Well hello everyone again... another chapter for ye viewing pleasure

Just to put it out there... WE'RE AT 10,000 VIEWS! *Sheds a tear in joy* thanks for all your support whoever happens to be reading this...

I haven't got many reviews as to the current situation with the shipping... Current votes are at...

Velvet: 1

Rosaline: 2

Kira?: 1... I'm sure I never added her as an option...

And whoever shipped Demon and Ozpin... just please... no... just no... please jump off a bridge... that is never going to happen (I'm not homophobic)

As an added side note to the supposed 'plot holes' within the story... Pilots are not the only people that can use Titans. If you ever played the Titanfall campaign you might have noticed that at the beginning of some missions, there are Captains or Lieutenants that get in Titans at the start... Josh was just a Captain back when the 'incident in question' happened.

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Chapter 22:

"I'm sorry… did I hear you correctly?" Josh asked, holding onto the tiny amount of hope he had left.

"You… are… going… back… to… school!" annunciated Demon, smiling a bit.

"I'm 23! I can't go back to school!"

"You misunderstand. You don't have a choice"

Josh groaned again before crashing onto the ground, groaning even more.

"I would happily like to attend a schola on this world, it would help me gain a better understanding of this world's workings" explained Markus, almost smiling at the chance to add even more knowledge to his database.

"Do we get to kill things?" asked Tempest, looking a bit sadistic… and even more so when Demon nodded. "I'm in!"

"I'll go just so I can prove I'm a better shot than all of you…" mentioned Jaeger, still combing his hair.

"Ok then… that's settled, we're heading back to Beacon so load up"

In the next minute, everyone was aboard a bullhead or the IMC dropship and heading back to the aforementioned academy. Vanessa was hooked up to the underside of one of the bullheads and another was sent out to retrieve his Atlas he had left behind. When the Militia pilots caught sight of it, their jaws dropped as they marvelled at the craftsmanship of the near-city sized school.

"This is where we're going?" Josh questioned.

"Sure as hell is…" Demon acknowledged as their dropships descended to the landing pads. When they all disembarked the dropships, they were greeted by Ozpin and Miss Goodwhich.

"I see you found some friends of yours Mr Demon" Ozpin remarked, observing the newcomers.

"Yea… We have Josh the medic, Tempest the demo expert, Jaeger the sniper and Markus the scientist…" Demon pronounced, gesturing to each of the pilots in order. "They have exceptional fighting skills and I would recommend them for the academy"

"I see. Well, I have no trouble believing that from what I saw on the camera's, but do they all agree to the terms"

"What terms?" questioned Josh, hoping to get an answer, but didn't get an answer before Demon interrupted the conversation.

"Yes they do sir"

"Excellent! The semester is almost over, so you will be excused from exams but you will start next term. I have assigned a dorm for you to use and I'm sure that team DRSK would be happy to give you a tour of the school" chimed Ozpin before walking off with Miss Goodwich in tow.

"WHAT TERMS!" accused Josh, turning to Demon with a look of anger on his face.

"Well… you just legally accepted to being stuck in this school for the next three years of your life… and that you can't sue them if you die"

"WHAT! AND HOW WILL WE DIE!"

"Yea… this is a combat school ya know? You're going to have to fight Grimm… and other students"

Josh just groaned, while Tempest just seemed to be even happier.

"How can we fight? We used 87% of all of our ammunition reserves during our last encounter… unless we are re-stocked then we cannot fight. I assume that our weapons cannot chamber these dust propellant rounds so that may be a problem" Markus stated, drawing the attention of everyone.

"OOOH! WE CAN MAKE THEM NEW WEAPONS!" Ruby gleefully exclaimed, jumping up and down in excitement.

"No… I managed to bring through a stash of weapons we can use and there should be enough ammo to last us for at least 10 years"

"HOW DO YOU FIT THAT MANY BULLETS IN THAT TINY POD!" asked Yang, noting how she never even saw that much ammo when they were touring the pod.

