Well, I'm back! There isn't much to say except that this chapter is part 1 that comprises Welcome to Painting the town!
So here it is!
5 days later, Ironwood shows up at Vale with a fleet. Currently, the good general is in Ozpin's office.
"Speaking of Huntsman, I heard you have a rather exceptional one." Ironwood stated.
"You must be referring to Darrel Maximus, and yes; that boy is rather exceptional." Ozpin acknowledged. "I would like to see him."
Not much later, Darrel appeared in Ozpin's office. "You wanted to see me, sir?" he asked.
"Yes; an old friend of mine wanted to see you." Ozpin said, motioning to Ironwood.
"Ozpin says that you can shape-shift. Demonstrate a form for us, if you don't mind." Ironwood asked with a slight demanding tone.
"Very well. Hollow form."
He convulsed in pain. His body became smaller. His head became longer and thinner. Emerging from his jaws, were rows of thin, small sharp teeth. His neck became long and S-shape. His arms became thin and slightly longer. One finger vanished, one reduced, and the other three grew small yet sharp claws. His legs grew long and thin. One toe vanished, one reduced to a dew claw, and the rest grew short claws. Emerging from his posterior was a long tail that came to a tapering end.
His upper body was olive green with cream splotches. A patch on his upper jaw above the eyes was bright red. Underside was cream-colored. Arms and legs had dark brown and cream colored bands. Eyes were yellow with dark brown irises.
Darrel was now a 10 feet long, 3 feet tall, 44lb Coelophysis.
"Very interesting form."Ironwood complimented. "Thank you, sir." Darrel said in a squeaky voice. "Tell me, what do you use for combat in this form?" "Combat? As this?! No, no; I use this form for infiltration with this."
No sooner did he say that, it looked as if he was disappearing into the air and soon reappeared behind the general, who then turned around. "Camouflage; very interesting. You may change back now." And he did.
"There is something I will ask you before you leave: do you think that you and your friends can win a war?"He asked grimly.
"I hope I never have to." And then he left.
(SCENE CHANGE!)
Not much later at the library, Team RWBY was playing Remnant: The game. "Yang Xiao long, prepare your kingdom for battle!" Ruby shouted. "Bring it on!" "I deploy Atlesian Air Fleet!"
Yang gasped. "Looks like I get to fly right over your Ursai and attack your walls directly. "You fiend!"Yang gasped. "And since Atlas is part of Mantle, my repair time only lasts one turn."
But Yang snickered, which made Ruby gasp. "Pretty sneaky sis, but you've activated my trap card!" Ruby gasped. "Giant Nevermore! If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two." "But if you roll a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces." "That's a chance I'm willing to take."
"Oh my god, can you two keep it down?! My team is trying to kick each other's butts!" Darrel shouted.
This did perk up all the girls' interests since they hardly got any talk since their guys come in. So, they left their table and went to where DIMD was. They found them at 4 computers, eyes glued to the screen.
"Come on, you lazy animals! Fight harder! Spit faster, chuck rocks harder! Zap faster!" was all they heard.
"What are you guys playing?" Yang asked. "Impossible Creatures." Dalton stated. "You mean that game with the crazy animal armies?" Ruby inquired. "That's the one." Her respective boyfriend stated.
"Sup losers!" Sun interjected. "Hey Sun!" Ruby stated. "Guys meet my friend, Neptune!" "Hey."
"Before you ask, Weiss is betrothed to me, blue boy." Isaac stated, getting a little defensive. "How did you…"
"You had that look. Also, the rest of my boss's team is also in a relationship with Ruby's team."
"Guys, this has been fun and all but, I got to go." Blake stated and then left. Darrel quickly swarmed his team's creatures, and then left. "What is with those two?" Neptune inquired. "Out of all us, Blake & Darrel have a pretty strong relationship."
(SCENE CHANGE!)
Later that night, Blake sat on her bed, feet tucked close to her body. Darrel sat by her side trying his best to comfort her. She replayed memories of what happened at the docks in her mind thinking, 'Why would they work with someone like Torchwick?! Why?!'
(SCENE CHANGE!)
Prior to this, Blake decided to talk to Ozpin. "Well this has certainly been an interesting seven months." Blake's interest was caught. "I'm sure that after a night of thwarting attempted robbery nearly a year ago, you probably just want to go and take a nap, but… I was hoping that we could have a chance to talk." Ozpin stated and then sat down. She motioned for him to continue.
"Wonderful! As you know, in order to enroll at my academy, students must first pass a rigorous entrance exam. Most applicants spend years of preparation training at one of the many combat schools around the world… you are of the few who did not. Your boyfriend too, is also an exception. And you both passed it with flying colors." Ozpin explained.
"I was raised outside the kingdoms; if you can't fight, you can't survive."
"Well you most certainly survived, Blake. I admire your drive. And I'm proud to run a school that accepts individuals from all walks of life. Rich, poor, human, Faunus."
Blake glared at him for that. "Why do you wear that bow, Blake? Why hide who you are?"
