Author Note: Hello everyone! Welcome to another chapter. Before we get into this I will say that if you guys are really against Arkos in this crossover story then I will take it into consideration. Over than that I just wanted to thank some of the people who are following this story and favoriting it. Now without further a do, lets get going!
Beacon Academy: Dining Hall
The next day, the mercenaries found themselves sitting at a table together in the Beacon Dining hall. When they arrived last night, they had been given a small tour and shown their room which was next to the rooms of Team RWBY and Team JNPR, though it was much larger. Since they usually woke up very early everyday on Earth to get ready to battle, they woke up earlier then any of the students and decided to get some breakfast, though Medic took a detour to the library claiming he needed to borrow some books. When he returned he was holding three massive books; one about the history of Remnant, one about aura and its uses, and finally a book on faunus which he took especial interest too, most likely due to their animalistic traits.
By the time Team RWBY and Team JNPR woke up and made their way down, the mercenaries had finished eating and were simply sitting around, some of them cleaning their weapons or playing Rock, Paper, Scissors while others took sips of tea and shared the books that Medic brought. The teens grabbed their food as the Dining Hall began to fill up and took a seat across from the nine fighters.
"Good morning!" said Ruby happily as she plopped down onto a seat and began eating her plate of cookies. The mercenaries gave her nods and mumbled "good morning." The students began to eat expecting that it would be a very quite breakfast, but to their surprise Medic broke the silence. He was still reading the enormous book on faunus and sipping a cup of tea, but addressed them nonetheless.
"So tell me more about ze functions of aura," he said not looking up from his book. Phyrra began to explain that aura was the life energy that everyone human and faunus had in Remnant, though some have not unlocked it. Those who have are stronger, more resistant to mortal attacks and can even heal over time. She explained also that aura was used for a life gauge in tournaments and when someones aura went into the red, they were out. Aura was not unlimited and could be broken if it was hit to many times. She also explained Semblance's, special unique abilities that each Huntsman had, like how hers was Polarity and she could use magnetism, and how Nora's semblance is the ability to harness electricity and so on. Medic and some of the other mercenaries listened intently as she spoke and nodded every once in a while to show they understood. When she finished, Medic lowered the his book and looked at Phyrra with a scientific glint in his eye.
"Is zere away for me to get a sample of zis aura?" he asked innocently but of course, in his mind he was thinking very uncivilized thoughts. Phyrra and the other students cringed slightly and looked at him a little nervously. He laughed shortly, saying that he was kidding but it didn't lesson the tension in the air. They then all heard a distressed voice from another table, "No, please stop!"
They all looked to see a rabbit faunus getting her ears pulled by a large boy while his cronies laughed at the girls distress. "Look at this freak!" said the large boy pulling her ears. The students of Team RWBY and Team JNPR looked at the scene with huge distaste and anger, while the mercenaries looked confused at the sight.
"Cardin Winchester," Yang said with a hard edge in her voice. "He is the leader of Team CRDL. He's a bully and a racist."
"Racist?" asked Engi wondering what she meant.
"Yes," said Blake, "He is racist to faunus thinking that are lesser beings and freaks of nature."
"Well,, can't say we don't have that problem in our world as well," said Engineer sighing as he watched Cardin pulling the girls ears. Medic however seemed more curious about the girls animalistic traits and asked, "So every fuanus has a different animalistic feature?"
"No, some faunus do have the same features, but there many features so usually if someone has the same feature as another, they are probably related," explained Ren as shooed Nora away from his pancakes.
"Hmm so that explains why zis girl has different animalistic traits than," Medic began looking at Blake, and realizing what he was going at, she quickly shook her head, and mouthed, "Don't say anything!" To her absolute relief he nodded understanding the message and continued saying, "than another faunus I saw, who bull horns."
Meanwhile Jaune was watching Cardin with a tint of anger in his eyes also sorrow for the girl. Nora noticed this and she looked at him curiously. Her team leader shook his head and hung his head over his uneaten eggs sighing deeply.
"Cardin's been bullying Jaune," said Phyrra softly as Jaune looked dejectedly into his eggs. The mercenaries stared at him, until Demoman voiced the question they were all wondering, "Why do you take the abuse lad. Your a strong mate that got into this academy. Why does he bully you?"
