
"Wow… I have to admit… these are some well-designed and thought out armor ideas." Weiss said taking note of each of them. "Wait what's this one?" She asked looking at an image of an armor fighting a crazed Yang.
"Um the um Yang-Buster I had the idea when I was having a, um tantrum when I couldn't beat my elder sister Yang in a spar." Ruby confessed as Weiss looked it over.
"Your sister can absorb attacks made on her and use it to fuel her semblance so the more she takes damage the stronger she gets." Weiss summarize while reading the specks. "This armor idea uses that by absorbing kinetic attacks to charge up the power and systems and in turn redirect's the force back at the attacker which would be your sister Yang hence the name Yang-Buster." Weiss said to which Ruby smiled at this. "Question are you by chance available to meet later you really have some well thought out ideas especially this one." Weiss said gesturing to what James and Pym saw as roller-skates for the armor.
"Weiss." Came a new voice as Ruby and Weiss looked and saw Blake walking up to them.
"Oh Blake hey." Weiss greeted remembering the Faunus Girl who went traitor on the White Fang. "How is… how is he doing?" Weiss asked referring to Adam.
"Well the strings you pulled helped… but he didn't take the plea even when I tried to talk him into it… last I heard it's a debate whether to put him in an asylum or in prison." Blake said knowing Adam was in deep trouble and he won't accept anyone's help even the Lawyer Weiss got him.
"I'm sorry I did the best I could but." Weiss began but Blake turned her head.
"No its ok I have to accept he may be too far gone." Blake confirmed as Weiss nodded.
"Um… what?" Ruby asked as James saw this with Pym.
"Oh sorry I need to leave now but hopefully we can talk later these designs can really help me later." Weiss said as Ruby nodded to this.
"Ok best friend!" Ruby called out as Weiss took her leave. "Best first day EVER!" Ruby cheered as James smiled a bit.
"Glad you're enjoying it then." James said as he was having a good time himself.
Ruby then turned to the other girl before she started speaking. "So what's." Ruby began but the black haired girl was already walking away.
Ruby's mood then changed as James saw this as did Pym. "Jeez mood went down to depressing real fast. And I thought only I had that power." Pym said whole looking to James.
Ruby then fell to her knees and onto her back as she looked at the sky. "Welcome to Beacon." She said as things were catching up to her. James of course responded by sitting next to her and grabbing blades of grass and started dropping them on her face as Ruby got the joke there. That was when a shadow came over her as she looked and saw the blond haired guy from before but now Ruby saw his eye color which was blue as he put hand to her.
"Hey... I'm Jaune." He said as Ruby got up and took his hand.
"Ruby." She introduced as she took his hand and was helped up.
"James." James said as he got back up before Pym shrunk down and went to Jaune's face.
"I'm Pym." Pym greeted while surprising Jaune a bit but miraculously managed to keep his footing.
That was when Ruby realized something. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?" Ruby asked as she and Rey both remembered that guys from before.
(Later)
James, Pym, Ruby, and Jaune were walking through the academy together as Jaune was trying to explain the vomiting. "All I'm saying is motion sickness is a much more common problem then people let on." Jaune said as Ruby looked with an apologetic look.
"Sorry vomit boy was the first thing that came to mind." Ruby said as the two walked down the stone path.
"Hey be glad it didn't go the other way." James joked as Jaune rolled his eyes a bit.
"Oh hah-hah very funny." Jaune said but he was grateful it wasn't diarrhea otherwise he would never be able to show his face in Beacon ever again. "Anyway my name is Jaune Arc. It's short, sweet, and rolls off the tongue as girls love it that way." Jaune said his name as he was proud of it.
"Do they?" Ruby asked with Jaune slump down and said, "They will well at least I hope they will." Ruby giggle at that, as the two keep on walking down the path.
"I mean, my mom always says that... never mind." Jaune said as they continued walking.
After like 5 minutes of silence things were getting awkward fast, so Ruby thought she would try something as she pulls out her weapon, Crescent Rose, and said, "So…um, I got this thing."
