Hero Turned Freelancer

by Jauneforever

A science experiment is what I was to them. Something for them to use as a weapon. Well I only serve myself. They wanted a weapon and they got one, it simply thinks for itself.

2. Chapter 2

All right time for chapter 2 of Hero Turned Freelancer. I hope you enjoy this one. I do not own RWBY or Red vs. Blue.

Chapter 2- A New Ally.

Felix's POV

It's been a month since I blew the Atlas Black Ops facility sky high after snagging the Phantom, formerly known as the Waverider. Since then I've been running around making a name for myself as a bounty hunter/gun for hire. My darker jobs, most of which involve screwing with Atlas, have never reached the light and can't be tracked back to Felix the up and coming bounty hunter. Currently I'm on one of those darker jobs right now.

"So, Penny remind me why we were hired to kill this guy again." I'm on a skyscraper in Atlas looking through the scope of a sniper rifle at a penthouse across the street. Penny has already hacked into their security system so I know that the guy is on his way up.

"Mark Savage, believed to run a gang of slavers. All witnesses disappear and any evidence found is dismissed in Atlas courts. Our client's children were captured by his gang and he wants him dead." Hmm, a slaver huh. That means he probably has a decent stock of money on him and in his apartment.

"New plan Penny. We go in there, rob him blind, get all the information we can out of him about his gang, and then see if we can make some extra dough by taking down the gang. Which village were the kids from? Hy vong (1) right?" Penny confirms that and I pull out my grappling hook after stowing my sniper rifle on my back. Shooting across the street I hit the ledge of the roof and then swing forward. Once across I plant my feet against the concrete between two windows and pull out my Energy Sword. Using that I cut a window out and go through it. The safe is easy to find and easy to break into when you can cut straight through the lock. He even has a suitcase nearby to stuff the loot in.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I turn from putting Lien in the suitcase and find Savage behind me with his blond trophy wife behind him. Savage has a pistol pointed at me. Rather than answer I run straight at him and when he fires I deploy the hard-light shield Penny discovered in my armor. The bullets bounce off of it and I slam into Savage knocking him down. The trophy screams but a quick punch to the face quiets her down.

"Hello Savage. See I was hired to kill you but there is a way you can save yourself. See I want all the information you have on your gang, give me that and I might just let you live."

"What makes you think I'd ever give you anything." I smirk under my helmet and grab a wrist before bending it straight backwards causing a loud snap to echo through the room.

"Do note there are so many ways to hurt you and leave you alive." Crying like a little girl Savage cradles his broken hand to his chest and limps over to his safe. Pushing on one wall of the safe reveals a hidden chamber with only a laptop in it. I pick it up and put it into the suitcase before reaching over and pushing aura into his wrist to heal it enough so it's merely a sprain.

"Pleasure doing business with you." On my way out I destroy all means of communication in the house and start climbing the stairs up to the roof. Once on their I call the Phantom over and the door to the hull opens. Once inside I insert Penny back into the ship and we take off.

"I thought the plan was to kill him?" I smirk at Penny and snap my fingers. We can barely hear the explosion from here but it's there.

"Why Penny, did you actually think I would fail a job? I think that aura I put in him didn't agree with his system don't you think so?" Hmph, too easy.

"Send a message to the client about our payment and look up known members of the gang while you're at it. Find out if any bounties are posted for known members while I go over the data Savage gave us." Penny agrees and she goes to do just that while I head to the captain's quarters. Opening the laptop, I find it has horrible security. Perhaps it would stop a non-AI but against me it's worthless. Soon I've got a list of transactions, clients, members, and places raided.

Alright there appears to be an auction going on in the outskirts of the wilderness. Roanapur, the city of sin. The kingdoms leave it alone because the criminals in there often kill themselves off. Looks like it's a chance to make bag some bounties and make some extra rescuing the victims.

"Penny set a course for Roanapur. We're going hunting."

Ozpin's POV

Another day, another batch of worthless paperwork designed to merely keep me busy.

"Ozpin, Ironwood wants a video conference." I stiffen, to say I've had a falling out with Ironwood would be sugarcoating it. It's arguable that Ironwood's ego is the reason things turned out so badly. We ended up with civilian casualties in the three thousand range, fifty students who can never become Hunters and Huntresses from injuries, and twelve professional Hunter and Huntress casualties and one student casualty. Add on the mountain of psychological issues that my students have developed and I can't fully count this as a victory.