Jaune looked up and a tear formed in his eye. The question had brought up all the illegal things he had done to get into Beacon. He had forged his transcripts and had somehow gotten in without being found out. But it was obvious that we on a lower tier. He was not a good fighter but had went because he wanted to fulfill his family's legacy. He slammed his fist onto the table surprising everyone and began to sob. Phyrra tried to comfort him but he leaned away.
"I'm a lier! I never deserved to come here! Demoman is right! If I had come here as an actually Huntsman in training I wouldn't be bullied, but instead i'm a fraud!"
"What do you mean?" Phyrra asked gently. Jaune didn't respond and kept on sobbing. All the students felt bad for him, even Weiss who didn't have the best impression of him still felt a bit of sympathy.
"Maybe he is talking about how he forged his transcripts," said Spy quietly as he light a cigarette. The teens all looked up at him in shock, especially Jaune who couldn't believe that Spy knew this. Did Ozpin know as well?
Spy smiled lightly as he gauged the expression on Jaune's face saying, "I am the Spy, I make it my duty to find out things. Now the more important thing is that though you did forge your transcripts, you have no reason to leave." Jaune stared mouth a gape. Spy took a drag from his cigarette and continued, "By what I have found you very impressive leadership skills, and though you aren't mastered with it, you do have a good handle on that sword. Now instead of telling Ozpin, I have a better idea. I have two colleagues who can help you. Soldier can help you if your leadership skills and show you how to read battle maps correctly and good strategies in the middle of a battle. While Demoman can help you sharpen your skills with you sword. Though with I also think one more person would like to help you," he smiled looking at the girl next Jaune. Jaune turned to Phyrra who was blushing brightly but she put her hand on his hand saying, "Jaune I understand what you went through, but I think you can become something fantastic. If you let us help you."
Jaune looked at her then at Soldier and Demoman who both smiled back him ready to help. Jaune wiped the tears from his eyes and smiled at them. "Thanks guys. I owe you one. But I can see Demoman helping me but Soldier?"
"Of course I would help," yelled Soldier proudly standing up, "I am always ready to help a rookie become a great man and fighter!"
Everyone chuckled a little and they al resumed their breakfast chatting a little. Jaune was feeling much better about himself and was laughing at a joke that Demo made when a voice behind him yelled, "Hey loser!"
They all stopped talking and turned to Cardin who had left the girl alone and had approached Jaune smiling nastily. "I heard the loser is a real pathetic mess after all. Should have known by how you fight in the arena," he laughed meanly as Jaune shrunk back slightly. Phyrra, Nora, and Ruby made to get up and defend Jaune but Scout stopped them whispering, "I got this."
Scout got up from his seat and walked up to Cardin, all eyes on him. He stopped in front of Cardin smiling smugly. He was a few inches shorter than Cardin and way skinnier but he still seemed to be as cocky as always. "So your Cardin Winchester huh," he asked the bully calmly.
Cardin looked at him looking for sign of weakness, when he couldn't find any he responded, "Yeah thats me. And who the hell are you?"
Scout made a mock gasp and looked around at his fellow mercenaries and the other students as if he was asked a rude question. He looked back at Cardin smiling and began his monologue not giving him time to interrupt once.
"Umm.. do you know who I am? Do you have any idea who your talking to? Basically kinda of a big deal. Oh yeah look at that (Scout flexed his very small muscles). Okay here, grass grows, sun shines, birds fly and brother I hurt people (Scout poked Cardin in the chest)! I'm a force of nature! If you were from where I was from, you would be fucking dead! Wahoo!"
He cheered the last part, puffing out his chest and spread his arms in a smug gesture as if to say, "Come at me bro!" Cardin was frozen with shock and anger of being treated like this by a skinny man who looked like he had never lifted a weight. Cardin advanced but Scout held up his hand tutting slowly and saying, "Now don't be jealous. I get that you don't get with the ladies like I do, but seriously how can I blame them. You think second base is pulling their ears!" he chuckled happily as Cardin looked at the girl who he was harassing earlier who glared at him. He turned back to Scout who had the smuggest expression ever. Cardin raised his fist and tried to punch Scout, but to his surprise he wasn't there. He looked around and found Scout to be standing right behind him yawning loudly while he twirled a steel bat in his hand. "Is that all you got?" taunted Scout mischievously as he kept twirling his bat and looked at Cardin with an evil glare.
