Author's Note:

So, here's another installment, if you guys want to read it. Well, not much to say really.

I hope that you'll follow it if you enjoyed it and aren't already doing that.

- Lor

Chapter 2: Information Dealer

I woke up, V-Raptor, I call him V, was still snoring peacefully in its curled up form, I could hear a steady exhale of steam from his air vents. The sun crept in from the window as I stretched my arms. I then picked up my blue uniform jacket, thinking about it I decided to put it back. It would end up drawing too much attention for what I was going to do today. Chances are the four girls were sleeping, which was good, that meant that I wouldn't have to interact with them.

V had woken up and was stretching its leg like a dog. Its air vents pushed out a lot of steam as I heard a hiss sound. "Hey boy, you awake?" I asked. It looked up at me and walked over, nudging its head against my leg. I opened up the door and it growled in a low affectionate tone, "Go ahead and stretch your legs."

It ran out of the room and began to tramp around the halls, eager to get moving. Honestly, it was like a dog, I remember the first time that mom came home with it.

I was sitting in the living room of our apartment; I was only a five years old. I sat on the floor in front of the T.V. watching some kind of educational show meant for kids. I heard the door open as my mom came in.

"Haru! I'm home! I've got something to show you!" My mom called.

I ran to the left where our front door was. My mom was standing there in a dark dress, I hugged her and she hugged me back. I smiled and looked up at her face; she had the same pale complexion as I had. She smiled back and I let go.

"How was work mommy?" I asked.

"It was good," She answered. She then kneeled down and petted me on the head. "I've got a present for you."

"Ooo! What is it?" I asked jumping up and down.

Just then I heard a low growl coming from outside. Mom moved aside to show me V-Raptor, it had its head hung low as it neared the door. I myself at the time was smiling and full of glee, I couldn't believe my eyes, the thing in front of me was a dinosaur.

I was jumping up for joy and I ran for it, I began to hug it tenderly. The dinosaur growled affectionately and nudged my face. "Aww, you two are already getting along," Mom said.

The raptor picked me up gently by the neck of my shirt and put me on its back. I then began to ride on its back as it walked through the apartment, "Wheeee!" I squealed in delight.

That night I and V slept on the same bed as we curled up to each other, like a dog and its owner. We grew up to be the best of friends, sharing as much of our time together as a regular dog and his owner would.

I was searching the closet to see what was in there. I found a black suit hanging on a clothes hanger. I picked up the suit and it held a card near the neck, From Ozpin, it read, figures, I thought to myself.

I took out the suit and set it on my bed, there was also a black tie which was hanging off of the neck of the hanger. I got dressed in it and came out; I holstered my DV defender on my side, the laser gun fitting perfectly into a white holster with ease and efficiency. I also took a pair of sunglasses out to protect my eyes from the early morning glow.

I headed out of the door and found Ruby sitting down on the ground; V was out snuggling against her, his head nuzzling against her cheek, he growled affectionately. There was a white haired girl who was simply watching, her fingers were on her head as she was regretting every action the red haired girl made.

The blonde then popped up out of nowhere and straight into my face. "Hello!" She greeted. I immediately took out my gun and pointed it straight at her. There was also a black haired girl beside the white haired girl, she merely watched.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, with a hint of malice.

"Whoa, whoa, easy," The blonde said. "Maybe we got off on the wrong track. I'm Yang."

"I'm Ruby," Ruby replied.

"I already know who you are mo-miss," I stuttered.

"Huh?" Ruby asked; my slight mistake caused attention.

"Sorry, it's just, you reminded me of my mom, and well, Professor Ozpin already told me about you," I lied.

"Oh that's cute," Yang added.

This caused the white haired girl to raise an eyebrow, "Well, I'm Weiss."

"I'm Blake," The black haired girl told me.

"Right, so what do you want?" I asked, ticked off.

"Oh, we just thought that, you know, we should say hi," Ruby told me.

"We're supposed to be showing you around the city," Weiss said, with an annoyed tone.

