Chapter 3
Volt's Bane
It was the day after we had found Shadow Squad, and because both of the squads agreed to join the school, we were having classes. I was happy; I would get to learn all about this world. The Storm Cloud duo (Zephyr and Hydroid) had been a little less enthusiastic, but when they heard about sparring class they were a little too happy. Ozpin, having not known about our Dojo the size of Mercury, had assigned us dorm rooms. They pretty much became our portal rooms where no one would find a way into our Dojo.
We didn't have to wear the Beacon uniforms because first of all, Zephyr and Banshee had not taken kindly to the fact that they had to wear a skirt. Also, we had gotten by with the fact that it would insult our culture. Prime was outraged by the idea of even owning something that wasn't of Orokin origin.
"You may as well bow down to Vey Hek!" She had kept going on the same rant for three hours so far.
"PRIME! For the love of the Orokin, SHUT UP!" Hydroid shouted, holding his temples. Prime still looked angry, mumbling under her breath, but complied.
"Thank you," Hydroid said, exasperated. We were currently kept together with our two teams in the Cafeteria for breakfast. We were a bit early, a few students were scattered here and there. Whoever's attention wasn't already on us was now ours because of Hydroid's outburst.
Everyone but Ash had their helmets off. Saryn had long, infested purple hair and sickly green eyes. Part of her face was covered with glowing infested spores. Nekros had black hair with purple streaks and stone grey eyes. They were both about our age. I looked over at Ash, who was possibly contemplating how he should eat his pancakes with his helmet on.
"Hey Ash," He looked over at me "why don't you have your helmet off?"
"I do not wish anyone to see my scars," He said in his extremely deep voice, turning away immediately. It seemed he had answered this question before.
"C'mon, I've seen Ember, half her face is melted off!" Hydroid coaxed.
"A man should not hide his scars. Like his accomplishments, they are testaments to his strengths and abilities," Prime said philosophically.
"As you wish," He reached under his helmet and pressed the button. Underneath was a lot less than I expected. He was a man around 30 years old. He had black hair and soulless dark eyes surrounded by ugly scars.
"I'm not surprised," I said. Ash looked at me, bewildered at my statement.
"I mean, you always had that kind of scarred veteran personality, a man with a lot of history and sees little in his future," Ash nodded in confirmation, seeing the truth in my view of him. The others had the same reaction as me.
"Umm…" A voice from behind me said. I turned around to see team RWBY behind me. They all cringed at the sight of Saryn and Ash.
"Who are these people?" Weiss pointed at Shadow squad "and what are you doing at our table?"
"What, did you buy it? Sit somewhere else!" Saryn shooed them off, obviously trying to scare them with her infested face.
"You didn't answer my question!" Weiss demanded.
"Well pretty princess, my name is Saryn, and behind me are the best, stealthiest assassins on this planet. Nice to meet you," Saryn mocked.
"Why you little…" Weiss was about to slap Saryn when the same scenario from yesterday happened. Prime caught her hand and shook her head.
"Don't," Prime threatened. Weiss grumbled and turned around, but stopped.
"I have a compromise. We move so you can sit, and you stop being a spoiled brat," Prime offered. Weiss turned on Prime to see that she wasn't there. I chuckled. I knew what this was. Weiss turned back to see a Lex Prime aimed at her face. Prime smiled.
"Sound good?" Prime flicked the safety off, smiling sweetly. Weiss nodded frantically. We assumed our new seating arrangement. Ruby and Weiss seemed wary around Prime, Yang was talking to her about the ways she tortured Weiss in the past, and Blake completely ignored everyone with a book.
A bell rang and students began rushing out to get to classes. I rematerialized my helmet. I had slightly memorized my schedule, and by memorized I just set waypoints at my classes the night before. I maneuvered the crowded halls, searching for my first point. I came to a large wooden door and using the instructions Hydroid gave me, I twisted the knob and walked inside.
The room was rather small for my standards; long benches with tables went on an incline to the back. It had a stage at the front that looked like a sparring ring. A few people were here and there, talking quietly, but there was no sign of a teacher. I took a seat and relaxed in the back of the class, entertaining myself by flicking sparks around in various shapes.
