Chapter 7
Months Later
About three months after the training started with the new Tenno, things were going swimmingly. The girls had learned very well from their new mentors. They all knew what their abilities were now. Weiss could create and manipulate dust, especially ice. Blake's abilities centered on shadows and manipulating them. She could also use her ribbons like whips and grappling hooks. Yang's powers were focused on fire and close quarters combat.
As per usual, the mentors, including myself, were accompanying their students to breakfast. Ozpin had used his mirage ability to make RWBY look like they were before they became Tenno. The mentors were sitting on the end of RWBY and JNPR's table.
"And then we beat the dragon and were rolling around in gold and candy!" Nora finished her monthly story.
"You threw a rock at a bird and it dropped a half-eaten chocolate bar," Ren corrected, as usual.
"Hey Ruby, do you want to go hang out with us in Vale later? I heard there was going to be a new weapons shop opening today, and I thought you might want to check it out," Jaune asked Ruby.
"No, thanks. I'm kind of busy," She responded.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Oh, nothing," Ruby covered up the fact that she actually trained with Zephyr then.
"There it is again," Ren commented. We all looked at him questioningly.
"Nothing. Every time we ask you four about something in your life you just say 'nothing'. I saw Weiss going up to the roof several times. When I asked her, she said 'nothing'. The four of you have been coming home late. We ask, you say that," Ren elaborated.
"Why are you concerned?" Frost asked, trying to keep them off us.
"I didn't say I was concerned, I was simply pointing out a noticeable pattern," Ren retorted.
"Team RWBY, please report to my office," Hayden said over the PA system.
"And that also happens when someone points this out," Ren finished. We got up and followed our students to Hayden's office.
"Hayden, we can't just keep doing this forever. Someone is going to get suspicious and go searching. If they find anything unusual they're going to let the info out, and you can't stop the truth. If the Tenno get revealed, the whole world is going to go against us. We've got to find a better way to cover this up," I protested to the first Tenno.
"Who said I didn't want them to be suspicious? If a highly trained warrior were to just follow rules, they would be manipulated. If these students never learn to think on their own, they are not worth teaching," The headmaster replied.
"Well, what if they steal something? Or destroy an artifact? Prime will tear all of their limbs off! You going to teach a corpse?" I retorted, pointing to the golden haired woman behind me.
"What if there were no hypothetical questions?" Hayden smirked.
"Dammit," I cursed, smacking my fist on the desk. A small crack formed.
"You really have a tendency to break things you don't know how to work," Zephyr giggled.
"I'm used to Void Distortion! Not drawers!" I scowled at the jokester, who was snickering at my response.
"Well, I want them to find out on their own," Hayden made a final decision.
"Well, what's stopping us?" Valkyr asked, walking out of the door, only to disappear and reappear on the other side of the room.
"The Void," Hayden said smugly.
"Fine, we'll let it happen," Prime gave in, albeit reluctantly. Hayden then turned around in his office chair and activated a holographic screen on the wall. How he was getting connection with the Void walls, I have no idea. On the screen were various security cameras placed in strategic locations around the school, and even our dojo. Again, no idea.
I checked one screen that showed our dorm hall. Surprisingly, the team we were looking for had just arrived at our door (How does he know!?). Jaune was about to knock on the door, but Ren held a hand up, putting a finger to his lips. He pressed his head to the door, trying to see if anyone was there. He began slowly turning the knob when suddenly.
"BREACH BREACH BREACH!"
Nora charged forth with her hammer, smashing down the door and nearly crushing Ren in the process. We all laughed at the comical sight. Ren scolded his friend, warning her of the possible dangers of startling one of us.
"Why are they looking in our room instead of RWBY's?" I questioned.
"Ren seems to have noticed that our new initiates became mysterious when we started sitting at their table. He traced it to your initial appearance three months ago," Frost explained.
"Ah, I see," I realized the logic in that. Ren is really a smart man. I would love to fight him. I looked back at the screen to find the team spread out across the dorm, picking through our miniscule stuff stored inside.
"Why do they have so little?" Pyrrah asked, looking at the lack of things in the room.
"These beds haven't been used in years. That can't be right," Ren commented, checking the beds.
"Ooh! I found something!" Nora chanted in a sing-song voice, holding up the spare Clan Key. The team gathered around to look at it.
"Uh, what does it do?" Jaune asked. Pyrrah and Ren carefully observed it, taking in the details while Nora poked at it curiously and Jaune just stood off to the side. Nora then accidentally pushed the portal activator, causing the key to suddenly glow. Ren dropped it in his surprise and caused a portal to open as a hole in the floor, making him and his team to fall in. On a separate screen, a portal opened on the ceiling, depositing JNPR onto the floor.
"Wheeee," Nora cried out as she fell down on top of the stack with a loud thud, causing her team to groan underneath her.
"Ooh! I told you they were aliens!" Nora shouted excitedly, looking at the classic Tenno architecture. I cringed on the use of the term 'Alien'. The human civilians often called us that, it wasn't a name I really liked. It made me aware the monster that I was.