"Thanks, but I'm pretty sure that I can find my own way around," I told them plainly. "Come on V." V began to whimper as if followed me, a bit grudgingly.

"Oh, but how do you know where to start?" Yang said.

I turned around and I saw her signature smirk, figures that she would say something like that, I sighed, "Fine, where do we start?"

"Well, for one thing, there's a person that knows everything that there is to know in Vale," Yang said.

"Okay, now where is he?" I questioned, taking heavy steps closer.

"Whoa, he only works at night," Yang said.

"Fine, then I'm going into the city to find anything from the citizens," I stated.

"We're coming too!" I heard Ruby holler.

I didn't bother to stop them, "Fine, do what you want," I said, walking off with V.

The four followed me from the behind; the halls were quiet as we walked through the school and out the front door.

As the four girls were trailing behind Haru Weiss decided to bring up his mistake, "Don't you guys find it odd that he almost called Ruby his mom?"

"Well, he did say I reminded him of his mom," Ruby replied, "I'm sure it's nothing."

"He doesn't convince me, he knows more than what he is telling us," Weiss stated. "I mean, the way he entered and everything is so out of this world."

"You're just sour since he's better than you," Yang said.

"He is not!" Weiss protested.

"He does seem rather strong," Blake stated.

"But, what if he is actually Ruby's kid," Weiss suggested. "It would make sense, since he has almost the same silver eyes as she does."

"Pff, nah, Ruby had a kid?" Yang said, laughing.

"That does seem rather impossible," Blake said.

"Yeah, who'd want to get married?" Ruby added.

Weiss didn't respond at first, "Well … fine," Weiss finished, in truth she shelved the question for her later. It was clear to her that her teammates were not on the same page as her. What was he thinking before?

The five of us took a shuttle into the city of Vale; the ride was rather quiet, although I could see V and Ruby admiring each other. Ruby was squealing to herself as she petted the robotic dinosaur. We arrived in the city, the first thing that the girls wanted to do was get breakfast. I wanted to get straight to questioning the locals.

V followed us off of the ship, "V, go ahead and wander around. Now don't get yourself in trouble, you hear me?"

The dinosaur was pleased and ran off in another direction, leaving just us five. The city was rather empty say for a few adults that were wandering between buildings. "Welp, let's get some breakfast then," Ruby said, as we got off of the bus.

"You guys can go and get breakfast, I have a job to do," I stated.

"You're coming too," Yang said, grabbing my arm.

"Let go!" I yelled, pulling my arm free.

"I said," Yang said, gritting her teeth, and grabbing my wrist again with a powerful squeeze. "You're coming with us."

"Ah! Aun-!" I said before cutting myself off, I then grimaced in pain as she held my wrist all too tightly. "Yang!" Yang looked at me as if she was expected me to comply, I did reluctantly, but more over to get her to stop shattering my wrist. "Fine! I'll go!"

"Great! Let's go then!" Yang said with a smile as she let go of my wrist.

I shook it as it throbbed, thankfully due to my heritage I had natural resistance so at least I wasn't keeling over with a shattered wrist. It still hurt like hell though; reluctantly I let the girls lead me to a diner.

I was sat in between Ruby and Weiss with Yang and Blake across from me. It was a bit awkward for one, since I was right beside Ruby. It didn't help with the fact that the three of us were crammed into a bench meant for two people. Ruby hummed excitedly as she looked over the menu. Weiss on the other hand was the most collected as she looked over the menu. Yang was scratching under Blake's chin which I found a bit odd; Blake did seem to be enjoying it though.

The breakfast diner was fairly full; I could hear the cooks in the back working away for the morning. A waiter came up to us and we all spoke our orders, when it came to my order I decided to order a plate of pancakes and bacon, "Oh, I noticed here on the menu that you have cookies? Could you add some on too?"

When I mentioned cookies Ruby piped up, "Oh, add that on for me too!"