"Well, I brought a lot on the other Atlas Titan and the rest I can create with Vanessa's help"

"How can she help" asked Josh, still a bit scared of the previous encounter.

"Well, I just give her control of most of my spectre rack and she can build practically anything she has plans for"

"Ok then… that takes care of the ammo problem… but how are we going to keep up with everyone else? We're pretty weak by the standards of this world"

"Stop being a wuss… I managed to take down one of their top fighters before I got aura"

Everyone in team RWBY, JNPR, Kira and Rosaline all turned to face him, all with raised eyebrows.

"You used gravity ninja stars! That's cheating!" Yang put in.

"SHURIKENS!"

"And you used an overpowered rocket launcher" deadpanned Blake.

"Point taken…" conceded Demon.

"What are these gravitational shurikens you speak of?" interrupted Markus.

"Look I'll just show you…" answered Demon as he began walking off, the Militia pilots following after a few seconds of confusion. The Angels took in the scenery, completely amazed at the architecture and gagging at the food on offer as they passed the dining room, not knowing once where they were actually heading. They eventually made it to the back of the school and Demon ushered them inside a massive command pod when he was sure no other students were watching. The Militia pilots all gagged when they saw the weaponry in the pod, knowing that only an extremely high-ranking pilot could get anywhere near this amount of gear. They were surprised to see the two other Titans sitting idle in the pod and were also surprised to see a rack of the new top-of-the-line spectres.

While Josh was looking them over, he noticed a particular Titan that caught his interest.

"IS THAT YOURS!" demanded Josh, pointing accusationally at Nicolai.

"Yep… he does say sorry about the rockets, though…"

"MY FIRST TITAN EXPLODED BECAUSE I COULDN'T FEND OFF ANOTHER ONE… and they demoted me from Captain…" pouted Josh, reminiscing the battle.

Demon just shrugged and walked over to a large weapons case sitting on his work bench. When he opened it, he revealed several stacks of shurikens and several grappling hooks. Markus nearly had a heart attack when Demon demonstrated how they worked and he immediately began analysing them. Demon just showed him the plans and the scientist took them, sat down in a corner, and analysed them.

"So… we can take anything?" asked Josh hopefully.

"No…" answered Demon, crushing Josh's hope. "You can take any ammunition you need and maybe an anti-titan weapon, but that is all.

"Aw come on!" complained Josh.

"You know what… I change my mind"

This caused Josh to look back up again hopefully.

"Tempest, Jaeger and Markus get access to the armoury"

"OH COME ON!"

"You get access once you sort stuff out with Vanessa…"

"SHE'LL KILL ME THE SECOND YOU AREN'T HERE!"

"Yes… which is why I'm not going to be there when you do it… death isn't a problem for you right?"

"Asshole…"

Demon turned to see Tempest happily grabbing as much of the special ammunition from his stocks as possible, before turning and eyeing off Demon's new rocket launcher hungrily.

"Sorry mate, that's off limits…"

Tempest cried a little but went straight back to being enraptured when he saw the explosives piled neatly in a corner. Jaeger wasn't as excited but still seemed impressed by the practical arsenal that was arranged around the pod. He was taking a few of the attachments off the bench and trying them out on his Longbow, taking a liking to the Silencer/Muzzle break that Demon had specially ordered for his own Longbow back when he preferred DMR's. Jaeger looked up to confirm if he could have the special attachment and smiled wildly when he received a nod. He turned back to the attachment wall and tried to see how much he could attach as possible. He opted for a new 12x zoom scope with a canted iron sights, a new bipod and a quick-release magazine spring.

Halfway through their gun rant, Josh looking very disappointed, they all heard two loud clangs outside. Demon opened the door to see his two Titans had been dropped off and he waved the pilots as they flew away back to the landing pads. Demon used Nicolai's help to lift Vanessa into the pod, knowing if she was activated then Josh would probably become a stain on the wall, and Sid controlled the other Atlas to allow it to get back into the pod. Demon sighed when he saw how much damage Vanessa had taken during the battle and reluctantly began the fix-up.