I waited as students filed in and took their seats. No one sat next to me, exactly the way I like it. I think it was the fact that I just pulled out Reaper Prime when they tried. When people stopped entering the room a woman came to the front. She had blonde hair and green eyes. She wore some kind of wide Syndana that was ragged on the end and had a crown on the back.
"Hello everyone, welcome back to sparring class," The woman, who I recognized as Glynda from when I first got here, said. I grinned at the subject, and I began wondering how I could still shock someone without killing them. She began talking something that I pretty much ignored. Thanks to what Banshee told me, I read the Rules and Guideline Handbook last night. I knew this already.
"I believe we have a new student. Volt, would you please come to the stage for our first match," Glynda got my attention. I smirked under my helmet and walked to the front of the room.
"Are there any volunteers?" Glynda asked. A ton of hands shot up, obviously oblivious to my Warframe's abilities.
"Mr. Tuono, would you please get your gear and prepare for battle," I smirked and saw a boy with a lightning bolt tattoo on his left cheek stand up. He went into another room. A few minutes later, he came out in a jacket and pants that were colored like Grineer forest camo. He had a pair of claws on his wrists. He entered the ring and I drew Reaper Prime, the blade glowing an irradiated green. I didn't want to disintegrate or electrocute him, so it was my best bet. I waited for the signal.
"Fight!" Goodwitch shouted.
I activated Speed and ran straight up to him, delivering a flying kick to the face. He was surprised by my insane speed and took it, but quickly recovered. He lunged forward with a flurry of strikes. I had a hard time keeping up with my huge scythe and just deployed electric shield. He struck it and received a shock from the electricity. I flipped back to get out of his range. I released a torrent of Shocks on him, just for his body to fade away. I was confused for a second before I felt a hard strike to my shields. I turned around and spun my scythe with me, but he crossed his claws to block the blow, sliding several meters back with the force behind it. I lunged in with a strike to the left. He backed up and lashed out at my chest. I kicked his hand out of the way and brought my Scythe down towards his head. He backflipped out of the way, but that was my plan. I used my planted Scythe to flip like a lever and then threw my Reaper at him, causing it to spin in place. One of the strikes threw him into the wall and gave him a radiation proc. A buzzer rang out and I looked at the screen and noticed that I had won. I went to help the boy up.
"What was with the boomerang Scythe?" He wheezed.
"I learned that technique years ago, it's called Abyssal Automaton. It's a really good thing to trick people with," I explained.
"Oh and how did you make a decoy like that?" I asked.
"That's my semblance, I can create illusions at my will," He explained. I just nodded, but really I had no idea what he was talking about. I made a mental note to look it up later.
He nodded and we went back to our seats. I was surprised that he didn't ask about my abilities. The rest of the matches were boring, mostly lucky victories and sad attempts to replicate my moves. I slumped in my seat and waited with a bored expression.
I noticed a large amount of eyes fixed on me between matches, and they seemed to have two different types of expressions, dreamy and envious. What scared me was that all of the dreamy stares came from girls and envious glares came from guys.
"Crap," I thought, sighing.
I was really glad that I chose a seat near the door, because when we were dismissed, I bolted out with Speed active to avoid the torrent of fangirls chasing me. I jumped up on the wall and wallran all the way to my next class, which I concluded was bad because that just gave them more reason to chase me.
-Lunchtime-
I was sitting on a giant tower of chairs at my seat with my team around me, giving me curious looks.
"Volt, why are you on a stack of chairs?" Banshee asked.
"I managed to attract a massive group of fangirls that are now chasing me," I replied glumly.
"What did you do?" Hydroid demanded more than asked.
"Why do you want to know? You want to be surrounded by animals too?" I shuddered at the thought of it.
"No, I can help you," Hydroid looked up at me.
"What!? Hydroid helping someone!? That's impossible!" Zephyr gasped in fake disbelief.