"Put him on." A screen pops up and Ironwood is staring at me from his computer.

"Make it quick General." Ironwood looks hurt but pulls up a newspaper on his screen and begins talking.

"An explosion recently killed a man named Mark Savage and his wife was killed in the same explosion. He had no shortage of enemies due to "rumors" he was involved with a gang of slavers but there was something odd about it. I took an aura sample on a hunch." He starts tapping his desk in Morse Code telling me to go dark. I press a button that will ensure any spyware the council has installed won't catch a word we're saying.

"It's Jaune Arc's aura signature." I spit out the coffee I had in my mouth and start coughing. Once I stop a glare at him.

"We were both here Ironwood. We know he's dead." Ironwood tugs at his collar and looks incredibly uncomfortable.

"I want to make this quite clear that I had no idea about this until recently. The council was reluctant as Hell to tell me but they had no choice when I started asking questions. They authorized a team of Atlas Black Ops agents to gather a sample of Jaune's aura from the air." I remember how the readings came back after the attack. Jaune's aura was spread all over campus, it's still there. Inert but still around.

"Are you telling me someone has weaponized Mr. Arc semblance!?" Ironwood nods and continues talking.

"The facility that it was stored in was blown up recently. They assumed that it was someone being stupid with the sample but now I they've confirmed that someone took the Aura Core containing the sample and weaponized it. At least that's what they're telling me."

"What's wrong Jimmie, I thought you had so much pull with your two council seats." I turn to see Qrow next to the open window.

"After what happened in Vale I have my hands full trying to stop as much chaos as possible here. It doesn't help most of the council wants to take advantage of Vale's losses and try and gain some measure of control over Vale. If I could get peace talks going and have them held at Beacon we could tal.." I cut him off there.

"The last time I let Atlas personal on this campus I had an attempted kidnapping along with seven of my students being harmed. You're lucky I let the Schnees leave here in one piece. I will take what you've said into consideration. However, let me make myself quite clear. I have maintained our working relationship because I think you can help, If I find out you're hiding anything from me I will ruin you." I hang up on him and turn to look at Qrow.

"Look into this will you. If we have a bit of luck for once whoever did this is simply taking the law into his own hands and therefore we can try and work with him." The law doesn't always work and I'm no stranger to breaking some laws for the greater good.

Qrow nods and heads towards the window. "You got it Ozzie, I don't think I need to say it but Ruby, Yang, and their friends do not need to learn about this." I agree with him there, I can just imagine what those seven would do.

Felix's POV

It took a day to reach Roanapur and during that time I've researched Roanapur extensively while making the finishing touches to the modifications of Puppet Master. Now it's attached to my armor and Penny can help me out even more in combat.

The slave auction will take place tonight in a warehouse on the outskirts of the city. I'm lucky normal radar can't track the Phantom because given how much negativity is in Roanapur they've invested heavily in defense systems.

"Alright Penny I cleared enough room so that any people we liberated should be comfortable in the hold. We'll drop them off in Vale after this and we'll turn in any bounties we collect as well. You'll be staying behind and keeping the Phantom running and its defenses at peak performance?" Penny's hologram appears on the table in front of me.

"But Leader, what if you need me. I could finally use Puppet Master to help you." Let's see I think combat knives, energy sword, a shotgun, and two pistols will do for tonight.

"I'd rather we test that out in a less volatile situation. You can help me more by keeping the ship running."

Penny seems down but accepts it and I head to the hull door. Once there I hop out and start moving towards the compound as stealthily as possible. Once there I find the outside door to the basement and use the butt of my shotgun to knock the lock off. I head down the steps and keep my helmets built in sensors running. I take a left and my sensor registers three people behind the door. I switch my shotgun for my silenced pistols and kick the door open. Three thugs are playing a game of cards with their weapons lying against the chair. I put them down with headshots before they can grab their guns and sweep the room.

I find some keys are on a hook near the door and I grab those. I head down the other hallway and with my pistols ready to shoot. I open the next door and find a room filled with cages. Each one is stuffed with people clawing at the cages trying to get out.

"Hey what are you doing here." One thug points his rifle at me and I fire at him before he can register my guns are up. Two more guards in the area come rushing at me but I put them down quickly enough.

