A/N: Hi there! I'm back. The Panic Attacks have receded. Anyways on with the story.

Chapter 3: New Faces, Old Enemies

~3rd Person~

Months have passed since Caleb and Erik's run in with Torchwick. Caleb and Erik continued their usually mercenary routine after their failed mission. The sheriff was careful not to give them any mission that had anything to do with the man in white.

The partners in crime met a new alter ego of Caleb's a month after meeting Aegis. This new one was Caleb's pervertedness compressed into a corporeal form. He showed his creepy face when we were interrogating a female, gang leader. Caleb tries to keep this one under lock and key. He hates when someone tries to outdo him.

Erik has been holding up better than you would think for someone who has looked down the barrel of a gun more times than you could imagine. His left eye has healed, leaving only a scar as a reminder. Erik only saw his scars as remembrances of what not to do in certain situations.

~Caleb's POV~

"Ugh... I'm bored..." There was nothing for me to do.

"Can't you leave me alone. Go watch porn or something." Erik was nose deep in his book. We were up in our tree. I was sitting on the branch across from Erik. The teen in gray was already fed up with me.

"It's weird now, Aegis seems to always be around when I grab my mags." I responded.

"Hey, at least it isn't Pink. He is a bigger pervert than you. And he is you!" Pink looks just like Aegis, just well, pink instead of purple.

"Yeah, I didn't think I could be that much of a pervert. Now, what was I talking about?" Completely forgetting about what we were just talking about.

Erik looked up from his book. "Something about you being bored."

"Oh yeah! I'm borrrrrrrrrrred..."

"I'd be willing to play chess with you, but alas, we don't have a chess board nor pieces to accompany it."

"We can just go and buy a chess board."

"You actually want to go and do something?!"

"Yeah." I said completely oblivious to Erik's shock.

"Who are you and what have you done with Caleb?"

"Hey, there are times where I actually want to go into town."

"Fine. Just remember, unless asking for directions, you are not allowed to talk to anyone. I'm still pissed about last time." Last time, I flirted with some girl and Erik got punched for it. How was I suppose to know that was her dad.

Erik flipped his hood up to cover his face better. He jumped down to the ground and started to walk out of the forest. I followed after him, quickly catching up.

~Erik's POV~

We approached a small dust shop labeled From Dust Till Dawn. We knew of this place from it having everything we need and it is near our favorite cafe. The cafe has the best cake and cookies.

"This place has everything from Dust to medicine to toys. It should at least sell some chess sets." I said as we slowly walked up to the store. The shop had brick pillars in the corners for decoration. It also had two big blue windows on both side of a brown wooden door. The windows had brown borders that wrapped all the way around them. Under the windows were small, simple bushes.

We were outside one of the windows as it shattered into tiny fragments by some flying object. Caleb with his fast reflexes, shadow-stepped out of the way. I, on the other hand, was hit across the face by the object. I slowly collected myself as the object came to a stop, revealing that it was a girl.

The girl who kicked me was wearing red and black clothing. She had a black blouse and skirt with red highlights. She had black, knee-high boots, and black stockings. This girl had a red cape and hood. She was very pale, and had black hair with red highlights at the tips. Her hair was short, except for the part that was on the right side of her face that went past her chin. She had a huge red scythe that looked to have a scope and magazine hanging off the handle. Maybe it was part rifle.

Caleb came over to me with Aegis. They picked me up. "Just walk it off." Aegis softly stated.

"I'm fine Aegis, but you should probably hide." I said.

"Got it." Aegis went back into Caleb's shadow, disappearing.

The grunts we fought a few months ago had started filing out of the store. Then the last guy to step out of the store caught our attention. I brought my staff to the ready and Caleb brought out his shotguns, which he named Whiplash, from the shadows. The orange haired male saw us, he eyes showed a form of hate that could scare the Hulk. However Torchwick kept his composure. "Oh. It's you two." He said, each word filled with venom.

"Yeah, it's us. Hey how is your arm doing?" I asked sarcastically.

"It's been doing better since you shot it!" His glare changed to Caleb. "And my foots doing better, before you ask!" As we talked, the girl in red started to take out goons. At the same time four goons started circle us.

