Welcome to Beacon

Here we go, my fellow zombies, we begin the story.

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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."

William Throsby Bridges

1st POV: Ickarus Tesla

Vale. Just the word alone sounds so…foreign to me. I'm half-way across the world from home. But look on the Brightside: I'm not just some murderer; now I can be seen as a hero instead of a weapon. But still, here I am; dressed in my armor, weapons all over me making me feel like I'm about to go to war again, on a VTOL next to my best friend, heading to the place that turns faceless nobodies into faceless heroes.

I let a sigh out as I look at the small crowd of people from the corner I'm standing in, ignoring the news relay going on through holographic screens. 'This can hopefully give me a tactical advantage just in case someone turns hostile I can have a chance to draw firs-'I shake my head, cutting off my thoughts. 'There's no need to worry, all they care about is saving lives, not ending them-'

"Hey, Ick, you alright?"

I am taken out of my mental debate to look to my left at Jason who has a small grin on his face as he looks at me and leans on the handrail behind him. "You look like your about to run into a suicide mission."

I shrug my shoulders "yeah, well, it wouldn't be the first."

Jason shrugs his shoulders and goes back to looking at the crowd, I do the same.

Only four really stand out to me.

One is a bat Faunus that is currently standing on the ceiling, about five-feet, six-inches without the ears; her hair and scarf somehow following the false gravitational pull that she has made. Her hair goes to her waist, as well as her scarf, that covers most of her face up to the eyes. She has her eyes closed at the moment; my best guess is that she's probably sleeping, her being part bat and all. She's wearing a black silk, long-sleeved shirt with purple metal shoulder and wrist guards. She has black leather pants with metal plating on her shins; strapped to her back are two swords, both are in similar sheaths but the hilt wraps are different in color, one is light blue, the other being dark blue; on the waistline of her pants she has several pouches, and considering her lack of guns, the only ranged combat she does might be throwing knives or stars, which might subsequently be in those pouches; she wears purple, open-toed combat boots with her pants tucked into them to finish the look.

Interesting persons two and three are conversing with each other in the center.

The shorter one, about five-feet, two-inches, has black hair that turns red at the tips that goes down to her shoulders, along with silver eyes. She's wearing a black blouse with red trimmings, the waistline of it having several different items. A large silver rose emblem; a few fifty caliber bullets on a belt; a magazine pouch; and her weapon, being in a concealable form on her lower back, and undefinable for now. She has a red cloak that is held together by a small silver crosses on each of her shoulders, which could most likely double as a scarf. She has black combat boots with red tinting that go up to the bottom of her knees; the rest of her legs being covered by black pants, that are tucked into her boots.

'Well someone's about to visit grandma in the woods later.' I think while shaking my head with a small smile.

The considerably taller one, five-feet, eight-inches, has blonde hair that goes down to her waist and seems to glow like gold, her lilac eyes seem to make her hair stand out even more so; she's wearing a tan leather vest with gold piping and puffy cap sleeves with black cuffs, two gold buttons on the sides of each, over a yellow, low-cut crop top that has a burning heart symbol on the left side of it, above which an infinity scarf is wrapped around her neck; she has a brown belt with a buckle, a pouch to hold some kind of ammo or dust, and a banner like object on her right side with the same symbol on her chest but colored yellow-gold instead of black; she has black shorts on under the belt, which resembles a type of pleated skirt in the back; she has brown, knee high leather platform boots with asymmetrical orange socks with a grey bandana wrapped around her left leg; lastly, she's wearing black fingerless gloves with two odd yellow bracelets with a black finish.

'Those must be her weapons, also I've heard of short shorts but those are ridiculous' I tell myself, while rubbing my hand over my face 'I just hope Jason doesn't see her, I would hate to see a female Jason'

I move my head to the last one, only to pinch the bridge of my nose in disbelief.

