Chapter 2- Mission assignment
A few days has passed since Sky and Ray had been suspended in which Wave and Claus had to cover for them by making extra notes and catching them up on what they had missed from the classes they missed in which the work just kept piling for them as the team had to finish their homework before they were assigned their missions for their second semester.
It was morning and Sky was asleep on her desk, cleared from her usual clutter of objects and tools and were instead replaced by papers, an alarm clock and a desk lamp along with a couple of cans of drinks and sweets that were meant to help her stay awake but clearly didn't, she had a model of a bird she built from random sticks she found outside that she assembled to act as motivation for her study but clearly didn't motivate her enough.
The alarm clock rang, Sky sprung up from her position lightning fast and slammed her hand down on the clock to stop it's ringing.
"I'm on time!" She subconsciously shouted out, forcing the rest of the team up with a jolt with their grumbles and annoyed faces.
"Sky, why are you shouting? It's early…" Ray complained as she rubbed her head, taking a stretch and yawned.
Sky pondered to herself for a moment and concluded.
"I guess, I had a dream about being late to a place I was working at."
"Seriously?"
"Ahehehe…" Sky sighed slightly, and Ray came over to look at her papers while still in her purple pyjamas, judging the engineer for she didn't complete as much as the Idol did.
"It took you all night to do this?" She questions.
"I'm not as smart as you in some fields okay?"
"Well that's to be expected"
"Don't rub it in." Sky scoffed and rested back on her desk, she felt exhausted from staying up all night doing the homework but not only that, she had to make a new weapon since her last one was destroyed by that mysterious Grimm and all she had back with her is one of the bone blades that were recovered from the Grimm that professor Oobleck had a study of it before returning it half the size as before, they took a chunk to be sent off to be analysed while Sky was given the blade that was of a much more manageable size to work with to become her new weapon.
"Hey Sky, how long is it till class?" Wave asked, brushing his hair with a miniature comb while sat on his bed.
"About an hour till class but more importantly, Sky what are you going to do about a weapon? Today is the day we choose missions to go on." Claus answered instead and reminded the team about the mission selections they have to take.
"I've got the plans for it, it's just a case of assembling it together really but just in case, I've got a spare knife." The exhausted engineer sighed and brought out a large roll of paper from underneath the desk and cleared some space on the desk to unroll the paper across it, Ray had a quick look over it and quickly gave a worried look to Sky.
"A-are you serious?"
"Yeah, while I will be able to put some of it together with my semblance, a lot of welding and connections will have to be done so guys choose a mission with preferably a long travel time, so I can finish it off on the way there if need be, it won't be perfect but it will be something." Sky said, standing up and walking over to the Grimm blade and strokes it with a smile on her face before mumbling to herself, amusing herself with the amount of combinations she could do.
"I'll get back at you one day."
After classes, team SCRW were in the selection halls to choose which mission to go on the next day where there were multiple teams around doing the same with along with Pyrrha's team there in which Ray got startled when she saw them but they didn't seem to notice, Sky had to have made her weapon by the time she went on the mission, so she brought a large case that's strapped to her back with the Grimm blade strapped onto the back of the case too.
The team went up to one of the boards to select a mission, Wave stepped up to scroll through each mission before stopping at one that detailed to be a rescue mission.
"I don't think we should do one like that yet, we would be likely to run into a lot of Grimm." Ray stated, looking over at Sky who just glanced away shyly.
"Sorry…"
"You don't need to apologise, we can't go on that one anyway." Claus stated to help make her feel better in which Sky just faced the group again as Wave scrolled through the list again.
"Let's look for one where there wouldn't have too much Grimm." Wave said as he stopped at another mission detailing a mystery in a village where a team of Huntsman are required.
"The distance seems to be enough for me." Sky stepped up to the screen to take a closer look with curiosity.
"A mystery though? Isn't that boring?" Claus stated, showing his obvious boredom.
"It's something we are gonna have to do ourselves at one point, hey you might enjoy it so with that as leader, I declare we are choosing that mission!" Sky said with a cheeky smile to her face as pushed past Wave and clicked the screen to accept the mission.
"Wait, you didn't ask me!" Ray said, trying not to shout too loud in consideration for Wave for she doesn't know if he is getting better or not.
"Ray it's fine, I'm think I'm kinda of getting used to the shouting now…" Wave scratched his head and let out a small chuckle.
"Well… I'll still try to be considerate… I've realised I can't go shouting at everyone, that brings a bad image upon me as an Idol afterall." Ray gives a slight blush as she turns away from Wave, the Faunus just looks confused while Sky snickers.
"I guess you're learning this time." She comments with a smile, Ray shoots back a glare for a moment and then turned back to the mission board.
"So, we're taking this mission?"
"Yup." Sky nods with a smile, pressing a button on the screen to accept the mission and was soon given confirmation with their departure time being not till tomorrow for the airship that will take them there will need to complete some stops for other teams before picking SCRW up for theirs is long journey.
"Well with that, I guess we've got the day off." Claus said, swinging his arms over his head and looking up as if he's bored.
"Well YOU guys have the day off, I've got a lot of work to do today…" Sky sighed, regretting the amount of work she put herself in for the day before dragging herself away from the group to return to the room, contemplating just bringing the knife at this point.
"Shouldn't we go help her?" Wave asked out of concern.
"Unless you're good with machines and mechanics, we are more likely to create more work for her." Ray said, turning away to where the library is. "I'm off to do some reading, follow if you must, if not do whatever."
As Ray walks off, Wave and Claus look from behind and sigh simultaneously.
