Hello everyone and all, Melody is finally here. Sorry that it has been so long since I've updated this but I have my reasons. Three really, over the summer my computer broke and for awhile I used my buddy's but he needed that back near the beginning of the season, two I have a job now, and three I started Culinary school so yeah. That's all at the moment.

Normal P.O.V.

It was about an hour till the ball and everyone was getting ready. Lothur had his suit on and was adjusting his tie while Maroon and Renwin were finishing up. Renwin's outfit was pretty simple though. It consisted of a red button up, black slacks, black shoes, a belt, and a tie. Before they left the room though Mercury walked in wearing a suit.

"What the hell? I thought you said you weren't going?" Lothur said as he looked at him.

"Yeah well I changed my mind. Plus I didn't feel like hanging out with Faina and what's her face." He replied as he sat down on a chair.

"Where did you get the suit then?"

"Ross gave it to me a while back. I'm actually surprised it still fits me since I wore this at Ross and Glynda's wedding."

"Given the fact you have cyborg legs you can't get much taller."

"Screw you Lothur."

"Well I'm gonna go get Emerald, see ya guys at the ball." Renwin said as he turned to leave the room.

"If you do anything to hurt her, I'll hurt ya." Mercury told him.

"Don't worry I won't." Renwin told him as he left.

"And you can trust him when he says that." Maroon said as he made sure his tie was straight. "See you both in a bit." He told them as he left.

"See ya man." Lothur replied as he sat down next to Mercury. "This is going to be fun."

"Probably, Yang and Weiss were the ones planning it."

"Really?"

"Yeah did you not know?"

"Nope not at all. Guess Weiss didn't want me to know. So you think any of the teachers will be here?"

"Probably, Ross mentioned something about Veronica being here."

"Who?"

"One of his old friends."

"Oooh okay then."

Six/Ross' P.O.V.

Currently I was sitting in Ozpin's office with him and Ironwood. I guess Ozpin told him about the Wasteland critters that have been appearing in the Emerald forest. To say the least he seemed pissed. Mostly at me.

"How could you just let those things get here?" He yelled at me with fury clear in his voice.

"Well for one I have no clue on how this is happenin' and for two we need to do somethin' about this before things get so big that I can't handle them." I replied as I held up my hands in defense.

"Great so we have this to deal with and we have to find the people that stole part of Amber's power. This is just going to get better." He said and released a breath to try and calm down.

"Now listen here James I know what I'm doing but if you supplied me with a few of those newer bots you made maybe I could stop this fast and get to the root of the problem." I explained as I stood up and adjusted my coat. "You know my track record when it comes to jobs for you and Atlas."

"Fine. I'll give you eight, they will be delivered to you tomorrow."

"That's plenty, thanks James."

"You better handle this discreetly."

"Yeah yeah partner I know."

With that said I walked to the elevator and left the room. When I got out of the tower I saw students walking to the place where the ball was bein' held. Thought about goin' to check out for a minute but decided against that. Well I did till I saw Emerald walking with a boy. So like any good Dad I went over to them to embarrass her.

Emerald waved at me when she saw me walking over. She then dragged the boy over with her. Rather quickly I might add.

"Hi Six!" She greeted me cheerfully.

"Hey Em, so you're in a good mood." I replied and chuckled a bit. "So who are you?" I asked as I looked over to the boy.

"Renwin Vesperia sir." He replied as he offered me his hand to shake. When I really took a look at him I saw that he was taller than me by a lot then again though most people were. "Nice to meet ya."

"Nice to meet you too son." I told him as I shook his hand with my cybernetic one.

"So that arm really is metal?" He asked me and I simply nodded. "Nice. How did you get it?"

"Bounty hunt went wrong." I answered as I retracted my hand.

"Whoa." He muttered.

"Yeah well you kids have fun." I told them then walked away. "Try anything and they'll never find your body." I whispered to Renwin as I passed by him with a dark tone. That seemed to do it as I heard him shutter a bit.

A bit later I walked to the edge of the Emerald Forest. I stared out at the forest and notice a faint light in the distance. Then it got brighter. Quickly I moved to one of the launch pads. I pressed a button on my scroll then got launched.

A quick flash generated then the light disappeared. Once I was above the area I teleported onto one of the open branches. Down below me was someone in a suit of T60 Power Armour with a gatling laser. How the hell they got here I didn't know so I crouched down. The guy seemed to be saying something but I couldn't hear a thing other than static.

I jumped onto another branch and the person stopped then looked around. Didn't look up though so I dropped an acorn onto his head. He started to chuckle and muttered something. He then started to walk forward. I expected him to fire up at me since that's what most wastelanders do. Maybe he's from some part of Canada, heard it was full of nice people pre-war times. At least I think that was the name of the place up north but I can't quite remember.

I dropped down from the tree and tapped his shoulder. Immediately he turned around and aimed the laser at me. I put my hands in the air quickly.