As her weapon in compacted mode, change into a scythe mode, to every part of it was custom made, as Jaune stare in awe at it as he asked, "Is- is that a scythe?"
"Ah-hu, it's also Customizable, high impacted sniper rifle," Ruby said as she change it to sniper mode as she gave a cock to it.
"Ah what?" Jaune asked as he was lost there.
"It's also a gun." Ruby said after cocking the weapon.
"Oh... that's cool." Jaune said as he liked it as soon eyes were on James.
"Well I got this shield." James said pulling out the Vibranium shield AKA the Star Spangled Shield.
"Oh what does it do?" Ruby asked before James smirked and threw it like a Frisbee again seeing it ricocheted off the trees and back to his waiting arms.
"Does that answer your question?" James asked as Ruby was star eyed at it.
"Yeah it's made of a metal that absorbs vibrations and kinetic force allowing it to pull that move off." Pym said before James showed off the Widow Magnum.
"And I have this weapon I call it Widow Magnum." James said as Ruby saw the weapon in question.
"Cool what does it do?" Ruby asked before it extended into a sword.
"Nice." Jaune said before eyes ended up on Pym.
"What?" Pym asked as the bee themed boy was confused.
"What you packing?" Ruby asked to which Pym then realized where this was going and shrunk down.
"Wow." Ruby said before Jaune yelped as Pym stung him with his stingers.
"Yeah I got stingers the power of it varies on my size. But my size doesn't tamper with my density so right now I have the density of a bullet as so." Pym said before he grabbed Jaune's finger and to his shock he was flipped over by Pym.
"Why me?!" Jaune called from the ground before he began to get back up.
"You were just there and available." Pym said while he returned to his normal size.
"Pym." James scolded as Pym then got the guilty look like a parent scolding there kids.
"Sorry." Pym said as Jaune was back on his feet.
Soon Ruby, James, and Pym looked over to Jaune as he knew he was next now. "What do you have?" Ruby asked as she was curious to see what Jaune was packing for some weapons and wondering how it compares to the other three.
"Ah… I have a sword," Jaune as he pull out his weapon and it was just a plain old sword that have seen better days.
"Ooooh." Ruby said impressed before Jaune took the sheath.
"Got a shield too." Jaune said as when he too pressed a button it extended into a shield.
"Cool what does it do?" Ruby asked as she touched it on the button causing it to fall out of Jaune's hand before shrinking to its sheath form but he was fumbling with it as it shifted between sword and shield before he finally grabbed it as its shield before turning it to it sheath.
"Well he shield gets smaller." He began while he turned the shield into a sheath. "So when I get tired of carrying it I can just put it away." Jaune said as Ruby looked.
"But wouldn't it weight the same?" Ruby asked as Jaune slumped down to this.
"Yeah it does." He said as Ruby laughed a bit at Jaune's response
"I guess I a dork when it comes to weapon I did go a little overboard when designing it." Ruby said as Jaune was shocked.
"Wait you made it?" Jaune asked as Ruby smiled.
"Of course all students at Signal forge their own weapons." Ruby said as she looked at Jaune. "Didn't you make yours?" Ruby asked confused.
"It's a hand-me-down my great, great grandfather used it to fight in the war." Jaune said as Ruby had a joke.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me." Ruby said before seeing the look on Jaune's face and saw it had sentimental meaning to him. "Well I like it not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." Ruby said as she put her weapon away.
"Yeah the classics." Jaune said sadly as it seems he was hiding something.
"So why did you help me out back there?" Ruby asked as Jaune looked to her and shrugged a bit.
"Eh why not my mom always said strangers are friends you haven't met yet." Jaune said with a shrug as Ruby nodded smiling happy that someone wanted to be friends with her here.
"Hey um sorry to interrupt but… does anyone know where we're going?" Pym asked as he looked around noticing they were alone right now.
"Wait I was just following Ruby on this one." James confessed as Ruby was just as lost here also.