Blake raised her voice a little. "You may be among a few who accept the Faunus, Prof. Ozpin, but your species is not." "True, but we are continuing to take strides to lessen the divide." "With all due respect, you need to start taking some larger strides… until then; I'd rather avoid any unnecessary attention, unless I'm with Darrel."
"Ah yes; not only your boyfriend, but also a skilled warrior who has a slightly similar background." "What do you mean? Darrel said…"
"What he said to you and your not yet existent team was only part of his puzzle. Now then, good night, Ms. Belladonna." He left, but not before saying, "If you ever need to talk to anyone, you can come to me, or Darrel.
(SCENE CHANGE!)
We return to Blake in her dorm with Darrel who had listened to what she and Ozpin talked about. "Ozpin said that there is more to you than meets the eye; care to explain?"
However, before he could, Yang and the rest of Team RWBY came in. Blake was about to leave, but her boyfriend beat her to the door. "My love, you've been quiet, anti-social, and moody. In other words, myself on a bad day." He stated with slight anger.
"Darrel's right and this is unacceptable. You made a promise to me, you boyfriend, all of us, that you would let us know if something was wrong." Weiss stated.
"I'll be blunt; what. Is WRONG?!"He nearly shouted.
"I just… don't understand how everyone can be so calm." "You're still thinking about Torchwick, even after 7 months." Ruby stated.
"Torchwick, White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening, and no one has done anything about it!" "Actually, Blake I have." Darrel stated, raising his hand. "And what have you done?" The shape-shifter pulled out a small USB flash drive. "On the day of my escape, I snagged this." He then pulled out his scroll, and inserted it.
It was a data log that read: If the subject shape-shifter program fails, I do have a failsafe: CE. I've only disclosed a few others, including my two daughters, in their mere age of 12.
"That is all I know, UNTIL 2 months before Beacon." "And what did happen?" Blake asked.
"Ruby, Yang, you two know about what my 'job' was right?" The two sisters nodded. "What job?" Blake once again, asked.
"See, Darrel always tried to get the skinny on any crime in Vale, mainly White Fang stuff. One time, he came across a small faction 50 miles from Vale. He said that they would send a squad of operatives to locate and capture and/or terminate him." Ruby said grimly.
"And I have reason to believe that squad is Team ACME! Anyway Blake, continue on what you were going to say." Darrel stated. "I would like to stop them." She said bluntly.
"Okay, between blowing up night clubs, stopping thieves, fighting for freedom, and slaying monsters, I'm sure the four of you all think you're all ready to apprehend these ne'er do wells…But let me be once again be the voice of reason, we're students. We're not ready for this kind of situation."
"BULLCRAP! I'm ready since I've had seven years of training, both off and on the field!" Darrel shouted. "WE aren't ready." Weiss said, motioning to her and the rest.
"And we may never be ready! Our enemies aren't just going to sit around and wait for graduation day! They're out there somewhere, planning their next move, and only one of us knows what it may be, but its coming! Whether we're ready or not!" Blake stated, shouting to get her point across.
"Okay! All in favor of becoming the youngest huntresses and huntsman to single-handedly bring down a corrupt organization conspiring against the kingdom of Vale, say 'aye'!" Ruby shouted.
"Yes!" Yang shouted. "I suppose it could be fun." Weiss said calmly.
"None of you said 'aye'…" "Aye!" Darrel shouted. "Thank you, friend!" Ruby said, slightly childish.
"Alright then… we're in this together!" Blake said, satisfied and confident of what was going to happen.
"Let's hatch a plan!" Ruby cheered. "Yeah!"Her blonde sister shouted. "Aah! I left my board game in the library!" Ruby said, slightly panicking. "I'll get it!" Darrel shouted.
He walked out and he saw ACME staring him down the moment he stepped out. "Hello, dipsticks!"He said demonically.
While Mercury & Emerald slightly cowered in fear, Amy & Cinder didn't move. "While your cronies are scared out of their wits of me, it appears that the two witches aren't." He insulted. Amy wanted to beat him, but Cinder stopped her. "Yeah that's right; at least one of your dogs has a leash."He said rubbing salt in the wound. And that lit the powder keg.
"THAT'S IT!" Amy roared. She charged forward, but Darrel grabbed her by the throat! "All of you get this through thick heads and into your molecule-sized brains, mess with me, my friends, or anyone at all, YOU'RE DEAD!"He shouted and threw Amy towards the others.
"CIAO!"He said manically.
Well, this was most interesting! I know that they are the villains, and they should be treated like crap! Plus, Darrel is onto them*insert sing-songy tone*
Coelophysis- Hollow Form
10 feet long, 3 feet tall, 44lbs
Usage: infiltration
Melee attacks: Teeth and claws (only if he REALLY has too)
Superpowers: A DNA-enhanced version can camouflage itself much like a chameleon.
Also, it can spit venom that is powerful as a King Taijitu minor, which is 1/3 the size of a normal one and has one snake head.
Appearance: WWD
Until then, R&R my friends!