AN: Here we go, boys! You got a brand new chapter of Bastion! This is the last chapter before the next Arc begins. Hehe, Arc git it? If not ah well. I am not entirely sober while writing this, thank you, Frank Horrigan, for the wise words on sobriety so expect randomness! That being said enjoy...

Ps. It has recently come to my attention that this fic is for some strange reason gaining popularity... I do not know why. This was a random fic I just threw together I never expected it to get any followers let alone consistent reviewers. So to those who are following it thank you and ot those who are reading it enjoy...

"It's not that bad!" Jaune said as he eyed Ruby's prosthetic eye. The blonde flinched as the harsh whirring sound of servos filled the air as Ruby stared up at him. He's lying… Ruby thought as a message popped in her eyes warning her of an accelerated heartbeat that indicates falsehood as her vision was overrun with a red hue as a plethora of information flooded her eyes. Numbers words letters and all other sensory information flooded her vision courtesy of her new eye.

Name Jaune Arc, height 6 feet 1 inches. Weight 180 pounds. Distance three yards two feet 8 inches. Ruby read as the mass amount of data flooded her vision thanks to her fake eye. It was giving her an utterly meticulous overview of everything and anything it saw as it whirred and clicked.

Ruby had to fight back the tears as she felt like it was stabbing her in the back of her skull, it felt like somebody was driving an ice pick into her brain each time the device moved as the implanted device caused her brain to hurt. The doctor the nice once in white, not the scary one n red had told her that the accustomization pain would go away in a few days she just needed to give it some time. As she looked up to her teammates.

"It's not so bad Red. I think it looks ok." Kage said as Ruby eyed her teammate as her new eye went to work. Name Kage Height 6, feet one and a half inches. Weight 200 pounds. Distance four yards two feet six inches. Her eye read as she saw a red targeting reticule appear on his chest as a target symbol materialize on him tracking his every movement. Ruby sound that whenever she stared at a person for tow long, a red targeting reticule would appear on them giving her their distance, movement speed, the current amount of wind resistance, and length form herself. Along with a detailed threat assessment of them compiled with their exact position in longitude and latitude numbers. It was incredibly useful too and could even be linked to Crescent Rose as well. Ruby hated it with all her heart.

She hated the way it looked, the way as it protruded and retracted into her face. It was a small brownish item with a tri-barreled cone that extended out of her face giving off a persistent and baleful red glow whenever she walked into a room. It would extend and retract accordingly as she looked at something. Making it glaringly apparent when she was interested. Even with its telescopic abilities, and auto-aiming capacity Ruby hated the feeling of the foreign material in her body. No matter what the doctor said, this would never be natural...

"You just need to give it time! It will become like second nature to you!" The new doctor who was a much less scary doctor in white robes said as she eyed Ruby happily. She was a medium sized woman with brownish hair short stature and pale skin. She had introduced herself as acolyte Felica. And was currently giving Ruby a once-over before sending her on her way.

"Is there any way I'll ever get used to this thing?" Ruby asked before crying out in pain as a sharp stabbing sensation filled her brains as she gasped in pain. "That's the implanted pain for you! It's going to hurt for a while to try to get used to it ok?" Felicia asked Ruby as she fiddled with her prosthetic. As she reached out to tinker with the eye several mechandrites shot out of her robes and began to work on her eye from behind her as she turned the prosthetic up to specs.

"Is there anything we can do to help her?" Jaune asked taking a step forward eying his injured teammate warily."Of course, there is! Be good teammates to her and be there for her when she needs it. The ghost pain will take several weeks to dissipate if it doses at all! Until then help her when she needs it and get her accustomed to life with a prosthetic eye!"

Felicia said with a smile as she finished tinkering with Ruby's eye. "There you go! That will do you for the next few mission, you have the Bastion mechanicus seal of approval miss Rose! Just keep using it, and you will see that it is not only superior to your original biological eyesight, it also will come with both offensive and defensive features! Just wait until you stare at something hard enough then you'll see how the machine is vastly superior to the flesh! Until then keep using it and coming back her for checkups and it will become like second nature!" Felicia said as she clasped her hands and ushered team ARKM out of the medical area.

"We should really get going to class. I know you're in pain Ruby, but we really don't want to be late for our first class." Kage said as the targeting reticle hovered over his chest again. : Kage. Heartbeat normal, unlikely speaking a falsehood. Distance: Four yards two feet 6 inches. Threat level normal. "Yeah! You don't want to be tardy!" Mika said happily as she shot up from her bed. Her assortment of furs and skins flashed in the air before she shot forward.
: Mika Smith. Height 5 feet 8 inches. Heart Rate normal. Distance ten yards two feet seven inches. Threat level extreme. Caution warranted, preemptive strikes advised.