"Not a clue. Do you know?" Ruby asked as she looked to Jaune as she wanted some answers as well.
"Oh I don't know I was following you." Jaune said as that left one thought in both their heads. "Do you think there might me a directory, or a food court, or even a recognizable landmark?" Jaune asked as Ruby giggled. "Is that a no?" Jaune asked as Ruby looked.
"That's a no." Ruby said as it was official they were lost.
(Scene Break Forest)
Forest had his office and classroom set up and was grateful to be given a less frustrating class to teach. Now while Peter was the teacher in tactics and Oobleck was teaching history Forest was given a more first aid sort of class. Forest was basically teaching the weapon maintenance class seeing as this would help keep the other guy at bay he was grateful for it. Sure he doubled as Beacon on hand 'nurse,' and did a tad bit of ground keeping for his Zen it was a pretty good spot. Plus since Ozpin was paying him if he had to book it and run he can at least have funds.
"Forest." Glynda was heard as she walked in while Forest was not surprised.
"Hello Glynda." Forest greeted while looking to his old flame.
"I assume your adjusting well here." Glynda said remembering why Forest had basically dumped her.
"Yeah… no incidents so no Hulk." Forest responded as he finished the last of his set up.
"Did you look back?" Glynda asked out of nowhere getting Forest attention.
"Huh?" He asked confused by this.
"When we broke up… did you look back?" Glynda asked as Forest saw there was no walking away.
"I… I did." Forest said before he continued. "And as much as I'd like to we can't be you know… with the Hulk inside me I have to do everything I can to keep the Hulk locked away." Forest said making sacrifices for the sake of others. The Hulk was far too unpredictable to be allowed to roam freely.
"I see… thank you for your time." Glynda said before she began to walk away… but as she did Forest against his better judgment took a glance torts her and saw the way she walked. It seemed she still had feelings for him… and Forest shared them as well. But it wouldn't work for either of them he didn't want to put her in danger every day of her life fearing he may lose control and the Hulk would come out. He had seen the damage the Hulk caused and the fact he was a Gama radiated Grimm Magnet the Hulk was better off locked away if not completely destroyed.
"I'm sorry." Forest said knowing the Hulk… had to be locked away and in turn Forest had to live his life… alone and isolated from others for their own safety.
(Later Back with the Others)
The Group arrived at what looked like auditorium as Ruby looked around. "Hey Ruby I saved you a spot!" Yang called as Ruby looked to Jaune.
"Hey I got to go catch up with my sister see ya." Ruby said before she left to go join her elder half-sister Yang.
"Wait." Jaune called trying to stop her. "Great where am I supposed to find a quirky girl to talk to?" Jaune asked as he walked away to reveal a red headed woman dressed in light battle armor like a Greek Warrior.
"Hey James! Pym! Over here!" Azari called from another location as the two saw this and saw he was with Francis and Torunn.
"Oh there's our friends." Pym said as he then shrunk down and flew over to them.
"We'll see you later Jaune." James said taking his leave of Jaune.
"Wait come on!" Jaune called out as he was left alone before sulking off to be by himself.
(With Ruby)
Meanwhile Ruby and Yang met back up as they sat together as sisters. "How's your first day going, little sister?" Yang asked as she looked to her younger sister.
"You mean since you ditched me?!" Ruby began with an accusing tone torts Yang. "Awesome! I met Ironheart!" Ruby called out as she grinned to her sister.
"No way!" Yang called out before Ruby nodded.
"Yeap I didn't get a picture with her but she started out crabby when I fell into her stuff and when I realized who she was she got nice fast. Then I showed her some suit designs and she said they were good ideas!" Ruby called out as Yang didn't believe it even if it was her sister.
"Are you trying to pull my leg?" Yang asked as she smirked at the young Huntress.
"As if! I didn't get to see her armor but she's like my BFF now." Ruby boasted not realizing Weiss was standing right behind her.
"You!" Weiss began as Ruby once more fangirl squealed.
