Alright. Sorry for the delays. Had some personal stuff to take care off. To be totally honest I just finally had enough time to finish volume 4(I know I know. It killed me as well) So this and the next two chapters are going to slowly getting longer as I get back into my writing groove. So I hope you can excuse this meh arc and bear with me to the next big plot point. Oh and one last note. Ginger, you're awesome, 'nough said.
Weiss awoke with a splitting headache, and immediately grabbed her head to quell the pain.
"What happened last night?" Weiss thought, covering her eyes.
"Good morning my little hypocrite." Weiss heard. She immediately rolled over, looking Zade straight in the eyes.
"Zade!" Weiss yelled before immediately holding her head in pain again. "W-why are you here?"
"Because you, my dear, were more than insistent in your drunken stupor that we remain together last night." Zade answered. Weiss stared at Zade for a second before realizing what she was wearing. Weiss pushed herself closer to the wall and her face turned a deep crimson.
"Did we...uh... you know... do anything?" Weiss asked nervously.
"That would be a no." Zade answered. Weiss sighed. "I can't believe she actually blacked out. That means she forgot everything we said." Zade thought to himself, a little down trodden.
"Hey, Zade. Are you OK?" Weiss asked, pulling Zade out of his stupor.
"what?" Zade responded.
"you have circles under your eyes. Did you sleep last night?" Weiss asked. Zade rubbed his eyes while depressingly shaking his head no. Zade rolled over onto his back and pointed at the bed above them.
"Barely. I wish I had blacked out last night. Then, I wouldn't have had to listen to the gross cacophony of moans, grunts, and verbal gasps that emanated from Allister and Yang as they fucked like rabbits for the better part of all fucking night." Zade ranted. Weiss looked up at the bed above them with a look of mixed disgust and sympathy.
"That's not even Yang's bed. Where's Ruby?" Weiss asked. Zade laughed as he pointed over his shoulder. Weiss propped herself up to see Max and Ruby, both fully clothed, passed out on Blake's bed.
Weiss laughed before falling back down. "Well at least is could be worse." Weiss noted. Zade pulled himself closer and wrapped an arm around Weiss.
"It can. We have class in 30 minutes." Zade answered
"Shoot!" Weiss exclaimed.
23 Minutes Later
After painfully managing to wake, and clothe, the rest of the teams, ¾ of team's RWBY and ENDD stepped out into the hallway, reluctantly ready to attend classes. As they started down the hallway Blake came walking out of team ENDD's room, a broad smile on her face. Blake turned to look at her friends.
"Hey, Guys. Good morning." Blake cheerfully greeted. Each member of team RWBY looked at Blake rather suspiciously. Which did not go unnoticed. "What?" Blake asked accusingly.
"Nothing. You just seem really really happy. More so than normal." Yang admitted. Ruby and Weiss nodded in agreement.
"No particular reason. I just feel happy today." Blake answered, doing her best to not openly discuss the previous nights activities with Darron. Everyone stared at Blake for a moment before Ruby decided to speak.
"Cool! I'm happy for you. But we should probably get to class." Ruby interjected, hoping to stop the rest from prying too deep into Blake's personal life. Everyone nodded and the group started walking down the hall. Allister skipped forward, until he fell in step with Blake.
"Hey, where's Darron?" Allister asked, worried about his leader.
"He is going to join us later. He needs to talk to Professor Ozpin." Blake answered.
"As long as he's fine." Allister conceded, before focusing his attention on walking to class.
Darron stood in the elevator leading up to Ozpin's office. He ran his fingers through his hair, running ideas through his head of how to address Ozpin. Unfortunately, The ding of the elevator pulled Darron back to reality. Darron just went with the first thing that popped into his mind.
"What the fuck?" Darron said walking into Ozpin's office. Ozpin looked up from the work that was on his desk at the approaching student.
" What can I do for you?" Ozpin asked. Sitting back in his chair.
"You need to actually come clean to whatever this convergence thing will do to my mind. Right... Now." Darron demanded, slamming his hands down on Ozpin's desk. Ozpin looked Darron in the eyes and sighed.
"I'm sure the souls in your body have already given you an basic explanation of how this might work." Ozpin assumed. Darron nodded sarcastically. "Well, in a more specific manner, What we've done by giving you this power is letting you control your outbursts of power. Instead of using your full power and over time letting the voices crowd your mind, we allow you to control when your power is released. This let's you reach new level of power while limiting the normal rate with which your power naturally exists. However, whenever you use the full power you will receive a massive load of mental strain. Based on our analysis you can use that full power 3-4 more times before you experience another meltdown like the one we're still recovering from. I know this sounds like a crazy burden to place on you, but you are the only one capable of doing so. Next time we need to face your evil side, it will be of your own free choice, rather than a random time based system even you know." Ozpin explained.
"So you're saying that I get to decided when I become an insane psychopath who will most certainly try to kill all my friends and the people of Vale." Darron summarized.
"Yet, if you chose not to use this power, you will never have to to suffer that level of mental agony ever again." Ozpin pointed out.
"Fuck." Darron stated bluntly.