Ruby gulped as her targeting reticule appeared and stayed on Mika as her eye whirred and whined as it shot out of her skull on its full eight-inch length as it analyzed the girl. "She has a point, Rubes. We really need to get going." Jaune said as he rubbed her head. That one mentions seemed to make the stabbing feeling in her head disappear as he ran his finger through her head a warm feeling filled her chest as she gazed up to the blonde leader. She could tell he was getting accustomed to seeing her with a prosthetic. Especially one like this but it was comforting to her to know that he still stayed by her side, even though she expected nothing else it was always reassuring, and it felt warm…

"Combat! The lifeblood of Bastion and the cost of remnant!" The sultry form of the combat teacher Ms. Velvet said as she stalked up and down the classroom. They were in their first mandatory Bastion class combat. And the teacher one Ms. Velvet was lecturing thoroughly on the ins and outs of ranged fighting. As Jaune looked to her, it was difficult to hear anything that came out of her mouth as his eyes were glued to her body.

Everything about her seemed to scream lust. Form her curvaceous body to her form-fitting black outfit that was somewhere between a jumpsuit and a pitch black leotard that hugged her body tightly. As she Spoke she had the light pale skin of the school and long brown hair with matching eyes. As she watched the class.

"Now tell me class is there anybody with any questions?" She asked before locking her brown eyes on Jaune's blue ones as a feral smile appeared on her lips.

"What about you mister Arc? I know this is your first day, but I usually expect a little more Umf! From my students. Is something about my lecture boring you?" She asked as she sashayed over to the blond leaning over his dead give him a clear view of her ample cleavage. Jaune; face went hot as he felt himself stuttering. " It's not that! It's just… Just that I don't use a ranged weapon! I use a mellone one and some of this stuff is hard to-

"Oh you are hard now, are you? Well, that's' unfortunate. I know! If this class is too hard for you how about, you come to see me after school for some special one on one tutoring. I can't say that it will be easy and I can almost guarantee you that if you come, you will be in for a rather rough ride. But I promise you one of us will come out on top. So what do you say mister Arc? Do you want to take a ride with your teacher?"

Her voice dripped from her mouth like a sickly nectar as Jaune felt his breathing hitch and pants tighten. Oh god, she's so close! He thought as he saw her beautiful face brown eyes and curvaceous form. Even fully clothed her jumpsuit highlighted each and every one of the curves on her perfect hourglass figure. She said she takes me for a rough ride? What doe that mean!? Does that mean…

Jaune's breathing hitched as he thought of the possibility of a rough ride would was going to accept he notices the desperate, frantic hand notions of Kage as he desperately drew a hand across his neck. In warning. As he looked to him.

" Well, mister Arc? You do know it's rude to keep a teacher waiting don't you?" She asked as she took a hand and gripped his arm running her smooth fingernails along it scratching deep into his light skin and making the blonde groan. "GAH!" Kage coughed loudly interrupting the two as he shook his desk desperate to save his blonde leader.
"Oh? Mister Kage? Is that you? Are you already waiting for our second time? I know how well you did last time and I'm eager to see you do it again, let's say after class today?" Miss Velvet asked Kage in a downright predatory grin as the tall boy sweated bullets.

"As much as I would love to Miss Velvet, I have training with my team after class, so I must decline." He said politely as he bowed his head sweat dripping from his hand.
"What a shame. Next time then!" she had a predatory grin as she went back to teaching. Jaune remembered what Kage had told him before…

"Listen and listen good! Jaune you have to believe me when I say this, This is not Beacon."
Kage said as the ran through the eerily empty Bastion corridors. Where the hell are the kids? Jaune thought as he turned to his friend? " You don't have to tell me this isn't Beacon Kage. I know that." Jaune replied dryly making Kage sigh.
"No, you don't get it! This is Bastion! Everything is different here, the school. The dorms, the curriculum the teachers! Jaune listen to me! I don't know what you've heard so far but pay attention. This is not Beacon. The staff at Bastion are not like any you have ever seen before. They have full authority over the students here. And they can do whatever they want to us."

"Kage It can't be that bad," Jaune said as turned a corner making him groan.
"Jaune when I say full authority I mean full authority. We are nothing to them. They can do almost anything to us if they see fit, so please don't do anything to provoke them. Especially Miss Velvet. I Know she will seem sweet maybe even nice but do not engage her in unnecessary talks and for whatever reason do not under any circumstances let her take you to after class tutoring!"

