Hey guys! SmallTownGamer here! I don't know if this chapter is going to get out early or not but I might as well try! So lets respond to the the reviews shall we?

Grimlyn360: Expecting everyone to start spamming the "Put X here" any moment now.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean...

RisingDaemon: you know, I don't often read this brand of fic.

usually ends up with some OP as s*** self insert

especially in this fandom

but this seems worth it

love the fact that verdant ships.

diary entries are a nice touch as well.

not quite enough for a fav but you can have a follow

Rising

Thanks :) I'll try hard to make sure that this story lands in your favorite stories section. I also am trying to find that balance with Cyan of not being underpowered and not being over powered.

Blake Tourdner: Cyang is sinking SS Cyiess is in business muahahaha *coughing fit that only gods could survive* Worth… it… Bleugh

Don't die D:! Lol, but it seems like Weiss is the most viable option and I feel like the two characters have good chemistry with each other, (Weiss being more dominant and Cyan being more submissive) Almost like Ren and Nora.

DarkElucidator: "Someone call the testerone police because I think your man card expired"

SOMEBODY PLEASE APPLY COLD WATER TO TO THAT BURN LOL

P.S. Sassy Verdant?

P.P.S Awesome chap, as always. Keep up the good work! _

I couldn't help but laugh to myself when I was writing that :) Verdant is actually based heavily on my older sister, who isn't afraid to call me out when I'm being skittish in public haha.

John smith: He definetly needs to be paired with someone

It looks like I'm going to go with Weiss as the pairing. So hopefully that's acceptable. :)

Firem78910: I say go for Weiss x Cyan and if you do plan on upgrading him give cryo blast and an SMG because those techs he has must have a cooldown times

I might later on, It's trying to find that balance, you know? And yes the techs do have cooldown, but because he doesn't carry a gun like they do in Mass Effect 3 his cooldown is really low :) And I think thats what I'm going to go with. :)

Anon: Weeeelllllll... You are off to a better start than any other RWBY SI I've seen. Being support oriented is extraordinarily rare amongst SI.

Sure, I'll follow this.

I forgot to add in my last review, be CAREFUL with quotes and pop culture references, try not to overuse them.

Also the AI seems to be acting as more of an inner voice than a separate character, be careful of that as well.

Anyway, please carry on. I'm eager to see more.

Yeah, I didn't want to overkill with references so thats why there weren't any in the last chapter, and Verdant acts more like an inner voice because right now Cyan is the only person she interacts with. And thanks :) I don't want Cyan to be a Gary Stu, so I felt like making him more balanced.

dadman9994: i like how this is heading really looking ford to the next chapter :)

good luck dude good job

dadman9994

Thank you! I hope this chapter is satisfactory! :)

So WeissxCyan is a thing now. I'll update it to show that. :) Oh by the way, the reference for Cyan's name is the San Diego Chargers' kicker, Nick Novak for the last name, and Cyan as the first name because the one of the Chargers' colors are a light blue.

Anyways here is the next chapter!

EDIT: I wasn't very happy at how rushed this chapter was so I felt like I should edit it and flesh some things out more.

Excerpt from the journal of Cyan Novak

I've had a few different jobs in my day, I worked on a farm, worked at a pizzeria, and now I work for a school as an engineer to pay to go to the same school to learn how to hunt giant monsters of darkness. Amazing how things escalate these days.

End of Excerpt

The journey from the battle was less exciting than the aftermath was. Weiss and Cyan walked with Ruby and Yang trailing not far behind. The younger sister turned to her older sibling with a mischievous glint in her eye, "I bet you by the end of two months that those two start dating." Instead of the grin she was expecting, Yang frowned, a fleeting expression that was soon replace by the trademark grin that Yang was known for. "I bet you they don't!" Ruby smirked, a bet was something that she always enjoyed.

Unknown to the two sisters, a certain A.I. picked up all of the conversation. Verdant giggled madly to herself, picturing the love triangle that she was without a doubt going to help form. The giggling turned to chuckling then a evil sounding cackle, even though Verdant hadn't projected any of this to the engineer he shivered suddenly.