I smiled to myself for a very brief moment before resuming my normal straight face. "Really cookies? Both of you?" Weiss said raising an eyebrow.

"Why not?" I replied, "If I'm gonna eat I eat what I want."

"Yeah, what he said," Ruby added going for a high five. I didn't return it and she slumped her hand back down.

Weiss raised an eyebrow, "You two are a lot like each other, minus the fact that Haru is more serious."

"I've got a very important job to do," I told her.

"And what is this job?" Weiss continued to question.

"I'm here to take care of this new threat," I said.

"Then who sent you?" Weiss questioned.

"Why are you asking me so many questions?" I asked getting closer to her face.

"Weiss, please, calm down," Ruby whined.

"Why should I? He has been nothing but mysterious," Weiss stated. "And don't you dare bring up Blake, we already trust her despite her, quiet, behaviour."

Blake raised an eyebrow before resuming back to being quiet, "Drop it," I hissed.

"Why should I?" Weiss spat back.

"Because my job doesn't concern you," I told her.

"Then who does it concern?" Weiss continued pressing questions.

"People who aren't part of your business right now," I stated.

Throughout the conversation Yang seemed to be in deep thought, "I've got it!"

"Got what?!" Me and Weiss both questioned.

"It's really obvious," Yang said pausing.

"What's obvious?" Weiss questioned.

"That … Haru is a time traveller!" Yang exclaimed with a huge exaggerated expression.

I paused for a moment before reaffirming my composure, "What makes you say that?"

"Well, it would make sense, since both Ruby and Haru have silver eyes," Yang stated. "And their fascination of cookies also proves this," Yang continued, holding her left hand as if she had an imaginary paper in front of her and continued to flick it with her right hand.

"Haru? A time traveller? My kid?" Ruby said disbelieving it. She then began to laugh and snort, "That's hilarious, you've got to be kidding me."

"That was all a joke, right Yang?" Weiss questioned.

"Yup, now shut it and let's talk about today," Yang said pushing the topic off.

Weiss noticed Ruby's snorting, Ruby then began to keel over laughing, "That's so ridiculous Yang."

"Ruby! Get a hold of yourself," Weiss instructed.

"Sorry Weiss! It's just, too funny," Ruby replied, sitting back up again.

Our food finally came, and the food was distributed, I began to chew on my pancakes, putting a glob of syrup on each one and a whole mini-container of butter on each one of them. Ruby was off chewing on cookies and also a plate of pancakes, what set her apart from mine was the excessive amounts of strawberry jam along with sausages instead of bacon. I smiled before I resumed, as I remembered how she was in my memory.

We finished our meal and paid, thankfully the time that I came from still used Lien for currency. We all paid for our meals and left, "Well, now that we've eaten I'm going to go and do my job."

"Alright, let's get down to investigating," Ruby said.

"Us?" I questioned.

"We can help, right?" Ruby asked.

Yang cracked her knuckles and I sighed, "Fine. Do what you want."

"Alright, me, Weiss and Haru will," Ruby began before Yang cut her off.

"Actually could me and Blake take Haru?" Yang requested.

"Okay," Ruby replied, her voice trailing off. "Then me and Weiss will ask around if these guys have seen any bots."

"So meet here at around three?" Yang asked.

"Sure sis," Ruby replied, "Let's go then Weiss."

While the four of them were conversing Weiss seemed to still look at me, as if she was studying me. I kept a straight face and continued to look on; I wasn't bothered by her at all. This came with training of course, if I conversed about the future it would only end up jeopardizing the mission, they'd wonder where I was from, what kind of future awaited them, thus messing up the time line.

It was simply better to not divulge in heavy interaction.

"Well, let's go then!" Yang said, grabbing my arm and hauling me off.

"Hey! Let go!" I hollered.

The Yang pulled me behind a corner and let go, "So is it true?" Yang asked.

"Is what true?" I asked.

"That you're a time traveller," Yang said.

"It makes a lot of sense," Blake added.