About three hours later, Demon had just finished fixing Vanessa, Tempest had hungrily weighed himself down with as many explosives as he could find, Jaeger had found as many attachments to his weapons as possible, Markus had written down at least 20 pages of info on the new weaponry and Josh had finished sitting in a corner looking depressed for the entire time, when Yang burst in through the door.

"HAWK!" she practically screamed.

Demon noticed the slip and refused to answer the call, knowing that she would eventually right herself. Yang saw him refusing to acknowledge her and corrected her mistake.

"Demon…"

"Yes Yang…."

"We asked Miss Goodwich and she's letting us use the duelling arena!"

"And why do you want me?"

"Because… Nora wants to break your legs, but I had to say no… so now you're fighting me!"

"What? How did that even escalate to that?"

"Because I told her that only your sisters are allowed to break your legs!"

"So now you're going to try and break my legs?"

"Only if you don't put up a fight…"

"Grrrr… fine, but no leg breaking…"

"hmmm… you got a deal… and NO rocket launchers!" she said before running out of the pod again. Demon turned and saw everyone else was looking at him.

"She's your sister?" spoke Josh, not at all believing what was being said.

"Yea… we just found out a couple days ago. We better get going before they break my legs for being late…" Demon answered, grabbing his armour and weapons before making his way to the training area. The others still didn't believe him but followed anyway, bringing their weapons as well. They managed to make it to the training area without much fuss, although the others were still getting used to the gigantic school. When they arrived, team RWBY, JNPR, Kira and Rosaline were all waiting for them, smiles plastered over their faces.

"Ok… what do you want?" asked Demon, still walking down to the stage.

"Well… we figured that a battle would be fun and all… but it is much more fun with stakes!" Yang answered, the biggest grin being on her face.

"Umm… and what would those be may I ask?"

"Well… if you manage to beat me… you get to go shopping with Weiss' credit card"

"HEY! I NEVER AGREED TO THAT!" complained the heiress, turning with an angry face to Yang.

"Oh come on Ice Queen, you really think I'm going to lose to him?... anyway, if I win though… you have to take off your mask. Do we have a deal?"

"No…" deadpanned Demon. He didn't want to have to reveal his eyes just yet.

"AWWWWWW… SOMEONE'S CHICKEN! Remarked Josh, making chicken noises afterwards and pretending to peck at the ground.

"No… I just don't accept the terms"

"COME ON! They are completely fair!" Yang once again put in.

"No, they are not, currently only three people have seen my face and I wish to keep it like that for as long as possible…"

"Grrrr… fine. Well then, how about if I win, I get to drive one of your Titans!"

Demon thought about it for a while, he could just take out all the weaponry, so after coming to a decision he nodded and Yang jumped into the air celebrating. Demon jumped down into the arena and prepared to fight, drawing his odachi and holding it in a defensive stance in front of him. Yang went to the other side of the arena and set up in a brawler's stance, jumping back and forth on her heels. Ruby walked into the middle of the arena, holding a red flag, reaching the middle and holding it high above her head. She looked to the both of them to see if they were ready, receiving nods from both, and began counting down.

3…

2…

1…

"GO!"

Yang fired Ember Celica behind her and she rocketed full speed towards Demon. He had barely enough time to react but he managed to roll to the side and avoid Yang smashing into him. She went flying past and crashed into the floor a couple of feet behind where he was, creating a small crater. He didn't give her any time to react as he jumped forward and slashed her three times across her back before jumping away again to avoid a retaliatory punch. As he jumped back he noticed the same thing was happening like when he fought the Grimm… the blade was glowing a deep red. He didn't have enough time to think about it as Yang got up again and smiled to Demon as she did.

"Thanks for the power boost bro…" she chimed before smashing her fists together and creating a small shockwave with the force.

