Rise and shine, soldier

R.H.: And I'm back with another chapter, my fellow zombies!

Also I wanted to clarify something about Ikani and Inaki; whenever they speak, they will finish each other's sentences, so if there are multiple sets of quotations, they're doing their 'weird twins know what each other are going to say' thing. Whenever it's just one strip of dialog (one set of quotations) they are speaking in unison. Just wanted to clear that up.

With that cleared up, time to see another moment of Ick getting knocked around. Sorry, dude.

Ickarus: I hate you.

R.H.: Hey, at least I'm making sure that you don't get hit in the chest with a grenade this time!

Ickarus: Says the regular person without Aura

R.H.: Yeah…well…shut up!

Ickarus: *draws Boom* Oh it's on, nerd!

R.H.: *summons The Last Minute unique Gauss Rifle from Fallout 4 and a suit of X-01 power armor* Bring it, Tesla!

Echo: ROTTINGHUMAN does not own RWBY or any music used in any chapter, RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and any musician that is shown with the name of the song. An author's note is at the bottom, and please enjoy the latest chapter of TESLA, thank you...and will you guys knock that off!

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."

Bernard Williams

1stPOV: Jason Armstrong

I woke up from my dream about my forefathers giving me fighting tips and saying how great my muscles are. I reached for my glasses and looked around the ballroom. Most everyone was still asleep, the rare few early risers going to the bathroom right across the hall to get changed. I looked around for our little band of misfits we created from yesterday. We all decided that we would take a corner of the ballroom so that we wouldn't draw attention, that's at least how Ick put it. I looked over to him on my right and saw him turning and mumbling; he had a black T-shirt, blue sweatpants with red stripes, and he was wearing his beret as per usual. 'When is he ever going to stop wearing that thing all the time?' I remembered how the Tesla Co. would host parties with other major corporations and he would be wearing that with his tux, his father saw it as sign of appreciation for his sister, but I think he needs to move on. That was five years ago, and he's still beating the hell out of himself for it.

Past him was Echo; she appears to be in a purple yukata that had black lining with her symbol on her back with a small, purple face mask covering the area that her scarf covered. She was currently reading a braille book while staring off into the distance, her eyes then turned to me and she waved. I waved back and she went back to reading. I looked to my left for the rest of us. Sarah was up against a wall, still asleep; she had a red long sleeve pajama shirt with brown workout shorts and her hat resting above her eyes. Her snoring reminded me of an aircraft carrier that Aryc and I worked on for a month. I still feel the swaying whenever I think about it.

Speaking of which I didn't see him on his bedroll, he must be getting ready. I remember back when the four of us trained in Atlas, he was always the first one to wake up. That's only because he wanted to pull pranks on our CO. I miss training days sometimes, watching him get the boot after the prank fails, then got lectured and had to run an extra mile on warmups. Those were the good ol' days.

Finally looking over to Jeremy, he was at the base of Sarah's bedroll; he had a blue T-shirt with a black wisp moving in a zig-zag formation on his chest, grey sweatpants, and his mouse tail wrapped around his waist. I looked back over to Ick to find him sitting upright with his head in his palms.

"Hey Ick, you okay?"

I heard a bunch of muffled garble coming from him.

"You have the temple dream again?"

A muffled 'uh-huh' was what I got. He slid his palms up his face and fell back onto his bedroll.

"When am I going to get a good night's sleep?" he asked tiredly, after which he yawned.

"I can't tell you that Ick. I'm a soldier and an engineer, not a psychologist; you should know this by now."

He sat up and slowly turned his head towards me while scratching his nose with his middle finger. Before I could respond, the lights in the ballroom flashed on, and a message was played through the intercom.

"To all Beacon initiates: breakfast is now being served, you have two hours to eat and prepare for initiation."

I stood up and walked over to my duffle bag to get my clothes "That was Goodwitch, right Ick?"

Ick rubbed his face one last time then got up to do the same "Yeah, that was, hey could you wake Jeremey up…and where's Aryc?"

"Right here, man" he said while putting his duster over his vest "I decided to go ahead and get my gear on, but I waited for you guys to get up so we could eat; now could you hurry up, I'm starving" he said sounding like an impatient child.

