Hey guys! SmallTownGamer here! Wow, I was surprised how much positive response this fic got when I opened my email the other day, ao I decided that I would write this next chapter before finishing the latest chapter of All the Nights, and School's In! So like I always do, here are the reviews.

DarkElucidator: Is Verdant more like Borderland's Angel or HALO's Cortana?

She is kind of inbetween as in she is an actual full blooded A.I. like Cortana and has a direct interface with Cyan's nervous system like Cortana does, but can hack things and is cosmetically more like Angel

rwbyfan5: Looking good so far. Just be careful about how you portray yourself. I have slight experience in writing self-inserts, and my #1 problem was trying not to be too self depreciating, but not too ego stroking either. Try and find that middle ground, and you're golden! Keep up the good work!

I do think its hard because I don't want Cyan to come across as a Gary Stu, and hopefully he doesn't seem like that so far. Cyan has faults just like any other character. But thank you, I will be more wary about not making him too extreme either way.

dadman9994: dude this is awesome really like the idea looking ford to how you are going to continue this story. also like the idea of the a.i been looking for any stories that have an a.i in them :)

good luck :)

dadman9994

Thanks I'm glad you like it :) and don't worry, Verdant plays a pretty big part so you'll have a lot of A.I. to enjoy. :) Good luck to you as well :)

Thanks to Bombproofcargo for letting me know the actual ages of the characters of RWBY. I still will use 16 for Ruby and 18 for the others though because it's hard for me to think of them as 17 because I always thought of Signal as high school and Beacon as College.

There are two references in the last chapter, you guys can find them!

Excerpt from the journal of one Cyan Novak

Clear days like this one remind me of my home back on Earth. The wind blowing through the trees, the branches gently swaying. Trees were always granted some sense of comfort in me, just as the smell hot cocoa and allure of my grandma's Super Nintendo did. Why was it when I gazed out at this 'Emerald Forest' I felt dark sense of foreboding instead of the comforting feeling that I was accustomed to?

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Cyan's internal clock woke him at 6:45 like it did on weekdays, the teen knew that he was gonna have to get up and get ready to go to school. He laid there for a few moments before he groggily sat up eyes closed and began going through the morning routine of cracking his knuckles, eyes still closed.

He shivered slightly, when cool air stung his face. Did I leave a window open or something last night? Cyan slowly opened he sleep crusted eyes and began looking around. Wait this wasn't his room, this was a balcony.

The events of the previous day came rushing back to him. That's right, I'm in RWBY. The teen looked to his sides to find that both sister's had remained next to him in the night. Yang had flopped out and was sleeping in a position that could be comfortable, and Ruby remained how he had last seen her in the night, with a now larger pool of saliva around her mouth.

Hey Verdant?

Already on it.

Cyan's visor flared to life as he took a picture for future blackmail, chuckling all the while. Surprisingly, it was Yang who started to wake first. When the brawler opened her lilac eyes she saw slipping his pants on. She took in the sight for a moment before deciding to get up herself.

Yang is up.

The engineer turned around only to catch a glimpse of Yang's generous cleavage before turning a bright red and flipping a 180 to face away from the voluptuous blonde. She blinked for a minute, that was new. Usually guys would take advantage of that situation and get as much of an eyeful as possible. Unknown to the Yang, Cyan was having a debate in his head.

You're such a wuss!

Well excuse me if I feel uncomfortable when a woman cleavage is shown like that. I feel like I should only see that much of a woman I love.

You liked it though, right? Or are you actually more interested in members of your own gender?

What!? No! I'm not into guys! Not that I have a problem with people who are, but I'm definitely not.

So you liked what you saw?

I'm not having this conversation with you.

Come on!

No.

Well I'm shipping it now. YangxCyan.

What!?

Cyang! It's perfect!

I don't even know her!

"Hey, Are you alright there?"

Cyan nearly jumped out of his skin at how close Yang got without him noticing. The hell?! Instead the normal smile set on the blonde's face, her lips formed a thin line and her eyes flashed with genuine concern.

"Uh, yeah. T-thanks."

Yang smiled warmly before going back to normal Yang and punched him right in the arm, and deadened the limb. "OW!" The brawler grinned, "Aww, that was only a love tap, Engi." Cyan frowned and rubbed his numb arm, "Don't call me that." Her grin only widened as Ruby stepped into view fully dressed, "You do know thats the only thing she's gonna refer to you as now right?"

The now dubbed Engi groaned in annoyance as the two other sisters began laughing loudly. The three of them packed up their sleeping bags and luggage in Ruby and Yang's case. The trio conversed as the three began walking down to where the other freshman had gathered.