"I sense a disturbance in the force." His partner shot him a confused glance, raising a a white eyebrow "What are you talking about?" The engineer's reply was cut off by a certain boisterous blonde grabbed Cyan's other arm, causing the boy to blush, and slung it over her shoulder, while Ruby did the same with Weiss. "The trail is steep up ahead and you two are still injured," She stole a glance over at Weiss mostly healed shoulder "more or less."

They climbed the trail up to the top of the cliff, stopping occasionally to give the injured partners some time to recover. When they reached the top, the headmaster was waiting for them, a curious expression on his face. The professor gestured at the engineer.

"Mr. Novak, I will need you to come with me."

After looking around, it seemed the four of them were one of the last partners back to the cliff. Ozpin had neutral expression expression, taking a sip of his ever present cup of coffee. Weiss was the first one to object, "Sir! Can you see the blood covering him? He needs medical attention."

Aww. Look, she cares~!

…

What? No comment?

Ribs hurt to much…

"I do see that, Ms. Schnee. I promise once I am done I will personally see him over to the medic, alright?" The headmaster turned to the half-conscious teen, "I'm assuming that you will be alright to walk from here on?" The engineer nodded, and removed his arm from the heiress' shoulder. Weiss frowned, "Just be careful." Ozpin nodded, face still a mask, "I will be sure that he will be fine Ms. Schnee, go ahead and rest with your fellow students."

Weiss hesitated a moment, plagued with indecision. Yang, suddenly picked up the heiress from behind and slung the protesting heiress over her shoulder, winking. "I'll take Weissy here to relax. Don't take to long, Engi, you still need to educate me in the ways of Earthbound."

The brawler walked off with the heiress struggling on her shoulder, and a giggling Ruby in tow. Cyan waved weakly at the retreating figures. Ozpin put a hand on the younger male's shoulder and began guiding him in the direction of his private Bullhead. I think that it's time we begin our talk." The engineer nodded slowly and followed the older male to the ship.

"I don't like it, Pyrrha. Cyan is hurt. He should be receiving medical attention, not being interrogated." The heiress sat in the very same flight cabin that they had ridden here in earlier. The girl she stood with was taller than Weiss' 5'3" stature. She had red hair held up in a pony tail complete with a bronze circlet that sat snugly on her head. Instead of the more casual wear that the student's of Beacon seemed to wear, she wore a full set of light bronze armour. Her green eyes shone with sympathy as she patted her friend on the back.

"Don't worry, I'm sure he will be fine." The white haired girl groaned helplessly and let her head lay back against the headrest of the seat. Pyrrha Nikos frowned, "So what happened out there? I was told by the blonde girl who brought you in here that both you and your partner were injured, yet you have no wounds visible." Weiss sighed before telling the story of how she became partners with Cyan up to the fight with the Death Stalker and after the fight. The amazon like teen raised a thin eyebrow, "You two killed a Death Stalker yourselves? That couldn't have been easy." Weiss gave a small smirk, "We work pretty well together." Pyrrha nodded, happy that she got the frustrated girl to crack a smile. She leaned back next to Weiss, "Remember that one ball we both attended for your Father?"

Weiss' smirk grin into rare a full tooth grin, "The one where those drunk rich old men kept on flirting with us?" Pyrrha nodded happily, green eyes filled with mirth, "Your father was so angry, I thought he was going to throw that lecher out of the party!" The two girls laughed an giggled, reminiscing about days past.

The two laughed so long that their sides began to hurt and it became difficult to breath. "I… haven't laughed… this much… in awhile… Thank you." Pyrrha grabbed her middle tears streaming down her face, "Don't… mention.. it."

Eventually, the laughing died down and the two sat together in comfort silence when Weiss glanced at her friend curiously, "So where is your partner?" Pyrrha blinked then put a hand on her chin in thought, " I think he was hitting on the blonde haired girl that carried you in here. I don't think she was taking him seriously, judging by the fact she called him 'Vomit Boy'." The white haired teen raised an eyebrow but shrugged it off. "It's been almost an hour since Professor Ozpin took Cyan. You think there done now?" Pyrrha only shook her head, "No, I'm certain that the professor would have told you if that was the case, or at least would have someone tell you."

