Hello, now for the majority of the time when he's by himself I'm calling Soldier75 , Jack, because it easier to write and sounds better, but when he's with others he'll be called soldier 76.
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Ozpin looked out across the grounds of Beacon and sighed as the sun descended below the horizon. He now had a whole new problem to deal with, looking back at his scroll he replayed the video James had sent him.
"I still can't believe that someone summoned a dragon." Glynda said from across his desk.
"Mm"
"Ozpin no."
"Mm?"
"No, you cannot recruit him. I will not let such a man be here around the students."
"Mm,"
"Now about those reports."
"...Glynda, do you think that they are unusual?"
"What?"
Holding up his scroll, he pulled up a picture.
"These dragons, they drained out all the energy of the mech and several other Knights across the compound. Yet, it caused no physical damage to anything."
Glynda sighed, but before she could utter her thoughts the doors opened.
"You already know the answer to all your questions Oz, you just enjoy asking them way to much." The intruder said. "And one of these days your questions will be the end of you."
"A pleasant evening to you as well Cid." Ozpin quipped back with a smile. "Come for another round?"
"Nope, just letting you know I was back and that we've had a breach."
"Yes, we have footage of the breacher." Glynda said.
"Oh? Just one? I'll have you know that there's a total of eight. And not all at the same time."
"Oh." Ozpin placed his head on his hands. "Care to shed some light on the others?"
"Well, you have the interloper on Schnee's train from a few days ago for staters, There's the hacker that's been breaking into places but taking nothing." Cid started, slowly tapping the desk as he spoke. "Also one has landed in the care of the good doctor, and don't worry, he hasn't told the General yet."
"That's three." Glynda said curtly.
"Yes, now have you noticed that the Grimm population in the emrald forest has decreased drastically in the past month, as well as crime in the middle districts of Vale? That's thanks to this man."
Cid held up a picture for Ozpin to see. The image was of a man with graying hair and a motorcycle jacket, standing over a group of wanted men, holding a closed fist and an assault rifle.
"He looks friendly." Glynda muttered.
"Not really, if you look up the past months police reports you'll find some pretty brutal reports. This guy is not out to make friends."
"I was being sarcastic."
Cid tilted his head in mild confusion for a second before he nodded.
"Oh."
There was silence for a minute until a few beeps were heard from Ozpins main terminal.
"I'm assuming that this...man...is also a breacher then?" He asked showing a video of a strange robot calming what was almost a riot outside one of the SDCs buildings.
"Ah yes, a monk with the strongest of words. He'd be a good one to recruit into your little circle." Cid mused.
"You think so?"
"Yes. Now about the more pressing matter of the vigilante breacher." Cid paused for a second. "Take him out? Or bring him in?"
Ozpin settled into his deep thought position before answering with a question. "In his world how important of a piece was he?"
Cid tilted his head. "A knight."
(A/N chess piece.)
Ozpin nodded and looked at Glynda. "Bring him in."
"Also" Cid continued "Ambers rescuer was the first."
Ozpin slowly nodded his head, smiling ever so slightly.
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Jack walked quietly down the streets of Vale, glaring down attempting muggers and pickpocket as he made way to his destination. In the time he'd spent in this world he had already built up numerous contacts in the underground world who were working on cleaning out the scum of the city, and all of them were happy to pay him his retainer fee to do the cleaning. He'd actually ran into an old foe a month back but she was more interested in finding bigger fish to fry. Which actually surprised the old soldier, she'd always been a pay first ask questions never, and would put a bullet in anyone, but her time in remnant had been longer than his, and he was beginning to think she'd been here first.
Caught in his musings he almost missed his turn. As he continued he wondered who else was here, he knew that the omnic monk had made it and was doing what he did best, he'd also heard whispers about a hacker that was breaking into high government facilities but taking nothing, which he knew was true because she was laying down her connections. He'd also heard rumors about an archer who could summon dragons.