"Weiss!" She cheered as Weiss then passed over the papers Ruby had given her before. "Huh?" Ruby asked before Weiss spoke up.
"Already made digital copies of those and already sent them to my AI butler to start constructing them. I figured you'd want the hard copies back." Weiss said passing the papers over to Ruby making sure to keep the 'Yang-Buster,' armor from the top.
"Oh thank you!" Ruby cheered as Weiss smiled a bit before Yang came in.
"He can we see you in your armor?!" Yang asked wanting to see the Ironheart Armor in action.
"Maybe during initiation." Weiss said as she'd rather not bring the armor in just for show. The Last time she did that was during the previous Schnee Dust Corporation science expo this year.
"Dammit." Yang cursed unaware that Weiss was making an armor to counter her back at her lab.
(With the Avengers)
"So how's the first day going?" Francis said as he looked over to James and Pym.
"Pretty good surprisingly." James said as he looked to their Teams Hawkeye. "What about you guys?" James asked before Francis pointed his thumb to some girls and looked to them.
"Hey." Francis said causing the girls to swoon at the blond haired bad boy.
"Um why are they doing that?" Pym asked to which James sighed.
"When you're older." James said knowing Pym didn't have to worry about that right now till much later.
"Well Yang and her cohorts hath proven to be excellent company to have around." Torunn said as she looked to James and Pym before eyes fell to Azari.
"I bonded with the Faunus here." Azari said as he looked to his friends and teammates here.
"Don't go furry on us then Azari." Francis joked to which Azari rolled his eyes in response to Francis' joke.
"Anyway guys remember when the God of Light told us about Ironheart?" James asked as the group nodded in response. "We found her." James said as the group was shocked knowing this meant that all that was needed was the Hulk and they'd have the Avengers Assembled.
But soon enough as everyone face the stage, as the two sister and four guys looked and listen as Ozpin said to everyone, "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people, and for the few others to find themselves of where they stand. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction, and others discipline."
Students started whisper among themselves as they wonder what Ozpin is meaning as it seem to be almost in riddles as he went on saying, "You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far or keep you standing for so long. It is up to you to take the first step, and that first step begins with you."
Ozpin look to the Next Avengers as it seems somewhat of what he said is meant for them. Ozpin left the mic and Glynda took over as she announce, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."
"Well that was… ominous." Francis said as he looked to his friends.
"Yeah it seemed like he wasn't fully there." Azari said as he saw his friends agreed with him here.
But before anything else could be said Jaune appeared as he looked torts Torunn. "You know I'm a natural Blond." Jaune said as Francis stepped back knowing Torun had this.
The Asgardian then proceeded to punch Jaune, square in the face causing him to spin a bit before he fell down possible knocked out.
(Back with Ruby and the others)
Yang looked to the group and share a thought as she said, "He seemed kind of... off."
"It's almost like he wasn't even there," Ruby said as well as did the other guys thought the same thing. It appeared that the Avengers weren't alone in such thought to which Weiss made a mental note to do a background check on Ozpin when she got the chance.
She then looked over to Torunn just as she punched Jaune to which Weiss rolled her eyes and walked away to where she loaded her spar Ironheart armor.
(Scene Break that Night Ball Room)
Ruby was writing her letters to her friends back at Signal as soon Yang was heard. "It's like a big Slumber party!" Yang called jumping down next to Ruby.
"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys, though." Ruby said as she looked around.
"I know I do." Yang said as she purred at the strong boys walking around. Her eyes then fell to James who was in plain Pajama's before eyes caught Francis as he walked around shirtless heading to his sleeping bag. But her fun ended just as Jaune walked by in an onesies set as Yang had cringed at first but then looked to Ruby.
"What's that?" Yang asked her younger half-sister.
"A letter to the gang back at Signal. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going," Ruby said as she does got friends with her at beacon, but leaving a lot of them behind at Signal and didn't want to leave out of touch with them.
Yang smile as she said, "That so cuuuute!" Then suddenly she got hit by a pillow thrown from Ruby as she said to her sister, "Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends with me to school! It's weird not knowing anyone."