"In sparring class, I was the first match. I just fought normally and I started getting dreamy eyes. I high tailed it out of there before getting trampled and had to wallrun, attracting them more," I explained.
"Well it seems that our normal fighting is impressive here," Banshee commented.
"Just let them know that you're in a relationship. If they aren't insane they'll leave you alone," He suggested. I nodded and we ate in silence, waiting for the storm. Just then I heard a rumbling. Everyone else did as well. We all braced for impact. All of a sudden, the cafeteria doors burst open to reveal a stampede of fangirls all going towards my leaning tower of chairs. They ran to the base and someone had the great idea to push it over. I had carefully designed it so I would slide onto a small ledge on a pillar nearby.
"Always expect the unexpected!" I shouted through a mouthful of pizza, holding the slice in the air victoriously. My team appeared to laugh, I couldn't hear through the sound of girls shouting sweet comments and relationship requests. I was like a king watching over a protest in front of his castle.
"LADIES!" Hydroid shouted from our table. RWBY was there now, looking confused at me and the crowd of fangirls. Everyone shut up.
"He's taken!" He shouted at them. Quite a few members of the riot walked away, saddened. The remaining group erupted into a chorus of "Who is it?" and "I'm better than her!" I nodded at Banshee and she nodded back. All of a sudden, a Sonic Boom threw all the girls back. I jumped down and rolled, still holding my slice of pizza. Banshee and I ran around the halls, fleeing the group of girls.
"Drop the pizza!" Banshee shouted at me as I took a bite.
"No! I am dedicated to this pizza!" I shouted back through a mouthful of cheese.
We ran until we found our dorm room, where we quickly slipped inside before the group came around the corner. We activated our clan keys and jumped inside the portals, quickly closing them. We panted on the floor, catching our breath. I bit into my pizza.
"Hello," Prime's voice came from behind us. I looked around, the pizza hanging out of my mouth comically with my eyes wide. They both laughed. I noticed what they were laughing at and I quickly finished the slice.
"What did you do to them Prime?" I asked, dreading what her answer would be. She probably tied them up with their own limbs.
"I just threatened to call a Stalker on them," My jaw dropped.
"You know, for following a code of not killing a lot, you tend to get a bit violent when it comes to your friends," Banshee commented.
"Well, one of the rules is to defend your brothers and sisters at all costs, so I take it to heart" She shrugged.
"I guess I would have been trampled to near death then get my ears blown out, so I guess you're doing it right," I thought out loud. I then heard heavy footsteps from deep in the halls. We all tensed up and Prime instinctively went invisible and put her helmet on. I waited. Time seemed to slow. Then a familiar gruff voice shouted.
"Hello?"
I let out the breath I was holding. I followed the sound of footsteps to the source. I was both astonished and relieved.
"Rhino? How did you get here?" I asked. Rhino was stone grey and had the Vanguard helmet, which was currently off. Under it was dusty brown hair and stony eyes. He had a Jat Kittag, Boltor and Aklex. He had an Uru Syndana and the Daedalus armor attachments, making him seem even bigger, besides the fact that he was about six and a half feet tall at seventeen.
"I could ask you the same thing. Where is everyone?" He asked. Just then the sound a safety flicking off came from behind him. He turned to see Prime with her helmet on and Lex at his face. A common situation.
"Hello Prime," He waved at her. She nodded in response, obviously trying to keep Rhino in the dark about their current situation. Prime lowered her pistol and holstered it.
"So, how did Hek get you guys? Did he have some kind of giant lizard or something?" I asked.
"How did you know Hek got us?" Rhino asked. I just shook my head.
"Don't worry about it. I'll 'convince' Zephyr to explain it to you," I created a portal with my key and gestured for him to come through.
"Just keep the portal up, I'll call my team and explain our situation," I nodded and went through.
On the other side of the portal I heard several low whispers from outside the door. Expecting team RWBY to be there to ask about earlier, I opened it. I had officially made my fifth huge mistake for the day; I closed the door immediately before any of them could get in. Banshee came through the portal to see me with my back against the door.