I closed my eyes as the grunts started to close in on us. I could feel the pull of gravity on them. By spreading my gravity field I was able to make more discerned models of my enemy. Normally my power would work like a radar, but if I spread my gravity field, I could make three-dimensional models and be able to see everything that was going on. One drawback of using that power, is that it takes up quite a bit of energy to maintain the field.

The grunt behind me took a diagonal swing toward my neck, but was parried with my staff, knocking the sword away from the grunt. While the grunt was disoriented, I swung my staff, knocking him unconscious. I looked over to see that Caleb and his two grunts were gone.

"So, it is just me and you." I said, trying to intimidate the grunt. It worked, he started to run, but was stopped by an invisible force. I pulled him back towards me. "Oh come now. I was hoping for a little bit of fun." I smiled devilishly.

The grunt readied himself with his scimitar as I put Rolling Thunder away. I readied my fists as the grunt charged, sword swinging. I rolled out the way of his sword slashes and delivered a kick to his side. He turned to face me and brought out his assault rifle. I increased the pull of gravity on the gun so he couldn't hold it anymore. It was sucked to the ground within a blink of an eye. "Now guns, just ruin the fun." I said.

He brought his sword back out and this time got into a more defensive stance. We circled around each other until I broke the tension with a charge. He was ready for the charge, but not for what came after. I jumped over his head with a front flip and landed behind him in a crouch. I swung out my leg and caught his, bringing it closer to me and his face closer to the ground. When this happened Caleb came back out of the shadows and greeted me in a baseball batter stance. I grabbed the guys leg, stood up and started to spin him around. I then flung him at Caleb, who materialized a baseball bat out of shadows. He hit the guy, knocking him towards Torchwick.

Red, Caleb, and I all grouped up down the road as Torchwick slowly walked farther out of the shop. He looked down at the grunt on the roadway and muttered "You were worth every cent, truly you were." emotionlessly.

"Well Red, I think we can all say it has been an eventful evening! And it has been truly wonderful seeing you two again!" he said, anger flowing back into his voice. "And as much as I would love to stay around." He aimed his cane at us, a crosshair popped out of the bottom of his cane. Shit!

"Shit! Get down!" I yelled.

"Huh?" responded Red.

"I'm afraid this is where we part ways." Torchwick finished by pulling the trigger, sending out the flare. I jumped towards Red as Caleb once again disappeared into his shadows. Red and I slid across the ground as the road exploded into debris. I was on top so I protected her from the debris. I looked up to see if she was ok and was greeted by a young face. Her eyes caught my attention though, they were silver. They were majestic, and people said my eyes were pretty. Red's cheeks turned a pink as we held our gaze into each other's eyes.

"You two just gonna stare at each other, or are we gonna get this guy." I had failed to notice Caleb approaching us. So much for my radar. He's right anyways, just sitting here isn't gonna get us an extra paycheck. Even though I wouldn't mind it. No, target now, emotions later! Caleb helped me off Red, and I grabbed her hand to help her off the ground. We scanned the area to see Torchwick climbing a ladder to the roof of a building. I sense something big on the other side of the building. We ran towards the building and found our own ways up it. I simply ran up it, my black haired friend jumped up it, and Red used the kickback of her rifle-scythe to shoot herself up to the roof.

"Hey!" Red called to the man.

"Persistent!" he said, getting more agitated.

"You think we're letting you go after you tried to kill us twice. I think not!" I shouted as a hovercraft appeared from the alleyway, and picked up the man. So that was what I was sensing.

"END OF THE LINE!" yelled the man as he turned towards us and threw a red dust crystal at us. He brought his cane up and shot at the crystal, causing it to explode. The man in white sighed, "Finally their dead."

The explosion however never touched us. The reason why was standing in front of us, a blonde woman with a riding crop for a wand. She wore black pants and boots. A white blouse with a purple, tattered cape. She wore glasses over her green eyes. The woman created a purple shield to protect us from the blast. "What's with women and capes?" I asked no one. Red seemed to brighten up upon seeing her.

The blonde woman waved her crop as she shot out purple beams that battered the side of the hovercraft. The blonde shot a purple blast towards the sky. It dispersed as a hail storm of large icicles started rain around the area of the blast. The icicles stuck themselves into the plating of the hovercraft. One had managed to make its way into the cockpit of the vehicle.