He stood almost my height, about six-feet, one-inch, with messy blonde hair that reaches down to his neck; he has dark blue eyes that stand out from the hair; his armor choice is too casual for me, he has a white chest plate and shoulder guards over a black hoodie with dark orange sleeves; he has blue jeans with a white patch on the left knee; he has black sneakers with an odd symbol on the ends of them; he has two belts that crisscrossing his waist, both of them a different shade of brown with small pouches on them; he has two brown, wrist length gloves with metal plating on the backs of them; for weaponry, he had a sword in an odd sheath strapped to his left side.

'I really hope that sheath in a gun' after thinking that, the bat Faunus sneezed and dropped to her feet and opened her eyes, revealing soft, bluish-white iris' with no pupils

Just then the annoying news report went away and was replaced by the holographic image of which I believe is Professor Glynda Goodwitch. She stands at six-feet, five-inches tall; she has blonde hair that is kept back in a bun and with a curl hanging down the right side of her face; she has emerald green-eyes underneath thin ovular glasses, she has teal bead earrings that match the bead on the collar of her white, long-sleeved suit that exposes the top of her chest, the sleeves of it are puffy and tighten near the wrists before spreading out near her hands; she has a black business dress with brown buttons going in a vertical line on the front of it, and lighter brownish-black stockings; she has black boots with brown heels and a torn up cape with a purple interior and a black exterior, diamonds run horizontally across the outside of the cape, above it is the symbol of a tiara.

The hologram of Professor Goodwitch stares ahead blankly with her arms behind her back and standing up straight with great posture, and then starts to speak.

"Hello and welcome to Beacon"

The blonde girl from earlier looks at the hologram with Red Riding Hood and asks stupidly "Who's that?"

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch."

"Oh" the girl states while I roll my eyes and notice that the ninja-like bat Faunus was looking at me.

"You are among the privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future huntsmen and huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with knowledge and the training to protect our world."

The image faded away and everyone looked out the windows at the sight of Beacon and all of Vale. I turned away and looked back to the mysterious girl, to find that she was still looking at me.

I raised an eyebrow and walked over to her.

She looks at me, or at least I think she is, and nods her head.

"Is there something you need?" she asked monotonously.

'Well, at least she speaks her mind, and she has a nice voice…wait what?'

"No, I was just wondering why you were staring at me."

She raised her eyebrows in curiosity "I was trying to zone everything out, the less I hear, the less likely I am to panic at being in a small, flying box, with other people, who carry weapons of all shapes and sizes, like you with your five guns" she says with a bit of a defense in her voice.

"First off, it's four guns and a two-foot long knife; second off, sorry, I was just making sure, you don't need to be defensive" i stand there waiting for a response, not getting one for a while. I then turn to leave until she stops me by grabbing my shoulder.

"Wait, can you maybe…help me get off the plane when it stops?"

I raise an eyebrow and am about to ask why when the guy with the bad armor starts to gag and run away from the window. Some of the vomit he's trying to hold in lands on the blonde girls shoe and the red one starts to freak out.

"Eww, Yang, gross! You have puke on your shoe"

The now called 'Yang' then starts to freak out and say 'gross' over and over while trying to get it off, and Red runs away from the bad armor guy while saying 'get away from me'.

I look over to Jason and I see him rolling on the floor while holding his stomach and laughing; I just scowl and pinch the bridge of my nose again.

I look back to the girl "Anyways, why do you need my help, don't you have echolocation?"

"Yeah, but it's not working so well with all of the movement going on."

I sigh and nod my head "Sure" I say shrugging my shoulders.

She closes her eyes and her scarf moves up a bit, I guess she's smiling. "Thanks, oh and my names Echo."

I stare at her and am about to say something until she opens her eyes and narrows them as her scarf moves down, she's not happy "If you make any joke about my name and me being a bat, I will drag you up the highest ceiling I can find, and throw you on your head."

I frown at her a bit "I wasn't, and my name's Ickarus."

Her face softens and her eyes go back to normal "Oh, well uh, good to meet you, I guess."

I roll my eyes and turn to the door as the VTOL starts to land at the docking port of Beacon. Just then Jason walks over to me with his Scroll and a big smile on his face.