Great… just great…

She launched another attack and Demon had to go on the defensive, this time, using his odachi to bat away the powerful punches. He was hard pressed to parry everything and knew he had to get away, so the next chance he saw an opening, he hit Yang in the face with the hilt of his sword and back flipped backwards.

"Running already are we!" she taunted, more gold energy flowing around her.

Demon smiled and pointed to her feet… where she saw two satchel charges neatly placed there.

"Little sh…"

Her speech was interrupted as they detonated and sent her flying across the arena into a wall. He smiled as he looked over and saw that her aura levels were already just a bit above half-way while his was about ¾ full from the sheer strength of her blows while he tried to block them. He watched as the smoke cleared and revealed an even more brightly shining Yang on the other side, a grin the size of the Cheshire cat dominating her face. She fired Ember Celica behind her again, this time going a lot faster than last time and Demon didn't have enough time to dodge… resulting in him being sent flying across the arena as well. He activated his armour's shield and slammed into the wall, breaking it instantly, but lessened the damage to his aura. When he looked at it again, he saw she had literally taken him down to 1/3 aura with that single punch.

WHAT THE HELL!

"Would someone care to explain how she hits harder every time I hit her!"

"It's her semblance dummy!" Nora shouted back, still gleefully jumping up and down because of how exited she was for the fight.

You have got to be kidding me…

"Well then… this is going to be interesting sis…"

Demon changed his tactics and instead of engaging her in head-on fighting, he began wall running around the sides of the arena, gaining speed as he went, and began firing his chaingun in a one-handed tyrade. She dodged the bullets with ease, laughing at how easily she was beating him… but he wasn't aiming for her. He was slowly but surely putting hundreds of bullet casings in a small satchel he was holding and saving them for later. Ren was the only person who saw this discreet tactic and was wondering how this could possibly help him. Demon eventually ran out of ammunition and jumped back into the arena, a grin on his face.

"You missed every single shot…" deadpanned Yang, disappointed with his fighting.

"Yea… but I wasn't aiming for you… you might want to look around, though…"

As Demon said this, Yang looked at the ground in front of her… and her jaw dropped. He had somehow managed to perfectly spell out the words 'this is a distraction' on the ground in front of her using bullet holes. When she finished reading the message, she looked up and barely had enough time to be surprised. Demon had dropped his odachi/chaingun combo and was currently spinning two grappling hooks in each hand. With a small whip of both wrists, he sent the titanium enhanced ropes and grappled onto Yang's four limbs. With a massive pull, Yang flew across the arena and straight at Demon… although he didn't attack. Instead, he simply let her pass, laughing at her face of complete disbelief, and began spinning her round in circles.

In an effort to escape the grappling hooks, Yang began firing off Ember Celica but only managed to succeed in aiding Demon's plans. Without warning, Demon flicked his wrist again and the ropes released from his arms and coiled around themselves… as well as trapping Yang within their grasp. She flew across the arena, about to smash into the wall again, but Demon stopped that by throwing a gravity shuriken and pulling her to the floor slowly, ensuring not to activate her semblance. Demon smiled again and picked up his odachi, casually walked over to Yang, and pointed the tip of the blade at her throat.

"do you concede?" he asked, mockingly trying to sound as posh as possible.

She struggled a bit and Demon pushed the blade closer… until something made him jerk back in horror.

"YES! Just a little closer and she'll be dead…" came the monstrous voice from within him. He hastily withdrew the blade and stumbled back a few paces before having to steady himself on his blade. As he looked at it, he saw that the blade was now glowing a very strong red and was pulsating strange red energy.

NO! you have had enough to kill… she doesn't deserve to die…

"No she doesn't… but you know that I thirst for blood to be spilt… and so far this world has been nothing more than disappointing…"

You already killed those Grimm didn't you?... how can they not quench your thirst?

"Kill them? I simply ordered for them to leave us be…"

YOU WHAT!