Everyone started to wake up around the ballroom, getting ready for the fight of their lives later today. After about fifteen minutes of short conversation and getting our clothes on, we were off to the cafeteria. The moment we walked through the doors, Ickarus went wide-eyed and his mouth was watering with a big smile. Before anyone could say anything, he left in a dust cloud to the massive buffet at the far end of the large room.

"Uh…why's Ick so excited 'bout food?" Sarah asked, while scratching her head. I fixed my glasses up to the bridge of my nose and looked at her.

"Sarah, imagine not eating anything but processed, powdered, liquid, and freeze-dried foods for ten years except for formal dinners where you had to strain yourself from digging in and going hog-wild; that's basically Ick's diet. So that being said, seeing all of this real food probably set something off in his head" I said while looking back to where Ick was and what he was doing; currently pilling on food onto two trays with a few plates. I sighed and pushed my glasses up again and joined him.

"Hey man, there's more people here you know."

He looked at me with a grin on his face "You kidding Jay, here they have enough food to feed everyone dozens of times over, and considering that they get restocked weekly, there's plenty to go around. Plus, there's nothing formal about this, no corporate jackoffs sticking their noses in the air, no prissy heiresses to get scorned from, it's paradise!" he said while grabbing a glass of orange juice

1st POV: Weiss Schnee

While I was getting my clothes out of one of my cases that wasn't filled with dust, and getting annoyed by that insufferable dolt in red, again, I sneezed.

'I swear someone was talking about me…' I thought until I was brought out of my thoughts by the girl.

"You okay Weiss?"

I put on a fake smile "Oh, of course, Ruby, I was just thinking about how great we would be together on a team.

"Really?!" she asked.

I put my hands on my hips and gave her a glare.

"No."

She fell on her face and turned white like paper.

1stPOV: Ickarus Tesla

I swear I could cry when I sat down and started eating. All I could focus on was eating to my heart's content, for all the years I was held back from eating real food. I was then pulled out of my thoughts by a small familiar voice.

"Hey, Ickarus!"

I looked over to the sound and found that it was Ruby. I wiped my chin of the juices from an apple I bit into and put it down.

"First of all, you can call me Ick; second, sorry about cutting our conversation short yesterday."

"It's fine" she said rubbing the back of her head "I had help from another guy."

"You mean the guy with the really crappy armor?" Jason asked.

Ruby went to answer but stopped as she squealed in joy. "You're Jason Armstrong! Your family is the head of the weapons branch of Tesla!" Yang looked up with a mouthful of eggs "Wait, really?!" she said through the eggs swallowing them quickly.

'Oh no.'

Background music: Armstrong theme (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Jason then stood up and put a foot onto the bench. He then through off his shirt and jacket, exposing his muscles, and did a 'frontal double biceps' pose.

"Do these muscles lie to you?!" he then did a 'most muscular' pose. This, by far, is the weirdest thing about the Armstrong family. The males have this uncanny trait that makes it so when they flex, their abnormally large muscles show, which is still unexplained today on why they have this said trait. The Armstrong's say their very being was crafted by gods. The Konverk's, the family that leads the medicinal branch of Tesla, says that it's due to constant exposure to Dust within the bloodstream. Everyone else just says they work out a lot.

Yang then seemingly skyrocketed up in a trail of blood coming from her nose, landing head first onto her seat.

End of music

I looked over to Aryc and Jeremy, they nodded and all three of us face-palmed in unison. Jason then caught his jacket and shirt, placing it back on and sitting down.

"Yes, I am" he said simply. Yang fixed herself back up, not bothering to wipe the blood at the bottom of her nose off, and started to stare at Jason with a sultry look and half-lidded eyes.

Ruby looked at her sister and waved her hand in front of her face "Uh, Remnant to Yang, you're being weird" she said as she finally just barely poked her in the nose.

Yang then jolted up and wiped the blood off her face "I'm up!"

Jason just laughed it off while I looked back to Ruby "So Ruby, you were saying something before that happened?"

"I was wondering why you guys are here, aren't you some of Atlas's top soldiers?"