A woman in a red dress appeared in the side bay door of the hovercraft. She shot a fire blast at the blonde, which was blocked by her shield. The ground around her started to glow as a fire column accompanied with a high pitch screech shot out from under her. The blonde rolled out of the way of the fire blast, to use the debris to make a gigantic spear.

As the spear flew towards the vehicle, the woman in red shot at the spear, to only have it reform. The vehicle turned to deflect the spear off the top of it. The spear turned into three serpent like spears and circle the ship. The woman in red saw this, and shot out a wave of fire to rid them of the icicles and spears.

I transform my staff into its rifle form as Red does the same with her scythe. Red and I start taking pot shots at the woman. Caleb is moving towards the edge of the roof, shooting at the ship with his shotguns, trying to contribute something. As we are firing away, I hear the screeching sounds again. Aegis does too as he materializes and pushes me and Red out of the way and dematerializes before any damage could be done. The blonde runs out of the blast zone as the area where we were standing explodes into five columns of fire.

I look back towards the hovercraft, to see it fly away into the night. "Dammit, he got away!" anger flowing through me. I look over to the others to see Red was getting excited. Why the hell is she happy, he just got away! She was looking straight at the blond.

"You're a huntress! Can I have your autograph!?" I simply sigh as Caleb comes over to check on me.

"Hey, it is ok. Maybe the cafe is still open, that will take your mind off things." He put his arm over my shoulder. A cup of tea and some cookies sound good right now.

The huntress stops us before we could even get off the roof top. "Not so fast. We need to question you three, to aid in apprehending Torchwick."

"We don't have much of a choice do we?" Caleb asked.

"No, you don't."

We were in a dark interrogation room. There was a table and chair in the middle of the room, which Red sat at. The only light source was from a hanging light above the table. Caleb was standing in the corner, masked by the shadows. I was laying down on the ceiling with my hood still covering my head. Man I love this gravity power. I could just fall asleep.

"I hope all of your actions tonight won't be taken lightly," scowled the huntress. Or not. She was wandering around the room. "You put yourself and others in great danger."

"They started it!" responded Red.

I looked towards Red. "Trust me I have used that excuse my entire life, it has yet to work." My attention turned back to the huntress. "And if you are talking about us, don't worry. We've been on our own for a while now, and have done a damn good job surviving."

She continued on her little rant, ignoring me. "If it were up to me, I would send you home with a pat on the back." She turned to the table. "And a slap on the wrist!" Emphasizing the slap by hitting the table with her crop. Red recoiled. "But there is someone here who would like to meet you."

A guy with white hair walks in. He is wearing a black suit jacket. He has black pants and black shoes. He has a green under shirt that bulges out around the neck. He is wearing little black spectacles and has amber eyes. He is carrying a mug of coffee and a plate of cookies. The sheriff of the city at his heels.

"I demand that you let my assets go!" he commanded.

"Rick, heel." I told the sheriff.

"I'm trying to help you out. Aren't you always the one trying to stay hidden!?" he asked.

"I want to see where this goes, so please leave the man be." I said.

"Whatever you say." he said, walking out of the room.

The white haired man walks towards the table and stares right at Red. "Ruby Rose."

"Huh, so your name is Ruby, kind of fitting." I interjected.

"What is that suppose to mean?" she asked me.

"If we see each other again, I will tell you."

The white haired man's attention went back to Ruby as he finished his earlier examination. "You... have silver eyes."

"Someone has a firm grasp of the obvious." Caleb stated.

"So who might you two be. The database has nothing on you two." The white haired man's attention was drawn to Caleb and I.

"That is because we've worked to stay out of the database. The only information you shall receive is our names. I'm Erik Jager, and this is my friend Caleb Anderson." I said motioning to both of us.

"You mentioned meeting Torchwick before, when was this and what happened?"

"I'd rather not relive that memory." Man, I love playing that card, it makes people drop subjects.

"Alright then." His attention to all three of us again. "So, where did you all learn to do this?" He said motioning to a holoscreen with all of us fighting.

"Self taught" I said.

"Uh um... S-Signal Academy." Ruby stuttered. The white haired man seemed to realize he isn't going to get anywhere with us, so he turned his attention to the scythe wielder.

"They taught you how to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?"