"Alright Jason, what did you do this time?"

He frowns a bit "I didn't do anything, yet" he then immediately goes back to his stupid grin "But I have great news!"

"Okay well what is it?"

"Guess who else is coming to Beacon?"

I shrug my shoulders and pull Boom off of my chest, spinning the cylinder out of boredom "I don't know, Pyrrha Nikos, who?"

"Yes actually, but also Aryc and Jeremy are going to be here, too."

I give a small smile and nod my head "Good, we'll show Beacon the ingenuity of the Tesla Corporation's finest prodigies." I say while twirling Boom in my hand. As we start to walk forward, we witness the bad armor guy empty his lunch into the trashcan.

"Well, I know I'm skipping dinner" Echo says as she grips my shoulder until we leave the docks. She then tells us that she's going to try to find the staging area for the start of the opening speech to Beacon. We wave goodbye and stick around for a bit longer to wait for Jeremy and Aryk. After a little while, a woman walked out of one of the VTOLs and into the large group of people. She was wearing an open worn brown leather jacket with a metal right shoulder guard over a red T-shirt, blue tattered jeans and a rawhide cowboy hat that covered her orange hair walks through the crowd with ease because of her massive six-feet, seven-inch height. A large rectangular block seemed to be connected to her shoulder guard.

"Oops, s'ry 'bout that, p'rdon me, could'ya tell me where th' meetin' place is?"

She seemed to be having a tough time; she then walked over to us and tipped her hat to us.

"W'll howdy th're, would any you folks know th' way ta the stagin' 'rea, I'mma be downright honest with ya, I'm lost" she said while taking her hat off and rubbing her forehead.

"Sorry, we don't know either, but my friend and I here are waiting for a few more friends, afterwards we we're hoping that another person will give us information on its whereabouts, you're welcomed to join if you want" I offer while pointing to Jason.

The woman's light brown eyes widen as well as her smile "Much obliged, friend, name's Sarah, Sarah Lancaster" she states while raising her hand for us to shake, which I grab respectfully and notice that she has one hell of a grip.

"Ick, are you already meeting chicks? Don't start flirting without me" says a fake snarky voice. I turn to see a man with shaggy black hair and red eyes. He's about five- feet, eleven-inches tall, with a large, black, sleeveless duster over a black combat vest with red trimmings; he also wore a pair of black cargo pants with light metal padding on the shins and red combat boots; on the left side of his chest is a patch with the symbol of two crossed katanas, with an angel wing on the left side and a devil wing on the right, surrounding this were nine hands coming from the outside of the circle shaped patch; around his neck was a dog tag and a silver locket embedded with a large sapphire; on his back were two swords in differently colored sheathes, one was in a red sheath and had a red hilt wrap, the other was in a blue sheathe and had a blue hilt wrap.

I chuckle and cross my arms over my chest "Hey Aryc, how've you been?"

He walks to us and joins our little crowd "Not bad, freaking stoked that I'm here" he says in his normal upbeat voice and turns towards Jason; they both shake hands and salute to each other "Good to see you, Jason."

"Same to you my friend, now all we need is Jeremy" he said as he looked around a bit.

I came up with an idea to call him; I pulled out my scroll while putting Boom back in its place on my chest and dialed him in. After three rings he answered "Jeremy, you there?"

I heard some sloshing sound and heard someone breath heavily "Yeah, sorry, almost there, this crowd is huge~!" he screamed as I heard more sloshing and then a puddle formed in front of us. The puddle started to quickly rise until it turned into a solid. The recent puddle turned into a figure that was five-feet, seven-inches tall, has spikey brown hair and green eyes; he wore a white T-shirt with a blue armored combat vest; he wore a pair of sky-blue jeans that had white metal plating up and down the outsides of the legs; he has blue running shoes with black toe tips; around his waist are pouches with dust vials for the contraption on his left arm, it looks like a large bracer that has a slot on the outside of it, on the inside of the arm area were several oddly curved pieces of metal; on his right hand, he had a metal glove that went up to his forearm; lastly he has a mouse tail swinging to-and-fro.