"What about Jaune? He's... nice!" Yang offered as Aster was nearby writing his own journal as he got ready to sleep. "There you go! Plus one friend! That's a 100 percent increase." Yang praised as Ruby then shifted to her back. "Plus we got Torunn, James, and Pym to boot 3 more friends a grand total of 400%." Yang cheered trying to get Ruby to cheer up about this.
"Look, its only be one day. Trust me, you've got friends all around you. You just haven't met them yet." Yang offered as she tried to cheer Ruby up but she then turned away as she was about to try to sleep when she heard a match being lit and looked and in turn saw Blake as she was reading.
"It's that girl." Ruby said as she remembered how Blake and Weiss talked earlier today.
"You know them?" Yang asked as she looked to her sister.
"Not really but she and Weiss seem to know each other. But she left before I could say anything to her" Ruby said wondering what that was all about.
"Well, now's your chance." Yang said as she then grabbed Ruby by the hand dragging her over to Blake much to Ruby's shock.
"Hey, wait! What are you doing?!" Ruby asked in shock as she was being dragged by Yang.
(With Blake)
Meanwhile Blake saw the approaching duo as Yang smiled at her while walking torts them. "Helloooooo!" Yang greeted in a sing-song voice as she looked to the Faunus girl. "I believe you two may know each other." Yang offered as Blake saw her.
"Aren't you that girl that had a fangirl moment around Weiss Schnee?" Blake asked as she looked to Ruby.
But Ruby then proceeded with the conversation knowing it was purpose to make new friends. "My name's Ruby." Ruby introduced herself as Blake didn't really care at the moment.
"Ok." Blake answered as she just kept reading her book before bed.
"So what are your names?" Yang asked hoping to get the ball rolling for Ruby.
"Blake." The hidden Faunus introduced as she kept reading her book.
"Well, Blake, I'm Yang. Ruby's older sister" Yang introduced as she pointed her thumb to herself. "I like your bow." Yang said looking to Blake who was starting to get annoyed by Yang.
"Thanks." Blake responded to Yang hoping she would go away already.
"It goes great with your… pajamas." Yang said as she looked to Blake trying to offer her the hand of friendship.
"Right…" Blake said as they began to see this may be a lost cause.
"Nice night, don't you think." Yang offered not being one to give up so easily.
"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book…" Blake began as she looked to the smiling trio. "That I will continue to read…" She continued as they were still there. "As soon as you leave." Blake said as she began to get back to her reading material.
"Yeah this girl is a lost cause let go Ruby." Yang said before Ruby spoke up seeing something she could use to make Blake into her friend.
"What's it about?" Ruby asked as she looked to Blake.
"Huh?" She asked as Ruby continued to clarify what she meant.
"The book what is it about? Does it have a name?" Ruby asked as the Faunus girl looked to Ruby in shock and surprise.
"Well it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control of his body." Blake said as she looked to the duo as Ruby listened with Yang caught in the middle of it.
"Oh yeah that's real lovely." Yang said as she wasn't a major fan of books as Ruby walked forward.
"I love books, Yang use to read to me every night before bed stories of heroes saving people, there one of the reasons I want to be a huntress." Ruby explained as the girl was amused in a good way.
"And why's that, hoping you will live happily ever after?" The girl asked as Ruby smiled.
I'm hoping we all will. As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, someone who fought for what was right and protected people who couldn't protect themselves." Ruby explained as the girl lowered her book and looked at Ruby.
"That's very ambitious for a child unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale." Blake said before Ruby spoke up again.
"That's why we're all here to make the world a little better." Ruby said as she smiled a bit wanting to do just that.
"Oh I'm so proud of my baby sister." Yang said while hugging her sister.
"Hey cut it out." Ruby said as smoke picked up from a fight as cats were heard.
"Ruby and Yang it's a pleasure to." Blake began before Weiss appeared.