So since you have me, you could set anyone as a way-point and make them your partner right off the bat. You have any ideas?

I don't think that's a good idea. I feel like the professors would catch on to that pretty quickly.

But you don't want to be partners with a certain blonde brawler?

Well any of the main eight would be a fine partner, just as long as its not Cardin or any of his flunkies.

You're no fun.

Too bad.

Shouldn't you be paying more attention to the professor? He is explaining what you need to be doing.

I saw the show, I know what's going to happen before it happens.

But didn't you change the timeline a bit by preventing the explosion in between Weiss and Ruby, thus preventing Ruby from meeting Jaune and eliminating the very important connection between team RWBY and team JNPR. Infact, I haven't seen Blake around at all, did you somehow prevent her from going to Beacon by existing?

Ok, ok. I get it, things probably won't happen like they're suppose to, ripple effect I know. But wouldn't it be too soon for something that big to change?

Well you should be paying attention, not talking to me.

Couldn't you record everything and eliminate the need for me to ever listen when I'm suppose to?

The two's banter was interrupted by Yang yanking on Cyan's arm, "Let's go Engi! Get your head out of the clouds!" The engineer had no time to respond as the brawler drug him to the opening of the aircraft that would take them to the Emerald Forest. "Jeez, almost everyone else was on the Bullhead and me and Ruby didn't see you. Then we were starting to worry and then I find you just standing there, zoning out on god knows what."

"Sorry, Yang"

"You damn well better be."

Cyan rolled his eyes as they walked on to the ship and found seats next to Ruby and surprisingly Weiss. The white haired heiress was less than thrilled to see the two that antagonized her yesterday.

"You as well?! I just suppose that this day couldn't get any worse." Instead of rising to the bait of an argument, Cyan just sat down across from her and ignored her completely, and looked out the window. There were a few people out there still, they wouldn't be leaving soon. The engineer resigned himself to his fate. Yang sat next to him just as Weiss began her trant.

"Don't you ignore me! I am a Schnee! You will respect me!"

Ruby seemed very uncomfortable with the situation as she cowered as far away from Weiss as she possibly could while sitting in the seat next to the heiress. Yang had pulled out her scroll and was playing a game on it. It looked oddly familiar to the engineer.

"Is that Earthbound?

The brawler turned to Cyan surprised. "You know Earthbound?" The engineer chuckled, "Know it? It's one of my favorite games of all time." Yang smiled widely as she turned the screen in the engineer's direction. "Do you know how to get rid of the damn eraser statue?" Ruby frowned, "Yang, language." Yang laughed and stuck her tongue out as the two scooted closer together, both of their attentions focused on the small screen.

Weiss fumed at being ignored and 'hmmphed' haughtily as she pulled out her dust cartridges to make sure she was adequately prepared for the day ahead. The heiress gazed the engineer through the corner of her eye, and saw the bruise left from Yang's earlier punch.

"Even a moron like yourself has an aura, why don't you heal that bruise?"

For the first time in two days that Weiss knew the engineer, he spoke directly to her. "My aura hasn't been unlocked." Followed by Cyan rubbing his head shakily. Ruby gave him an incredulous look. "You've never had your aura unlocked?! You could get yourself killed out there!" Weiss scoffed, a triumphant smirk forming, "Idiot."

Yang looked at the boy curiously before speaking, "Ozpin wouldn't have let him in if he was a slouch. You are an engineer, right?" With the confirmation the brawler continued, "Then don't you have all sorts of gadgets and gizmos, right?" Again, Cyan nodded. "Then he should be fine."

The rest of the ride over to the Emerald forest was uneventful, The beacon students were sleeping when the Bullhead finally came to a stop near the initiation grounds. Ruby and Weiss were leaning against opposite walls, while Yang was sprawled across the other bench, pushing Cyan into a ball in the corner with her feet, the engineer teetering dangerously close to the edge of the seat.

"Students. We will be disembarking now." Professor Goodwitch's voice boomed over the intercom, cause Yang to kick out in her sleep and push Cyan off of the seat. The male hit the ground with a dull thud. Ruby and Weiss, who were just starting to wake up, jolted to attention as their incredulous stares fell on the sheepish brawler.

"Oops."

All of the freshman stood on the cliff of the Emerald Forest, Professors Ozpin and Goodwitch stood, waiting for the anxious talk of the teens to die down. Eventually, the conversations tapered down to quite whispering then to silence. Professor Goodwitch stepped forward and spoke with an authoritative tone.

"Now, I'm sure many of you have been hearing the assignment of teams. Well, let's put an end to your confusion. You'll be given teammates… Today."

Murmurs went through the crowd, everyone was on edge except for a certain engineer and his A.I. companion.