"All right I've got a ship outside. I'm going to let you guys go ahead while I take care of anyone else here. Head outside and take fifty paces out the trapdoor. If any of you know how to use a gun take these moron's weapons and be ready to defend yourself." I unlock the first cage and give the keys to one of the prisoners. I then head up the steps that the blueprints said should lead to the main area. When I reach the top of the steps I slowly open the door and see a guard facing away. I grab a knife and stick it in his neck before pulling him back behind the door. I then slip out the door once he stops twitching and hold my shotgun in front of my chest. Anyone that sees me seems to think I'm a guard. A man is walking up on a stage in the middle of the room with a curtain running halfway through it. He picks up a microphone and begins speaking to rile up the crowd.

"Alright all you scumbags and bottom-feeders let's start the night off with a special treat. Now you all remember Roman Torchwick and how many of us he stole from." I count around eight more guards armed with various weapons while each of the fifty or so customers are packing at least a pistol. Each of these men starts cheering after hearing about Roman's death. I open a file on him and do a quick scan. Yep, looks like Roman didn't work with a lot of people, a guy named Junior might supply him with grunts for manual labor and he was involved in the attack on Vale but the only person he really worked with for a long time was a girl named Neopolitan.

"We have Torchwick's pretty little helper here." The curtain pulls away to reveal a girl chained to the wall. All she's wearing is a tattered shirt and a pair of white panties, any visible skin is covered in bruises. A collar that appears to have wires sticking out of it is around her neck while her legs are chained together. Her face matches the picture from Neopolitan's profile.

"Now we all know she was Roman's escape plan so that collar is designed to shock her anytime she uses aura. Sadly me and my men haven't had time to sample the goods but I'm sure whoever gets her will have a fun time exploring that avenue themselves." The man goes over and grabs the girls face and makes her look at the crowd. "Now then smile for the crowd." The girl glares at him and spits in his face. Rage covers the announcers face and smacks her across the face. He then grabs a key from his belt and uncuffs her hands before putting handcuffs on her.

"I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU!" Another blow sends her to the ground. He grabs Neopolitan by her hair and drags her to the end of the stage. "Now then how about you entertain these nice men before we begin the bidding." Neopolitan's eyes widen and she begins to struggle. Now I'm a killer with very little concept of mercy but even I have limits, that and that stupid voice in my head would bug me if didn't stop this. I shoot the closest guy in the back drawing all attention to me.

"Thank you for your attention everyone. My name is Felix and we can do this two ways. The first is you all put your hands on your heads and surrender. The second way is I kill you all." Laughter is their answer along with guns being pointed at me.

"Fine then, my preferred way it is then." I slam my fist into the ground and send aura shooting out like a wave. Once it's under the first group of criminals I detonate it and charge forward while everyone is distracted by the explosions. The shotgun takes out three people per bullet thanks to the wide-spread shot. One man attempts to stab me with a sword but I sidestep it and grab his wrist and pump aura into him before throwing him into the crowd. Half their numbers are lost right there.

"Eat this you bastard!" I see a guard lift a rocket launcher and point it at me. He fires and I deploy my hard-light shield to meet it. I get shoved back slightly by the force of the explosion but my shield holds. I then throw my empty shotgun to the side and toss a knife in the rocket launcher wielder's head. My Energy Sword is soon deployed and carving through bodies. Soon I'm the only one on the ground still breathing.

"You piece of shit! Look at what you did to my cliental. When Savage hears about this." I chuckle and start walking towards the announcer.

"Savage won't do anything. He's nothing more than a pile of ash." The announcer's face pales and as he steps back he stumbles and trips. I bring my boot down on one leg and break it at the knee. While he's screaming in pain I take his keys and uncuff Neopolitan. I help her to her feet and hand her one of my combat knifes.

"Here you go, why don't you take care of this one." Her eyes widen for a second before she blinks and the white irises I was looking at change to a pink iris and a brown iris. A wicked grin spread ear to ear on her face and she walks over to the announcer. While she takes care of that I unhook a sack from my belt and start going around scanning faces. When I found one with a bounty I use my energy sword to cut the head off and stuff it in the sack. Screams and a squelching noise are the background music to my work. I make sure to retrieve the knife I threw into that guard's head and then after gathering every valuable head in the building I go back up to the stage and find Neopolitan straddling the announcer while stabbing him over and over in the chest. He's already dead, with the amount of wounds on him I'd be amazed if he was still alive.

