(And on with the story, where things get to happen.)

Out of the Frying Pan...

Axel's POV

I was sleeping like a stone for the most part, that is until I start feeling sharp points jabbing me in the ribs. Must be either Ruby using her 'sweetheart' or Weiss using her rapier, damn it I want to sleep more! I try to block out the pain until the jabs start getting a bit more painful.

I groan and toss off the blanket, "Alright alright, I'm up." I groggily mutter out. Rolling out of the top bunk I flop right onto my feet and rub the sleep out of my eyes, right in front of me is team RWBY dressed up and ready to go. "Morning ladies." I cheekily say earning a glare from Weiss

"Did you stay up late Axel?" She asks, I shake my head at her. "Nope. Why ask?"

"You slept in a few hours later than usual, two to be exact." Blake states, well what'd you know. Guess I did

"Riiiight, so where's my team at by the way? And Chesh." I ask, Yang points her thumb to outside the door. "At breakfast already, we're about to head there too. As for Cheshire wellll...he's just sleeping under Weiss' bunk is all." She gives a shrug, "So wanna come along to breakfast?"

"Yeah why not?"

One moment later

After getting a shower and dressed I followed team RWBY down to the cafeteria we ended up getting breakfast together: Ruby got some cereal with sliced strawberries in them, Blake an omelette with water, Weiss got oatmeal, and Yang got toast with a glass of orange juice. As for me I got bacon, eggs and a glass of orange juice too.

Spotting the usual table: seems team JNPR is already there as well. I take my seat next to Uriah and give him a punch to the shoulder, "Ow! What the hell was that for boss?" He asks rubbing his shoulder. "Why didn't any of you wake me up?" I reply looking mostly at Silas and Uriah since Roy had to show me the book.

"Hey you're a big and strong leaderman, you make your own time." Silas says, "I hear you." Ren adds in tiredly, and right in sink the two drink their mugs of coffee. Trippy. "Riiiiight, what Wolfy and Narcolepsy said." Uriah adds in staring at the two, Ren and Silas then snap their attention toward him and glare. He holds up his hands in surrender and goes back to eating his food

"So anyone wanna pitch in ideas for the mission?" Jaune asks pointing a fork between everyone, Roy raises a hand eagerly like he's ready to be called on. "Uhhh, Roy! Y-you got something for us man?"

"That I do Jaune. IIIIIII haveDustgrenadesforeveryone." He sputters out quickly, he then gives a dorky little smile and chuckles nervously. "Really? Well that sounds pretty useful actually." Jaune replies sounding more than a bit impressed

"Buuuuuut I haven't had time to test them, so I guess this a sign that we get to see cool things at work!" He says happily, Jaune's face looses a bit of color to his face. "O-o-oh yeah? T-that's..." He sighs "We're probably going to get killed aren't we?"

"Cheer up Jaune!" I say happily, "We could always be terribly injured, horribly maimed, and then killed." I finish sarcastically

Unknown Location

Schwarz was a man of principle and honor, that being said he worships an eldritch being he only knows as the King in Yellow. He is also meeting with his...partner, Schwarz acting as his right hand man.

Although he has had to work alongside some other people, one being a criminal named Roman Torchwick. Schwarz didn't care for him, thought he was more suited to dealing with small time threats. Schwarz opened up a door to an office room where his boss was residing. Mr. Ash was sitting with his feet propped up on the desk

"Ahhh Schwarz! Welcome welcome!" Ash said in a cheerful tone

"There was something you wished to see me about sir?" Schwarz droned without any hint of emotion in his voice, Ash could only sigh and stand up. "You're so blunt at times Schwarzy. But I guess I need to tell you of some...interesting news." He says with a too-board smile, showing bright white teeth. To anyone else it would be utterly terrifying, but to Schwarz and his two companions it's merely mildly unnerving

"'You-Know-Who' has decided to send three teams on a mission. Dealing with a Grimm that seems to be a problem with Beacon." Ash's smile gets wider and more sinister, "I want you to...remove them from the equation. Get my meaning?"