You should really be paying attention. God know what you've done to this time stream.

Once again, I don't think what I have doe will have that big of an effect now. It's way too early for any of that. Besides, I'm more worried about what I'm going to do in my first ever combat situation.

You'll be fine, just hurry to the ruins as fast as you can, and set up turrets and dispensers.

I don't think I can outrun a Beowolf on any day.

Well you better find a partner quick then.

"Uh, sir, I have a question… So this, landing strategy thing, what is it? Are you like dropping us off or something?" It was the first time Cyan had seen Jaune and he looked just as nervous as himself.

Wait, what about landing?

That's where your actual weapons come in, look at your feet.

The engineer looked down to see a flash of blue light replacing his Nikes with steel boots that went up to his knees. The steel was a black with the same pattern as his jacket; two white stripes and a blue one running down the center. There were some whistles of appreciation, and Cyan swore he heard Ruby nerding out.

What are these?

Jet Boots, I based them off of Zero Suit Samus' Jet Heels from Smash Brothers.

You are one of my favorite people ever… of all time.

I try.

That's good becau-

The brown haired males train of thought was cut off by the platform beneath his flinging him off the cliff. He did a few tumbles in air before managing to straighten himself out in the air. The wind whistled in Cyan's ears as he fell.

I'm really glad I went skydiving that one time.

Okay, you Jet Boots are triggered by scrunching your toes over the triggers, can you feel them?

...Yeah, alright here goes nothing.

The engineer was just above the tree cover when he activated the boots, the force of the boots slowing him down but sent him off balance and down into the trees. Cyan hit a tree branch right in his sternum, knocking the wind out of the unfortunate engineer. Gasping for breath, Cyan hung on the branch for a good ten minutes before Verdant spoke awkwardly.

Did I forget to mention that flying with the boots is impossible...?

I… take back… what I said… before.

"Hmm… Interesting…"

The two professors were overseeing the assignment in the Emerald Forest. Ozpin was watching Cyan climb down the tree he had hit shakily, the headmaster's eyes betrayed the intrigue at the engineer. "He acts like he has no former experience with these boots…" The headmaster glanced down to the manila folder in his hand, on the front it read 'Cyan Novak Transcripts'. Ozpin opened up the folder to look at the transcripts for at least the dozenth time since he met Novak after the opening meeting.

"Physical Condition: B-, Mental condition: A-, Leadership skills: A, Weapons use: B+, Tactics: B, Aura level: F-, Semblance use: F-, Ability to work with others: B. Overall: C+."

"Someone made it into Beacon with that transcript? They must come from an influential family."

The headmaster turned to Glynda Goodwitch, his normally neutral face set in a rare frown. The man pulled out another folder, Weiss'.

"Physical Condition: A, Mental condition: B, Leadership Skills: D+, Weapons use: S, Tactics: A, Aura level: S, Semblance use: SS, Ability to work with others: B- Overall: A+." Ozpin took a sip out of his coffee and turned to the huntress, "I don't remember seeing his transcript before I had it printed out of curiosity, and look at this," The headmaster gestured to another folder with Cyan's name on it labeled 'Backgorund Check'. The teacher opened it to reveal that there was nothing inside of it. "It's like he just sprang from the ground, and just decided to join our school."

Glynda, who had been watching Ruby and Yang pair up and take down some Grimm with their ungodly strength, turned fully to Ozpin with a rare curious tilt of her head. "That is interesting. I believe that this might warrant further investigation after the assessment." The older man nodded thoughtfully while watching the engineer running to the ruins.

I never thought that I would love radar this much, avoiding Grimm is much easier than I thought it would be.

Don't get too cocky, remember you still need to find Yang so that I can ship the two of you together.

Would you stop that?

I will not be silenced! Cyang FTW!

Cyan shook his head in exasperation. His Omni-Visor was present over his eyes, marking the ruins he was suppose to reach with a way point. Sweat cascaded down the male's face and his lungs pumped as much oxygen to his rapidly tiring body as it could. He wasn't to far now, only a mile or two left.

Wait. Could I use my Jet Boots to run faster?

I wouldn't try it. You might fling yourself into a tree again.

I guess you're right, but man I haven't felt this tired in all my life.

You've only ran like half a mile, buck up!

Easy for you to say, you just get to come along for the ride.

I could turn off that way-point right away if you don't shut your mouth.

But my mouth is shut, we are literally talking with thoughts right now.

Verdant's rebuttal was cut off as Cyan finally made it the ruin. There were four pieces left the knights and the rooks of both colors. The engineer doubled over and began panting. The forest was eerily quiet, not even the birds were chirping.