Cardin's face got very red and he roared in rage and to another swing at Scout, but Scout sidestepped and brought down his Bat with full force on the Cardin's elbow. It let out a sickening crack and Cardin, screaming in pain, fell to his knees cradling his arm while Scout stood over him laughing hysterically.
"Look at, you look like you ran through traffic!" he jeered as he laughed and was joined by some of the other mercenaries who did like some Scout's antics when it wasn't being performed on them and meant to annoy them. Then Scout straightened up and looked down at the still kneeled figure of Cardin and said with a much more serious tone, "Don't you ever cross me or my buddies again!"
Cardin tried to nod but was in to much pain. Scout spat on the ground next to him and walked back to his seat and sat back down. Cardin was finally taken away to the infirmary by his teammates, who were told by Spy that of they told Ozpin or Goodwitch what happened he would personally make them regret it. After a few minutes the rest of the students in the Dining Hall turned back to their food and began chatting about what had happened.
"And that's how its done!" exclaimed Scout as he put his arms around his head and leaned back. Team RWBY and Team JNPR weren't sure what to say. On one hand, people such as Weiss, Blake, and Ren thought it was in a way incredible barbaric and violent even to someone like Cardin. But on the other hand people like Yang, Nora, and Ruby though it was kinda clever, funny, and awesome how Scout took out Cardin so easily. Phyrra and Jaune were just happy that the crisis was averted and that Jaune was saved the humiliation.
"Um.. thank you Scout for standing up for me." said Jaune turning to the cocky young adult, "I know you may not respect as much anymore but I still am happy you saved me the beating."
Scout looked over at Jaune and laughed a little saying, "No worries pally, anytime. I love doing that to people. Besides, and I dont usually say this, but I agree with the Frenchie, you got talent. You all do," he added looking around at all the students. The students were taken a back not expecting a compliment from Scout. They didn't think he knew how to compliment anyone besides himself.
The Spy scowled slightly but nodded and ignored the jab at him. But Weiss didn't and turned to Spy saying, "What does he mean by 'Frenchie'?"
Spy sighed and explained, "Well in our world we have countries instead of kingdoms. There are thousands of countries. But there are some major ones such as America, France, England, Germany, The Soviet Union (remember 1970s) , and others that I won't mention. I come from France, Scout, Soldier, and Engineer come from America, Heavy comes from the Soviet Union, Sniper comes from New Zealand/Australia, Demoman comes from Scotland, Medic comes from Germany, and Pyro comes from…. well I don't know. The point is that with so many countries there are many nicknames for people that live there. So you may here us saying things that relate to the origin country of someone."
Weiss nodded intrigued and asked if they had a map, which Engi obliged by pulling out a large paper map of Earth and laying it out on the table for Weiss and some of the other students to inspect. While they did Yang who was getting slightly bored took out her scroll and began playing a game on it. Engineer noticed and looked at the device with strong interest.
"Pardon me Yang, but what is that?"
Yang looked up at Engineer, confused until remembering that he wasn't from Remnant and explained the functions of scrolls, how they were like phones, but also games, trackers and other cool stuff. Since the mercenaries lived in the 1970s, smartphones didn't exist do they were completely blown away and discussed in among themselves if they should get a scroll or each of them.
They began to file out of the Dining Hall and back upstairs so the students could get ready to class and they asked what they had. "Well he have Professor Oobleck first for history, then we have Professor Goodwitch for sparing class," said Ruby as they walked to the Dorm building. The mercenaries looked very interested and they told the students that they have decided to attend the classes with them to see what it was like. Or at least Spy, Medic, Engi, Soldier, Heavy, and Demoman did. Scout was complained that it would be boring and Sniper wanted to take a nap. And Pyro… well he didn't say anything. The students nodded and they entered their separate dorm rooms and got ready for class.
And thats a wrap! I know that I revealed out Jaune's forgery but ah well I didn't really want that in the way plus in my opinion the way it went out here was smooth. Plus I got right Scout being an awesome smug bastard, but freakin awesome all the same. Reviews are always welcome and I will see you in the next chapter… BYE BYE!