Ozpin smirked. Standing up from behind his desk.
"Darron. I'm actually glad you came to me. I've been doing some thinking and I want you and your team to do some work for me in the interest of improving your public image." Ozpin said. Darron looked at the professor curiously.
"Go on." Darron inquired.
Teams RWBY and ENDD, as well as a number of their other friends were sitting in Professor Port's Grimm Studies class, catching up on any sleep they may have willingly skipped out on.(Allister and Yang we're looking at you.) Professor Port seemed to be indifferent to the situation as he rambled on telling some story from his youth which quite frankly. No one cared about. Everyone's attention was grabbed, however as Darron suddenly walked into the classroom. Even Professor Port stopped what he was saying to address him.
"Can I help you?" Port asked.
"I'm going to need my team. Something for Ozpin." Darron explained. Port nodded and Darron turned towards his team. "Zade, grab Allister, and Max let's go. Girls, friends, Sun we will see you guys later, I hate leaving without explanation, but we will keep in touch and remember, if you think one of us would do it, at least have fun before you get in a shit load of trouble." Darron finished. Max walked up to his leader, giving him a fist bump. Zade reached out, grabbed Allister, and teleported the two in front of Darron. Darron nodded and led the three of them out of the room.
By the time they had reached Beacon's airfield, Allister had finally managed to wake up. He was currently walking next to Darron still really confused at to whatever the hell was going on.
"Alright. Get on." Darron stated bluntly, gesturing to the airship in front of them. Allister just looked at Darron as though he had grown a second, or even third, head. "I'll explain on board." Darron assured. Allister shook his head, yet walked onto the airship followed by Max and Zade. Once at the top they were greeted by Professor Ozpin who invited them to take a speak.
"Who's ready for a ride.? Ozpin asked
Once the ship was comfortably cruising through the air Zade decided it was time to finally get some answers.
"So Professor, what exactly do you want us to do for you?" He asked. Professor Ozpin smiled before leaning forward, supporting himself with his cane.
"I hope your high mission completion rate from your mercenary days is a skill you've managed to maintain. I'm about to run you through a gauntlet of missions. One after the other, no breaks, no sleep. Nothing but Grimm killing." Ozpin finally explained. Allister, Zade, and Max all exhaled in awe.
"That's a lot of shit." Max stated.
"Are you sure we... mostly you are up for this boss?" Zade asked, turning to face Darron. Darron looked back at Zade before nodding confidently.
"I guess that settles it then." Ozpin declared. "Let's get started. We're actually right above the first mission now. Your targets are the Grimm near the towns southern entrance. Go." The back drop of the ship opened and team ENDD promptly disembarked, at 3000 feet.
As team ENDD rapidly approached their target, Darron began dishing orders to his team.
"Allister, grab the Beringle. Zade, hack and slash on those Creepers. Max, full frontal. Push that Deathstalker back.
"Sir!" the others yelled back in unison.
Allister was the first to land, immediately smashing through one of the Beringle. Allister snapped out his daibo and slammed it across the face of a Beringle that was behind him. He reared back and thrust the daibo through the Beringle, piercing its heart. Allister lifted his daibo, with the Beringle still on it, and slammed it down on another Grimm that was advancing, the force killing both. Allister smirked cockily before something big and solid slammed right into his back. Allister flew forward bouncing ungracefully across the ground. As Allister managed to regain his footing the Beringle was already upon him. Faced with little time Allister did the first thing he could think of. He opened his mouth spewing a condensed yet violent stream of light that practically disintegrated the Beringle. Allister held up his daibo and attached flame dust crystals to each end. Suddenly, Allister slammed his hand out, catching the face of another Beringle. Allister swiftly closed his hand, crushing the Beringle's head. Allister began spinning his daibo around, the crystals forming a ring of fire. Allister abruptly stopped, sending that ring of fire flying forward. The ring raced across the ground before erupting in a mass of fire, burning the Beringle. Allister turned around and was immediately punched straight in the face. Allister hit the ground hard, dropping his daibo. Allister quickly jumped to its feet. And stared down the massive Beringle before him. The Beringle roared in his face before drawing back an arm and tried to punch Allister's face. Allister reached up and grabbed the Beringle's hand, stopping it in its tracks. Both Allister and the Beringle drew their other fists back. Upon collision, the force was so great that the Beringle's arm literally exploded. Allister causally tossed the rest of the Beringle aside as he walked over to retrieve his daibo. Allister casually twirled his daibo and started after a new set of Beringle.
Max used the rockets built into Titan to land directly in front of the massive Deathstalker. Max opened up all six of Titan's wrist based assault rifles and both of its shoulder mounted .50 caliber machine guns. Max immediately started opening fire, hitting directly on the bone plating over the deathstalker's face. The Deathstalker roared intensely as it slowly stepped backwards. Max continued to walk forward, hoping to keep the massive Grimm as far from the town as possible. The Deathstalker reared up with its tail before trying to run Max through. Max rolled to the side and continued firing. However, in that time, the Deathstalker had gotten dangerously close. Max raised his arms just in time to eat a hard slam from the deathstalker's claw. Max felt himself slid backwards, tearing up the ground behind him.