"How do we handle these girls?" Claus asked, scratching the side of his head.
"I don't know, I was never good at it."
"I bet a team full of girls or boys would be easier to deal with, like RWBY, right?" Claus said, looking over at said team where they were talking to Ozpin.
"They seem to get along with the headmaster a bit, don't they?" Wave bent down to Claus' ear and whispered.
"They could be teacher's pet for all I care, I'm hungry so follow me." Claus smiled slightly and walked off with Wave following closely behind.
It's early morning and the team is waiting outside the academy by a platform waiting for the airship to come pick them up, Wave was checking his weapon to make sure it was working fine, testing the wire, making sure the weapon folds in and out properly, then quickly making sure Sky hasn't put in any new arrows as she has a tendency of making new kinds of arrows for Wave to try out without telling him. It's her secret bag of tricks… with a potential that it could kill the wielder or the team.
Claus was checking in his camping bag to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything and hiding any snacks he brought underneath a spare shirt he stuffed in then proceeding to clamp his Tonfa's onto his back.
Ray gave out a large yawn for she stayed up too late in the library and was clearly growing impatient for the airship meanwhile with Sky… She had her new weapon with her but was still wielding and doing her final touches on it using a portable wielder she made awhile ago and had some wielding glasses on her to prevent her from being blinded by the sparks.
The weapon in question was in the form of a spear with a large slashing blade at one end from the Grimm blade and many parts and blocks forming the handle and shaft with the length seeming to just be as long as Ray with a circular handle in the middle of the weapon with two different triggers that indicate it might be a fire and transform button there though it looks like there's a larger button on the inside of the circle so who knows what the weapon does?
"Hey Sky, isn't this cutting it a little close?" Ray knelt but quickly jumped away at some incoming sparks.
"I will be done in a few minutes, hold on, I heard some teams had members go on missions without their weapons to it will be fiiiiiine." Sky said, focused on her work, bringing out more parts from her a hip pouch she was wearing and begins screwing them in.
"Ahh, so this is the team I'm supposed to be taking." A low, rough voice shot through the team as they, except Sky turned to see who it was.
A man with dark blue hair that looked like a tornado made it stand as it swirled up and outwards and he was wearing a dark blue suit with matching tie and a white shirt along with him holding a cane that looked more like a mace with it having 5 horns pointing up like a crown with a sparkling crystal in the centre where he placed his hand for walking with it as he stood before the team with both hands on his stick and pretty much was inspecting their worth with an unintentional threatening glare.
"So… you're our professor for the expedition?" Ray asked, gulping, unable to take her eyes off his ridiculous hair, she thought the professor must've been new cause she would've definitely remembered anyone with hair like that.
"Precisely, bare in mind we will be investigating since we don't know exact details so don't expect a fight so soon, but Grimm are ever present so if you get bored you can hunt some, any questions? I may be new and unfamiliar, but I will do my best to answer any questions" He said, his eyes wondering over to Sky who was still too busy with her weapon to say anything.
"You're already looking down on us, aren't you?" Ray took a step forward, her face scorning at the professor although he didn't care about what she thought, he was more interested in Sky.
"I don't mean to if that's how you feel but If you stick with me, I can teach you to help in the investigation until then, you're young and inexperienced so I will guide you." He said in a cold tone as he stepped over to Sky who was hunched over working on her weapon.
He went to strike at her with the cane to get her attention, but Sky moved like she expected it to strike her, grabbing the cane with one hand, shooting up as fast as she could with the wielder in her other hand as if she was going to strike, her eyes wide like a lion striking for her prey however…
The professor let go of his cane and in a sequence of a few seconds, slapped her wrist away from him and then proceeded with several blows to Sky's body in various areas but found himself unable to move with gold area surrounding him and noticed that Sky's eyes also turned golden, clearly indicating that Sky used her semblance to stop the professor before releasing him.
"Attacking your professors… You're gonna be more trouble than I thought."
"What's wrong with you? Isn't that the natural response if someone was going to attack you like that?" Sky huffed, her eyes returning to the usual sky blue and she looked away from him.
"First of all, called me Professor Gort, I will be the professor accompanying you throughout this mission so you're aware, I didn't want to start this negatively, but it seems with your attitude, I had no choice, although you did make a good poitn." He said, going to grab his cane but then takes a quick look on Sky's weapon.
"Last minute maintenance? How careless right before a mission."
"I don't know if you didn't know but a Grimm destroyed my last weapon recently, so I have to work with what I've got." Sky stood up and wiped her chin as she returns to her weapon but Professor Gort takes one of the parts she was going to use and inspects it for a moment before returning it, not even acting like he's aware of the bad impression he's put himself on the team already.
"There are some questions I'd like to ask about this but our transports here." As Gort said his line, the airship came above the landing platform and slowly made touch down.
"Before we go, may I get your names?"
"Wave Tinderfields"
"Claus Freed"
"Ray Golden-wind"
"Sky Boltwight"
The team said their names, Sky still glaring angrily at her new found enemy while Wave looked at him with caution for he doesn't know whether this new professor can be trusted or not, but he glanced over to Claus who nodded to reassure him.
"Alright, let's get a move on team, I'll be counting on you." Gort said, stepping onto the airship with the rest following and Claus helping Sky get the equipment onto the airship.
Alright from now on I'll be trying out a new genre and style to see how this goes and see if it is ready to read or not, for all those reading, if you can give any feedback or review they would be highly appreciated so I can improve in the future.
Thank you for reading!