I gulped, my face felt warmer, "No, it isn't."

"Then why are you so nervous?" Yang questioned.

I tensed, screw it, they don't seem to be letting it go at all, I decided to tell them a partial truth. "Yes, fine, I'm not from this time."

"I knew it," Yang said, snapping her fingers as she said it.

"And the robots that you fought? They're also not from this time," I told her with a completely straight face; I then took a long pause. Yang seemed to be on the edge for something.

"So it's true?"

"Of course not! Who do you think I am! Some kind of alien human?" I asked, with a hurt expression.

This phased Yang and she realized how bad of an idea that was, "Yeah, I guess you're right." I sighed as the situation tensed down, Yang seemed to believe me at least, and hopefully Blake did too.

"Let's get to questioning then," I told them.

We began to wander around the city and between shops, it would always be the same drill, ask them if they've seen anyone unusual, then afterwards I'd show them a pic of one of the robots. The later got the most attention; they would always point out the weird metallic sounds on the pavement at night. The citizens didn't seem to notice anything else strange besides that.

We met back at the diner and relayed our information. We also decided to go and get lunch at the same place, "So, it seems that everyone in town has heard of these robots," Weiss began.

"They seem to target random people though," Ruby pointed out. "Did you guys find anything else?"

"Nothing that you haven't found sis," Yang replied.

"The last option is going to where Yang is suggesting," I stated.

"And that place is going to open up in an hour," Yang stated.

"Great, so we finish our lunch and get down there," Ruby replied with a determined expression.

"Well, not we," Yang replied, her voice trailing off.

"What do you mean not us?" Weiss questioned.

"Turns out the place has an age limit of 17," Yang answered, scratching behind her neck.

Weiss seemed to know instinctively where Yang was implying, "You don't mean that bar on the other side of town, run by, what was his name?" Weiss paused before immediately snapping up again, "Junior?"

"Yang," Ruby whined, "I thought you weren't going to that place again."

"Oh come on, he's got all there is to know about in Vale," Yang pleaded.

"B-But," Ruby stammered.

I decided to interrupt the two, "If he has all there is to know then I'm going regardless."

"See?" Yang pointed out.

"Fine," Ruby gave up.

"The faster I'm done the faster I can leave," I mumbled.

Ruby heard this and I could hear her cheery expression fade, Weiss glared at me before soothing her partner with several soft pats. Needless to say the meal was rather quiet as none of us wanted to speak, I myself decided to stay quiet so that I wouldn't be forced into a corner for the third time today. Ruby left with Weiss, moping around, I decided to cheer her up.

I held up my bracer to my mouth, "V, come here and keep mom happy," I whispered into it.

V immediately shot out from out of nowhere; it ran for Ruby, tackling her to the ground. Ruby immediately lit up with joy as V snuggled up against her. "Alright, you guys take V back to Beacon."

Ruby was giggling madly as she petted the dinosaur, V loved every second of it as he snuggled against her. Weiss, "Fine," she replied.

"Come on boy, let's go home," Ruby told V, getting up and petting the dinosaur once more.

Yang was smirking as she saw what happened, Blake also decided to head on home with the three of them. "That leaves you and me," I said as the four of them walked off to go home.

"Aww, how sweet, you actually care," Yang exclaimed.

"Of course I care, now let's go," I told her.

"I thought you'd never ask," Yang replied, she took out three golden boxes from her pockets. She then tossed them onto the ground and a bike seemed to form out of them. Once the motorcycle was finished Yang got on it. "Well, get on."

The motorcycle was golden; it was clearly a sports design. It was also very sleek which held true to that attribute, it had a larger front than behind, is it extended upwards at a slant. It did have a black logo on its front over the wheel covering which was noticeable. There were also two tail pipes that stuck out at the end. Overall the motorcycle was clean and pristine; it seemed to have been cleaned only recently.

I got on the back, "Hold on," Yang instructed, and we were off.

