Author Note: Hello everyone! I did take a day off to enjoy some rest because I have been writing non-stop this week and this is only my first week on the site! But I'm happy to jump right back in after watching a whole marathon of the special extended editions of Lord Of The Rings! Also shout outs to Guest users; Madlice in Pyrol and Time for guessing the man with the parrot correctly. It was my favorite YouTuber JonTron! And to answer Time's question of how he became a waiter in Remnant, well, it's very simple. He was reviewing RWBY: Grimm Eclipse when he was sucked in with his parrot Jacques and they had to find a way to survive. So far he has become a waiter, but I may have him appear a few more times as a minor character. But I think thats enough chatter, lets get right into it!
City Of Vale
It was Monday. A day that school began once more and all the students had to break away from our favorite mercenaries to attend their classes. But not today!
Nora had somehow convinced Professor Ozpin to let her and all her friends go to a new movie that was showing about pirates. She said she had been waiting for this movie for six years, as it had been canceled over and over again. But not it was finally here and she had already bought tickets for herself and all her friends, including the mercenaries. She looked at Ozpin with pleading eyes, but to her surprise, he just laughed and said it was okay and that he had actually been waiting for this for a while too. Nora skipped her way back to the dorm room and burst into her teams room, causing the rest of her team to jump back in surprise, since they had just woken up and were getting ready for a school day.
"RISE AND SHINE EVERYONE!" she yelled so loudly that Team RWBY and the mercenaries, who were still i their respective rooms, could here her too. "NO NEED TO PACK FOR SCHOOL, BECAUSE I GOT US TICKETS TO THE NEW PIRATES OF THE REMNANT (Yeah I know, terrible name)!" she yelled and her teammates stared at her.
"But, its a school day," said Jaune as he tried to calm down the hyperactive girl. "NOT ANYMORE," she yelled smiling, "I GOT US AND TEAM RWBY OUT OF SCHOOL FOR TODAY! I WENT TO TALK TO PROFESSOR OZPIN AND HE SAID IT WAS FINE! THE MERCENARIES ARE ALSO COIMG ALONG"
They all stared at her and then Ren smiled a little. "Well, we might as well go. Not to mention I know how much Nora has wanted to see this."
Jaune and Pyrrha also nodded smiling, "Yeah I will go tell the others," said Jaune as he left the room. "I don't think you really need to," said Ren as he watched Jaune walk out, "I think everyone in the building heard her clearly.
Twenty minutes later the gang were all outside and ready to set off to Vale once more. Ruby had joined Nora and was bouncing in excitement at the prospect of the movie. Weiss was a little peeved that they were missing classes, but she finally let in and went along with it. Blake stood quietly and read a book that, to her surprise, Soldier had lent her called "The history of men." It was surprisingly interesting, and it told the about the men of earth and all their success and flaws. Yang was just happy to spend more time with Scout. As for the mercenaries themselves, they didn't mind going to a movie saying that it would be nice to see something that wasn't black and white and shown on a projector for them to understand a war field.
They set off and got onto a airship and made their way to Vale, talking happily and trying keep Nora from destroying the airship with her excitement. When they landed they all had to speed walk to keep up with Nora who was running so fast that only Scout could have caught up to her. Ren stared after her with a content smile as he say how happy his childhood friend was. Jaune and Pyrrha, who were holding hands as they walked, smiled at him. "You really are happy for her aren't you," said Jaune. Ren didn't say anything but just kept on smiling.
They made it to the theater where the movie was showing and found Scout holding Nora back from diving right into the theatre. "Could use some help chuckleheads!" said Scout as he held on to Nora while digging his feet into the ground so he wouldn't be dragged in as well. The others assisted him and when they judged that Nora had calmed down a bit they went up to the ticket man, where Nora handed the tickets with trembling fingers. The ticket man looked at the tickets and his face went a little shallow.
"Um, I'm very sorry but this movie has been canceled, they announced today that he movie would not be released and that they wouldn't try remaking it. I'm truly sorry." He handed back the tickets to Nora who just stood very still. She just stared ahead glassy eyed until Ren finally put his hand on her shoulder and said gently, "Come on, let me get you some ice cream." He steered her away and the others followed in dejected silence. It wasn't as much that the movie had been cancelled, but how sorry they felt for Nora.