"Okay Neopolitan I think we should go." Neopolitan looks up at me and pouts. I hold my hand out for my knife but she clutches it tightly. Okay she was nearly just used as a plaything so I can see why she'd want a weapon. My armor should protect me if she tries to stab me in the back at least.

"Okay, now I promise you I'm not going to hurt you okay." I grab a knife and slowly bring up my empty hand and pulling the collar away from her neck and then I bring up my knife. She immediately starts struggling and I back up. Okay I want out of here but I'd rather not leave this girl here with only a knife and no access to aura. Like I said even I have limits, it takes a long, long time to reach them but I do have them.

"Alright how about this." I remove my helmet and kneel down before moveing the knife she's holding to my neck. "If I do anything you don't like you have a free shot." I can actually survive a wound like that but if it makes this whole process go faster. I peel the collar away from her neck once more and bring up my knife. Hers cuts slightly into the skin and a few drops of artificial blood spill onto the knife. I slowly take mine and cut away at the collar and in a few seconds in falls away from her neck revealing some nasty burns and a gagged scar on her neck. The scar looks pretty old while the burns are clearly from the collar. She looks up at me with wide eyes before she shatters like glass. I believe that was her semblance, damn I wanted that knife back.

Picking up my sack of heads and putting my helmet back on I head back to the Phantom and enter to find guns pointed at me. The former prisoners then see it's me and put the weapons down. They apologize but I wave it off and head to the main hub of the Phantom.

"Now then I'm taking you all to Vale, tell the police your story and they should get you home." A man that seems to have been appointed leader comes forward and holds his hand out.

"We thank you for your assistance." I shake his hand with my right hand as it's the least bloody and put my sack down on the table.

"Don't thank me, I was mostly after the bounties, your rescue was merely an added benefit. I'll take anyone that needs basic medical attention to the medical bay while Penny leads the rest to the gallery after setting our course. Everyone is welcome to have a pack of field rations each along with a bottle of water. That stuff isn't cheap so Penny will be keeping an eye on you all." Twelve people need medical attention and I take them towards the medical bay while grabbing the de facto leader of the former prisoners and asking him to bring that many ration packs and water bottles to the medical bay and to ask Penny to guide him. I do tell Penny to lock down all other rooms though, I do not need my stuff getting snitched.

The people needing medical attention aren't too bad all things considered and Robert, the prisoner's spokesman, made sure everyone kept calm while getting food and water before bringing some to the medical bay. A broken leg is the worst I have to deal with, the best I could do for that is pain medicine and a makeshift splint until the woman could get proper medical care.

It takes us several hours to reach Vale and during that time most of the former prisoners sleep. I land in the airfield of Hy vong, grab my sack, and exit to find a group of militia outside. Standing in front of me is a wolf-Faunus. Judging from the looks of things he's the captain of the militia and surprisingly he's the man that hired me for the assassination. Of course, we never met face to face. He found me over some ad's Penny put up on the darker side of the CTT. Penny simply tracked the request back and did a background check on our client

"May I ask why you're landing here without so much as a warning." I hit the side of the Phantom and the people I rescued start pouring out.

"Daddy!" Two wolf-faunus kids run out and tackle the man as the rest of the people I rescued pour out. The militia captain grabs both his kids and swings them around with tears in his eyes. When he stops swinging around he looks towards me with a questioning look.

"I got a tip on some bounties gathering in one spot, turns out it was for a slave auction and I couldn't just leave all these people there. I'd like to turn in my bounties while I'm here." The man nods and calls over one of his men who asks me to come with him. I follow him with my sack in hand and we head to what looks like their base. The town looks pretty good given it got raided by bandits two months ago.

My guide then brings out a scroll and asks me to show which bounties I brought in. I tip the heads out of my sack and the man turns green but starts taking a picture of each of the heads. Once he's recorded all the heads I brought in he then plugs his scroll into a larger computer and it calculates the total amount I earned. In comes out to 12,534 Lien, not a bad payday. The man then asks for an account number and I request cash instead.

The bounty system is perhaps the one thing the Kingdoms can work together on without any conflict. By requesting cash each Kingdom will reimburse the place that made the payout for their criminal that was brought it. Now if only they could work as well together all the time, well actually I wouldn't make near as much then. Keep fighting Kingdoms. Accepting my stack of bills I head back to my ship after accepting some supplies from the militia captain as a thank you for rescuing his kids and prepare to take off until Penny shows up in front of me.

