Chapter 3.

"Speaking", 'Thoughts', 'Writing', (A/N: Authors Note).

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Winter was summoned to General Ironwood's office on the Mantle's Embrace to report what happened at the crash site she and her team was sent to investigate. To say that she was nervous would be an understatement. She halted her walk in front of the door to Ironwood's Office; she took in a deep breath, exhaled, and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Was the response from the other side, Winter opened the door and walked in. The office had a massive window that showed the sparkling lights of Vale below, in front of the window was Ironwood's desk where the man was sitting at.

"General Ironwood, Sir!" The Specialist said as she snapped to attention, "You called for me."

"Ah yes, I was wanting a face-to-face report of what happened at Site-5234." Ironwood said as he looked up from various pieces of paperwork. "From what I heard it sounded like there was a single man who was able to subdue one of your teammates, shoot at you, and get away. Is that correct?"

"General, I-" Winter began before she was cut off by Ironwood.

"Is. That. Correct?" He said, harsher this time.

Winter flinched a little as he said that before responding. "Yes sir." Ironwood sighed and looked down at the paperwork he was doing before Winter came in.

"Very well, give me your point of view of the incident." He said.

Winter then began to recount her fight with the man.

The Rookie looked at the colorful girl and signed, "Are you O.K.?" The girl looked surprised but signed back.

"Yes, I could've handled them." The Rookie raised an eyebrow at that statement but went along with it.

"Good." He signed and looked at the bodies of the girl's attackers before crouching down at the leader's body and began ruffling through his pockets. He found a strange rectangle with rounded edges and a square button on it, The Rookie pressed the button and the rectangle expanded and showed a screen. It reminded him of a more compact version of a Data Pad, he pocketed the item and went back to the man's pockets where he found a wallet. The ODST pulled it out and claimed that too. He felt a tapping on his shoulder, turning around, the girl he saved looked at him and signed.

"What's your name?" The Rookie pondered the question a bit before responding.

"Just call me The Rookie." The Ice Cream looking girl raised an eyebrow at the name before asking another question.

"Well Rookie, need a job?" Rookie chuckled a bit before signing.

"What kind of job?"

Ozpin's Office, Beacon.

The next day.

"I'm just being cautious." Ironwood said.

"As am I; which is why we will continue to train the best Huntsmen and Huntresses we can." Ozpin rebutted.

"Believe me, I am." Ironwood replied and leaned over onto the table, "But tell me this, do you honestly believe that your children can win a war?"

Ozpin stayed stoic and answered, "I hope they never have to." Ironwood turned to leave but then a beeping from Ozpin's desk stopped him. Ozpin pressed a button and the CCTS AI's female hologram appeared. "What is it?"

"Headmaster, there is something in my system. It is strange, it feels like another AI, but with much more power than I." The AI said. Ozpin frowned and opened his mouth to say something. But Ironwood interrupted him.

"That isn't possible, you are the most advanced AI on Remnant." He said in disbelief.

"Oh, believe me, it is possible." Said an unknown voice before another hologram appeared besides the CCTS AI's; it was a male, around 17 or 18 years old, wearing a hoodie and jeans. "And I must say, your antivirus software as well as your Firewalls are soooooo lacking. I broke through them in less than 1 minute. Oh what's this? Project P.E.N.N.Y. oh dear, what have you been doing Ironwood?" the unknown AI said as it gave Ironwood a sarcastic grin.

Ironwood sputtered before yelling out in anger, "Those files are classified! Cease going through them or you will be purged."

"Phhph, You couldn't even if you tried. And don't worry, I ain't about to leek all your secrets to the public. I just wanted to see how well your security was."

Ironwood was about to say more but Ozpin silenced him, "What is your name? And why are you doing this?" The AI regarded him before responding.

"Name's Dante, and I'm doing this because we can't have anyone getting access to everything connected to this, what do you call it, CCTS. I mean, I accidentally gained the ability to control the entire Robot army that Atlas has."

"You're bluffing." Ironwood quickly said.

"Oh am I?" Dante said as the elevator opened to revel Ironwood's personal Atlesian Knights Marching in, rifles up. Ironwood looked shocked before drawing his revolver and pointing it at them. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna have them gun you down. I'm just proving a point."

Ozpin cut in before Ironwood could escalate the situation any farther, "Who made you?"

Dante once again turned to Ozpin, "Well I'm afraid that information is classified. But anyways, I have an informant for you. Meet him at the Vale Storage Company, Site 2, Warehouse G-28, 11 P.M, Tomorrow. And bring your Scroll." He said before disappearing.

"The AI is still in the system and has begun building new Firewalls, they are nearly 2500% more effective at repelling unwanted access." The CCTS AI said.

"Thank you Kendra, you may go back to your duties." Ozpin said. Kendra nodded and disappeared. Ozpin turned to Ironwood, "James, I imagine your pride was wounded, but don't do anything stupid; this new player might make a powerful ally or devastating enemy." Ironwood nodded before turning and entering the elevator, signaling his Knights to follow.

I LIVE! Sorry for the large delay as well as the short chapter, I've been dealing with some stuff IRL and haven't been able to write as much as I could when I started. But anyways, Thanks to Trail of Spores for helping me out, he has a Legend of Zelda/Hyperdimensional Neptunia Crossover that he is working on; sooooooo if that sounds interesting go check him out. I am also looking for someone to look over my chapters and check them for grammatical errors, so PM me if you want to help me out. As always, feel free to leave criticism, roast me, threaten my life, or anything else along those lines.

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