They went to a nearby ice cream shop and Ren bought Nora a large three scoop ice cream and gave it to her and he with the other students sat down around her and comforted her. The mercenaries sat down outside and waited, also feeling quite sad for Nora. Especially Pyro and Demoman. Pyro because it had bonding closely with Nora and couldn't stand seeing her so sad. Demoman because he had been very excited for a movie about pirates, which he always loved and had been very excited to see Nora so happy, cause he also like the girl for her perky nature and how she used a grenade launcher. He looked over to the movie theatre and saw the movie poster of the pirates being taken down. His fists tightened. He wasn't going to let Nora's day be ruined. If the movie theatre and the stupid directors of the movie wouldn't give it to her then it would him and the mercenaries that would!
He stood up suddenly and the other mercenaries looked up at him. "Aye, come on lads, I have a plan! I'm not letting this day go to waste! Especially for out lassie Nora," and he marched off with the others following him. The students all came out soon and noticed that they were gone. They called out but didn't get any answer. They concluded that they must have gone back to the academy cause they had been taking to long in the ice cream shop, though that seemed strange for them to just abandon the students.
They returned to Beacon and checked the mercenaries room to find no one. This confused the students immensely but Team JNPR couldn't dwell on it much since that had a heartbroken Nora to contend to and they retired inside their dorm to comfort the usually hyperactive ball of fun. Team RWBY also decided to return to their dorms and work on extra homework and try to pass the free day by.
It was around midday, and Team JNPR were still feeling as depressed as they had been in the morning. Nora was curled into a tight ball and lay on her bed, unmoving while Ren rubbed her back, whispering words of comfort. Jaune and Pyrrha watched this sadly and wondered if this would pass soon. Then they received a loud knock on their door. Jaune looked over, a little surprised, but went over an opened it. Instantly, a large black sack went over his head and captured him. Pyrrha and Ren stood up straight and grabbed their weapons, but before they could try to save their leader, Pyrrha was captured from behind by and invisible figure, and Ren was wrestled in by another figure who ran in. Then one other person gently placed the still petrified Nora and placed her into another black sack and tied it. Then the four people grabbed the sacks and hoisted them over their backs with three of them struggling widely and yelling, and the last one quite.
Port Of Vale: Ocean Of Remnant
Team JNPR were finally dropped on the ground after a whole half an hour and the sacks were untied and they scrambled out, going for the weapons before remembering they didn't have any. They faced their captors, but were surprised to find Demoman, Spy, Engineer, and Pyro standing in front of them smiling, well in the first three's case cause Pyro just kinda tilted it's head and muffled a friendly hello. They were all wearing a very fancy assortment of cosmetics.
Demoman had a gold-trimmed bicorne with a skull and crossbones on the front. It had a couple of feathers sticking out the top and was called the Buccaneer's Bicorne. He also wore a waist high red cape with a strange golden pin on the right shoulder. This was the King of Scotland Cape. He finally wore a pirate jacket that stitched the sleeves that was over ruffle-cuffle undershirt, called the Mann of the Seven Sees.
Spy was wearing a gray hood and a scarf draped over his head and shoulders. He resembled an old assassin from Remnant folklore that was a master in stealth named Ezio Audtidore. This hood was called the Dashin' Hashshashin. He wore a waistcoat with gold trimmed lapels and a Mandarin collar called the Distinguished Rogue. He actually wore nothing else but under his sleeve was his hidden knife the Sharp Dresser.
Engineer was wearing nothing different in terms of main cosmetics and hats, but he had a leather tube with blueprints rolled up and stuck inside called the Idea Tube. He also had some blueprints rolled up in his hip pouch that was called the Builder's Blueprints.
Pyro wore a funny little shark hat on his head with black buttons for eyes, called the Cranial Caracharodon. He also wore a buttoned up firefighter jacket with a puffed up collar around the sleeves. This was the Trickster's Turnout Gear. (It had been hard to find good stuff for this in the Pyro's and Engineers line of cosmetics)
Team JNPR stared at the weirdly themed mercenaries, then looked around and realized they were at the Vale Ports where the ocean lay. The ocean cut through the islands of Remnant and was one of the main ways people traveled from one kingdom to another. "Why did you drag us here?" asked Jaune confused a little annoyed that he had been carried in sack. "And if you wanted us to meet you here you could have just told us."