All the while Yang's hair bombarded my face, when we finally did stop at the place hair had almost gotten into my mouth. "Pleh," I spat out.

"Come on, he's in here," Yang said.

I followed her into the establishment; it was an extravagant place as I could already tell from the entrance. The floors were tiled with black stones and lined with red light and there seemed to be a large stone desk in the center. The person sitting at the desk sat up, "Woah!" He exclaimed, immediately picking up a phone.

"Just in here," Yang told me going ahead of me.

I followed her, there seemed to be two guards in front of a large metal doorway. "Oh sh-!" One of them exclaimed before they opened the door and backed inside.

Yang tried the door and looked at me, "Looks like the doors locked."

"Maybe find a key?" I suggested.

"Nah, I've got a better idea," Yang replied, she snapped her right arm back as a yellow gauntlet formed around it. She then busted straight through the door with a loud bang. There was also a bit of smoke from her entrance as debris from the door fell.

"Why …" I said to myself, face palming as she busted the door straight through. She then walked in and I followed her.

I began to walk over to her side, she held out her arms, "Guess who's back!"

A bunch of guns then pointed at her, I immediately flicked my hand over to my gun at my side. "Wait!" I heard a grown man say. A man came up, he was about a head taller than Yang. He had short trimmed hair which made him seem like a mafia man. He also had a grown out beard and was dressed in a white dress shirt, black dress pants and a matching black vest. "Blondie, you're back, why?" He questioned.

"Oh my friend here has some questions, and I could use a drink," Yang replied, pointing her thumb at me.

"Friend?" He said before glancing at me. "A cop!"

"Call me whatever you want, I have questions, and I hope that you can give the answers to them," I stated. "You tell me what I want to know and I walk out of here. How's that?"

"Fine," He grumbled.

He walked off to get a drink at the bar, the entire place had a whole bunch of men in black suits, I assumed that these were his workers. We walked over to the bar Yang, the bar had a black countertop and was directly under the DJ system. There was an array of drinks along the shelves, he went behind the counter and poured himself a drink. "The drink that you owe me," Yang requested.

He reluctantly poured Yang's drink and turned to me, "So, what do you want?"

"There've been some rumours going around about some one-eyed robots," I began, pulling out a picture of a fallen robot. "Ever seen them?"

"Yeah, my boys told me that they found them at night," He replied taking a gulp of his drink, he then glanced at my bracer, "By the way, the name's Junior Xiong, if you want to note that in your little cop book."

"I'm not a cop," I told him.

"Then why are you dressed like one?" He questioned.

"Only clothes I've got, I'm afraid," I replied. He nodded while rolling his eyes, I merely decided to continue on, "Now, did you see anything, unusual?"

At this time Yang decided to go off, I assumed that she went off to the washroom.

He seemed to tense up just a bit, I could see his hands grasp onto his drink a bit too tightly, so I hit something. "We haven't seen anything at all," He denied.

"Oh really?" I pulled out my gun and shot a laser blast at the drinks behind them, they exploded as the blast super-heated them, before sizzling. "Do you want to try to lie to me again?" I dared; I placed my blaster on the table.

"Boss!" I heard people yell from the background.

I merely took the bottle and a swig of the alcohol inside of it. I then pointed it at Junior, try me. I thought as I pointed it at him, he seemed to notice this, "I'm fine," He instructed to them.

They walked off, "So, what do you know then? Cause the next shot's not gonna miss," I told him.

"Fine, we were informed of a red and white guy, he seemed to have two sabres. A group of my boys found him and they fought, he told them to find me, apparently he wanted to make a deal with me," Junior spilled out, but oddly he began to smirk. "He told me that something big was going to happen."

"Anything else?" I questioned.

"Nope," He replied with the same smirk.

"Why are you smirking?" I questioned.

"Oh, nothing," He replied.

"Fine, I'll leave then," I told him.

"Oh, you're not leaving," He told me.