Weiss frowned, "He doesn't have an active aura, so a wound like that could kill him very easily. Even with the healing he got from that machine." Pyrrha face turned to a frown as well, "I'm sure the professor has a good reason." The white hair girl stood up suddenly, brushed off her skirt, then headed for the door, "Well, I am going to go get some food. Do you want anything?" Pyrrha shook her head.

As the heiress began looking for the flight attendant, (because the school is right enough to afford them. Who knew?) The amazon smiled softly, I wish nothing but happiness for you, my dear friend. I have a feeling that you like this engineer more than you let on.

"You're not from here, are you?"

"Well if you mean I'm not from Vale, then you would be correct."

"Don't be coy. You know what I mean."

Cyan wiped some dried blood off his hoodie, cringing at how badly damaged the piece of clothing had become. The engineer took off the hoodie, revealing a blue and yellow striped t-shirt, before looking up to the coffee addict that was the headmaster of the academy.

The man had brought them into what appeared to be the older male's personal flight cabin, complete with a bed and a work desk. The chair for the desk sat not far away from it.

"Possibly, why don't you enlighten me?"

Ozpin frowned, "No one your age has an engineering license, yet you use a kind of sentry turrets and other devices that require some of the highest training possible for a combat and a medical engineer, but you still use them, proving you have the training necessary." The older male pushed up his glasses, "Further more, its standard that kids in this world have there aura unlocked from birth. The only two cases of aura not being unlocked I have ever heard of were from you and one other."

Jaune.

Didn't he get his aura unlocked in the forest by Pyrrha though?

Maybe not?

"Further more, that Jacket you wear has characters that don't exist in this language, and seeing how on the night I met you in the ball room there were similar symbols on your visor leads me to believe that you write in a unknown language with the same phonetic pronunciation as our written language." The older male sat down in his desk chair and folded his hands over his cane.

The headmaster pulled out the file he had shown Glynda earlier and opened it, revealing only his transcript and his full ride scholarship. "These are the only records of your existence in the world." The headmaster's yellow eyes bored into Cyan's brown ones. "All of this evidence implies that you were raised outside the kingdoms." Ozpin took a sip of coffee closing his eyes, "So why don't you come clean and we can head down to the infirmary."

I think he's got you.

I feel like we can trust him though.

Fine then hold up your Omni-Tool. It will be better if I tell him all of what's happened myself.

Doing as his A.I. asked, Cyan held up his right arm and the Omni-Tool appeared, glowing a dark green color instead of the normal blue. The headmaster raised an eyebrow at the change of color.

Suddenly, a shimmering green form appeared, eventually smoothing out into the same face that Verdant had shown to the engineer on his first day. Ozpin nearly dropped his coffee when the A.I. spoke. "Hello. I am the artificial intelligence known as Verdant. I can answer your questions. My only request is that you send my engineer to the med bay right away."

The professor stared for a moment, a rare of expression of surprise on his face before returning to neutral mask he always wore, "That is acceptable, one moment, I will get Ms. Goodwitch to take you down." Cyan slowly stood without argument and slung his jacket over his shoulder.

You sure thats ok that I'm not here?

Aww, your all concerned for me~! I knew you didn't hate me.

Seeing as I would be dead if it wasn't for you it's kind of hard too.

Verdant detached from the Omni-Tool and floated next to the headmaster. The engineer limped over to the door slowly and opened it without a word and stepped out. The soft click of the door shutting echoed in the quiet room. "The first thing that I want to tell you, is no, I don't know how he came to this world and neither does he. When I first came online it was on train owned by SDC. I registered him for Beacon not long after, by hacking your main frame."

Ozpin sat down in the only chair in the room, "Tell me all you know, from the beginning to the present." The A.I's. green eyes took in the room to make sure that no one could here them, "It all started with the accident…"

"Cyan!"

"Oh, hey Weiss."

"Don't you, 'oh hey Weiss' me! What did the professor want?"

The partners were inside of the medical bay, the nurse putting some finishing touches on the bandages around Cyan's midriff. The heiress couldn't help admire the male's fit form, while he wasn't what some women would call 'hot', he was decently attractive. Weiss shook her head, a faint blush appearing. Now isn't the time to think about those things!

"Uhh, he wanted to talk about…engineering stuff."

