Chase was waiting at the entrance of Beacon, Ozpin had called for an assembly for all students as well as the mercenaries and made it known that it was urgent. He was there with Cinder and Shu who were pondering what it was about, he tuned out of what they were saying after their theories became a bit off. Ozpin finally took his place on the raised platform and looked at everyone intensely before speaking into his microphone.

"As all of you know this year has taken a few unexpected turns with the events of the white fang and the attempted takeover of this very academy"

He went silent as everyone began talking about the events and what he was going to do with all of the mercenaries, Chase turned around to Cinder and Shu who were looking at him with concerned faces.

"What do you think he'll do?"

"Well he was willing to take me in even though I had dust infused in me"

"Yeah, but you didn't try to take over the school"

Ozpin cleared his throat into the microphone which caused a deafening silence all around the entrance, after another pause he spoke up.

"Now I know many of you may not trust these people, others will still hold them accountable for the many civilian lives lost in the second breach of Vale, however they were being controlled through an implant in their brain, if they were not as worn out from the battle as we were I am sure that they would have been on the forefront in helping the civilians their associate James Ironwood placed in danger and some did go out to help. I think it only fair that we give them a chance."

Cinder and Shu were hardly able contain their excitement that they were being invited into Beacon, to be able to help others as a future Huntress and Hunter. Chase turned to them giving them a smile that said 'I told you so'. However their victory was short lived as he could hear other students booing at the idea. Chase stared at all the students booing before the spotlight landed on him.

"I thought many of you would react like that, therefore how about we hear about whether or not they should be allowed to join by the one person here who has the most reason to hate them"

Chase slowly and nervously walked up to the stage, staring maliciously at Ozpin for putting such pressure on him. As he stood before the other students of Beacon he began to feel warmer, he could feel each individual stare on him and it felt as if each was a laser burning through him. He took a deep breath in before speaking to calm his nerves.

"I'm not the best at giving speeches, as you all are about to find out." He started with, trying to lighten the mood but to no avail

"I know how you feel about trusting the mercenaries, believe me I had to live with them for years, and have a few unfair fights, however I was in the same position as them. None of us joined the experimentation by our own choice, because I can tell you now if they had the choice to join Beacon as you did they would've much preferred it. The process that we went through was torture, made worse for me as my ice dust turned into a tail gaining me the name 'monster' I can understand your distrust and hatred for them because of what you thought they did, but they didn't know about the second breach, I know none of them would want grimm to attack Vale as we all have seen our villages burnt by wild grimm attacks"

Chase paused to think of what he was going to say next. As he did so he could hear murmuring around him, he looked to Shu who was giving him a worried face, he immediately knew what to say next.

"I know I can't ask you to trust them with just a sad story of their past, nor am I asking any of you to. Trust is something that must be earnt. I am merely asking you to give them a chance, a chance to prove to you that they are just as loyal and good-natured as most of you are. I cannot account for all of them being a helpful addition to this school, however I can tell you that every single one of them is just as willing to fight any enemy of Mankind and Faunus alike just as much as you are. Especially hunting grimm, they would take any chance to do that"

Chase stepped away from the microphone and looked to Ozpin before walking off the stage and back into the crowd. Ozpin took to the microphone with a playful smile in response to the unchanged attitude of the crowd.

"I don't wish to bring in the mercenaries if they will just be excluded and treated badly by other students, however after hearing Chase's speech and thinking it over I am willing to come to a compromise. I will enter a team of mercenaries to the Vytal festival tournament, whoever takes first place in the tournament will be allowed to decide on this matter"

Ozpin left the entrance area and left the crowd discussing the matter of allowing the mercenaries in, Chase made his way through the crowd to find the other mercs. When he found them he could see Shu had a calculating look on him.

"Well that went better than expected"

"What do you mean, half the crowd doesn't want us here"

"But we have a chance, all we have to do is win the Vytal tournament"

"He said we could only enter one team, that means we have to decide on the four best fighters here"

"That explains your look. Well based on the training fights we had I think it's clear that I am going to be one of the four"

"No, since you left and were accepted into the school they'll probably enter you with one of the teams"

"Hmm, then out of everyone here I would say the four best are you, Cinder, Lapiz and Topaz"

"Yeah, if only we had Neo, she was a better fighter than all of us"

"Can we not mention the dead mercenaries" Chase replied somberly

"Sorry"

Chase left the mercenaries as they headed to Ozpin's office to tell him the team that they had chosen. He on the other hand began his walk to the team RWBY dorm to see what they thought of Ozpin's decision. Before he even walked in he could hear a heated discussion taking place, he stood still for a moment to hear what it was about.

"I don't care I still don't trust him" he could hear Yang shouting

"He saved us when we were in the Labyrinth, what will it take for you to trust him" Ruby weakly replied

-Oh shit, it's about me. Should I go in, of course I should. I need to be there to defend myself- He walked into the dorm and everyone went silent, all eyes on him.

"You don't need to pretend as if nothing happened I heard the argument before I walked in"