*Melody and Jenkins have just gotten themselves redressed, albeit slightly disheveled.*
Jenkins: Oh boy, the captain and Alicia are going to be pissed.
Melody: The captain I can understand, considering we're technically supposed to be on duty, but why Alicia?
Jenkins: You know how the XO can get when she's horny.
Melody: *shivers* Fair point.
While Qrow and Winter were "relieving some stress," the remaining readers were playing Super Smash Bros for Wii U. Mainly Blake, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, Weiss, Yang, Summer, and Raven. Blake chose Shiek (because ninja), Jaune chose Link, Nora chose King Dedede, Pyrrha chose Pit, Weiss chose Rosalina, Yang chose Ryu, Summer chose Cloud, and Raven chose Shulk. Currently, Jaune, Pyrrha, Yang, Blake, Summer, and Raven had been eliminated. It's now down to Weiss and Nora. And Weiss is looking to avenge Winter's loss to Nora in Mario Kart.
"Nonononono! NO! FUCK YOU ROSALINA YOU STARGAZING BITCH!" Nora yelled, as King Dedede lost his last life, making Weiss the winner.
"Now, my sister's loss to you in Mario Kart has been avenged." Weiss said, a proud smirk on her face.
"Whoo! Nice work Weiss! Come here Snow Angel!" Ruby said, grabbing Weiss and kissing her.
"Thank you, my darling little red reaper." Weiss said, hugging Ruby.
"Oum, don't get all mushy on us now." Ren said.
"Hey, did anyone hear-" Penny was about to say before the elevator doors opened up, showing Qrow and Winter fully clothed, but slightly disheveled.
"Enjoy your stress relief Winter?" Yang said with a knowing smirk.
"I did." Winter replied, "Now, what did we miss while-" she was about to continue until Ruby of all people interrupted her.
"While you fucked my uncle's brains out?"
Everyone proceeded to look at Ruby in shock.
"Y-yes." Winter said, completely taken aback.
"Long story short, Weiss avenged your Mario Kart loss to Nora in Super Smash Bros, now Penny, if you could, please read the chapter, cause for some ungodly reason, I'm getting horny." Alicia said.
[NEO Galbadian headquarters]
[No P.O.V.]
[OST-FF8: Succession of Witches]
"Great, more of those asshats in NEO Galbadian." Summer said, rolling her eyes.
"Oum, that music. It's way too creepy for my liking." Raven said.
The Sorceress leaned back in her seat staring through the visor of her helmet, which had several cables connected to it, and stared at the large screen on the all in front of her, which was zooming in on the Emerald Forest without visual input.
"Huh, what's she looking at?" Glynda asked.
"I don't know, maybe we'll find out soon." Winter replied.
The image focused on a facility hidden in the forest label '2' then the screen shifted over to an encampment on the far edge of the forest, plenty of distance from the Beacon initiation section of the forest.
"That is a little too close to Beacon for my liking." Glynda said.
"It's most likely a White Fang encampment." Blake said.
"This could prove irritating." The Sorceress said, "Rojo!"
"Rojo?" Yang asked.
"Yes Sorceress?" A woman asked walking into the light of the screen.
"Time to see what Rojo looks like." Raven said.
She wore the NG's Grey uniform, however her's was partially unzipped at the chest, enough to het her chest breath, her body shape was almost hourglass shaped. Her eye's were deep red, the same color as her shoulder length hair that was swept over her left shoulder. On each of her legs was a sheath that held a katal blade.
"Why is it that the bad guys are so good looking?" Yang asked.
"I don't know." Tronmaster said.
A katal blade wasn't one of the most thought of weapons out there, being swords that have a grip parallel to the base of the blade so that a punch would turn into a stab when the blade is held.
"In short, they're a glorified pair of brass knuckles." Alicia said.
"Facility Two is close to being compromised by a White Fang encampment." The Sorceress said reaching onto a table next her her, which head a teacup, "Take Powder and Slate and empty it, then burn it."
"Scorched Earth policy. Very effective, very brutal. I've seen it happen in far too many other dimensions." Tronmaster said.
"Is that all?" Rojo asked, sounding a little disappointed it was such a simple task.
"Wow, she's a bit of a complainer, ain't she?" Nora asked.
"Yes." The Sorceress said, "Actually, while you're there can you pick up Facility Two's monthly report? I'd like to know how well they are doing in the recreation of the Granaldo's, Raldo's, Grat's, and the T-Rexaurs. I'd also like to know if they are undermanned at the current time, you know how the T-Rexaurs get sometimes.
