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S1E10- A Shadow of his Former Self

"Go ahead and play it." Weiss ordered.

"A Shadow of his former self" appeared on screen.

"Hmm, dark title." Blake said.

Tucker in front of Caboose, in front of the blue base

Tucker: "(on radio) Come in Blue Command. This is Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha. Do you read me?"

"Outpost Alpha?" Ren said to himself mostly while grabbing his notebook.

"What is it?" Jaune asked.

"Red base is outpost number one, Blue base is outpost Alpha? That's strange." Ren muttered.

"How?" Weiss asked.

"I don't know, it just seems weird that both of their commands call their bases prime. If Red base is number one, what's base number two? And what's base beta?" Ren asked.

"Maybe that's just what the blue command calls red base, beta base because it's not theirs." Jaune suggested.

"Calling it Beta base would mean that it is a part of Blue command which it isn't." Ren said.

"Maybe it's because it's the only base, meaning it's the most important," Weiss explained. "That's how the Atlas military works, it's the only blue base in Blood Gulch so it's Alpha just like Red base is the only Red base in Blood Gulch so it's Number One."

"You're probably right." Ren acknowledged.

Caboose: "Okay, that is the last of it, your armor is clean now."

Tucker: "Did you get all the black stuff off?"

Vic: "This is Blue Command, come in Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha."

"That's the man in gray." Ren commented.

"What? He's in yellow." Ruby pointed out.

"Yeah, he's wearing yellow but that's the man from The intro, the one in space." Ren said, pulling out his notebook and pencil.

"Starting your notes again?" Weiss asked.

"Well this seems important." Ren said.

"But we already know its not from another uni-"

"We don't know that." Ruby said. "And did you hear back from Winter?"

"No, she likely won't respond until tomorrow, unless she's on a mission." Weiss said downcast.

"It'll be ok Weiss." Yang said, patting her shoulder. "Older sisters always have time for their sister."

"Aww Yang!" Ruby said, hugging her.

Tucker: "Hello! Command! We need help."

Vic: "Roger that, Blood Gulch, what is your request?"

Tucker: "I don't know what the technical military term is for it, but uh, we're pretty fucked up down here. We need men!"

"I don't know the technical military term for the Atlas military but Winter taught me some military slang." Weiss explained. "SNAFU, meaning Situation Normal, All fucked up, or FUBAR, Fucked up beyond any repair."

"That's the first time I ever heard you curse." Pyrrha said.

"It's strange." Blake said.

"Awww you're being corrupted!" Yang yelled.

"One of us! One of us!" Nora yelled.

"What? No! I'm not a child I can curse, I just choose not to, it is immature and informal." Weiss explained.

"Boo!" Nora screamed.

Vic: "Dude, how long have you guys been down there?"

Yang laughed at that. "I love this show! Whoever wrote it is a genius! Its funny."

"I will admit, the dialogue is great." Blake said.

"I still think it's immature, but it is… innovative with the way they made it." Weiss conceded.

"Aww Weiss is coming around!" Nora yelled.

Tucker: "No, no no, naw, it- not like that. we need more men to help us."

Vic: "Roger that. Did you get the tank we sent?"

Tucker: "Yeah, that got blown up too.

Vic: Wow. Sucks to be you."

Tucker: "Yeah, we know."

Vic: "Okay, here's what I can do. The nearest blue forces can be there in sixteen days, or I-"

Tucker: "Sixteen days!? That's almost two weeks!"

"It's over a week" Weiss corrected automatically.

"We know." Yang said.

Vic: "Or I can hire a nearby freelancer and get him there within a few hours."

"Freelancer? Like freelancer huntsmen that don't serve any kingdom and just go around taking jobs?" Ruby asked.

"Likely." Ren responded.

Caboose: "I like the 'in an hour' one."

Tucker: "Yeah, me too. Roger that Command, we prefer the quicker solution."

Vic: "10-4 Blood Gulch, we will contact freelancer Tex, and have him there post-haste. Command out."

"10-4?" Nora asked, looking at Ren who shrugged.

"Military term, it means Okay or Affirmative." Weiss explained.

"Cool." Ruby said.

"Freelancer Tex? He was in the intro too." Ren explained.

Tucker: "Whoever he is, make sure he can fix a tank."