All in all that meant Bastion, Genji, And Reaper where unaccounted for.
Turning he finally made it the the shop 'From Dust to Dawn' and went in. It was a small shop selling basic dust rounds and weapon accessories. As well as some snacks. Taking a quick look around he noted that aside from himself and the shopkeeper there was a small girl in the back looking at a weapons magazine.
Walking around he made a mental map of the store and looked for good places for cover if it came down to a firefight. After a few minutes he walked over to the magazines and grabbed a newspaper, trying to find hints or valuable information.
Hearing the door jingle made him look up from his paper. The sight made him smirk, right at the counter was Roman torchwich, probably the biggest lynchpins in the underground network and one of the most cunning and ruthless crooks around.
Jack had been on his trail for a month now and he was excited to put this guy down. Advancing forward he was almost hit by a grunt and red blur as they went flying out the stores window.
Looking out he saw a small girl in red and black unfurling a scythe.
He heard Roman tell the goons to 'get her' before he let out a small whistle, gathering their attention.
"Hi."
Romans eyes bulged as he backpedaled out of the store, leaving three of his unfortunate and confused grunts to take some of Jacks...subdument methods.
The first one to recover came at him with a sword swinging down to the left, Jack sidestepped the blade and drove his fist home into the man's solar plexus, dropping him immediately, the second one came at him with brass knuckles and he was dropped by a strong blow to the head courtesy of Jacks assault rifle being slammed into his temple. Turning to find the last one he felt a dust round slam into his shoulder. Growling, Jack charged the man and slammed him into the wall with his shoulder.
Looking outside he saw Roman climbing a ladder and the red blur chasing after him.
Following he made it to the roof top as Roman was engaged in a strange air battle against some blond woman, with a red clad woman doing the actual attacking and him doing the flying.
Jack shrugged and drew a bead on the wing of the bull head, pulling the secondary trigger he felt the release of his helix rockets, as soon as they were clear of the barrel he immediately opened fire onto one point trying to bring down the aircraft.
He quickly realized that it was futile as the craft escaped out of range. Cursing to him self he started walking away from the blond and the red girl before he was stopped.
"And where do you think you are going?" Demanded the blond woman, causing Jack to do a double take at how closely she resembled Dr, Ziglar.
"I'm leaving, I have a job to do." He grunted.
Turning to walk away he realized he couldn't.
Growling he eyed the blond. "Release me from your spell huntress."
He'd been here long enough to know who and what the major players were in this world, and he could tell that this woman was definitely one of them.
"Do you have any idea how I am?" The blond asked irritably.
Jack sighed and faced her, arms crossed and face scowled, not that they could tell because of his visor.
"Glynda Goodwitch, assistant to Headmaster Ozpin. A top ranking huntress, semblance telekinesis with a hint of time manipulation. Primary weapon, riders crop. Left handed primary." He rattled out, giving her the her own description from an underworld hit page that Widowmaker had given him.
Glynda paused for a minute then released him from his hold. "Ok, well then being as you know how I work for that makes this easier, Headmaster Ozpin would like to speak with you, and you." She adds sharply towards the girl from earlier.
The small girl eeped, but remained otherwise quite.
Jack raised an eyebrow, but didn't otherwise move.
"I have better things to do than talk to an old man in charge of countless lives."
Glynda was taken aback at how he spoke and had to stifle a growl before it was uttered. She was used to giving commands and them being followed.
Suddenly her scroll beeped with a message from Cid, opening it up she found a way to get the man to comply, but how Cid got this information she could only assume he'd, once again, done something unbelievable.
"What about this?" She asked, showing the man her scroll. Information about his history and his past flew across.
Jack tilted his head in a bemused fashion then nodded. "Fine, he's got that kind of information I guess I should talk to him."
Glynda smiled in a fake manner then jumped of the roof.