"What is going on over here don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?!" Weiss scolded as she was dressed in her night gown as the Arc Reactor on her chest glowed through the fabric.
"Yang shush she's right people are trying to sleep." Ruby said as she looked to her sister.
"At least someone is listening." Weiss said as she looked over to Ruby.
"What about me?!" Yang asked as it began to devolve into an argument.
"I barely even know either of you. I only know Ruby a bit more because of the armor designs she had." Weiss said as it seems Yang was the target of Weiss ere now.
"Hey I'm trying to be nice here!" Yang countered before Weiss spoke up.
"Then be nice and go to sleep!" Weiss argued before Flint was heard.
"Hey would you all go to sleep before you keep the entire room up all night?!" Francis called out looked over to the trio.
(Back with Avengers)
Azari had set up a hammock for, himself was James set up his alarm clock for the morning wake up call. "James you still can't get up on your own?" Azari asked seeing this.
"Hey habits like that die hard." James argued a bit looking to his friend.
"Wouldn't blame him can you imagine what I'd had done to have a chance to do that while under Ultron's rule?" Francis asked remembering the killer robot Tony had created and the world it had created that killed off all of the original Avengers members.
"So any ideas how to locate the Infinity Stones?" Torunn asked looking to James.
"I'm working on something but it's hard since these things could be anywhere on Remnant and beyond." Pym said knowing it would be like finding a needle in a haystack considering the Dust Crystals out there.
"We'll have to try our best then but we still don't know if it's Thanos who's getting the Stones or someone else completely." James said knowing how locating the Infinity Stones could become difficult fast.
"And if it is someone or something else then we'll need to be ready for what they may try to use." Azari added knowing the Danger the Infinity Stones poses if held in the hands of someone similar to Thanos.
"But can we pull it off?" Pym asked knowing the stories and rather not take on someone like Thanos in his lifetime.
"We'll have to… because if we don't then everyone is gone." James said knowing full well that they had to succeed less they find themselves facing the possible end of life on Remnant.
"Look let's just hit the hay I'm tired and we need to get up early tomorrow." Francis said knowing full well that the initiation was tomorrow morning.
"Agreed." Torunn said as she went to her own sleeping bag as they all needed there rest now.
But unaware to them evil forces were moving in the shadows outside anyone's notice.
(Scene Break Atlas Schnee Estate)
Whitely had managed to break into Weiss's workshop using less then legal means but it was worth the profit. But when he got inside needless to say he was quiet peeved. Apparently his sister had the foresight to clear her workshop of her armors and wipe the drives clean while transferring the armor data's to another serve altogether. All this struggle and it was for nothing he couldn't comprehend how his sister had been 5 steps ahead of him every time.
Whitely was alone so he did the one thing he knew he could do without being judged for it. He roared in pure rage at how he was ousted by his sister of all people. How could she run the Schnee name through the mud as she has?! Their father was a great man and she refused to see that. The Ironheart armor and the Ironmonger armor would have placed Atlas as the supreme military superpower since the Great War. But instead she, hordes her armor designs and goes as far as to use it to help others with no financial gain.
The Faunus and the White Fang were responsible for this. They brainwashed her away from their father's ways and what was worst she even sympathized with those animals. James and Winter were moronic fools for not forcing Weiss to surrender the armor designs and now here he was scrounging around his elder sisters left overs like some sort of runt or rodent. He then roared out and tossed down a machine and from it he saw something. In the mass on the floor he saw that his sister had left behind one of her unfinished works.
Whitely walked over to it and moved the papers and saw it was the Armor Specs. For the Mk. 3 armor. This was the Armor that began Weiss's career as Ironheart and in turn began her personal line of Ironheart armors. He then took the speck and put it on an empty desk and grab some pens and papers. He smirked a bit before he began drawing on it some 'modifications,' to the suit. Using the Mk.3 as a basis he began changing a few things mainly size and appearance. Once he was done he crossed out Ironheart Mk.3 and put a new name in.