Caboose: "What's a freelancer?"

Tucker: "Freelancers are independent, they're not red or blue. They're just guns for hire, who'll fight for whoever has the most money."

"So just like freelance Hunters." Blake commented.

"Why would huntsmen pick a side?" Ruby asked.

"Well, between kingdoms and stuff." Yang explained.

"No, not what I meant." Blake said. "Some Huntsmen are a little less honorable than most and fight for criminals, or the White Fang." Blake explained. "Roman Torchwick has huntsmen training, remember?"

"But that doesn't matter now! We kicked his butt and he's locked away in prison!" Ruby shouted.

"Yeah!" Yang yelled happily.

Blake smiled but she couldn't keep down her suspicions.

"Teeeaaammm RWBY!" Ruby shouted.

"Hey we helped too!" Nora yelled.

"Aaaaaaannd JNPR!" Ruby yelled.

"Yeah!" Nora yelled. Jaune raised a fist while Pyrrha laughed.

Caboose: "Like a mercenary."

Tucker: "Right. Or like your mom, when the rent's due."

"Mean." Blake commented.

Caboose: "oh, that's funny."

Tucker: "Yeah, you didn't think that was too obvious?"

"I don't get it." Ruby said.

"It's uh, well like a mercenary, they get paid you know? So when the rent is due, she fights for whichever side has the most money. Or in this case, has sex with whoever has the most money." Yang explained. "I think."

"Oh… mean." Ruby said, agreeing with Blake.

Caboose: "No no, no no, that was, that was good."

Church in white armor starts fading in in the background

Church: "(spooky voice) Tucker… Tuuuckerrr…"

"What!?" Weiss yelled.

"It's Church! Dads back yay!" Yang yelled.

Ruby was happy for a moment before getting a look on her face Yang knew all too well. Yang silently held Ruby's shoulder for a second, Ruby didn't let out a sound, Ruby took a breath and smiled.

"Really? They brought back a dead character!" Weiss yelled angrily. "Stupid show."

"Why? It's clearly just a comedy show." Jaune explained.

"Just play it." Weiss said.

Tucker: "Who the hell are you?"

Church: "(spooky voice) I am the ghost of Chuuuurch… and I've come back with a waaarniiing…"

Caboose: "You're not Church… Church is blue. You're white."

Church: "(normal voice) Rookie, shut up, man. I'm a freakin' ghost! Have you ever seen a blue ghost before?"

Tucker: "Yeah, that's definitely him."

Church: "Now I gotta start all over again… (ahem) (spooky voice) Tucker… Tuuuckerrr… I've come back with a waaarniiing…"

Tucker: "Is it really necessary to do the voice?"

"It makes no sense! He was dead for one episode!" Weiss complained.

Caboose: "Yeah, it's kinda annoying."

Church: "Fine. Okay, here's the deal. I've come back from the dead to give you a warning about Tex. Don't let -"

Caboose: "What's the warning?"

Church: "Shut up for one second, and I'll tell you."

Caboose: "Oh, sorry."

Church: "Seriously, man, I mean, I'm coming back from the great beyond here. You think this is easy? It's not. It's not like I just, you know just pop in and out whenever I feel like it, it takes a lot of concentration."

"I like how they aren't going with the typical movie cliche of dead people being better off now that they're dead because now they have

all cool powers." Jaune said.

"Do you watch a lot of movies Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yeah, me and my sisters always had movie night friday." Jaune explained.

Caboose: "Sorry."

Church: "I mean, it's bad enough that you killed me to begin with, but now I come back and I can't even get a word in edgewise, man.… (exhales) Okay. Here's the deal."

Caboose: "Is this the warning?"

Church: "Alright, that's it, I swear to God, Caboose, your ass is haunted. When we're done here, I'm gonna haunt you."

Yang and Ruby laughed.

Tucker: "Yeah, you're even starting to bug me ."

Church: "Okay, Tucker. You remember that I told you I was stationed on Sidewinder before they transferred me here to Blood Gulch, right?"

Tucker: "No."

Caboose: "Sidewinder, isn't that the ice planet?"

Church: "Yes."

Caboose: "Cool, what was that like?"

Church: "Um… it was cold ."

"Is that how Atlas was like?" Ruby asked.