"Hey partner." I told him as I looked the armour up and down, seeing no familiar emblems or logos.

"What is your name and where am I?" I finally heard his voice. Well a slightly muffled version of it but still.

"Well the name's Six but everyone calls me Ross and you my good man are on Remnant." I answered as I lowered my hands.

"So that's why my coms aren't working." He sighed out. "So the teleporter did work." He chuckled a bit. "So you must be wondering about the light. Well believe it or not I am from-"

"A planet called Earth which now a post apocalyptic wasteland ran by murderers, psychopaths, and other pleasant characters just as helpful and kind as the ones previously stated. I know how you feel brother, I'm from there."

"Wait really? Is the air safe?" He asked as he reached up to his helmet. I just nodded to him and he took off his helmet.

The guy's face was rough to put it lightly. He had a scar snaking up the right side of his face, a large one above his left eye, a cut lip, and more than I could count. His hair was a shaggy grey but he didn't look old at all, his eyes were a pale blue. His skin was pretty pasty also.

"Well then, my name is Frank. I work for the Institute." He told me.

"Honestly partner I have no clue what you're talkin' about." I deadpanned.

"Really? Where are you from?"

"The New California Republic, ex-proud citizen of it. You?"

"Boston."

"Where's that?"

"It's east coast." He answered. "So before I go back could I possibly collect some plant samples? And possible a bite to eat?"

"Sure I can get you somethin' but you'll need to take off the power armour." I told him which made him laugh.

"Oh I see where this is going, you're going to steal it aren't you?" He suggested as he lifted up his gatling laser. "Well I can't let you do that." He told me as he put his helmet back on.

As soon as he did that I teleported into one of the trees out of sight. He didn't seem to care though as he started firing wildly into the trees. For all the times for me to not have Victoria! I blinked onto another one of the branches as he shot at the tree I was in. I knew my sub-machine gun wouldn't do much so I changed to the grenade launcher.

Before I could steady my aim though I heard a roar and saw something familiar. Another fuckin' Deathclaw got here! I turned to that and fired a few grenades at it. That just seemed to piss it off though. It also seemed to be bigger than the normal ones. I saw Frank turn to it and start firing at it. With a quick blink I was in the tree behind the beast.

I slipped Blood-Nap out of my boot then jumped down onto the Deathclaw and started to stab it in the neck multiple times until it died.

"Specimen 0-043: Status: Dead." I heard Frank say as he walked over. "Cause of Death: Stab wounds in the neck." He seemed to be recording a holotape. "Specimens' 0-001 through 0-042 unconfirmed along with specimens' 0-044 through 0-300. This is Dr. Grant signing off." He then stopped recording and looked at me. "I also have to find the rest of the mutants here."

"Wait a second you are the one that has been sendin' them here?!" I roared out as I stormed over to him.

"Yes for scientific purposes. We had to see if wherever we sent them could sustain life. You are an example of that." He answered me which made me glare at him. "Of course ther-"

Before he could finish his sentence I hit him as hard as I could with my cybernetic arm. Puttin' almost all of the energy from the batteries into the strike. I saw the helmet crack and some blood ooze out of it.

"Now that is something." I heard him say as I retracted my hand ever so slightly. "You must've been part of an Android Program."

"Nah I'm actually a 'Borg." I replied as I quickly changed my arm into a grenade launcher. Then I blasted his face to hell.

Pretty sure I got some brain bits in my hair 'cause of that but he sure as hell was dead. His helmet was also gone. I slipped to the side before the body could fall onto me. It only took a few seconds for me to get the armour off of him. Once it was off of him I teleported it back into my house's armoury. Then I started to fix it up to suit my needs and make it stronger.

Normal P.O.V.

"This is really awesome Weiss." Emerald told her as she looked over to the other girl. Renwin and Lothur had went to get them something to drink so they were sitting at a table. Veronica was also there but she had to go stop a small fight between some students.

"Thank you Emerald. Team CFVY was supposed to set it up but they were on a mission so some of the teachers asked Yang and I told set it up." Weiss replied as she looked over to her. "It was difficult planning this though. Yang and I had a hard time agreeing on most of it."

"Yeah I'd bet, you two are literally the antithesis of each other in a sense." Emerald said as Lothur and Renwin walked over with their drinks.

"Here you go Weiss." Lothur said then handed the cup to her.

"Thank you Lothur." She replied while taking the drink from him. Renwin just silently handed the drink over to Emerald.

They all talked for a short while until they saw Merlin, Senna, Onyx, and Colleen walk in with Mordred and Elisa. They all wore either similar dresses or suits that were grey or charcoal black. They group of six started to talk amongst themselves and they seemed to know each other. Lothur thought about going over to talk to them but he was pulled over to the dancefloor by Weiss then they started to ballroom dance.

"How did you learn to dance?" Weiss asked as she looked up at him curiously.

"My parents had my sister and I learn, wanted us to be cultured." Lothur answered as he twirled her around a bit.