"Felix there's an intruder on the ship, she's in the Med bay." Grabbing a pistol, I run toward the Med bay and rush in to find Neopolitan trying to spread some cream on her bruises. She looks up when I barge in and I take in the small suitcase by her side as well as the parasol that her file states is her weapon.

"What are you doing Neopolitan?" She points to herself and holds up three fingers before repeating that action again.

"Do you want me to call you Neo?" She nods and gestures around herself focusing on the medical supplies.

"Okay so you wanted medical treatment and I'm guessing after grabbing your stuff from somewhere in that complex you snuck aboard my ship before we took off." She nods and at that I put away my pistol. I can see her shaking and one hand is clutching the railing of the bed she's next to. She's not a threat for now.

"Listen I'm not just having stowaways. Let's just drop you off here and…" I stop talking at seeing the panic on her face. She reaches over into her bag and pulls out a scroll that's casing is colored equal parts brown, white, and pink. She types on it for a minute before handing it over to me. I can see my knife is now in her hand and she's clutching it like a lifeline.

"Please don't make me leave. Ever since Roman died anyone we pissed off or that has wanted a crack at me as been after me. It didn't help I refused to tell people where Roman's stashes were hidden. I've taken care of plenty of attempts on my life since then but you saw the results of the last attack on me. I don't want to end up someone's toy, please let me work for you. I'll do whatever you want just don't send me back out there again." I look at the girl that's file has painted the picture of a cold, sadistic woman that cared about no-one. Now all I see is a nearly broken girl that's desperate.

"One day you'll have to tell me what Roman did to gain so much loyalty from you. Now take that shirt off." Neo backs up but nods reluctantly and makes to pull her shirt up but I stop her.

"I just want to look you over for wounds, I can't have my new partner falling apart on me." Neo's face clears of most of her fear but it doesn't leave entirely. I help her get her shirt off and lay her stomach down on the bed she's closest before removing my armor and laying it on the other bed in the Med Bay. I will say that Neo is an excellent example of feminine beauty. I begin channeling non-explosive aura into her and focus on the bigger bruises first. Those slowly fade and Neo's face relaxes slightly as her bruises fade. I then move to her neck but before I can put my hand on the burns she grabs my wrist.

"I just want to heal you Neo. You're no good to me if you kneel over from infection."

"Don't try and kid yourself, you want to help her anyway." There's that annoying little voice in my head again. It rarely speaks but it always manages to piss me off. I then notice Neo has let go of my wrist and barred her neck to me. I channel aura into the burns to get the skin to heal slightly before grabbing a cream from the cabinet and placing some on her neck. I then take care of the bruises on her legs as well as wrap her left ankle up to deal with the swelling. It's not broken but twisted.

"Alright now let's get the front Neo." Neo's eyes widen and turn white and she doesn't move for a second before she flips onto her back and covers her breasts with her hands. Luckily the bruising on her front is all on her stomach and her face. Both of which I apply aura to and they heal quickly enough. With that I hand her shirt back to her and look away as she puts it back on.

"There, now let's get you to a room. I help her stand up and wrap an arm around her shoulders to try and keep her steady. I grab her suitcase and parasol in my other hand and then lead her to the second-biggest room on the ship meant for the second-in-command. Once there I help her get on the bed and cover her with a blanket.

"Don't expect me to watch over you like this from now on okay. Once you're fully healed I expect you to earn your keep." Neo nods and I leave the room. This will be interesting, a new partner to help out could prove useful. I just hope she doesn't have some big fear of men now, that makes her near worthless.

"You can't throw her away. She needs you!" I swear I hate this stupid voice in my head, one day I'll find a way to shut it up. I make my way to my own quarters and lay down on my bed when Penny's hologram appears on my bedside table

"Leader, will we be telling Neo about our origins?" I think over that for a few seconds before replying.

"We will at some point, at least once she gets more comfortable around us. Better she knows sooner rather than she finds out in some gunfight with anyone Atlas might send to retrieve us if they find out we're alive." Penny nods at that and her hologram disappears.

"Night Leader."

"Night Penny."

(1)- Vietnamese for Hope

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