He took a deep breath and saluted to me "Good to see you, sir, sorry about the wait. I had to use goo pile to get here" he said with a nervous smile.

I nodded and called him off "At ease, Jeremy. Also didn't you hear? I'm no longer your superior. Until we graduate, anyone who was under my orders, are now my equals, but first, I have something to say."

The three captains looked at each other and then back at me, all of them stood at attention for whatever I had to say, for the last time for the next four years "Gentlemen, this is our true test, all of our training has come down to this. Tesla has invested a lot of money to make us killing machines, time to pay them back, dismissed!"

"Yes, sir!" they all shouted at once.

Sarah chuckled before stating "W'll ain't you all the prim 'n proper type, wh't with all yer fancy call-offs and such."

I shrugged my shoulders "Eh, I thought it was more motivational" I state nonchalantly.

Echo then jumped from out of a tree behind us "Hey, Ickarus, I found the place."

I nodded "Thanks Ech, alright people let's move" I signaled to the others with Echo taking point.

'Well, at least we're on our way to the meeting place with not a single problem-'just as I thought that, an explosion went off. I got paranoid as I drew Zip and Zap, activated marksman eye, and started to run to the source of the blast. I raised my guns only to see Red Riding Hood and Weiss Schnee covered in soot.

I grumble and put Boom back in its holster on my chest "Alright Schnee, what did you do this time?"

1St POV: Ruby Rose

'Well this is just great, my sister leaves me in the courtyard, I land into some random girl's luggage, I get yelled at by the same prissy girl, I cause some of her dust to go off, now she's probably going to yell at me more for that-'the sound of a gun cocking went off and I looked to the source.

He's really tall, has black armor, and a lot of guns, which is awesome! He has orange eyes and a red beret that covers his hair.

'Wait, is that really-'he then sighed and put his gun in his holster across his chest.

"Alright Schnee, what did you do this time?"

'Wait, who's Schnee?'

The prissy girl in front of me shook off the soot and started to yell at the new guy "I didn't do anything; it was this dolt who caused the explosion with her questionable acts of lousiness!"

I was starting to get really angry with this girl "Hey I'm sorry, princess!"

"It's heiress actually" A soft voice said behind me.

1st POV: Ickarus Tesla

'Did she just call Weiss princess? That's priceless!' I thought as I chuckled in my head.

"It's heiress actually" I looked over Schnee and Red Riding Hood to see a girl holding a bottle of fire dust. She's about five-feet, six-inches tall; she has long black hair and amber eyes, with light-purple eyeshadow. The eyes themselves are tilted just a bit upwards, again like a cats own eyes. She has a black bow on top of her head; she has a black buttoned vest with coattails, and a white, sleeveless undershirt that exposes part of her midriff with white shorts that's connected to her shirt; there are zippers in front of each leg of the shorts for decorative purposes; she has black, low-heeled boots and stockings that start off black at her hips, but gradually fade to purple as they near her shoes; on the fronts of the stockings she has Atropa belladonna symbols; she has black ribbons wrapped around the fronts of her arms as well as a detached sleeve with a silver armband on her left arm; she has a scarf like collar around her neck to finish off the look.

"Weiss Schnee, heiress to Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

Weiss then started to smile with pride and put her hands on her hips "Finally, some recognition-"

She was then cut off when the cat-like girl started to talk again "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners.

I gave an honest laugh while I watched Weiss sputter and grab the bottle of dust out of the other girl's hand and stormed off.

Red felt bad for her though, even though she laughed at Schnee getting burned "I promise I'll make it up to you!" she shouted as Weiss stormed off.

I looked back to the girl in black and she looked back to me "And you must be Major Ickarus Tesla, child soldier of the Tesla family and heir to the largest weaponry and field equipment corporation stretched across all of Remnant" she states nonchalantly.

The girl in the red looks at me with a wide grin and starts to jump up and down in excitement "Yeah, that's me" I say while I fix my beret.