"That is one of the most dangerous weapons? Really! The atomic bomb is way deadlier!" Caleb chanted. This earned questioning looks from both of the adults.

"Ignore him, he hasn't taken his medication yet." I said, hoping they would forget his outburst.

"What medi- oh... Yeah, sorry, I say weird things when I don't have my meds." Caleb said catching on.

The white haired mans attention went back to Ruby. "Like I was saying, they taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons?"

"Well one teacher in particular."

"I see." He had finally put down the plate of cookies, but before I could get one Ruby devoured them all. I laid back down in defeat after not getting a single cookie. "It's just that I've only seen one other scythe wielder of that skill before. A dusty old crow."

"Thas mie uncleroo." Ruby responded with her mouth full. "Sorry." She swallowed what was in her mouth and whipped it with her sleeve. "That's my uncle Qrow. He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. Now I'm all like ooohhh, wacha!" she made karate poses with the noises. She seemed like such a spaz, a cute spaz though.

"So, I've noticed. And what is an adorable girl, such as yourself, doing at a school designed to train warriors?"

"Well. I want to be a huntress."

"You want to slay monsters."

"Yeah. I only have two more years of training left at Signal, then I'm going to apply to Beacon. See my sister is starting there this year. And she is trying to become a huntress. And I'm trying to become a huntress, because I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, why not make a career out of it. I mean the police are alright, but huntsmen and huntresses are so much more romantic, and exciting, cool just. Gah- You know!?" Getting very excited at the end.

The huntress gave her a look of 'What the hell is wrong with you?'. The white haired man was smiling, "Do you know who I am?"

"Your Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster at Beacon."

"Hello." Ozpin replied.

"Nice to meet you."

"You want to come to my school?"

"More than anything."

"What about you two?" he asked Caleb and I.

"Why not." I replied.

"Will there be any girls except for her there?" This earned an annoyed 'Hey!' out of Ruby.

"Really, that's what you're worried about? Well, I better hope you have Pink under control." I glanced over to Caleb.

"Hey have to always be trying. And don't worry about Pink, I've got it cover." Poor Aegis.

"I'll take that as a yes from both of you. I will arrange a room for you in one of the nearby hotels." Ozpin said turning away.

"Wait, how did you know we were homeless?" I was shocked.

"The leaves in your hair, and you pointed out earlier you two were on your own. Airship leaves at 9 A.M. Be there on time or be left behind. And please, take a shower." Ozpin turned and left the room.

I jumped off the ceiling and landed on the floor near Caleb. "Let's head out, I'm dying to take a shower.

It was 11 at night as we stepped into our room. We had already grabbed our stuff from the tree on our way here. We opened the room to see we had two beds, a nightstand in between with a digital alarm clock, and a bathroom with shower.

"Rock paper scissors to see who gets the first shower?"

"Fine. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot." I threw rock while Caleb had paper. "Dammit!"

Caleb threw his bag on the ground and rushed towards the bathroom. I could hear the shower turn on shortly after. I threw my bag on my bed and brought out my phone. I just stared at it. I wonder how everyone is doing back home. I wonder how proud mom would be that I have been able to fend for myself. Yet again, she would be disappointed by the method.

Caleb walked out of the bathroom in jeans and a t-shirt. "Whatcha looking at? Porn?"

"Why do always think it is porn, you know I don't have porn on my phone. You've searched many times. I was just thinking about home."

"I wonder how the guys are holding up."

"Probably already replaced us in the group."

"No one can replace this majestic face." he said motioning towards his face.

"Don't flatter yourself. I have to keep myself from puking every time I see it."

"Hey at least I don't smell like a junkyard." We both started laughing.

"That is why I'm off to take a shower." I grabbed my gray cutoff, a pair of shorts, and some boxers and walked into the bathroom. I shut the door behind me, undressed and jumped in the shower. After the nice hot shower, I walked out of the bathroom in my cutoff and shorts. I looked to see Caleb already asleep in his bed. It looks like he set the alarm clock to go off at 7 in the morning. I laid down in my bed, but there was one thing on my mind at the time, and she would accompany my mind until I fall asleep.

A/N: To be completely honest, I feel like I didn't do so well on this one. Sorry for the wait though. Expect the next chapter on Sunday or Monday. You know the drill, Review or PM on what you feel about the story. BAI!