Demoman laughed. "Aye lad, if we did, it wouldn't be in the spirit of what we are doing today!" He pointed towards a wooden pirate ship with two masts and a one downstairs chamber. It wasn't a huge ship but it could easily fit the eight of them. Nora stared at the ship and the usual color that hadn't been present since this morning began to return.
"We are taking you on a pirate adventure!" announced Demoman, unsheathing his Eyelander and thrusting it into the air. The other mercenaries nodded and Pyro clapped happily. The students stared in awe at the mercenaries, not believing that this was happening. Demo lowered his sword and looked down at the shocked students.
"Now heres the deal lads," he said, "We are going out on an adventure to a small island where we have hidden treasure! However, your friends from Team RWBY are another ship with the other mercenaries and are going to go for that treasure as well! We must get to it before them! But there is a catch for us mercenaries, we can only use medieval like weapons, so no guns for us"
Nora stood up, all her energy back and yelled, "OVER MY COLD DEAD BODY DEMO! LETS GET OUT THERE AND GET THAT TREASURE!" She was about to speed off to the ship when Demoman stopped her. "I think you will be need ing this," he said and handed her Magnihild. Spy also took out the weapons for the others and handed them out. The others took them gratefully and happily followed Nora as she jumped onto the boat and yelled to set sail.
Demoman went up to the stern of the ship where the wheel was and stood behind it. Spy went up the first mast and looked out on the crows nest. Engineer went down to the lower level and readied the actual cannons on the ship. Pyro climbed the masts and readied the sails of ship for when they get ready to sail. Nora stood at the bow of the ship and looked out on the water ahead. Jaune and Pyrrha stood on the deck reading their weapons while looking around at the impressive ship, wondering how the mercenaries had been able to get this all set up on such short notice. Ren went up next to Demo and held a compass to help Demo navigate the oceans to the small island they were heading for.
"Are we all ready?" asked Demo from the wheel and the rest of the crew answered back, "YES!" He commanded Pyro to raise the sails and Pyro obliged and the ship began to set sail, off into the ocean. It was beautiful day and the water were a clear blue. The ship cut through the water like knife through warm butter.
The island wasn't actually that far from Vale, and with a modern but that the people of Remnant usually used would have gotten them their in less than thirty minutes. However since they were on an old ship, as Demoman said while he told Ren how he had acquired this ship which had involved a waiter from a café with black hair and a parrot who had many ways of getting stuff somehow, it would take around two and a half hours to get there. But the students didn't mind. In fact, they preferred that it took longer as they got to enjoy the ocean's majesty a little and have fun with the mercenaries.
"You know," said Jaune as he looked out at the ocean while his girlfriend stood next to him, "We should do this for our next date. What do you think?" he asked turning to Pyrrha. She stared out and said, "That would be fun. But I have a question. Don't you get motion sickness?" Jaune smiled. "As long as i'm on something is on something and not in midair, I don't usually mind. Also this is much more calming then like a motor boat." They laughed a little and Pyrrha took his hand in hers and leaned against him. "I love you Jaune," she said quietly. Before Jaune could respond, there was a yell from above. Everyone looked up at the crow's nest to see Spy pointing at something on the port side of the ship. "It's seems our enemies are taking the same route."
Jaune, Pyrrha, Engineer, Pyro, and Nora went over to the port side of the ship and stared out. In the distance, another pirate ship was sailing, and even from quite a distance they could hear Soldier's loud voice commanding the crew. Demoman looked over from the wheel and scowled. "Well, I knew we were gonna bump into those bloody mates," he said, "Alright everyone, I doubt we can get away from the fight. BATTLE STATIONS!" he yelled and everyone on the ship scrambled around.
Engineer headed down to the cannons and manned while Spy climbed down the mast and checked his concealed knife to if it was working properly. Pyro grabbed his Sharpened Volcano Fragment, a fiery axe that looked like it had been ripped straight from a volcano and could light people on fire, while the students also grabbed their weapons and checked their ammunition. Finally Demoman equipped the Tide Turner shield for maximum movability and took out his favorite sword, the Eyelander.
"Alright lads! Lets go give em a hell of a fight!" said Demoman and he turned the ship towards the enemy ship. He turned so the sides still kinda faced the enemy so the cannons could still hit them. As they approached, the other ship began to turn as well. They had obviously noticed the advancing ship and had, like Demoman, prepared for battle. The tension was high as they got closer and close, until they turned parallel to each other around twenty feet from each other. They both lowered their sails and the ships came to a stand still, floating parallel to each other and waiting for one side to make a move.