Are you trying to get yourself killed!?" Kage asked his leader as they left their class. Jaune was still blushing a little as they left the room. " Come on Kage it wasn't that bad-
"Not that bad!? Jaune do you have any idea what almost happened to you!?"

"A teacher propositioned me?" Jaune asked making Kage sigh.

"Jaune that is no ordinary teacher. That was Miss Velvet! One of the most dangerous teachers in Bastion!" Kage said as they filed past the few meandering students. Unlike Beacon Bastion students almost never remained in the hallways after class. Not even to talk, it seemed a soon as their class ended they went right off t their next class post haste.

"He's got the point bossman you almost got your ticket punched back there! Literally" Mika added as she fell in behind the tow her ax brought up behind her head in relaxed gestures as she followed them.

"What was that all about…" Ruby asked turning her head the ground as she blushed fiercely at the sights or thought of her best friend doing that with a teacher.
"Jaune that is Miss Velvet! Do you know what she does with students? Kage asked his leader as the blonde shrugged. "She sleeps with them…" Kage growled once before opening his mouth.

"Ok, Jaune let me break this down for you. Let's say you did for whatever reason accept her off for tutoring. Maybe you were feeling lucky? Maybe you were feeling suicidal! I don't know! But let me tell you exactly what would have happened to you."

"First of all, you would go to the room after class and you would meet miss Velvet alone. Then after the briefest attempts s at doing work she would make some BS excuse about a table needing to be fixed and have you take a look at it. All the while flashing you peeks of her body which you are obviously interested in, shooting you those subtle eye looks and making you feel like a real-life Adonis. That is until she grabbed you by the collar and forces you onto the table."

"After that, she would get on top of you and just like that you're fucking a teacher!" Kage said with enough bluntness to make Jaune blush and Ruby squirm nervously.

"Now you're getting it on your feeling good. You just lost your virginity after all you have no reason not to feel good." "Hey! How do you know I'm a virgin!?"
"One, because you just said it. Two because well just look at you…" Kage said as he eyed the blonde up and down giving Jaune a major confidence hit in the process.

"Now back to the story. You would be feeling good enjoying the feeling of getting your dick rode for the first time then all of a sudden you feel it. You're getting close you're nearing your climax, and you're about to cum. That's when she says don't. She would tell you not to cum until she does. Now, this is your first time, after all, so your pretty nervous and a teacher breaking your dick on a table is already a pretty good experience, so you say you have to. She says don't once again and picks up the pace."

"Now you are only so human, so you scream one last time and cum. Then you know what she does the moment you pop? She blows your brains out!" Kage said making Jaune freeze on the spot.

"What?!" He asked as the color drained from his face as Kage's brown eyes locked onto his blue one. "She kills her own students?!" Jaune asked incredulously.

"Yup! She fucks em and kills them when they cum before her. She prefers doing it to first years, but she'll do it to anybody." Kage admitted as they turned a corner in the marble hallways.

"That can't be legal! What about the school rules!" The knight asked incensed at the casual loss of life.

"Jaune what part about full authority did you not understand? See is a teacher at Bastion. A school for the literal worst of the worst. She can do whatever the hell she wants with us! As long as she is teaching us the rules. The teachers don't give two craps about us, and as long as enough of us still breathing they don't give two shits about the rest of us!" Kage spat out as he grumbled bitterly.

"He's right bossman! She would have chewed you up and spit you out! We would be looking for a new leader right now, after mopping your brains up of course." Mika added in an oddly respectful tone of voice as they walked.

"That's horrible! Why would she ever do that!?" Ruby asked as her prosthetic eye whined in agreement as it stuck out of her head making the girl cry out in pain as she grasped at her fake eye. "She was going to kill me…"

"Yup. And then dump the body on the entryway to the class as a reminder." Kage said before Jaune fixed him a look.

"You seem awfully knowledgeable about this Kage. How do you know so much about her?"

"Because he fell for her trap!" Mika said happily from behind him grinning ear to ear. As her pure white teach mirrored her paper like skin as she walked up to him. "She tricked Kage into a night of rough and passionate lovemaking! The only reason why he's here right now is he was a tough shot and outlasted her for the first time. After that, he's been avoiding her like the plague, and she's been trying to get him back in her bed!" Mika added among Kage sigh in frustration.

"She has a point. I was stupid once. And I won't be that stupid ever again. I got lucky then I don't like relying on luck to win my battles." Kage said as Mika open her mouth.
"Speaking of battles, it's time for our next class! Combat!" Mika said as she squealed with glee.