Schwarz looked at him with a hint of concern, "But...they're only children." He replies. Ash can only roll his eyes and shake his head, "So? Who cares? You do want revenge against the bastard, am I right?"

Schwarz sighs and nods, "Yes. I do wish for revenge."

"Well here's an opportunity to hurt him! Killing them will be an opportunity to cause psychological damage to Him!" Ash says utterly ecstatic at the prospect. "Very well then Ash. I will do this...if only to cause the man harm."

Ash gives a chuckle, "Good. And here I was contemplating on having you be locked in a room with a Shoggoth. Glad you came through in the end. Let the earth come aflame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."

"Let the earth come aflame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."

All aboard the Bullhead!

After breakfast and the like, my team along with team RWBY and team JNPR mad their way to a landing pad where we'll be waiting for a Bullhead to pick us up. Turning to Uriah I look to his weapons, I actually never got an opportunity to see them up close:

They're copper colored with green details on them, two designs standing out the most are the words 'Tomorrow' and 'Yesterday' written in stylized cursive. "You looking at my Tools of Trade boss?"

"Hm?" I look up at him and see him staring curiously, "Oh yeah! I never really got to see them up close before. You know?" I ask him, Uriah replies with a chuckle. "I hear you I hear you. What with your weapon...compensating for something?"

"Hey! My weapon is built to scale!" I snap at him earning a few snickers and one groan, who's groaning? Weiss.

"Do you really have to be so perverted Axel?" She asks a bit disdainfully

I give her a sharp glare, "But it is!"

"Really Axel?" Yang butts in, oh shit. I shut my mouth and put my hands in my pockets

Jaune feeling counter: 5

Awkward silence ensued before it was eventually broken by the roar of engines, looking to the air we see the Bullhead come in and land. It's hatch opening up for us to go into

We all head inside the ship and it soon takes off. Next stop: Ferrodillo

One hour later

Time being spent to pass by on a ship is relatively boring: but I manage. I checked the Remnant Wide Web on some things, mostly for the things that the book had in it for pictures...I turned up nothing. So I decided to pull out some headphones and let the sounds of Blues lull me to sleep, but I was eventually woken up by a voice

Hey uhh...anyone there?

The voice crackled: like a burning fire and with the occasional pop.

Who're you supposed to be?

Take it easy I'm a benefactor, someone who doesn't want to see this world go into the shitter. Won't reveal my name now, but later. So see ya for now Lindo

With that the voice vanished, like a flame that was snuffed out. I look to my scroll and see there's a new message from Cain, opening up I take a read

Axel. You're progress so far has been quite well: coming up with a strategy to kill a Basilisk, dive-bombing a Nevermore, all well and good. But even then everyone has limits. You try too hard and you will more than likely cause injury, try to little and you will lose your edge. So starting soon enough you will be under my tutelage and training: to prepare you to put out the spark that causes the earth to come aflame with a holocaust of death and chaos.- Cain

I sigh wearily, why do you have to be so cryptic at times Cain?

A pat on the shoulder snaps me out of thinking, looking up I see Nora hold something in between her fingers. "Mind taking this?" She asks, I shrug and take the thing and look to see it's an earpiece, comms, whatever.

I put it in my left ear and hear static, adjusting it I start to hear Jaune's voice start to buzz in.

"est...hree...test one, two, three."

"Anyone wanna tell me why we have these things in our ears?" Uriah asks, "Simple. We're heading into Grimm territory." Pyrrha adds in, "We need to have these as a precaution in case we get lost."

"Just take us into the thick of it." I mutter a bit, the intercom buzzes to life and soon we start hearing the pilot's voice

"Alright ladies and gentlemen. We're getting close to the landing zone: good luck and-" he gets cut off by the sound of an explosion and a SCHINK on the side. The explosion knocking all of us to the floor of the ship.