Then Soldier climbed up on to the starboard deck of his ship and leaned on one knee chuckling slowly. He was wearing a pirates captain hat with a gold trim on the top. He also now had long flowing hair with a long mustache and goatee. This assortment was called the Caribbean Conqueror and along with it he wore an old pirate frock coat with gold decorations, white neckwear, and bandolier called the Brawling Buccaneer. He even wore a pair of black leather clogs with a gold colored buckle called the Colonial Clogs.
"So, we meet again Captain Demoman," he said quietly as he stared into the eyes of Demo who stared right back. "Do you think your ship of maggots can defeat my ship of purebred warriors," continued Soldier gesturing behind him. Scout, Sniper, Heavy, Medic, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang all stepped up behind him. Team RWBY looked the same as always but the other mercenaries also had different assortments of cosmetics.
Scout wore a bicorne like Demoman, but it had no feathers and only had a skull on the front and giving him a golden earring in one ear. It was the B'aaarrgh-n-Bicorne. He also wore a gold trimmed vest over his usual shirt with golden stripes on his shirt. It also gave him an additional strap over his duffel bag strap. This was the Little Drummer Mann. Finally he wore a pair of yellow sandals... that's it really, called the Flip-Flops.
Sniper wore a wide brimmed hat with a chin strap and corks dangling on strings at the edge of the brim of the hat. This strange hat was called the Swagman's Swatter. The only other cosmetic he wore was a gold trimmed version of his usual jacket with black buttons and a pair of epaulettes called the Golden Garment.
Heavy had a white barrister's wig that formed a pony tail at the back that was tied with a small ribbon. This wig was called the Pounding Father. Along with it he wore a double-breasted generals coat, adorned with epaulettes and armbands. It came with a dress shirt underneath and it was called the Commissar's Coat. In addition, he had a small bowie knife hanging on the back of his belt called the Samson Skewer (A reference to the bowie knife used by Brock Samson from the Adult Swim show; The Venture Brothers).
Finally Medic wore a powdered wig with a tricorne on top of it called the Powdered Practitioner. He also wore a short robe with golden straps called the Medical Monarch.
Demoman scanned the other fighters before laughing, "Aye, all I see are bunch o' wee lasses!" Soldiers side looked highly affronted and Scout was about to try and double jump over the twenty foot distance, but Soldier put an arm out while keeping his eyes on Demoman. "Well let me give you some advice son... BOO!"
"LOT OF GOOD THAT SOLDIER TRAINING DID YA!"
"SCOTLAND IS NOT A REAL COUNTRY, YOU ARE AN ENGLISH MAN WITH A DRESS!"
"I'LL NOTIFY YOUR NEXT O' KIN... THAT YA SUCKED!"
"YOU'RE LIKE THE CYCLOPS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY, EXCEPT YOU ARE SCOTTISH, AND I HATE YOU!"
The two went on like this, shouting jeers at each other and getting each other riled up, while the others just stared. Finally Sniper got annoyed of this and taking out his Huntsman Bow he fired an arrow straight at Jaune, who was barely able to drop down to the deck and the arrow flew right over his head and stuck itself in the mast behind him. Soldiers team laughed as Jaune was helped up and Sniper jeered, "Thanks for standing still, wanker!"
Demoman looked out with anger and yelled, "Well if you want fight mate, then we will give you a fight! FIRE!" and below them unbeknownst to opposite team Engineer was still below deck and a few cannons, causing them to fire actual cannonballs and they smashed into the other ship and created splintered holes in the hull, luckily above the water so the ship wouldn't sink...yet.
Soldier's team staggered a little before Soldier looked over at Demomans grinning face and grinned as well. "So, your brought cannons! Well I brought hooks!" And from the hull of his ship, large grappling hooks launched out and hooked onto Demomans ship and began to pull in. Demoman eyes widened in horror and he shouted towards his crew, "Get ready lads, we are going to have to fight man to man!"
Everyone drew their weapons and within a few minutes the enemy ship was right alongside and everyone from their ship, minus Heavy who had to keep the grappling hooks secure, jumped onto Demomans ship and the battle for the ship began!