Jack quickly followed and the red girl landed right behind him. Looking around he saw a car advance towards them. Glynda got in first and motioned for them as well. Entering the car he closed his eyes but remained alert, he didn't want a nasty surprise or something. Fortunately aside from Reds occasional shift the ride was quite and he eventually found himself in a dark room.
As the seconds gave way to minutes Jack got frustrated enough to clean his rifle. As he pulled the cover off he smiled slightly at the mismatched parts that hid underneath. Constant changes and upgrades that the old Ape would add, or the repurposing done by the little gamer where visible in almost every color available. After another 15 minutes or so, the door opened and the Headmaster Ozpin himself walked in.
"Hello, I assume you already know who I am?" The emerald man asked.
"Yes."
"Ahh short answers, ok." Ozpin smiled. "Well i'd like to know who you are?"
"I'm just a soldier." Jack said.
Ozpin raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Yes, I'm aware, there are quite a few cameras around the kingdom and it's surrounding areas."
Jack kept from reacting but he did wonder if Ozpin had seen how he dealt with some problems.
"Now mister hmm, what do I call you?" Ozpin asked.
"Soldier76"
"Soldier76 huh? What about Sol? Or the like?"
"I don't care."
Ozpin smiled then leaned forward with an intense look in his eyes.
"Look I'm trying to be friendly and I know you want to know where I obtained that intel, and I'll tell you, however I need to know one thing. If you had to choose between your life or someone else's to save countless others who would you choose?"
Jack flinched at the question because it hit so close to home, but he remained stoic and came up with his answer.
"Neither, I'd never give up on a life until all options are closed, and even then I'd find a way to get everyone home."
Ozpins smile widened and he sat back. "Excellent." He said, hitting a button while leaning back. "Now how would you feel if I offered you a chance to rebuild your Overwatch?"
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Bam! The end! That's all for the chapter. Now I'm going to take another two month break and do nothing but piddlefart around...who am I kidding, it's not over yet. I have one more character to introduce in this chapter so sit back and erase those hate DMs until the chapter is actually over.
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'Systems coming online'
'Primary weapon active'
'Sentry form deactivated'
'Assault mode unavailable'
'Scanning available networks'
"Hello?"
'Unrecognized voice pattern. Beginning start up sequence'
Penny tilted her head as the large robot talked to itself. She had been spending her free time trying to turn it on. Her father had spent as much time as he could trying to activate it as well but a sudden call from the General had taken him out to help with a problem. And as much as she liked being with her father and her two soldier friends, Penny was much more interested in the gift from Mr, Ferox. He said it was important but not urgently.
"Salutations!" She said to her fellow robot as its eye slowly started blinking.
'Verp?'
"My name is Penny, what is yours?"
'Veerr beep verop'
"It's a pleasant to meet you Bastion. Where did you come from?"
After several more basic conversational questions Penny realized she needed to contact her father and Mr, Ferox. While keeping an eye on the newly awaken Omnic, as she had learned his kind was called, Penny walked over to her computer and sent a message. All the while wondering if there was a way to get him out side. He really wanted to see some animals and she knew of some small birds that fluttered about the compound.
'No hostile actions preformed'
Bastion continued to observe the android named Penny. She was, as most humans would call it, odd. He was worried when she told him that he was in a lab but when she assured him nothing happened he relaxed. Reaching over Bastion quietly started a small repair on his right side elbow joint. Hearing a bump he looked up to see the ginger in front of him.
"Verr?"
"Father said that we can go outside and look around if you want."
"Trrr"
"Yay follow me."
As the battle omnic followed the small android through the halls he noticed that anyone they passed showed no reaction to his threatening form or his gun arm. He was starting to believe that somehow this wasn't the strangest thing they've seen today. As they continued walking Bastion realized that there was a form of wifi.
"Verret ver beep?"
Penny tilted her head at the question.
"Wifi? What's that?"
Bastion did his omnic equivalent of a furrowed brow before going into a long yet understandable description of the Internet and wifi.