"Are those creatures from Final Fantasy?" Penny asked, looking at Tronmaster.
"I don't know, I'll need to check in with Phoenix on that." Tronmaster replied.
"Too well." Rojo said holding her currently cover arm, "At least I didn't lose anything important."
Yang suddenly grabbed her arm, fidgeting slightly.
The Sorceress put her teacup back on the table after taking a sip from it, "Glad to know you don't consider your pride important." The Sorceress said, "Get Slate and Powder and return here once you've gotten them.
[End OST]
"Thank Oum, I'm glad that music stopped." Raven said.
"Don't worry, there's other Final Fantasy 8 songs to come Raven." Alicia said.
It took only a few minutes for Slate and Powder to arrive.
"Time to see what Slate looks like." Winter said.
Slate had short silver hair with dark blue eye's, his uniform was the same grey like the other two next to him, except the armor on his was placed over a long coat and he wore no waist armor. Resting on his shoulder was a sword, more specifically a Gunblade, the blade was fairly simple, save for the small triangular gap where it was connected to the grip said grip was that of ablack Desert Eagle magnum that had the blade attached at the barrel of the gun.
"That weapon seems completely impractical." Weiss said.
"Really, like a rapier is a practical weapon choice?" Tronmaster said, pulling out his own Gunblade. It was double-sided. One half being silver like the light of the moon, the other side, black as night. The silver had mysterious runes on it, colored a crisp ice blue, while the black side has similar runes, in blood red, and a serrated edge. The handle was that of an AK-47 assault rifle, and on the handle, was a symbol, a sage green helmet, surrounded by a maroon gear, with two silver swords crossed behind the helmet.
"That looks soo cool!" Ruby said.
"Yep, I made her myself. This weapon is forged from two special metals, one side is Olympian Silver, the other, Stygian Iron. And tempered with the blood of the king dragon Validorax. I call her 'Devil's Requiem.'" Tronmaster said, sheathing the weapon.
Powder held her rifle up checking the iron sight of the gun, except now it was in a two barrels set up vertically and looked much more like an assault rifle.
"Good lord, how many forms does her weapon have?" Ren asked.
"I don't know." Alicia replied with a shrug.
Rojo pulled out her katal and checked the over the guns on them, at each side of the grip was a sub-machine gun, and with two on each blade she had found herself with four guns essentially.
"Damn, talk about packing some heat." Yang said.
"Yang Xiao Long, watch your language young lady." Summer scolded.
The Sorceress held her hand to a wall, which started to ripple as if it were water, "Once you step though here you will find yourself on the outside wall of Facility Two, facing the direction of the White Fang outpost, just walk forward long enough and you'll run into them."
"Solid plan." Qrow said with a smirk.
"Finally, I'm tired of sitting around here just training to get my mind off my boredom." Slate said holding his gunblade forward and tilted it to an angle, as if he were going to shoot his opponent rather that stab of slice them with it, "The fact that I get to kill some animals is even better."
"Oh Oum, not only is he an asshole, but he's racist." Blake said.
"Much like my father." Weiss spat.
Powder sighed and unloaded the magazine from her gun before it shifted into a triple barreled shotgun again, the three barrels making a triangle, "Slate, I don't want to hear you dissing Faunus all day again." Powder said, "Hey boss, mind if I stick around Facility Two for a while to do some hunting?"
"At least Powder isn't racist." Winter said.
The Sorceress sighed, "Yes Powder, but you'll have to call in a Bullhead again." She said, "Further more you have permission to hunt any of Facility Two's monsters that are running amok in the closed off section."
Powder fist pumped with excitement.
"Wow, talk about a dork." Nora said.
"Let's go everyone." Rojo said, "I want this job done soon, my son's birthday is tomorrow and I don't want to miss it."
"She has a son.?" Summer asked.
"Yep, even the bad guys have families. Unless the bad guy is a total prick." Alicia said.
The Sorceresses head turned to Rojo, "It's you little boy's birthday tomorrow?" The Sorceress asked, "If that's the case I sure I could find someone else to take on this mission for you."
"At least she's considerate about her underlings." Weiss said.
Rojo shook her head, "No thank you ma'am, I don't expect special treatment because of my son." Rojo said, "Besides this mission shouldn't take too long."
"She's just as dedicated to her work as she is to her son." Summer said, "Commendable."
"Yep." Alicia said.