Pyrrha went straight toward Sniper, angry because he humiliated Jaune, and struck at him with her spear. He dodged and taking out his Shahanshah he slashed back at Pyrrha who blocked with her shield and shot her rifle part of the spear and hit Sniper in side. He grunted in pain but was able to slash downward and hit Pyrrha in the head. She stumbled slightly, and Sniper took this time to sling an arrow in his Huntsman and fired straight at Pyrrha's arm pinning her arm to the mast. She let her weapons go in pain. Sniper grinned and taking the arrow out of Pyrrha's arm he took a small piece of rope and tied her hands.
Jaune engaged Soldier in combat. Soldier had equipped the Equalizer and they thought sword against pickaxe. They clashed multiple times and Jaune seemed to be getting the upper hand and started to land his on Soldier, making him grunt. However, Jaune didn't realize that Soldier had begun to take damage purposely. One of the abilities of the Equalizer is that the more damage the user takes, the more damage it dishes out. Soldier grinned as he suffered another slash from Jaune's blade and began to bleed. He raised his pickaxe and he slammed a mean uppercut towards Jaune. Jaune raised his shield but the pickaxe went right through and sent it flying. The Equalizer kept going until it hit Jaune's chin and his aura broke instantly from force and power that was behind it. Jaune fell and before he could recover, Soldier tied his hands together just as Sniper had done with Pyrrha.
While everyone was fighting above deck, Engineer was trying to man one of the cannons and blast the other ship away from theirs. It could cause quite a bit of self-damage but it was worth it. He was reading the cannon and was about light it when the trapdoor that led to the lower level swung open and heiress jumped down with her saber out and yelled to the Texan, "Freeze and I will not harm you, Engie!" Engineer however just smiled devilishly and turned around to face Weiss. He reached with his left hand and pulled off the glove he always wore on his right hand, revealing a robotic hand that also a weapon called the Gunslinger. "Well don't we just get along before someone gets hurt," he said and lunged, swinging the Gunslinger towards Weiss who blocked it with her weapons just in time before it caved her face in. They traded blows, saber vs robotic hand, and Weiss was being backed up into a corner when she remembered her Dust cartridges. She flipped her her cartridges to fire dust and pushing back Engie she fired a column of fire at him. This was a mistake. He sidestepped and gave her an evil grin as the fire reached the cannons he had been arming and set it off. There was a massive explosion as the cannon fired and Soldiers ship began to catch on fire and sink as water began to poor in through the new hole. Up above, Heavy felt the explosion from down below since he was still on Soldiers ship and leaped of the ship and joined the battle on Demo's. Engineer laughed but then was interrupted by Weiss, who charged him again and fought with all her might. She slashed quickly and Engineer, who had been caught off guard, couldn't block them all. He fell to the ground and was held at saber point. He put up his hands in surrender.
Back above, Yang and Pyro were in a fiery battle. Yang blasted Pyro with shots from her shotgun gauntlets while Pyro hit her with the Sharpened Volcano Fragment, causing her to catch on fire. However, Pyro hadn't anticipated the fact that Yang was partially resistant to fire, as it was part of her semblance, and began to see it was in a losing battle. But it tried it's best to keep the fight alive and kept her on her toes with large dangerous swings from it's axe. Yang was able to side step them all and finally found an opening and smashed a fist straight into Pyro's gut and sending it into the deck. She grinned as she approached Pyro and grabbing some rope she tied it's hands together.
Ren had the unlucky coincidence of facing off against Medic. Medic laughed evilly as he produced his Amputator saw and advanced on Ren menacingly. However, Ren was quick and circled around Medic, taking out his two automatic handguns and firing quick shots before back away so he wouldn't get hit with the saw. He continued this dance for a while, slowly wearing Medic down, and would have easily won, if it hadn't been for Medic changing his weapon. He switched to the Crusaders Crossbow, a crossbow that could heal allies and damage foes, and fired a well aimed crossbow bolt at Ren's foot, hitting him in the ankle. Ren fell in agony his aura trying to absorb the pain, but even with the aura blocking out most of it, Medic had hit him in a very tender spot. Medic walked up to him grinning, his health regeneration causing Ren's previous attacks to be pointless. And tied Ren's hands together before he could use his aura to completely recover.