"Titanium Man." Whitely said as he knew Weiss got sloppy a bit thinking, she one upped him. His access to Nicholas Schnee's Ark Reactor project which began Weiss's project may be denied… but it's a wonder what one can do when asking the right people.
He took the specs and knew exactly who to call on such a matter as he knew this man had been hounding for the armor for some time now. He took out his scroll and dialed the number before he got an answer. "Mr. Watts… I got good news… and bad news… bad news Weiss took the specs with her… but the good news is she left some behind." He began as Watts chuckled on his end. "I will say that with your aid and the aid of your 'benefactors,' that Project Titanium is a go with only one stipulation… I get to wear the suit." Whitely said while walking away as here would be the birth of Titanium-Man.
If he couldn't beat Weiss in corporate then he will beat her at her own game. Fight fire with fire or in this case metal with metal. So he will be the one to fight his sister head on her obsolete Iron vs his Titanium of the future.
(Watts)
Watts sat in his office already compiling the files on the children as gathered. So far they each proved to be anomalies in Remnant and he has taken into consideration at how unlikely it may be they may in fact be from beyond Remnant. Factoring this in Torunn may not even be a Maiden and if this is the case that means she would prove to be the biggest of threats to the mistress.
Weiss Schnee AKA Ironheart has also proven to be a nuisance with the fact she had upgraded the CCT's firewalls Watts had to work around the clock to build a whole new virus to hack into the CCT Towers before the Vytal Festival. The girl was smart so he was lucky to have enlisted the help of someone on the inside. Speaking of thanks to him he can now properly build a countermeasure to Ironheart which as ironic as it's named was called Titanium-Man. But at the moment Adam played a key role in there plans to divide the Kingdoms and thanks to Ironhearts actions Adam is locked up somewhere in a prison pending his trial.
The Faunus support the White Fang had once possesses had been dwindling thanks to Weiss Schnee's actions as Ironheart and with her mother acting in her stead the Faunus were getting the rewards they had worked hard for. IT was made worse when Weiss had begun going to Dust mines with the workers and thanks to her failed abduction by the White Fang it seems she now had a security detail around the clock for such things right now.
But Arthur Watts was a resourceful man and knew how to plan accordingly. The first part was for Cinder and her posy to free Adam from prison. Once that was done his loyalty will be assured and with it the White Fang's loyalty to him. But he also needed to deal with the big green problem in the form of the Hulk. Salem wanted the monster on their side and Watts was tasked with creating a means to control the Hulk. But the brainless dull oaf was a force of raw power a living Gama generator and to control such a thing would take Watts far too long to complete.
But he may have other plans because right now Torunn was the focused of this information gathering. Right now Salem was interested in her and would no doubt vine to have her by her side. But for what purpose he wondered though his loyalty to the mistress was absolute at times her past was a mystery to all of them. It was by chance that he caught Salem looking to the image of Torun with a look of longing and in her hands she held an old warn stuffed animal.
He supposed it would be a question to be answered another time. As right now he pulled out his scroll and contacted young Cinder on their secured line. "Cinder." Watts greeted while looking to the window. "I've send you the schematics and data on the prison Adam is being held in." Watts began as he looked outside. "Since the loyalists to Adam will design to break out there leader I suppose you will have very little trouble breaking him out?" Watts asked before he heard Cinder's confirmation.
"Very well then off to it I expect results soon." Watts said but he then had one more thing to add. "Oh and expect some aid to come in soon just some muscle to help move things along." Watts said before he hung up on her. "Now then back to work." Watts said as he began searching the information channels to learn more about these Children who managed to hold their ground against Tyrion so well.
Off to the side but in a location of importance was the rendering of the Titanium-Man armor as thanks to the Mk. 3 schematics he can now apply the needed upgrades to make Ironheart nothing more than an old and obsolete antique.
(TBC)
ESKK: Wow two chapters back to back I gotta say I'm impressed with myself. Hopefully I didn't rush this and you all managed to enjoy it like I have. Now then leave a review for me and as I always say on here ja-ne.