"Let's not jump to conclusions here, something tells me there's more to this than it seems," Ren climbed out of the pile, taking his own look at the hall. The portal was still open, but they didn't have a way to get back in, due to the fact that they were all in uniform and unequipped, except for Nora. If that girl damages anything with that hammer, I will have her head! I don't care what Hayden says or does.
I looked at the next screen to see them entering the Vosen Water Garden adjacent to the Clan Hall. Ren was admiring the garden while Nora was making childish fish faces at the koi fish. Jaune was trailing slowly along.
'Why does he look so guilty? It looks like he just killed a man!' I thought, looking at Jaune.
"This type of garden is very eastern in design and décor. They must be native to this planet," Ren commented, circling in the center of the room. I was surprised by the fact that the cultures of both planets overlapped each other, even in the same geographical area.
"Let's keep looking, but keep a low profile, we're just here for information. We don't want them to know we were here," Ren ordered, surprising me. Ren didn't seem to be the one to take the lead. Nora gave a joking salute, skipping off towards the power hall, a not very interesting place. Ren made his way to the dueling and training halls. Jaune just went with Pyrrah in the direction of the archiving room and arsenal, the most interesting place in the Dojo.
"Hey, did you make sure the initiation tablet was hidden?" I asked Zephyr.
"Yeah, I copied it into the computer and hid the tablet in the rafters of the Grandest Hall," She replied, smiling. I just stared in shock.
"What?" She questioned.
"You realize that Nora will get bored and look in the computer, Ren will search the system for information, and that the archives are linked to the Dojo's network?" I asked seriously.
"Yeah, what?" Zephyr still didn't get it.
"They're going to find it you moron!" I scolded her.
"Whoa man, calm your tits, it'll be fine. Besides, that's what Hayden wants," Zephyr held her hands up defensively. I growled and looked back the screens and hilariously, all three groups were at a console, looking at the same thing (You know what it is). I scowled and noticed Prime smashing her head against a wall, venting her anger. JNPR then began sifting through more files, each with a different goal. Nora was probably looking for a game, Ren was looking for info and Pyrrah was searching for more info on the culture and historical stuff. Jaune was just following Pyrrah.
"He's so submissive~" Zephyr snickered. I rolled my eyes and looked back to Hayden.
"Alright, now can we intervene?" I asked, tired of being stuck in here for so long. He waved his hand dismissively. I ran out of the unprotected door and created a portal with my key, running to Nora's location before she broke something. I activated speed and sprinted down to where Nora was last. When I entered the room, she was about to deactivate all of the power cores. I came up behind her and smashed my fist on the back of her neck, knocking her out cold. I caught the body before it hit the button, deactivating the terminal and dragging the bubbly girl to the medbay. I knew what Hayden was going to do, and he probably had custom frames for them too. Ha, that rhymed.
"Catch one too?" A voice from beside me. I looked over to see Rhino carrying a struggling Jaune and Pyrrah.
"Actually, Hayden dragged us to his office and set up some Void walls to keep us in. Said he had plans for them," I said casually, trying to mess with the two of them that were still awake.
"Ah, so he wanted some people to test that thing," Rhino caught what I was trying to do, trying to scare the crap out of them. I took a look back, trying to catch their reaction. I couldn't keep a straight face when I saw them, dropping Nora and breaking out into laughter, Rhino put them down and started laughing too, leaving them utterly confused.
"What?" Jaune asked, only causing us to laugh more.
"Y-Your faces!" I managed to laugh out. The two looked at each other, sharing a confused look.
"No, but seriously, we need to take them down to the lab" I quickly changed to false seriousness, bringing back the horrified looks. We were thrown into another fit of laughter.
"I-I don't know what's going on," Pyrrah added to our amusement. We finally calmed down after a while.
"We were messing with you. Come on, we won't hurt you," I finally was able to get a straight face on, gesturing them on while picking Nora up. We took them the rest of the way and told them what was really going on, everything from what was going to happen with them to our origins and why they should trust us. Jaune seemed a bit worried about the infection part. I mean, everyone would be worried if they were going to have a glaive shoved into their arm and infected with a virus that can drive you insane if done improperly; without anything you can do to stop it. Just a little too worried.
"Jaune, you'll be fine. It's half a second of excruciating pain for an eternity of awesomeness," I reassured him, but it didn't seem to help.
"I'm not really good at reassurances, am I?" I sighed.
"'Excruciating' probably wasn't the best word there," Rhino commented, just as we were about to walk into the medbay. We entered to see that Ren had to be incapacitated to bring him here. It'll probably only raise his suspicions, but whatever works. I saw that all of the mentors were there, as well as Hayden.
"Professor Ozpin?" Pyrrah asked upon seeing the man in question.
"Please, call me Hayden. Have a seat, we have much to discuss,"
Heyo! New chapter! I released this exactly on the release of RWBY Volume 2 as an announcement for my new fanfic that's coming up soon. It'll be called 'What I Always Wanted', and it'll be a self-insert about me and my very interesting adventures. Don't worry, if you're like me and think it'll be about some super OP guy with magic powers and super abilities, you're wrong. It'll be very different. But anyways, enough talk, more watch! Necrorizah out.