The Sorceress nodded, "Very well then, I'll be sure to stop by for the party." The Sorceress said.
"Again, very considerate to her subordinates." Winter said.
With that the three soldiers nodded and walked through the rippling wall as if it were water.
"So, it's obviously some kind of portal." Penny said, Tronmaster and Alicia nodding in response.
The three soldiers stepped out of the rippling exterior wall of Facility 2 and looked around. Powder aimed her shotgun around ready to shoot on a twitch of anything.
"At least she's preparing herself." Blake said.
"Clear." Powder said lowering her shotgun.
"Again, she seems prepared." Glynda said.
"Damn, wanted to gut something." Slate grumbled setting his gunblade back on his shoulder.
"Okay, not only is he racist, AND an asshole, let's just add a total psychopath into there too." Qrow said.
"You'll get your chance Slate." Rojo said standing straight, "Let's move."
"Rojo seems to be the more sensible of the three." Raven said.
"Being a mother can do that." Alicia said.
The Trio ran quicker than most trained Huntsmen as they approached the target destination.
"So, they're pretty fast. Not as fast as me." Ruby proudly said.
"You're such a dolt Ruby." Weiss said, smiling.
"Yeah, but I'm your dolt." Ruby said, kissing her girlfriend.
"Heh, glad the boss enrolled us at Beacon all those years ago." Powder said, "Make's the Job's so much easier."
"Great, so those NEO Galbadian creeps were at Beacon." Weiss said.
"I'll say." Slate said, "Not to mention those STRQ fellows were nice sparring opponents."
"So, they sparred against our others it seems." Raven said.
"I just can't believe the boss enrolled with us in a disguise." Rojo said, "It's like she didn't trust us to not fuck something up." The last remark was pointed to Slate.
"Damn, so the Sorceress went to Beacon too it seems." Qrow said.
"Seems so." Summer said.
"Hey, I held back on the racism like you and the Sorceress demanded." Slate said, "Besides there were eight of us enrolled into Beacon, she wanted to keep tabs on all of us."
"Sounds like someone's a tad pissed." Weiss said, earning a few laughs.
"Whatever. We're almost to the White Fang encampment." Powder said.
"And someone's impatient." Ruby added.
Rojo pulled her katal from their sheathes and crouched lower as she started moving faster, "Slate with me, Powder sniper support."
"They certainly seem highly coordinated." Winter said.
"Ruby, as your partner, friend, and girlfriend, I'm imploring you, take notes." Weiss said, "Just, don't try and have us kill people."
"You got it, snow cone." Ruby said, giving Weiss a peck on the cheek.
"Don't mind if I do." Slate said picking up speed as well.
"Back into my tree for me." Powder said running up a tilted tree and vaulted off it into a sniping position with her shotgun unloading and shifting into a sniper rifle in the process.
"Not going to lie, that was impressive." Blake said.
[FF8 OST: Man with the Machine Gun]
Suddenly the music changed into a song with a rock-club beat.
"Another Final Fantasy 8 song?" Glynda asked.
"And why does it rock?" Nora asked, her sentiment shared by Ruby, Yang, Jaune, and Penny.
"This, funny enough, is Phoenix's favorite song in FF8." Alicia said.
The White Fang noticed Rojo and Slate burst out of the bushes.
"I guess it's time to see how NEO Galbadian elites fight." Qrow said.
"Huma-AAAHH!" A ram faunus started before Rojo's katal cut through him in an 'X' shape.
"HOLY SHIT!" Was the general reaction from the readers.
"Oum that's brutal." Glynda said, appalled.
"You ain't seen nothing yet." Alicia said.
"It's the NEO Galbadians!" Another Faunus said, this one some kin of lizard shouted, only for a hold to blow into the side of his head.
"Goddamn!" Ruby and Weiss both said.
"Sniper!" Another shouted, this one having his feature hidden under his uniform.
"So, this one's a surprise?" Pyrrha asked.
"Shut the hell up mongrel." Slate shouted swinging his sword, pulling the trigger on the desert eagle gun handle, firing the bullet into the blade, causing a small explosion that made the blade vibrate, thus tear through the WF soldier with ease.
"Jeez, again with the racism." Yang said.
"Agreed, I can't wait until his ass gets killed off." Jaune said.
"You bastard!" another faunus shouted running toward Slate, only for his axe to be blocked by Slate's gunblade effortlessly.
"He's clearly skilled with his weapon." Glynda admitted.
"I've met better." Tronmaster said.