"You had already killed their alpha… so that made you their default leader, but since you are just human they have a vendetta to avenge whoever slew their alpha… but when they saw that I am strong enough to lead them… they simply left when I told them to…"

Are you telling me… you control a horde of Grimm?

"More or less… still, I thirst for blood to be spilt so why will you not sate my hunger…"

If you wish for blood to be spilt… then it shall be yours!

In an act of defiance, Demon plunged the odachi straight through his chest, causing everyone else to gasp in shock.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!"

I will survive this petty injury… I just made sure you wouldn't hurt anyone…

"Hmmm… your cause is noble Demon… and my thirst is quenched with the spilling of your life force… you have earned my respect warrior… until next time…"

And with that, the voice was gone. Demon hastily pulled the blade from his chest, collapsing to the floor in a heap, Josh being the first to reach him. Josh held out his hand upturned, as if holding onto a ball, and a small globule of the grey liquid coalesced in the middle, seeming to come out of the centre vial on his gauntlet. He turned his palm around and pushed against Demon's chest, causing the grey liquid to force its way inside. Stepping back, Josh allowed the gauntlet's work to complete itself, checking the progress levels in his HUD. Everyone else by now had snapped out of their shock and were kneeling beside Demon trying to comfort him or help in any way possible. The grey liquid coated the wound and it visibly began to heal very quickly, the muscles sewing themselves back together. After about a minute, the wound was completely healed and Josh held out his palm just above the wound, allowing the grey liquid to seep back into his gauntlet, refilling the vial it came from.

After a few seconds, Demon groaned and caused everyone to let out a breath of air they were holding in. He grabbed onto Josh's shoulder and pulled himself back up so he could stand, everyone else standing as well.

"WHAT WAS THAT!" screamed Yang, still in shock from his actions. He had nearly won, yet he just stepped back and stabbed himself, something that made absolutely no sense.

"It was nothing, something just overcame me… It's nothing to worry about"

"NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! YOU STABBED YOURSELF!" interrupted Rosaline.

"As I said… it is nothing for you to be concerned about…"

Josh was still inspecting Demon when he remembered something from a couple of years back. He had been stationed about a system away from IMC controlled territory when he had received a distress signal from one of their bases. They sounded very desperate and were shouting about how something was destroying the base stationed there, the biggest one in the sector.

The Militia hoped to capitalise on their misfortune and so they sent down an expeditionary force to take out any IMC they came across as well as re-establish the wildlife control towers that were probably malfunctioning. When they arrived, they were completely shocked by what they saw. Every single section of the base was either on fire, destroyed to rubble or had some sort of blood stain covering it. Stranger still was that they were receiving signals from the local wildlife control towers that showed they were still active and there was no wildlife in the area, supporting their findings. They had scoured the base for several hours, trying to find the cause of the destruction, but only found IMC corpses and destroyed machinery.

Just when they were about to leave, they heard a shout from inside one of the maintenance tunnels. When they checked it out, they found the source to be a Militia pilot inside one of the corridors used for moving Titans around the base without them being seen on the surface. They had hesitantly approached and saw a knife sticking out of the pilot's chest, piercing his lungs. Josh had seen this pilot before and instantly recognised it as Demon, his signature symbol being visible on his pauldron.

He had been patched up and they were leaving the base, deeming it to be unfit for service, just as Demon woke up. They had questioned him as to what had happened and he filled them in, saying that the mission they were on had been compromised and the roughly 100 men that had been with him were dead. When he was asked how he had received the knife wound, he responded by saying it was an IMC pilot that had inflicted the injury… although Josh found this to be suspicious. The closest IMC pilot body was a kilometre from where they found Demon. He had just dismissed it as amnesia and they never found what had caused the destruction.

After finishing his flashback, Josh looked with cautionary eyes at Demon.

"Kalazar…"

That was all Josh had to say for Demon to instantly snap his attention to the medic. They stared at one another before Demon hesitantly nodded, dropping his head in shame afterwards… there was no point in hiding it.

Josh nearly fainted at what Demon had confirmed… it just couldn't be true… there was no way.