I shook my head "I'm here because I owe it to someone to be a Huntsman; that and I heard that this is where the best come from."

Jeremy looked up from his omelet "I'm here because I needed more combat training. My mother said I spend way too much time around cars and other Tesla vehicles that I lack in combat skills."

Aryc put his bacon sandwich down "I'm here for the same reason Ick is. To become a Huntsman because I owe it to someone."

I looked over to the twins "How about you two?"

They looked at each other, then back to me and replied in unison "'Family tradition.'"

'Seriously, that's getting creepy.'

Yang looked over to Jason "What about you, Jason, why are you here?" she asked with half lidded eyes.

'Great, Jason's got another fangirl.' I thought while taking another bite from my egg sandwich.

Jason put down his breakfast burrito, straightened his back, coughed, and inhaled through his nose.

"I was bored."

Everyone was silent. Then all at once everyone screamed 'what?!'

"Yeah, I was bored. I spend so much time inside making new weapons that I started to lose creativity. So I came here to find new ideas and have a little fun in the process" he said nonchalantly.

Everyone, except Jeremy, Aryc, and myself, stared at him in confusion. Everyone then turned to me with a questioning look.

"He's not joking" I stated calmly.

Everyone did a gesture of not caring anymore about the subject and went back to eating. "So how about you, Sarah, why are you here?" Jeremy asked with a smile.

"Eh, I'm just here for explorin' the open world. You'd expect me to give some fancy speech about how I'm gonna 'save the world' an' all that stuff. But really, I'm here for the thrill of the ride" she said looking away from us.

Yang was very pleased about her response to say the least "Hey, up top for a fellow explorer!" she said while raising a hand for a high-five. Sarah smiled back and responded by slapping her giant hand against Yang's.

"So what about you, kid?" Jason asked Ruby.

Her face lit up and she swallowed what was left of her last cookie "Well, I had always wanted to be a Huntress, my mom was the best Huntress ever. So I wanted to follow in her footsteps, because being a Hunter is so awesome and romantic and gah you know?!"

I raised an eyebrow at her "Okay? But the question is: why?"

"It's always something I've wanted to do. Ever since I heard stories that my mother used to tell me about heroes and how they would go out, fight giant monsters, and save the day" she said with a big smile.

I looked to her with a look of slight frustration and guilt. 'Damn it, what do I say to her?'

Just before I could say anything, Aryc quipped into the conversation.

"Hey, my mother used to tell me those kinds of stories all the time" he said looking over at ruby with a small smile.

The two of them began to make small talk, while the rest of us finished our meal.

3rdPOV

After another fifteen minutes, the group left for the locker room to gather their equipment. Jason was currently running a systems check on his connection from his glasses neural sensors to his gauntlets reaction speed. Once fully calibrated, he formed his gauntlets into his arm mounted railgun. Seeming to find his results adequate, he folded his gauntlets back to their wristlet storage forms.

"Man, I hate having to recalibrate everything every time I need to take Hope and Valor off, which is going to suck because all weapons are banned from being on campus."

Ickarus looked to Jason while he loaded another fire dust mag for Plink "I agree with you there, but it's just a safety precaution. They don't want someone to get on their high horse and mow everyone down with their weapon."

Jason slid a hand down his face "Yeah, you're right. But it still sucks that constant recalibration is in my future. Man I slept with these damn things on."

Ick just scoffed, put the new mag into his rifle's receiver, slapped the bolt forward, and placed the gun on the magnet plate on his back "Take my advice: complain to someone who cares, or make it better."

Jason gave Ick the finger and checked the Dust belts in his wristlets. He replaced the crystals that seemed to be running low, and replaced them with fresh crystals.

Ick on the other hand was fiddling with Boom, spinning the cylinder a few times before flicking his wrist, sending the cylinder into the body and placing it into the magnetic holster on his chest. Soon checking Zip and Zap to make sure that they were fully loaded, then putting them into their respective magnetic holsters on his hips.