"GO KAGE!" Mika shouted as they watched Kage brutalized the large man he was fighting. Jaune was shocked by the Bastion combat arena. It was huge ten times larger than Beacons easily. As Jaune watched the rows after rows of student cheering the fight and the massive big screen tv screen showed Kage breaking open a man's head like a ripe melon, with one of his pistols before slamming him onto the sand floor before to a wave of applause walking out of the ring. The arena with crazy as cheers and jeers fill the ar as students of all years sang their approval of rapport and the outcome as a chorus of ~Veeennnke!~ ~Veeennke~! Filled the air as Jaune looked down to see the familiar form of Hino and Zach both cheering wildly for their friend. As Hino wrapped Zach in one of her massive arms as he punched the air as Kage won the fight.

"Now! Onto our next fight!" The announcer said as the remaining combatant was dragged out by a Bastion medical detail. Jaune winced as he knew that Bastion fights had no aura limits and the fights would put initiate students without aura against those with, they went until one could no longer fight by injuring of being deceased the pictures on TV blurred in rapid motion as the next opponent as randomly generated.

"Our next meet will be.." The announcer pauses as a number of squares filled the big screen filling the room with an aloud whirring noise as they ran through the lists. "Ruby Rose! Punishment! Versus… Braxton Savage! Punishment!" The announcer as a picture of Ruby's face complete with one red eye was put next to the massive student as the announcer finished the combatant's names causing the stands to cheer. " Will Ruby Rose and Braxton Savage please make their way to the arena! Your fight is about to go on!"

I don't want to fight you!" Ruby said as her eye immediately started scanning her opponent. : Braxton Savage. Height seven foot nine inches. Weight three hundred fifty-eight pounds. Distance ten yards one foot eight inches. Threat level high. Her eye read s a large targeting reticule appeared on his bald forehead. "Ha! Weak words form a weak opponent! I'll have you know I fight to the death girly, so if you don't want to die I suggest you come ready to kill!" Braxton said as slapped a massive hand over his meaty exposed chest.

"I don't want to kill you!" Ruby pealed as she gripped Crescent Rose tightly as her red finished fully integrating with her weapon. AN green integration complete flashed don her eye's hud as she stared at her opponent.

"That makes one of us!" Braxton said before the announcer yelled, "Begin!" And the fight was on.

Ruby moved first using her semblance to instantly skirt Braxton's reach briefly compensating for the sand flooring and peppered him with sniper shots. The man was so large he was impossible to miss as she put round after round into his thickly over the muscled backside. "Stay still!"

He roared as he tossed a massively spiked chain mace at her making the girl gasp as the bowling ball like spike object nearly took her face off as she dashed to the sides a flurry of rose petals and sand before opening fire on him again.

Braxton roared as his tanned skin was pelted with sniper rifle fire as his aura absorbed the first of the barrage. As Ruvy hit blow after blow she felt a nagging felling in the back of her mind as she fought him. Unlike in Beacon the only aura levels that were shown were on the massive big screen television as Ruby had no idea how much aura the large man head left.

"Surrender now, and I won't have to hurt you!" Ruby pleaded not knowing what to do. If she kept shooting him eventually his aura would fail, and he would be severely wounded! As she remembered the Bastion staff never called fight until somebody was either incapacitated or dead. Whatever came first as she switched up tactics charging him for a devasting forward slash as she easily dodged his large overly cumbersome chain mace as her eyepiece saw an apparent strategic weakness as it called it as she slashed forward.

The first of the three strikes were devastating, as Crescent Rose struck true tearing chunks out of his aura as Braxton roared in anger. He tossed his large weapon in a wide looping arc hoping to hit Ruby with an overlapping swing but failed miserably. His weapon was clearly made for dealing with large armored, slow opponents. And it was woefully ineffective at hitting fast moving agile opponents like herself. As she dipped and dodged the clunky weapon. " Just stay still!" He howled as Ruby gathered herself for another attack. She head to admit running on sand was much harder than running on anything else really.

Even snow was more natural in her opinion. As she charged at him ok, the eye said to hit his neck right here! Ruby thought as she brought her scythe down in devasting downward slash only to be rewarded by the sound of metal tearing flesh as her scythe broke through his aura and tore right into the bone...

Ruby screamed, Braxton, yelled as Crescent Roese made quick work of his body, quickly and rather violently ripping open half of his neck and most of his chest cavity, tearing clean through flesh and bone alike as the large scythe cleaved his hip from the thigh. Ruby gasped loudly as hot blood hit her face dying her body the color of her cape as the large boy fell onto his knees.