"The entire base?"

Demon nodded again, looking even more guilty as he did. Josh could only open and close his mouth, not knowing what to say or do… it was all too much.

"What is he talking about?" questioned Weiss, a stone cold glare appearing on her face.

"Something I wish I could forget about…" Demon replied softly.

"Kalazar… Kalazar… AHHH, I know that planet. Exactly 247 days ago it was investigated by Militia forces responding to an IMC distress signal. They found no evidence of the attacker and found only one survivor" Markus filled in, remembering the incident with his fantastic memory.

"How many people were there originally?" asked Blake, afraid of knowing the answer.

"Records were found that indicated that the original population before the attack was somewhere from 900,000 to a million IMC troops stationed there"

"A million people dead…" Pyrrha intoned, rolling the thoughts through her head.

"What could have done that…" asked Ruby, her eyes becoming a bit hazy with tears.

"The only indications of what actually attacked the base were several claw and bite marks of the specimen, although no DNA could be found from the beast, all of it being that of humans…"

Everyone was completely shocked into silence. The students from Remnant were simply not used to that amount of bloodshed… and even the battle-hardened pilots were having trouble registering it. Demon, however, was reliving the memories of the least-favourite part of his life. He did not have a proper memory of what transpired on that day, but he had small snippets. He saw something ripping IMC pilots to shreds, ignoring the copious amount of gunfire being directed at it, and even managing to take down an Ogre Titan in seconds. That was the last time before he came to this world that his inner voice took control… and as he had thought before… everything died.

"Ok… just leave it… let's just get onto the next match ok?"

Everyone hesitantly nodded and just left the matter to be explained later, Josh looking a bit fearful towards Demon. Said pilot made it to the bleachers and sat down, waiting for the next match, while the others discussed the idea. They eventually changed the topic back to how Josh had healed Demon.

"What is that grey goo by the way?" asked Rosaline, poking the vials on his arm.

"No touching!" recoiled Josh, jumping away from the prodding. "It's a special medical nanobot that I created"

"YOU CREATED THAT!" proclaimed Weiss in disbelief.

"Yea... it cost a hell of a lot, though... why do you think I had to sell Vanessa"

"Is that why she's pissed at you?"

"Yea... I argued that I could save more lives with it, but she argued that more lives could be saved if the IMC were stopped"

"Well I guess both could be true... but I see which one you took"

"Yea... It was the only path I could take... I would have done otherwise if there was another way"

"I see..."

"Well... I've saved countless lives with the help of this... it really was worth it... I'm sorry if that sounds a bit heartless"

They all nodded in acceptance before Tempest interupted.

"Can I fight someone?" Tempest eagerly put in, a grin making its way onto his face.

"Ummm… I guess, although you might not do much…" deadpanned Ruby, trying to think of who he could fight. "Oooh… you could fight Jaune!"

"HEY! That's just because I'm the weakest!" Jaune pouted.

"You're not the weakest, you are just better at strategy rather than combat…" Pyrrha tried to comfort him.

"Not helping…" he deadpanned again, bowing his head as he did.

"How about Yang!" Tempest happily cheered, cocking his shotguns.

"She just fought, you might be able to battle tomorrow, but right now she's pretty much just about out of fuel…" Kira put in, gesturing to Yang's aura gauge that was displayed above the arena.

"Aww… Josh and Weiss could fight!" Tempest offered, still a bit annoyed he didn't get the fight he wanted.

"Why are you bringing me into this?" Josh asked, a mirrored response coming from Weiss.

"PERFECT! The fight'll start soon!" cheered Ruby, grabbing her red flag again.

"What?" Josh asked, still tried to comprehend what was happening.

"It appears you have been offered to fight one of their team members" answered Markus. Josh just groaned and cocked his carbine, jumping down into the arena.

"Well then… time to get your butt kicked princess!" Tempest happily remarked.

Unbeknownst to everyone... he was actually talking to Josh...