The engineer trailed off and judging by the white haired teen's expression, she wasn't buying it. Cyan shifted nervously, as the nurse finished with her work and left to treat another student that was injured during initiation. "You are a terrible liar, you know that?" Weiss sighed as she held out a hand. The engineer hesitated a moment before grabbing the hand and letting Weiss help him stand up. "Sorry…"

The heiress sighed as she ushered him out of the med bay with one last shouted "Thank you!" over her shoulder. When they went out into the hall, Weiss walked close to her partner to make sure he was walking alright. The duo walked in silence all the way back to the cabin they shared with Yang and Ruby. Cyan stole a few glances in the white haired girls direction but kept on walking, he was starting to fear what might happen to him when Weiss got him alone.

I hope she doesn't kill me.

Noting that there was no response meant that Verdant was still talking with the professor, he sighed, which the heiress noticed. "L-look I know I can be… abrasive sometimes. But we still need to communicate as partners. What's wrong?" The genuine concern that the white haired girl tried to mask, let Cyan crack a little. "If I tell you something can you promise to keep it a secret?"

Weiss glanced curiously at the engineer, "Is this part of what you talked to Ozpin about?" The engineer nodded quietly as the two began continued their journey to cabin they shared. They found it empty, the heiress quickly closed the door and turned to the engineer. "Allright, explain. Now." The male fidgeted for what must've been the tenth time today.

Verdant?

…

This could be a problem.

"W-well you see, all engineers are paired with an A.I. companion that help them with engineering problems, or in my case, combat." Weiss raised a thin white eyebrow, "So Ozpin was asking about your A.I.?" Seeing a way out from a potentially dangerous situation, Cyan gave a vigorous nod of his head. "You, uh, want to meet her later?"

"Her? I thought A.I.s are like computers?"

"I think saying something like that would be good way to get on her bad side... I don't know, just treat her like a person."

"Okay… Why can't I meet 'her' now?"

"S-she's talking to the Professor right now."

I'm back!

So, uh, Weiss knows you exist now.

She surprised? Most are. I can say that my race is pretty rare and-

I don't even think she believes me.

Hold your hand up.

Just like with Ozpin before, Cyan raised his right hand and Verdant appeared, shocking the the heiress slightly. The A.I. woman smirked enjoying all, "Never seen an A.I. before?" Weiss regained her composure remarkably fast and 'humphed' "Artificial Intelligence I've seen, just not ones as human like as you."

"I'll take that as a compliment. Cyan, I still need to talk with the headmaster about some things so I will be back." The A.I. flashed a mischievous half-grin, as she eyed the two of them. "Now I know the two of you are teenagers and I know your hormones are probably still running wild, but for the love of god, use some protection if you two give in to your base urges." The two teens flushed a dark red and Verdant laughed uproariously before disappearing.

By the way, part of the deal for getting a real scholarship was you have to work as an engineer for Beacon as well as learn. Hope thats okay!

Weiss fumed, "W-wha?! Did.. did she really just say that!?" Cyan remained silent and slowly but surely got up and limped out of the room without one word. The heiress anger at Verdant overshadowed her curiosity at her partner's actions. "Why the nerve of that blasted line of code!"

It was that moment Cyan knew, that Verdant would never let anyone she encountered in peace.

Excerpt from the journal of Yang Xiao Long

It's been an interesting day, if you would have asked me earlier this month if I would be partners my entire Beacon career with my baby sister, I would have said that you belonged in the loony bin. Ruby brought something up today that surprisingly made me feel uneasy. Weiss and Cyan getting together? Give me a break, there like total opposites of each other and it definitely wouldn't work out. Cyan is a good guy, I'll have to make sure that Weiss doesn't do anything to hurt him.

End of excerpt

You guys enjoy this chapter? Sorry that it is shorter than the others by a good amount. I just wanted to get this out before tomorrow where I won't have access to a computer till Sunday night. Hopefully, this little chapter will be able to satisfy you guys until Wednesday or Thursday. So until then, see you all later!

EDIT: Sorry guys, I probably shouldn't have rushed this chapter like I did earlier. Hopefully the edits I made make it feel more polished then it did earlier.

SmallTownGamer