"There's more to Atlas than just the temperature. But dust heating keeps things warm and eventually you get used to it. It's especially cold down in Mantle though." Weiss explained.

Caboose: "That's it? Just cold?"

Church: "What do you want from me, a poem? It's a planet made entirely out of ice. It's really, fuckin', cold ."

Tucker: "Would you just let him talk?"

Cut to the blue base on Sidewinder

"Woah is this a different map?" Ruby asked.

"Cool! Looks a lot bigger than Blood Gulch." Yang said.

Church: "Alright, well, one day when I was there, everything was just like normal. I remember, I was out on patrol with my partner Jimmy. That Jimmy was a real good kid, everybody liked him."

"I can already guess something bad happened to Jimmy." Blake commented.

Tucker: "Do you think I was a good kid Church?"

"No." Weiss chuckled.

Church: "Tucker, don't get jealous man, just listen to the story, okay? Like I said, guys were hanging around, waitin' for some action, bitching about the cold…"

Camera zooms past three blue guys around a fire

Blue guy 1: "Man, it's fucking cold."

Blue guy 2: "I hope we get some action."

Weiss sighed, "That about sums up the Privates of the Atlas Military."

Church: "Anyway, Jimmy was in the middle of telling me all about this girlfriend he had back home."

Camera stops on Church in his light blue armor, and Jimmy

Jimmy: "Yep, soon as I get back, I'm gonna get down on one knee and ask her to marry me."

Church: "And that's when Tex showed up."

Camera angle changes to a distant shot, and Tex in transparent armor crosses the screen in the foreground

Church: "Private Mickey was the first to go. He was halfway across the base when all of a sudden he just started screaming bloody murder."

Mickey: "(turning around firing at the ground) Bloody murder! Bloody murder!"

"Well trained soldiers remain calm under stress." Weiss commented.

"That's real easy to say when you have Aura." Blake commented, "A lot of soldiers don't."

"And these ones don't." Ren added.

"They have full body armor though." Jaune pointed out. "That's basically an equivalent."

Church: "The whole thing was over before it even started."

Tex hits another blue soldier in the back of the head with the butt-end of the gun, then runs across to get the third one the same way

Church and Jimmy firing at something, Tex runs up behind them

Church: "Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head and beat him to death with it."

"What? That doesn't make any sense!" Weiss yelled.

"Why are you upset?" Pyrrha asked.

"The show is getting even worse!" Weiss yelled.

"It's getting better!" Yang and Ruby yelled.

Cut to Tucker

Tucker: "Wait a second… how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible."

"Exactly." Weiss said.

Church: "That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming."

Cut to Tex, in black armor, beating Jimmy to death with his own skull

Jimmy: "This doesn't seem physically possible! (dies) Eeeeggh, blehhhhh."

Cut back to Church in Blood Gulch

Church: "Bottom line is: these freelancers, they're bad news, and Tex is one of the worst."

"Well from the Intro we know he is on their side." Ren commented.

"The intro spoiled us." Nora sighed.

Caboose: "If he's such a badass, why didn't he kill you?"

Cut to Church on Sidewinder, surrounded by dead blues

Church: "To tell you I don't know why I'm not dead. Could've killed me at any point. But maybe it's because Tex and I have run into each other once before."

Cut back to Tucker

Tucker: "Where?"

Church: "You uh, you remember that girl I told you about back home? Well, let's just say that Tex is the real reason why we never got married. Guys, I'm fading fast and I don't know when I'll be back. Just listen to my warning: don't let Tex get involved here."

"I wonder what they're going to do." Weiss mumbled sarcastically.

Tucker: "Okay."

Church: "I mean it Tucker. No fighting, no scouting, nothing. You'll regret it (fades out)"

Camera angle changes to a long shot of Tucker and Caboose, slowly panning left

Tucker: "So, Tex and Church were after the same girl."

"Wouldn't that be a reason to kill Church?" Jaune asked.

Yang snorted, "Talk about a love triangle."

Caboose: "I told you his girlfriend was a slut."

Tex's leg and arm come in to the camera angle, within earshot, and then the rest of the armor. Bass guitar music plays the episode out as the scene fades to black.

"The show is getting so good! Next one next one!" Ruby yelled.