Just then I saw his men mobilizing, they drew out a red katana, they pointed it at me. Several of them also decided to pull out blasters and point them at me. I picked up my blaster from the table, Junior then grabbed my hand.

"You're making a big mistake," I told him.

"No, you just made a big mistake," He replied, flinging me off into a pillar of glass.

I got up out of the debris; thankfully my innate strength protected me from the blow. I stepped out of the glass, dusting myself off as several people with swords charged me. "Time for round 2," I said to myself.

I held up my bracer to my mouth, "Time Fire! Launch!" I yelled. I then began to glow in a fiery crimson light as my suit engulfed me. I crouched as the suit began to form its shape from the bottom to the top as it pieced itself together in a blaze of light, I then felt my helmet form on as the HUD fired up.

The HUD was a simple clear HUD, with health statistics on the top left corner and suit statistics in the bottom right. I had my right hand behind my back and my left arm on my left knee. My right knee was planted on the ground; I then stood up, and faced the crowd. I then swiped at my holster and my gun teleported into my hand.

The crowd was beginning to recover after the blinding crimson light. While they were dazed I dashed forward, I inherited a trait from my mom, her enhanced speed. It was however, a minor enhancement, it did make me go faster than even the most experienced runner. I dashed around in a blur, slashing the men as they were still dazed, they fell to the ground limply.

There were also men positioned along the sides, they aimed their guns and fired at me, I jumped and did a backflip, changing my DV defender into its gun mode. I shot one of them straight in the chest before landing on the ground. I then spun myself around on the ground as I shot the men around me square in the chest. I kicked myself off of the ground and stood up on my feet.

I heard a feminine voice from behind me, "Who's this guy?"

"I don't know, but we're not letting him get away," I heard another respond.

I turned around and saw two girls, one dressed in a red frilly dress and the other in a white dress with the same details. The one in white seemed to have a sharp blade protruding from the tip of her white boots, they seemed to glimmer in the light, telling me that was her weapon. The other one seemed to be wearing a set of claws with three talons on it. It looked like somebody gave Wolverine supped up steroids for his claws, they were massive.

"What is this, the Wolverine?" I asked them.

They both looked at me as if I was crazy, "Right, wrong decade," I grumbled to myself.

"Psh," The red one said before charging me.

I stood there with my hand on my chin, taunting them and holstering my gun at the same time. I noticed the red one charge me with her claw pointed straight for me, I resorted to close combat techniques. I side stepped and pushed her arm, knocking her off balance. I then noticed a ton of movement from the left, I saw a kick coming for my face, I leaned back to dodge the kick. I reached for the ground with my hands and somersaulted, kicking her leg.

She stumbled backward; stunned from the kick, after somersaulting I landed on my feet, facing the girl in red. She charged yet again and went into a barrage; clearly the claws were as light as a feather to her. I was put onto the defensive as I side stepped, dodging left and right. During one of her swings she was swung too far, I noticed this and went in. Taking out my gun I pointed it straight at her chest. She noticed this and before she could retaliate I pressed the trigger, blowing her back and knocking her out.

The white one came back in, cartwheeling into a series of kicks in the air; I dodged back and dashed forward, slamming the butt of my gun into her chest in a sort of upper cut motion. She took the punch and spun for a roundhouse kick, since I was already too close. Unfortunately this left her open to a sweep kick.

I ducked and swept her under her feet; knocking her off balance, I snapped back up and performed a one two punch onto the chest, before doing a spin kick to send her flying. I looked around and found that either everybody was down or was hiding from me. I was sure that Junior had more information but he was nowhere to be found. At this time I saw Yang come out, I turned over to her as she came to me.

"Darn, I missed all the fun," She said.

"Yeah, well, I've got what I need," I replied, tapping my bracer to remove my suit.

"So what now?" Yang asked.

"Now? I find the man in the red."

Author's Note:

So, pretty clear who Haru is related to huh? If you're still not sure I'd clonk you on the head, it's pretty obvious.

Anyways, hoped you enjoyed it,

- Lor