"What happened?" She asked. A pound was heard on the other side of the door and the crack I created earlier widened. I turned around and pushed on the door to negate their smashes.
"Oh…" She said grimly.
"What is it?" Rhino asked from behind me.
"Volt somehow managed to collect a crapload of jealous fangirls that are trying to break down this door," Banshee told him.
"How about we just break down the door and tell them to screw off?" A new voice said with the sound of cracking knuckles. I reverted to using my back on the door to see our new arrivals. I saw that Valkyr was the one who said that. She had Venka, Orgis and Brakk. Next to her was Frost, who had Galatine, Penta and Detron. The last one on their team was Ember, Who had a Phoenix helmet, a Pyra Syndana, Silva and Aegis, Ignis and AkBronco Prime.
"That won't work; we practically did it once already. I doubt it'll work this time," I said, grunting through it as another smack on the other side caused a few splinters to fall out.
"Well you didn't have me, that's why," She pushed me out of the way and punched through the door, disintegrating it completely. The screaming stopped and Valkyr looked at them.
"Ladies," She said, cracking her knuckles. I hid under a bed and clung to the bottom, just in case. Then all of a sudden, screams broke out again. But this time they were of terror. I crawled back out and saw Nekros standing there, admiring his work.
"It didn't look like you wanted them there," He commented. I got up and dusted myself off, sighing with relief.
"See? It wasn't that bad," Valkyr said arrogantly.
"Well if you saw it earlier, you would be scared," I shuddered at the thought. She shrugged and walked off.
"Wait, if you want to know what's going on, come with us," I walked the other direction, towards where the remainder of our squad was. I found them fumbling around the halls, trying to find their class.
"Oh, hey guys, fancy seeing you here… he he" Zephyr spun around, trying to not seem lost. I moved aside to reveal Mountain Squad and pointed at them.
"Tell them so I don't have to deal with it," I commanded. I then promptly turned around and left, ignoring all of her complaints. Banshee and I went back to our Dojo and we went back to the barracks, where I collapsed on my bed.
"They are the bane of my existence," I said to no one in particular. Banshee fell face-first next to me, letting out a defeated sigh.
"Maybe spending some time with Thunder will cheer you up," Banshee suggested. I smiled and sat up. Thunder was my Kubrow that I usually took with me on missions. I didn't take him on the last ones because he had recently gotten injured.
"Yeah, that's a good idea," I replied with my previous mood dissipating. We got up and went to the Dojo's huge hangar and found my ship which matched my color scheme. When I entered the bridge I was immediately greeted by a red and black furball.
"Hey buddy, long time no see!" I was pinned to the ground by a black Kubrow with red eyes and a red lightning bolt design on the side. I scratched his back, causing static to crackle, but Thunder was unfazed. Banshee was stood in front of me, watching with an amused expression. Not for long, because Thunder's wagging tail swept her feet out from under her and he jumped out of the way to avoid being crushed.
I would like to say Banshee just landed on top of me, no problem, just a little awkward. No, that damned .oo1 increase from the artificial gravity was enough to jolt her head forward and end up in this state. My lips were currently pressed up against Banshee's, both of us too embarrassed to move. Both of us were blushing deeply. But I then realized how much I liked it. I slowly closed my eyes and my arms snaked around Banshee, pulling her further into it. If this was our first kiss, I was going to savor it. We stayed this way for a few minutes, but eventually broke, both of us smiling.
I then heard a cheeky snicker from behind me, accompanied by a flash. I looked back to find Prime cracking up, Wyrm taking pictures of the two of us. Our faces returned to their previous state.
"Prime, I was having a great day until you came and fucked it up," I growled.
Super sorry guys! I haven't been able to write because I just got a new computer that doesn't have office yet and I was off at camp, so I haven't been able to write. Again, I am super sorry. Apologies aside, Hek's Secret Weapon is ramping up again! Also, I'm starting up a new RWBY story titled What I Always Wanted. It'll be a self-insert fic about me and my friends and our exploits at Beacon with references to Warframe and even this story! Thanks for being this patient. Necrorizah out.