Cyan, I would lay down a turret it I were you.

The engineer stood up and remembering the first time Verdant spoke to him, he raised his arm in the air and threw down a Mobile Turret. The Turret popped to life and instantly began strafing the area for enemies.

Now a Tripod Turret and Dispenser are just like the ones from Team Fortress 2, so just picture one of those.

The engineer did what he was told and a blue square hunk of metal appeared in his hands, the engineer put it down on the ground. The hunk began expanding out into the basic turret that he was familiar with.

Cyan continued this pattern, setting up a perimeter around the ruins, with turrets. He could only have two of each building out at a time or it would overload his Omni-Tool, so with is A.I. partner's help, the engineer placed the turrets in such away that there were no blind spots in the turrets range inside of fifty yards. The Dispensers he place near the center, the healing effect already making him feel less tired.

Strangely enough, there was a perfectly fine guitar lying amidst the ruins. Why it was there would be something Cyan would never know, but a glorious idea began forming in his head.

"We're almost there guys!"

Yang and Ruby had found each other pretty quickly and had been paired up, it wasn't long after that they found Weiss engaged with some Beowolves that heiress didn't need any help to kill. Weiss had reluctantly agreed to travel with them until she found her own partner (The heiress was hoping it was Pyrrha).

Those hopes were dashed once she found out that a bumbling blonde idiot found her first. The duo even had the gall to leave, saying that it would be best for partner bonding for the two to travel by themselves. She was getting more and more desperate as they passed by more and more partners who were heading back, yet not even one person wasn't paired up.

At this point I'll take anyone who knows how to hold a sword the correct way.

The anxiousness only got worse as they saw the ruins were, in fact, fairly close. The heiress stepped wrong , not paying attention to where she was walking, and twisted her ankle. Weiss let out a uncharacteristic yelp before forcing herself not to fall and continued walking while gritting her teeth.

Of course. This day can't get possibly worse can it?

"Hey, um, Weiss… Are you... Okay…? "The white haired girl glared daggers at the younger crimsonette, who wilted slightly. "I'm fan-freaking-tastic. Nothing but gumdrops and ice cream over here." Ruby's eyes grew as wide as saucers as she spoke. "Really? Can I have some?!"

Before the heiress could dignify Ruby with a response a low guitar playing could be heard from ahead of the group. All three of the girls had their curiosity peaked as the entered the clearing for the ruins revealing Cyan sitting on the ground next to a now level 3 Tripod Turret playing the guitar. He looked at the group with a smile before he began quoting one of his favorite videos.

"Hey look, girls, I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems." At the end of Cyan's sentence a Beowolf sprints into the clearing, only to get shot many times by all four turrets. "Not problems like 'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy." The rest of the pack of Beowolves sprint in and are promptly shot up, leaving a bloody mess on the ground.

" I solve practical problems. For instance, How am I going to stop some big, mean, mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally, superfluous, new behind?" Cyan continued playing undeterred as an Ursa gets blown up by a rocket, raining gore. "The answer…" Two more Ursa are blown to bits. "Use a gun." A mixed group of Ursa and Beowolves charge the clearing, meeting the same fate as their predecessors. "And if that doesn't work." An Ursa Major walked threatening into the clearing and roared. All of the Sentries targeted the Grimm and fired mercilessly until after about two minutes of nonstop fire the beast went down. "Use MORE gun."

Yang and Ruby began applauding, Weiss only rolled her eyes as she strode up to the engineer, who had taken the opportunity to bow as his sentries still fired upon the Grimm. The heiress poked her finger into Cyan's chest, "Listen. mister, we are partners now, so if I catch you doing something stupid like that again, I will hit you. Hard. Understand?" Cyan gulped before nodding, he reached behind himself a pulled out a white horse piece. Weiss only snorted before she started walking back to where she had left. Turning around, she glared at the engineer.

"You coming or what?"

Excerpt from the journal of one Weiss Schnee.

Well I suppose that moron is better than no partner, and his turrets look formidable, judging by how they were tearing apart those Grimm. Oh, how I wish it was Pyrrha instead of Cyan that would be my partner, but beggars can't be choosers. His lack of aura might be a problem though, I might have to unlock it for the idiot. The things I do for people, honestly. It could be worse though, I could be partners with Ruby. That little brat never shuts up! At least Cyan is quite most the time. Maybe this won't be as bad as first thought?

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Hey Gentlemen/women, Thanks for reading this chapter! There were three references in this chapter, one was pretty big so most of you should get it, the others are more subtle :P. Anyways, thanks for reading this and I hope that you can find it in your heart let me know if I'm doing a good job or not with a review. Until next chapter!

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