As he continued his speech they made it to a door and then they where outside. Finishing his sentence Bastion looked around, it was fascinating, they where in an operant field with a city in the distance about 15 miles away if his scanner was correct.
Hearing a chirp he quickly turned his head and caught sight of a small bird. Excitedly yet calmly he raised up his hand and held out a finger. Sure enough the small black bird descends atop his finger. He beeped happily as the bird looked at him inquisitively, then it flamed its wings and returned to the sky.
Penny blinked and played back the few seconds of what just happened.
Bastion beeped happily for a moment until a raven flew into the yard. Reaching out, the dark bird also landed upon his hand. He was fascinated by the dark red eyes the creature had, it was dark as blood and emitted a strong sense of intelligence. The bird tilted his head and he copied the movement, keeping eye contact with the bird Bastion ran a quick scan on it trying to find out why it was so seemingly smart. Looking at the scans he noticed that it registered with the same level of neural activity as a human. Before he could question this occurrence further a heavy motor sound entered his range. Focusing on the sound he almost didn't notice the raven hop to his shoulder, finding the source of the sound he pointed and beeped a question.
"That's a bullhead used as a troop transport, but there shouldn't be an troopers being deployed here today." Penny responded.
Bastions threat analysis blipped at that statement and readied his gun, following the aircrafts path he ran another scan on it. He realized that there were multiple wounded soldiers, some would be fine with some stitches but some were definitely going to need surgery, quickly beeping out another question he started towards the landing pad.
"Yes, our medical wing is quite top notch, usually father will do his own work in there on his advanced prosthetics."
Bastion nodded then continued.
"Do you think the troops will need the wing?"
Bastion beeped an affirmative.
"Ok." Pulling out her scroll Penny quickly typed up a message for her father and the compounds medic.
Reaching the pad Bastion and Penny stood at a safe distance away from the ship as it finished its power down, as the hatch descended troops slowly, ragged and beaten looking. Penny rushed forward but was stopped by a hand.
"Easy kiddo, let the docs get them into the medical bay." Said an older man with black yet graying hair, he was wearing a ragged red cloak and gray dress shirt. He grabbed a flask and took a swig, then tossed it to another trooper who took a swig as well and passed the flask along.
Bastion watched from afar as troopers were taken off on stretchers or with assistance, he heard a soft noise from the side. Looking down he saw several androids in various stages of disassembly.
"It's not good." The man rumbles from the side. "We got hit by the fang and then the Grimm hit half our guys probably won't walk again."
Bastion looked at the man and could see a familiar aura surrounding him, he had the look of a commander who had seen countless battles and lost just as countless troopers, undoubtedly this man kept a record of every fallen subordinate.
"Ahh heck why am I telling you this, your probably not even listening." The man said sitting down against the ship.
Bastion crouched down next to the man, and after a quick check on his files on phycological treatments, he patted the older man on the back.
"Huh the bots got some nice to him. Names Qrow, ugly bird you got their on your shoulder." The man said in introduction. The raven screeched andpecked towards the man but remained on the omnics shoulder.
Bastion beeped but then realized the man probably didn't know what he was saying.
"Eh I didn't quite get that but I'm guessing you introduced yourself."
Bastion nodded.
"Ah crap, what am I doing here being but hurt about some injuries, they be fine." Qrow stood up and headed for the bull head. "Hey, you busy? I'm assuming that gun isn't for show and tell and I could use some supporting fire power."
Bastion beeped an affirmative and clunked onto the ship. The raven still perched upon him.
"Alright let's go get some Grimm." Qrow mutters quietly.
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Ok that's the end. I promise. No more today. Anywho, thank you all for the support you've giving me. Its really encouraging to know that people want to read more and I apologize about the slow updates. I don't get to spend as much time as I used to on my devices so it interferes with my writing. Again thanks for the support and if you haven't already go find me on instagram. When I get more followers I'll start posting fan fiction oriented stuff. My instagram is g3r1k_the_lunar_knight go check it out.