"You bastard! I'll make you pay for this!" He shouted as he coughed up large harsh mouthfuls of blood as he stared the small red reaper.

"Someone! Somebody, please call for help!" Ruby shouted as she rushed back in forth in the arena. Her semblance taking her up and down the sand lengths in a matter of seconds as she desperately called for help. "Somebody! Please! He is going to die an-
"Get back here and fight me! I came to fight so damn well face me!" Braxton coughed as blood left his mouth and Ruby panicked.

She didn't know what to do. If she did nothing, the fight would never end, and he would bleed out making her murdered?! No that can't happen! Ruby thoughts ed him. If I can disable him to the point where he can't fight then they will call the match! She thought as she desperately charged him.

"I'm sorry!" Ruby yelled as she brought down Crescent Rose four times. Twice on his legs once on each of his Achilles' tendons the other two on his wrist making him drop his weapon and collapsed to the ground. Even still he persisted….

"That all you got?! I Know dead people who swing harder fool! Just get back here and fight me!"
"What is wrong with you!? Can't you see I'm trying to help you!?" Ruby pleaded with him as he spat a red wad of phlegm at her.

"I don't need your pity woman! Either kill me now or let me die! Either way its all ready over..." He demanded of her eye glowed red as it locked on.

: Targeting path locked. Analyzing route… analyzing…. Analysis complete attack path plotted and sent. Her eye said as Ruby was shown a planned takedown. If she stabbed him there, he would surely have to quit! She thought sprinted at the large man and Ruby never saw it coming. As she swung down her weapon, it made the slightest alteration in its attack on its original target, severing a set of tendons that would have made it impossible for him to continue slammed itself instead head first into Braxton's skull, impaling the tip of Crescent Rose straight through his face killing him instantly….

"Winner Ruby Rose! Gaining her first arena kill in her first combat debut no less! Let's give her a warm round of applause everybody! Give it up for the debut of the Red Reaper of Bastion!" The announcer called out as the crowd cheered wildly for Ruby as she dropped to her feet as her heat thudded out of her chest. Her breaths came out in short jagged burst as she looked at the crumbled bleeding man who was still impaled by her weapon.

"I…. I… I Killed him?" Ruby thought before tears broke her face as she grabbed her weapon. Ripping it free from the dead man's head. Almost losing her lunch as the sickening SLURP! The sound of metal reaving flesh filled her ears before she ran off in a trail of rose petals.

" YAY! She did it!" Mika cheered loudly as Jaune looked on horrified as Ruby planted her scythe right through the man's skull. The blade of Crescent Rose easily pierced through flesh and bone as the weapon end the man's life. "Winner Ruby Rose!" The announcer said before the entire arena cheered for her. It was deafening as a wave of applause and streamers? Found their way to the combat arena where the young girl looked ready to break. the camera had zoomed in on her face as she collapsed on the sand floor as her hands gripped her side as she began to shake.

"Uh oh, ladies and gents! Looks like we got ourselves a case of stage fright here! Let's give her some more applause what do you say?" the announcer asked before the applause doubled in volume before Ruby took her scythe ripping it free form his skull as Kage gripped his arm. "Go het her." He said as Ruby sprinted away in a storm of rose petals...

"Ruby, it's ok…"
"No, it's not! Jaune it's not ok! I killed a man!" "Ruby shouted to him as she lay curled up in his bed. Ruby was beside herself crying deep in her mattress as the bloodied form of Crescent Rose lay next to her. It will head a tuft of brains and blood around it as she had not packed it up form scythe form.

"Ruby it's all 'Stop telling me it's all right! I killed somebody Jaune! Nad not like before in Vacuo! I killed a man in a fight. I saw him die. Do you know how that made me feel!?" She creaks as her body sobbed into her pillow.

"Ruby I Can't begin to imagine how bad that made you-

"That's the thing Jaune! I didn't! I didn't feel bad!" Ruby said as she broke out of her covers in her bed and her one remaining eyed spilling a free wall of tears as her prosthetic whirred up to him glowing balefully in the process.
"Ruby what do you mean you didn't..." Jaune asked as the girl cried into his arms.
"Jaune I didn't feel bad after I killed Braxton! Not at all! Jaune... I didn't fell bad... Jaune I liked it!"

AN: ANother Bastion chapter done! This one with a light look on the school's inner workings! There was the first team arena fight and Ruby got her kill! I know her reaction isn't typical but I always wanted to see her like that. Always guessed she would like killing, I mean really look at her scythe... Well until next time expect all the possible refrences so untill then take care of youselves and thank you for reading.