By the time Max had managed to slow himself down, the Deathstalker had made significant headway towards the town. Max engaged two small barrels on the underside of Titan's wrists. From these barrels, Max fired grappling hooks. The hooks raced across the ground and embedded themselves deep in the back of the Deathstalker. Immediately, the Deathstalker started thrashing, trying to desperately unhinge Max. Max started reeling in his hooks while he engaged his shoulder guns to stop any stray Grimm that tried to approach from behind.
Once the Deathstalker was close enough, Max detached the hooks of the Deathstalker and grabbed hold of it's tail. With a single, mighty heave, Max flipped the Deathstalker over his head, slamming it down on its back. The Deathstalker freaked out, its legs waving around wildly. Max stepped back, opening the shoulder pauldrons on Titan. Max smirked as he fired two napalm missiles directly at the Deathstalker. Max turned around and walked away as the napalm covered the Deathstalker burning it to ashes.
Once the rest of the Grimm were disposed of, Team ENDD rendezvoused in front of the town.
"Not bad." Zade complimented, looking around at the renaming Grimm slowly disintegrating into nothing, However, before any member of the team could get too comfortable, Ozpin lowered the airship if front of them.
"Let's go boys. We've got a loooot of work to do." Ozpin beckoned. Team ENDD shook their head and reluctantly jumped on board.
10 Days Later
"Shit!" Darron yelled as he flew backwards. His chest burning like crazy after taking a slash from an alpha Beowolf. Allister reached out and grabbed hold of his leader before setting him down. Darron slowly rose to his feet panting heavily. Allister grabbed and shook his head, waking himself up.
"This is stupid." Allister declared, waving at the mass of Beowolves which were approaching the dust mine. Darron just casually shrugged, clearly at a loss for words.
"Get crackin!" Zade yelled from across the plain. Zade swiftly spun around and jammed one of his sci through the skull of another Beowolf.
Darron stood up, stretched his back, and loaded a lightning dust crystal into his sword. Promptly, Darron ignited the dust causing lighting to arc all over his blade. Ignoring the screams emitting from his blade Darron gave his blade a sharp swing. Lightning sparked out and chained itself between a massive number of the Beowolves. Eventually the lightning ran its course and killed a majority of the Beowolves. Darron lowered his sword and panted heavily. Darron only raised his head to see Max sluggishly trudging over.
"fuck this." Max stated before falling to his knees. Darron leaned on his armored buddy, neither really desiring to continue fighting. Just as the Beowolves started advancing again multiple soldier rushed forward, intercepting the Wolves. Team ENDD breathed sighs of relief, until they heard Ozpin clear his throat from behind them.
"That's your break. Back on the trail." Ozpin called out in suspiciously jolly tone. Allister and Darron glared at the headmaster before lifting Max and carrying him to the ship, only to be shortly joined by a tattered Zane.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuck." Zade moaned before falling face first on to the floor of the ship.
11 More Days Later
"Darron! Where the fuck?" Allister shouted. He grimaced as a spark of lightning dashed cross his face. The massive Sea dragon was relentless in its lightning assault. Fortunately, Allister's semblance allowed him to create a light shield,(Which was currently flickering due to exhaustion) That mitigated a majority of the damage.
"Well excuse me for not wanting these two idiots to die from drowning after killing 8 of these sea dragon assholes." Darron retorted sarcastically. He was currently pulling his unconscious teammates up the beach. Both of them had succumbed to injuries and fatigue acquired over the last 3 weeks. Darron tossed the two men down before looking back towards Allister. Darron cracked his neck and ran forward.
"It's about time!" Allister yelled just as his defensive shield gave way. Allister was blasted back and he yelled out in pain. Darron took the opportunity to rush past Allister and into the water. Darron flapped his wings and took off, flying high above the sea dragon.
By now the sea dragon had finished with Allister and was currently focused on Darron. The dragon started firing small burst of lightning at Darron. Darron masterfully weaved through the onslaught as he loaded a burn dust crystal into the hilt of his blade. Darron focused as much aura as he could spare into his sword, engulfing the blade in fire. Darron held his arm back. Once the Dragon opened its mouth to fire another bolt of lightning, Darron threw his sword at the Dragon. His sword soared(hehe) through the air, and lodged itself in its throat. The fire from the blade rapidly expanded, encasing the entire grimm in fire. Darron smiled at the inferno he created. Eventually, the Grimm disintigrated and Darron's sword fell into the sand.
Darron flew down and landed clumsily, falling on his face. Darron painfully crawled up next to Allister, who was barely moving.
"Hey." Darron said. Allister looked over and groaned.
"Are we done?" He asked pleadingly.
"You are in fact." Ozpin said, approaching the two boys. "We're here to pick you up now. We need to get Darron home and ready. His interview is in two days."
"My what?" Darron asked as he rolled over. Darron thought for a moment and decided that he, quite frankly, didn't care enough. "Tell me when I wake up." Darron instructed as he let his head fall back in the sand and fell asleep. Ozpin looked down at the sleeping leader before laughing to yourself.
"It will be quite the show."