"The same corporation known for its past separation from the rest of the world during the Great Wars, and takes personal action against any and all forms of White Fang terrorism."

"Actually, that's me doing the fieldwork, everyone else is either watching me or running the business" I say while crossing my arms over my chest.

She shrugs her shoulders and walks away while I look to the girl in the red "By the look on your face I'm guessing that your more than happy to see me, correct?"

1st POV: Ruby Rose

'Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, It's actually him!'

"You're Ickarus Tesla, the person who's going to be leading Tesla Corporation, the largest system of gear manufacturers in the world!" I scream while jumping up and down around him.

He raises his eyebrow at me, I probably look like a big dork in front of him "Sorry, I'm just a huge gun nut, I like seeing new weapons; it's like meeting new people, but better" ugh, why did I say that, I sound like how I talk to Yang.

He shrugs his shoulders "Eh, everyone's got their own thing they like it's nothing to be sorry about. If that's what you like, then that's what you like, I won't judge. Besides…" he pulls the rifle off his back "Guns are more my thing, too" he says with a smile.

"Thanks I-"

"Yo, Ick, let's go!"

He looks behind him at some guy in a leather jacket and glasses and puts his gun on his back "Right, I'm there" he says, he looks back to me "Sorry kid, maybe we can talk more later but I gotta go. See ya, red" he says while waving back to me.

"Wait, but I-"he was already out of hearing range and walking with the other group that he was with. I slump to my knees and fall onto my back "welcome to Beacon" I say in defeat while I close my eyes. Just then a shadow looms over me, blocking out the sun and making me open my eyes. I see the guy who threw up on the plane offering me a hand "Hey, I'm Jaune."

I take his hand and he pulls me up "Ruby" I state my name then laugh and ask him "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

1st POV: Ickarus Tesla

After my conversation with the red girl, I went with the guys and the two other girls "So, Echo righ', How'd ya find the meetin' place?" Sarah asks.

"Um…" Echo looks up and thinks for a second.

1st POV: Echo Silentheart

After leaving that accursed flying box called a plane with some assistance, I jumped from tree to tree to cover more ground so I could find the gathering for the opening speech. Before long I saw a silhouette of a familiar face. I scowled and jumped down to where she was "Hello Blake, it's been awhile" I say with venom in my voice.

She looks up from her book and her eyes widen "Echo, is that really you?"

"Yes, it is. Now can you please tell me why you left the White Fang without saying goodbye?"

She looks saddened and closes her book "I was on a mission with Adam-"

I wave my hands in front of me "Yes, Yes I know about the mission you were on, I want to know why you left without telling me" I say impatiently while crossing my arms under my chest.

She narrowed her eyes and shook her head "He was going to kill innocent people, and I wasn't about to join him in it. Destroying robots, fine by me; but killing people who were going about their jobs as normal people, I couldn't do it" she says with a bit of anger.

My look softens and I lose my scowl "Oh, I'm…I'm sorry."

She looks at me with her normal blank facial expression "Don't be, I couldn't be with a person like that. Now why did you leave?"

I look up with a blank expression "I found out why my parents died."

"And right back to morbid" she says so as-a-matter-of-factly.

"Blake, you've known me for twelve years; you should know I'm not the happiest of people" I say blankly while my right ear twitches.

She pinches the bridge of her nose, but then looks back at me and smile a bit "Still, it's good to see you, Echo" she says while hugging me, I sigh and hug back "Good to see you too, but this discussion is not over; now can you tell me where the opening speech is supposed to be please?" I ask breaking away from the hug.

She points in the direction I was heading already "it should be that way, in the amphitheater."

I nod my head and thank her before heading back to Ick and the others.

1st POV: Ickarus Tesla

"Found an old friend" she says after a minute while shrugging her shoulders and narrowing her eyes.

"Okay~" i say not pressing the issue.