Nearby, Nora and Scout were duking it out. Nora had her weapon in hammer form and was trying to smash the quick Scout, who had his Three Rune Sword out. He dodged her powerful strikes and got up close, but every time he tried to hit her she was able to repel him back with a dangerous strike. This kept on going for a little bit until Scout misjudged his dodge and Nora capitalized with a mean smash in his back and sent him straight through the captains cabin. She smiled and cheered thinking she had won, but a noise of a soda can being opened made her look back where she had hit Scout. From the broken wood, Scout stood up bleeding and bruised in many areas but grinning. He held up his Three Rune Sword which was now glowing with Mini-Crits (Double damage instead of triple) and charged forward at Nora and sliced her hard in the gut. Her aura absorbed most of the blow and she just stumbled back, but Scout had gotten the desire effect. If the Three Rune Sword hit someone it would cause bleeding for a few seconds that would damage the target. Since he had drunk his Crit-a-Cola and gained mini-crits, the bleeding was also mini-crit boosted. Nora tried to straighten up but found the double bleeding damage weighing her down. Scout didn't give her anytime to recover and ran forward once more and sliced at her again, this time going through the rest of her aura and bringing her to the ground. He smiled triumphantly and tied her hands together in victory.
Ruby had been scurrying around, trying to find a good opponent but they were all taken very quickly. She sighed until he heard a creak behind her and slashed behind her with her scythe and just barely avoided being backstabbed by Spy's hidden blade the Sharp Dresser. They backed away from each other and stared each other down. Then Spy smiled and took out his Ambassador revolver and fired a shot at Ruby who rolled avoiding it but was had a more pressing thing on her mind. "Wait! They said no guns! And not to mention how are you using that with your hidden knife thing? Isn't their that rule about multi-weapon use?" Spy's mouth curled into an evil grin. "Well, to start, this type of gun was invented in old pirating times and even some medieval periods. And as for the multi-weapon use, this is an exception as I have the Sharp Dresser on me almost all the time." He fired another shot, signaling that the discussion was over and the fight continued. Though Spy did have his Ambassador and Sharp Dresser at the same time, it didn't help the fact that in one on one with a quick scythe wielding girl, he was screwed. He tried to keep her away but was finally taken down with a few well aimed shots from the rifle part of the scythe and a slash across the midriff causing him to fall to the ground. Before he could get up and resume, he felt his arms being tied up and sighed in defeat.
Finally Demoman and Blake fought, sword against sword. It had been an even battle up to a certain point. Demoman smiled and slashed to Blake's right and then to her left and then backed up and charged with his Tide Turner. Blake dodged this easily and ran up behind him to try to hit in the back but Demo anticipated this and swung backwards to block the strike. The he spun around and did a complicated disarming move that caught Blake off guard and consequently made her drop her weapon. She tried to reach for it and shoot Demo with the pistol part but he kicked it out of her hands before she could pull the trigger. He stood over her, grinning and raised his sword to incapacitate (Not decapitate!) but before he could do so, he felt a finger tap him on the shoulder. He turned around and received a punch to the face from Heavy, sending him flying into the mast and before he could get up Blake grabbed her weapon and smacked the Eyelander out of Demo's hand. He looked up and then around to see his whole team defeated, even Engie was being dragged up from the lower level, tied up. Demo's hands were forcefully pulled up and he also got tied up and was thrown next to his defeated crew.
"Well boys and girls," said Soldier happily as he paced in front of the tied up crew, "It seems this boat is ours now!" His crew cheered but then winced as an explosion occurred behind them. Turning around they witnessed their ship go down into the depths slowly and finally get swallowed up. "Ya know," said Demoman turning to Engie, "That man with the black hair and parrot is gonna be really pissed off." Engie just shrugged. "He said he didn't use them."
"SILENCE MAGGOTS!" yelled Soldier and they shut up. "Now that we have commandeered this ship we are going to sail to the island which is," he looked out over the bow of the boat and smiled, "right there."
Everyone looked in the direction he was looking too and saw a tiny island with a few palm trees and barely any grass since it was mostly beaches. The boat lay anchor nearby and they lowered a long gangplank that reached the edge of the island. Soldier's team walked off the ship and towards the center of the tiny island. It was so tiny that if the Demoman's crew was also on it, would have become cramped.
Soldier's team came to the center of the island and Soldier, taking out his default shovel, began to dig into the sand. After a few minutes of digging, his shovel hit something hard and after a few more minutes, he had dug around a small treasure chest. With the help of Heavy, they lifted it our of the ground and placed it on the ground, while the others cheered. "WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FOUND THE TREASURE!" said Soldier happily, even though technically the mercenaries had put it there before dragging the students out.