Magnet-tec holsters were a relatively new idea that was brought to attention by Ickarus. Instead of having to remove a strap to release the pistol, a magnetic plate was inside to keep the pistol from flying out of a soldier's or Hunter's holster. The same then followed suit for two handed weapons such as machine guns, rifles, and shotguns. To carry them was a difficult task, you had to lug them around on shoulder straps or other uncomfortable methods. So instead of that, Ickarus put himself to work by making a small, flexible metal plate with Magnetic Dust forged into it. Drawing speeds for pistols were improved drastically, and removing a gun from your back was never easier from the Magnet-tec plate.

Ick then brought out his two foot K-bar knife, Reserved, and started to sharpen it with a refined block of dust steel.

Jason looked up from his wristlets to Jeremy and Aryc.

Jeremy stood with his fold out recurve bow, Sagittarius's Gaze. The bow frame was composited with regular Dust steel, while the string was made out of the Dust that was in the receiver on the outer area of his arm; the loading mechanism took capsules of Dust powders of different kind. The dust went through a system of tubes and wiring that concentrated it into a single beam, which then was pulled back with his metal gloved hand, and shot out from the force of letting the beam go; the longer the string was held, the stronger the shot would be. When the string was pushed forward, the body of the bow folded into a Gladius; a wide, twin-edged blade with no guard, two-and-a-half feet in length, which was covered in the current dust that was being used. He calmly folded the bow back into his armlet with a flick of the wrist.

Aryc on the other hand had two simple katanas. One was red with a silver wave temper-line, the other blue with a similar finish save for the fact that it was black instead. The red blade was named Hakai and the blue blade was named Keihatsu. Both were forged in the time of two years, and during that time was when Aryc began to train with the Tesla quartet, beginning at the age of five like the others. The blades, however, were simple swords, the only Dust in them being the steel that made them. He sheathed the blades on his back and stood up.

They both walked over to Jason and Ick, the former starting up a conversation about the people they had met so far. Ick tuned it out by sharpening his knife. He thought back on his interaction with the others and thought on how he could improve during conversation. The only time he had ever 'talked' was when it was at formal parties, with his family, or pointing a gun at an unlucky White Fang member who he planned to interrogate. That being said, he knows how to hold a conversation, he just doesn't like talking.

1stPOV: Ickarus Tesla

After finishing my sharpening, I put Reserved back into its sheath and put it behind my left shoulder blade. I drew my blade just to test the sheath's placing and was pleased when it didn't move. I re-sheathed my blade and repeated the motion for my guns, liking the results and grabbing a few extra mags of ammo and a few more removable cylinders for Boom.

'Maybe I can talk Ozpin into letting me buy some more lockers to hold my other equipment...'

"Why do you carry all of those guns?" a voice asked me.

With my hand on Boom, I turned around to see that the source of the voice was Echo with her arms crossed, and an eyebrow raised.

"What do you mean?" I asked while taking my hand off Boom.

"I mean, why do you carry so many guns and a short sword, you-"

"It's a knife" I said while my left eye twitched.

She looked at me less with determination and more with confusion "What?

"The thing on my shoulder that you're referring to is my knife, for your sake and mine, please refer to it as a knife.

She pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes "Okay knife, whatever. What I'm trying to say is that I don't know why you don't have a frame shift weapon."

"Does it matter?" I ask while crossing my arms.

"No, but the thought was nagging at me."

I was going to reply until I heard a 'thunk' sound from behind me. I turned quickly with Zap in my left hand, only to see four things. My three captains laughing their asses off; Pyrrha Nikos, the world tournament champion clad in old school Spartan armor, talking to Weiss; the bad armored guy getting nailed to the wall by Pyrrha's spear; and Ruby and Yang watching what was going down. I holstered Zap and signaled Echo to follow me.

I walked up to Jason and tapped on his shoulder "Jason, update."

He wiped a tear from his eye while gaining his balance on a locker "Oh man, okay so the blonde guy, Jaune, walked up to Weiss and Pyrrha and started to spout on and on about how great his team is going to be when he doesn't even know who Pyrrha is. He then starts to flirt with Weiss until she asks Pyrrha to help her, the rest is self-explanatory." He then continued his laughing fit, while subconsciously joined in.

A message then played over the intercom "Would all first year students please report to Beacon cliff for initiation; again all first year students report to beacon cliff, immediately."