"I never would've guessed the guy that calls himself wild would be cultured." Weiss chuckled a bit.

"Hey! I'm not a barbarian or anything. So why didn't you tell me you were planning all of this? I could've helped with the soundtrack that you used." He questioned while they continued their waltz.

"I thought about it but I figured you wouldn't want to help out so I didn't." She explained which simply got a shrug out of him.

With MSTC, Mordred, and Elisa

"So what all have you four discovered?" Elisa asked as she leaned against the wall and looked at the team.

"Well we've been able to figure out most of the Semblances of the first years we have observed." Merlin answered with a grin. "The only Semblances we haven't figured out though are Emerald and Mercury from FLME, most of team CFVY's, and a few other people."

"I'll make sure that we figure them all out." Onyx said as he stretched his arms out then cracked his back with an audible crunch. "I've also collected a great deal of combat data, most of the students are also pretty stupid in my opinion."

"Which ones would you say are the most dangerous?" Mordred asked while looking around to make sure no one was listening in on them.

"Yang Xiao Long, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lothur Blutmond are the most dangerous combatants I've seen. The rest are relatively unimpressive." Onyx informed.

"So when will Cinder and Nyx be here?" Colleen asked curiously.

"Cinder will be here at midnight but Nyx isn't coming to the ball." Elisa answered.

"Of course." Senna grumbled. "There's a reason why we shouldn't have took this contract. Recon isn't really our thing."

"Eh, the pay's good enough so I don't care." Merlin shrugged casually. "And hell it is pretty interesting for a first job."

"Well then, send us the data you've collected later and you'll get your payment. Report to Cinder after this is over because she has another job offer for you." Mordred told them then he walked off with Elisa.

"Got it." Merlin said then he and his team walked away in the opposite direction.

Nadja had been standing far to the side with her little game system as the conversation happened. He used her keen hearing to block out most of the noise and focused on them. She was suspicious by it so she slipped her game into her bag and followed behind the quintet, making sure to not be noticed. The large crowd of people helped immensely in keeping her from being noticed. The four acted relatively normal and even chatted with the three they said were the most dangerous. She would've continued to spy on them but Maroon got her attention so she went and sat by him.

She told what she had heard and he seemed concerned. He suggested telling the others but Nadja shot that idea down. So for the rest of the evening they simply hungout and danced. By the end of the night everyone seemed to have had their fun and were now going back to their dorms. Soon the ballroom was entirely empty except for one person.

Veronica was sitting at one of the chairs with a smile on her face as she looked around at the room. It was pretty trashed and soon she'd have to start cleaning but for now she just wanted to relax for a few moments. When she finally stood up she walked around and started to clean up.

After about a half hour a few of the other teachers came and started to help clean. While she was able to see Glynda and most of the others she didn't see Six anywhere. She let out a whistle to get Glynda's attention then the woman walked over.

"Where's Six?" Veronica asked with the curiosity clear in her voice.

"He was in his workshop for some reason." Glynda answered as she used her Semblance to stack up all of the chairs.

Veronica just shrugged and went back to what she was doing.

Nadja's P.O.V.

So as I was walking back to the dorm room with Maroon and I forgot my bag back in the ballroom so I told him I had to get it. He just gave me a kiss on the cheek then I ran back. As I ran though I saw a figure off to the side. Before I knew it though I was knocked off my feet and trapped in a strange black mist. The mist wrapped around me and off to the side I saw a tall pale man. It was that Onyx guy that was with the others earlier.

"Pitty, figured you'd have gotten smart and not eavesdrop on us." He said in a monotone while looking down at me with empty eyes. "I have no clue why I was sent to deal with you but I guess I have to." He stated as he dug into his coat and pulled out a rather large scythe.

My eyes widened as he brung the blade down then all I saw was nothing and felt nothing. Slowly I drifted from the world until everything was dark. Only the sounds of screaming and death filled my head.

Onyx P.O.V.

I held my head after using my Semblance because of the nasty headache. Nadja was lying on the ground with a look of pure terror on her face and her body was convulsing.. There were no wounds physically, just mentally. So I just stuck my hands into my pockets and walked off, leaving her there.

When I got back to the room I saw all the others asleep in their beds so I took off my suit then laid down while staring up at the ceiling. Before I forgot I reached into my bedside table and grabbed a bottle of pills then took a few. Instantly I felt the headache I had go away. Soon I drifted to a dreamless sleep.

Normal P.O.V.

The next morning Nadja was found and rushed to the hospital. She was alive but had suffered a great deal of mental trauma. She wasn't even able to tell the others who did it because she was so scared. In her eyes was the dark looked of pure dread.

So that's the chapter, again sorry for my disappearance, and to be honest I kinda stopped liking RWBY. Volume 4 didn't help my opinion but I plan on finishing this story though there won't be as many chapters as I had planned. Again sorry but that's all I got for now, bye everyone.