While Soldier's team celebrated and decided on how best to open the crate, one of their members was unusually quite. Scout was at the back and he had a very quite air about him. Not a sad or angry type of quite, but a scheming type of quite. He looked back towards the ship and his eye caught the eye's of Spy. He nodded. Spy grinned and then focused to his hands, which were tied behind his back and began to loosen the Sharp Dresser out a little until it was out far enough to cut the rope. In a matter of seconds, Spy was free and massaged his wrists where the rope had dug into his skin. His fellow crew mates looked up amazed. "Great job lad!" said Demo quietly, "Now release us and we will shows those yellow belly's what pain means!" However Spy just looked down at Demoman and chuckled a little before sneaking down the gangplank and ignoring Team JNPR's plea for help. He quietly stepped onto the island, the only person on the other team noticing him was Scout, and sneaked up behind a certain heiress that was too busy debating with Ruby about what was inside the chest.
Quickly, in one swift motion, Spy hooked his arm with the Sharp Dresser around Weiss's neck and taking out his Ambassador he pointed it at the others who had been about to aid Weiss but were stopped in their tracks. He smiled at his success of getting one at the mercy of a knife and the others at gun point. Then there was a slow clapping and Scout finally walked into the spotlight and grinned at the others mockingly. "Well done Spy," he said in strange voice and sharing a glance with Spy they both chuckled a little, "He seems to have all you knuckleheads in a stalemate."
"What is the meaning of this?" cried Ruby as she tried to figure out a way to get Weiss out of harms way. Scout just laughed. An evil piercing laugh that made everyone turn to him with angry eyes. "Well, lets just say me and Spy have been working in tandem to get the treasure for our selves," he said cruelly as he patted the chest behind him. "YOU TRAITOR!" roared Soldier and he advanced on Scout but fell to the ground in pain as Spy shot him in the knee, immobilizing him. Medic took out his crossbow to heal his comrade but Scout unsheathed his Three Rune Sword and disarmed Medic sighing, "Doctor, doctor, doctor..." He forced Medic to his knees and taking out a ball of rope he tied Medic's hands together. Ruby, Blake, Yang, Heavy, and Sniper tried to move forward but Spy kept them back with his Ambassador out and his arm around Weiss tightening causing the blade of the Sharp Dresser to begin to layer of aura around Weiss.
"So this is how it's gonna be chuckleheads," said Scout as he paced around at the other crew members, "We are going to take this treasure and leave you this island. If any of you even try to attack us... heh well, I don't think that needs to be explained. Now get down on your knees so I can tie your hands up. Everyone that is except for Weiss. You stay up pally." And smiling evilly he went to each individual and tied their hands up. When he got to Yang he whispered in her ear, "I would do something soon pally or this fun thing we set up will end with only two people winning," he left to tie up Soldier before Yang could respond.
Once everyone was secure, Spy let go of Weiss and at gun point tied her hands up as well. Then the two hoisted the treasure chest up and climbed the gangplank back onto the ship where they found the still tied up members of Demomans crew laying there. They laughed hollowly and they grabbed each person and threw them onto the island.
Scout and Spy looked out onto the island, where fifteen people had their hands tied up and were staring daggers at them. They smirked a little and began to get ready to leave.
Back on the island, Yang was having a huge turmoil of emotion. She knew this was a play and fun scenario that the mercenaries had made, though as violent as always, but the point was for everyone to succeed. And the last person she wanted to beat her was her snarky and cocky boyfriend, Scout. She looked up at him and her iris's went red and flames began to lick her body. They started to burn the ropes that tied her arms and with all her might she pulled free. Even when burnt, it was impressive as the ropes were of the highest caliber. Scout and Spy turned around to see Yang free, but before they could react, another person also broke free. Everyone turned to see Nora also free from her bonds and had grabbed her weapon. Her reasons for her strength were slightly different then Yangs.
"GIVE ME MY TREASURE!" she yelled and using her grenade launcher as blasting jump, she launched into the air and, changing her weapon back to hammer form, headed straight for Spy.
"Oh, merde," were the only things Spy could say before she smacked him right in the stomach and sent him flying into the ocean, screaming. Scout backed away and equipped his Three Rune Sword, preparing to fight. But Yang didn't give him the chance. Propelling herself forward with her shotgun gauntlet's she flew straight towards Scout and punched him the gut. There was moment where he just stared in shock, then he flew right of the ship and followed Spy into the water.