"Hey!" Slate shouted angered, "Don't talk about my momma that way. She did good taking the place of both parents. Damn deadbeat jackass father." Slate fired his gunblade while twisting the sword to break the axe then kicked the Faunus back and into Rojo's katal.
"Dude's got some daddy issues." Penny said.
"Yeah, dude really needs to take a chill pill." Nora agreed.
"Why do you always take that insult seriously?" Rojo asked jumping onto a WF shoulders and snapping his neck with her legs before rolling off the falling corpse and cutting one leg each from a pair of WF.
"Maybe it's because he is a bastard you blatant Sonya Blade ripoff." Ruby growled.
"I really am a bastard child, I'm a bit sensitive about that." Slate said turning to behead another WF, then quickly reloading the gunblade's gun.
"Then someone needs an anger management class." Pyrrha said.
"That, and maybe a psychiatrist." Raven said.
"Just duck." Rojo said pointing a katal at Slate, who ducked just as she fired the two guns on the blade, tearing through another Fang.
[OST End]
"Jeez, I really LOATHE these guys. Rojo and Powder less than Slate, but still." Blake said.
"Same, the song was awesome." Yang said, the students nodding in agreement.
"I think that was the last one." Slate said.
"And it wasn't." Summer said.
The sound of a shotgun going off sounded right as he said that, followed by a WF flying between the two and tumbling into a tent.
"Called it." Summer said.
"Missed one Slate." Powder said.
"Whatever." Slate said turning around and leaving the camp, which was now devoid of life save for the three NG soldiers.
"Wow, what a dick." Ren said.
"Yeah, dude's an asshole." Weiss agreed.
"Powder, seeing as you plan on staying you'll be the one to burn down this camp and collect the report from Facility Two." Rojo said.
"Powder certainly seems more competent than Slate at lease." Winter said.
"Well, he's less racist." Raven added.
Powder clicked her tongue in agreement before pulling out a glass bottle of Red Dust and began pouring around the camp.
[OST- Succession of Witches]
"Oum, this music again." Raven said, shivering.
"The Operation was a success Ma'am." Rojo reported in the room she was given the mission, "Powder is burning down the camp and collecting the report before she starts hunting."
"She seems like the perfect second in command." Winter said.
"She most likely is." Glynda added.
The Sorceress stood up from her seat and turning to Rojo, "Very good." The Sorceress said, "Tell me, Beacon is starting it's next year in two day's correct?"
"Why is she curious? Shouldn't she already knows this!" Weiss said.
"Yes Ma'am." Rojo said.
"Then it seems I'll be heading to Beacon after your sons party." The Sorceress said removing her helmet.
"Time to see the face of the Sorceress." Ren said.
"Hate to break it to you guys, but you won't see the Sorceress' face properly for like another couple of chapters." Tronmaster said.
"Dammit!" Everyone said.
Her hair had bangs the perfectly moved around her head to conceal everything on the sides of her head, and to accentuate her eyes.
"Why her eyes?" Raven asked.
Her Silver Eyes.
"Wait, what?" Both Ruby and Summer asked.
"Yep, the Sorceress has Silver Eyes like myself, mom, and grandma Summer." Alicia said.
"I'm sure Professor Goodwitch would love to see an old friend, even if that friend was nothing more than one of my disguises." The Sorceress said walking past Rojo, who was staring at the screen which focused on the recent Facility 7 Report.
"Facility 7?" Qrow asked.
"Sorceress." Rojo said.
"Yes Rojo?" The Sorceress asked.
"What is in Facility 7 that has so much of your focus?" Rojo asked.
"I'm curious myself." Winter said.
The Sorceress smiled, "It's re-creating incredibly hostile monsters, and I'd rather not have Facility 7 turn into another Ragnarok." She answered.
With that, the book closed.
"Now, before anyone else starts reading, Tronmaster, I'm horny, and I need to get off. You're coming with me!" Alicia said, grabbing Tronmaster and dragging him towards the elevator.
"Hey, who am I to deny my girlfriend's needs?" Tronmaster said with a shrug and a smile.
*The elevator doors open to show Tronmaster and Alicia walking out.*
Alicia: Both of you, out.
Melody: But-
Alicia: NOW!
Melody: Y-yes ma'am! Jenkins, let's get to the reading room!
Jenkins: You gotcha Mel!
*Both proceed to run into the elevator.
Alicia: Now, with those two gone, GET OVER HERE!
Tronmaster: You won't here any arguments from me.
*The camera abruptly cuts out.*