"Just what the hell was that?!" Yang exclaims, Uriah groans and heads his way into the cockpit and seems to gasp in shock. "Guys! The pilot's dead!"

Oh no.

"What do you mean dead?!"

"I mean Yang, that the pilot just got fucking butchered! A wing's gone! And we're going down!" He shouts back, the hatch opens up showing a trail of black smoke going against the skyline.

"Everybody!" Ruby yells out over the roaring sound of wind, "We gotta jump! Come on!" She then rushes out the hatch

Just like initiation right? Only more life and death. We all follow her lead and take a leap of fate out the door and start to dive toward the earth, gotta think up something fast or I'm gonna go splat

I see a tree, time for something dumb.

I pull out Cerberus and have it transform into a scythe, hooking the blade onto a limb I end up spinning around. Rolling in the air I land on my feet utterly nauseous

I then vomit, green and pink bile spewing on the ground.

Jaune feeling counter: 6

"EVERYONE ALRIGHT?!" I yell out in desperation, looking around and see what looks like a cliffside into a lower canopy of the forest.

"I'm alive!" Silas yells back, coming out of a shrub and shaking leaves out of his hair

"Same here!" Roy adds in as he casually walks in.

"We are too!" Ruby pipes up followed by team RWBY and team JNPR coming into view.

"Alright thats...where's Uriah?" I ask

"OH SHIT I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" I hear an all too familiar voice cry out, looking over to the cliffside I see a hand holding onto it. "Oh shit I'm coming!" I yell out rushing to him, looking down I can see Uriah holding on and a deep drop into the canopy bellow.

I grab onto his hand, he then takes the other and holds on. I clutch my teeth and start to pull him up, but soon enough he starts slipping.

"Shitshitshit! Hold on Uriah!" I grunt out

"Trying...boss...I-" he slips right out of my grip and starts screaming as he starts plummeting

"URIAH!" I call out to him, but as he's falling I see a glyph form and catch him. Sending him back over me and flat on his back, taking a look around...I see Weiss standing their with two fingers pointed out. She stops pointing and heads over to Uriah and offers a hand

"We're even now aren't we?" She dryly asks, Uriah rolls his eyes and grabs onto her hand before getting pulled up. "I guess you want me to say I love you?" He starts up sarcastically, earning a look from all but Weiss. His face flushes up, red as a beet

"But I don't! I really, really don't."

I can only snicker, suuuuuure you don't. "But on a more serious issue...we're stuck out here." Blake says seriously, "We have limited rations, our scrolls won't be able to work out here, so what are we-"

She's cut off by the sound of screeching. Turning around we can see our target of one gigantic Grimm: the thing is covered head to tail in plating, having long (and possibly sharp) scythe-like claws, a long and curved mouth, and the classic evil-dangerous-red eyes of the Grimm

The Ferrodillo screeches again and shows it doesn't even have teeth: just long tendrils that have barbs on the ends of them.

"Geee, great! FANTASTIC! SUPER!" I yell out at the thing, it can only menacingly creep toward us. We can only slowly back up toward the edge of the cliff again...I have an idea for this

Am I along with eleven other people about to jump down a cliff into unknown territory?

That you are

Grimm along the way?

Most likely

Perfect. Want to hear my plan for this?

I'll humor you, tell me.

Rip and tear: until. It's. Done.

It earns a chuckle from Cain

I wish you luck, and madness

"Everyone: you guys wanna jump?" I ask around

"Not like we have a choice." Silas drones in, Uriah can only sigh and nod, Roy giving a nod as well. Everyone nodding

"Sorry buddy!" I happily say to the murder machine the size of two buses, "But we gotta go for now! Ta-ta!" On those words we take a leap of faith. But one of the bastard Ferro's tendrils smacks me hard enough to send me spiraling off course.

Hitting tree limbs in all areas along with...sensitive ones I keep on falling, a river my last sight before slipping into darkness.

Shit.

(And out of the frying pan we go, next time things really heat up. Right?...r-right?...I'll just go now.)