Pyrrha walked up to Jaune and removed her spear from his hood "It was nice meeting you" she said almost apologetically.

"Likewise" he said tiredly.

Yang then walked up to him with Ruby in tow "Having some trouble there, lady killer?"

He groaned "I don't understand. My dad said all women look for is confidence, where did I go wrong?"

Yang replied with a smile and some helpful info "'Snow Angle' probably wasn't the best start."

"Neither was flirting with the most irritable person to ever exist" I stated calmly "to be entirely honest, kid, I'm surprised you're still breathing."

He looked up at me as Ruby helped him up "Does that mean I have a chance?" he asked hopefully.

"Sorry, Jaune. Her hearts cold and rough as stone" I said with a laugh.

He moped as Ruby helped him walk away "Come on Jaune" she said cheerfully.

Sarah then walked up behind us with the twins in tow "What're y'all waitin' for, let's go an' kick some ass!"

We all chanted 'yeah' leaving the locker room, pumped up and ready for combat.

Time skip

All of us stood on grey platforms while looking over the horizon of a massive forest. All first years were standing on said platforms while Professor Ozpin and Goodwitch faced us.

"For years, you have trained to become warrior; and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin said before taking a swig of coffee.

Glynda Goodwitch took over from there "Now, I'm sure many of you had heard rumors about the assignment of teams, well allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates…today."

"What...ooh…?" Ruby groaned out loud.

'Yeesh, and I thought I was bad with people' I thought while shaking my head.

Ozpin continued "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon, so it is with your best interest to be paired with someone whom you could work well."

Ruby let out another groan of dissatisfaction before he finished.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with, after landing, will be your partner for the next four years."

"Whaaat?!" ruby screamed at the top of her lungs in question.

I looked to my left to see everyone's reaction.

Ikani and Inaki bowed their heads; Echo shrugged her shoulders; Sarah scratched her head in a questioning matter; Jason, Aryc, and Jeremy all high-fived each other; I did the same as Echo and shrugged.

'It's a good thing adaptability is what I'm trained for, I just feel sorry for the poor bastard paired up with Weiss or Jaune.'

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die."

Jaune gave a nervous chuckle, then gulped.

"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path, containing several relics; each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff, you will guard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" he asked, not expecting any.

"Yeah, um, sir…"

"Good, now, take your positions." Ozpin said, ignoring Jaune's question.

'Okay, recap; land in the forest, find a partner, find a relic, move back to the cliff as fast as possible, and kill anything that moves that's not a person in between point A and B' I thought while I tightened the gloves on my hands.

Inaki and Ikani pulled their weapons off their backs; Echo drew her Wakizashi's; Sarah pulled off the rocket launcher mounted on her shoulder; Jason activated his gauntlets; Aryc drew his swords; Jeremyhb activated his bow; and I grabbed Plink off my back.

"Um, sir, I've got a, um, a question…" Jaune stated nervously, still resilient.

I rolled my eyes at that point and wandered off staring into the forest.

'Your green will soon be red, Emerald Forest…god that sounded cheesy.' I shook my head with a chuckle as I readied my rifle.

"Hey, Ick."

I looked at Jason "What?"

He smiled and lit up a cigarette "Welcome home" he said before being launched.

I tightened my grip on my rifle as I heard the cogs running under my pad.

'Heh, yeah…welcome home.'

I was then launched into the forest, as well as launched into a whole new life.

Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/other religion related celebrations of the birth of Christ, my fellow zombies, I'm back! (Evades boulder thrown at head)

I'm so sorry for the wait and I have a number of reasons for it:

1: I have gone away from my dad, who has been starting drama with my mother.

2: I had to get my ass in gear for finals, which was totally worth it seeing as I passed all of them with A's and B's

3: I Procrastinated with Fallout 4.

YEAH I'M A NERD, YOU WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT, YOU WANNA GO M8?!

Nah I'm just kiddin', I love you guys.

Sorry if there are a few problems or difficulties, I half-rushed through this to get it done, half-thought it out to make it more presentable.

Anyways, fight scenes are coming, and hopefully soon. Hopefully there won't be another (checks how long it took to get off my ass and make this) three month, and three day delay! (Bangs head on brick wall)

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