At the front of the Amphitheater are two girls. Both are five-feet, five-inches tall and have black hair, however the girl on the right has blue eyes and the girl on the left has red eyes; both of the girls have a streak of a different color in their hair and a bow, the one on the left has a red bow on the left side of her hair and a red stripe on the right side of her hair, the one on the right has a blue bow on the right side of her hair and a blue streak on the left side of her hair.

The girl on the left has a red yukata with white floral print and white armor plate layers on the stomach, shoulders, and skirt with red edging; the girl on the right has a blue yukata with the same armoring, but with a black wave pattern and the armor color black with blue edging; they both had black, wooden sandals with white bands. The major difference between the two were their choices in weapons; the red one has a semi-auto shotgun with a white magazine in the red stock, the body of it is red with a white flower painted over the shell ejection port and a white barrel; the girl in blue has black sniper rifle with blue lines going horizontally across the barrels and stock, it has a banana clip in between the two grips at the bottom of the gun.

Both of them walked forward, bowed in respect and started to speak in unison.

"Inaki" the red one stated "Ikani" the blue one stated

"The introduction is through here-" "-please enter and patiently wait for-" "-Professor Ozpin to announce it" they said nonchalantly while finishing each other's sentences like they rehearsed it for hours. We all just stood there and looked at them blankly except for Jason who bowed back.

"Thank you ladies" he said with great respect.

They bowed back and spoke at once "You're welcome."

We walked in with the red girl and the guy with the bad armor behind us.

"Ruby, over here! I saved you a spot!" the blonde girl that I remembered as Yang waved over to the girl in red, now identified as Ruby.

"Oh, hey I-I gotta go. I'll see you after the ceremony" she said as she ran to her sister.

"H-Hey wait…ugh great, where am I supposed to find another nice quirky girl to talk to?" the guy said as he walked off.

I shrugged my shoulders and walked off to a spot that wasn't crowded and was near a wall. 'This can give me a good sight of Ozpin and anyone around us, I won't have anyone behind me and I'll be able to blend into the crowd for cov-' I slapped my forehead to take myself out of my thoughts 'Damnit Ick, stop with the military crap! They are not here to hurt you! Get that through your thick skull!'

Jason puts his hand on my shoulder "Hey, you alright, Ick?" he says with his eyebrows raised and a small frown.

I wave him off "Yeah, sorry about that; old habits die hard y'know" I say with a small shrug. He was about to reply until we heard someone clearing their voice on the speakers. I looked to the stage to see a man about six-feet, six-inches tall with tousled gray hair, brown eyes, and a pale white complexion; he's wearing shaded glass spectacles and a dark-green scarf with a small, purple, cross-shaped emblem on it; he has an unzipped black suit over a buttoned vest, with a green undershirt; he's wearing a pair of black trouser shoes and long, dark-green pants to finish the look.

I raised my eyebrows in surprise 'That's Ozpin? Well the saying 'don't judge a book by his cover' really has value for him.'

He then pushes his glasses up his nose before beginning his speech.

"I'll…keep this brief; you have traveled here today in search of knowledge; to hone your craft and acquire new skills; and when you are finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you…and all I see is wasted energy; in needing of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

He then walked away from the mic, Glynda Goodwitch taking his place "You will gather in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready, you are dismissed" she then walked in the same direction as Ozpin had left.

"W'll that wasn't al' that great. But th'n again, don't really know what I was lookin' for" Sarah said while rubbing her temple.

I shrugged my shoulders and waved it off "He was trying to say that we may think we know everything, but we don't even know the surface of what we can do without guidance. Anyways, let's get going" I said as I started heading for the ballroom.

I hope I didn't overdo it, and you may have noticed that I changed some things about the characters; I apologize for that.

The ball room and the beginning of the initiation will be next up and also I have received news that season three of RWBY is almost upon us, and the opening is amazing!

But that also begs the question: should I put some of season three into the story?

This is where I really need you here, my fellow zombies, please tell me if I should or not, I really want to hear it from you guys.

Comment or PM me if you want, and thank you Zombies, I'm out! BRAAAAINS!