Nora and Yang panted slightly as the adrenaline wore off. Then they cheered and ran down the gangplank to untie the others who were cheering along with them. "Great job ladies," complimented Soldier as he got up and smiled while Medic healed him. The others gave them similar remarks and they headed back onto the ship where the treasure now lay.
"Well lads," said Demoman as they all gathered around it, "Here it is! We unite in the end to open this chest together and-"
"Woah, woah, hold up! What about us!" said a familiar voice from below and everyone looked over the deck to see Scout and Spy treading water next to the ship. "We gave you guys a nice challenge, don't we get some credit?" asked Scout. Demoman laughed. "I'm so sorry lad! I almost forgot! Here grab this ladder and haul your wet arse's over here!" Demo dropped a small wooden ladder which Scout and Spy climbed and joined the group. Yang went up to Scout snickering. Scout tried to defend himself, saying that she got lucky and caught him off guard, but she shut him up with a quick kiss and put an arm around him and gave him a towel to dry himself off with. Jaune and Pyrrha watched this romantic exchange and they looked at each other and smiled, giving each other a light kiss before Demoman brought back everyone's attention.
"Alright lads, kisses and hugs for later. Now it is time to open this chest! And the person to do so will be Nora Valkyrie!" he yelled pointing at Nora who bounced over excitedly. Demoman broke the lock on the chest with his sword and stepped back so Nora could open it. Without hesitation, Nora bounded towards the chest and threw the lid open to reveal...
... a Ghastly Gibus.
It was a simple black gibus hat with the top nearly detached. The students stared at the unappealing hat while the mercenaries fell on the floor laughing. Many of the students turned to the mercenaries with annoyed glares. They had been expecting something much more impressive, considering what the mercenaries had offered so far. But before the students could berate them, one student grabbed the hat happily and placed it upon her head and squealed in delight.
Nora didn't seem to mind and begged the mercenaries to keep it and the mercenaries, shocked to see someone actually like it, nodded.
They began to travel back to Vale and by the time they arrived, the sun was setting and the students were tired from the long and hard day, but fun at the same time. They all had appreciated what the mercenaries had done to make their experience fun and make up for the movie incident.
They went back to Beacon Academy and the students went right into their dorms and bed. Most of the mercenaries followed suit, except for Spy who decided to take a short stroll before calling the night.
He walked around, smoking his ever present cigarette and thinking about what had transpired since they had been transported to this world. Granted, they had been shocked and very high strung when they first arrived, but now it seemed that they were getting used to it. They had made friends for the first time in a long time and Scout was even dating one of them, which surprised Spy more than any of the others. He sighed. This world had a lot to offer and he couldn't deny that he was starting to prefer it here.
He was so deep in his thoughts, that he wasn't looking where he was going and ended up bumping to someone. "Apologies," he said politely, turning to face the person he accidently hit. His narrowed. He had bumped into Cinder Fall.
"Oh no need," she said, "It was my fault."
"Oh please," he countered, "I wasn't looking."
They scanned each other until Cinder smiled, "Well my name is Cinder Fall, and you are?" she asked. There was no real kindness in her voice, only the want to know who this man was and Spy picked up on this and answered just as coldly, "I am the Spy."
"Well, Spy, it has certainly been a good talk but I must retire to my dorm," Cinder said smiling but her amber eyes were cold and dangerous. Spy simply nodded and they parted ways.
Spy entered his room and found Engineer strumming a guitar on his bed. "Do you know of this Cinder Fall?" Spy asked as walked over to his bedside table and put out his cigarette in the ash tray. Engineer looked up. "Yeah, she and her fellow companions are new transfer students. Why?"
"I just bumped into her in the corridor," said Spy and sat down on his bed, "I don't know what but something feels off about her. I'm going to keep my eye out on her." He lay down and was about to fall asleep when Engineer suddenly spoke up once more.
"By the way, I got a message from Professor Ozpin. It seems we all are gonna be security guards for the school dance in two days."
And we will call that a chapter! This one took me around four hours in total to complete but it was worth it. This time I don't have much to say and I will just go straight to the usual farewell. Reviews are always welcome and I will see you in the next chapter... BYE BYE!