Grimm's New Leader – Chapter 2
A Business Deal
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Eventually Chase was able to convince the Grimm in Forever Falls to follow him to a mountain near the forest itself, and brought out a treasure chest that was black and red, and sparkled. This was the Treasure of the Blind Swordsman. It was a mystical item that held the spirit of a powerful, yet blind swordsman, who was practically a genie.
So when Chase Young open the treasure chest, he was greeted by the genie that lived within the treasure chest. When he was asked just what he was asking for, he gave the answer.
"I want you to create a complete duplicate of my lair, back in the other world." With those words, the spirit nodded, and in a flash, Chase's lair was created on the mountaintop, the Grimm in question looked at him once again as if he had become something that they could not comprehend, almost alien.
Chase knew that by this point that they would follow him out of curiosity of what he could do, not just the fact that he was a being without a soul, like they were. Still, it wasn't like they weren't intelligent or anything, some of them had lived for a few decades after all. It wasn't by accident that they had lived for so long after all.
They knew that this being was far stronger than any of them, that this Chase could singlehandedly destroy them without a second thought if he so pleased, but he didn't simply because he found them fascinating. They would follow him as long as he decided not to kill them, they'd rather avoid having to face him quite honestly because he absolutely terrified them.
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Jack Spicer rubbed his hands with glee, unable to stop himself from laughing out loud as he looked at his latest piece of work. It turned out that Dust was not too different from electricity after all and that the making of machines was rather simple. Not that he had too much trouble making robots in the first place mind you, he did it for a hobby and for his evil army when he tried to take over the world, before Chase Young achieved it.
"Changing Chopsticks!" Jack suddenly shrunk down to the size of a grain of rice, and flew into a robot's head, where he proceeded to work on the inside to connect some cables that would otherwise be impossible with the creation that he had in mind. He was recreating the Chameleon-Bot, the robot that was considered his greatest ever creation. After all, if the robot could take the shape of anything or anyone, then what limit was there for the robot in mind?
In the past Jack had used the robot in question to help him kidnap Kimiko and steal all of the Shen Gong Wu that the Xiaolin Monks had access to, and the Chameleon-Bot had also kidnapped Raimundo in the past after it had beaten the Brazilian boy in battle. However, there was one major flaw that the robot seemed to have. While the Chameleon-Bot could imitate others behaviour and adapt to any situation if it needed to, it needed time to study the person it was to imitate in order to completely get the personality right.
So why was Jack creating this robot again? Simple, so he could infiltrate any gangs and steal everything that they were looting for themselves. There was nothing quite as poetic as stealing from the thieves after all.
As Jack flew out of the robot's ear, he started to tinker with a few things on his watch, and proceeded to laugh evilly when he saw the robot change form, first into the form of Wuya's ghost form, then her human form, then into himself, then into Omi, Raimundo, Clay, Kimiko before finally it changed into Chase Young himself. He knew all of them quite well over the years now, so they would be easy for the Chameleon to turn into.
Still it wasn't enough, so suddenly he commanded the Chameleon-Bot to transform into an important figurehead in the world of Remnant. Slowly, but surely he watched as his greatest creation transformed into the headmaster of Beacon Academy, the great Ozpin himself. At the sight of the great man himself, Jack simply threw his head back and laughed uncontrollably, allowing his inner evil to shine through as he thought of the possibilities that were now at his disposal.
Now the main question was who should he test Chameleon-Bot on first, he watched his greatest creation turn back into its original form as he started to plot ahead, wondering if Chase needed him to ensure that he started to work for the company that he had a job interview for.
"Hi Jack!" Suddenly, another Jack came out of nowhere, causing the original Jack to jump on the air in sheer shock and scream like a little girl, landing in Chameleon-Bot's arms. He glared at the other Jack viciously, before he sighed in annoyance.
"What do you want, Robo-Jack. Weren't you going out looking for information for Chase?" Jack glared at another one of his creations, Robo-Jack, who merely smirked smugly, looking rather pleased with himself. The thing that normally gave him away was the fact that his vocals have a slight mechanical tone to it.
"Well, I may or may not have found a club, whose owner might have some connections to the criminal underworld. The guy's said to have lots of information on the kind of people we'll be looking for." Robo-Jack informed his creator, who glared at the robot for a moment, before he sighed in irritation.
"Fine, but at least tell me who the owner is, I'd rather make some good connections rather quickly, and avoid having to deal with Chase using me like I'm some useless pawn again." Though he did have to admit, the one time when Chase enabled him to get an army of monkeys to defeat the Xiaolin Monks was pretty awesome. It still amongst his greatest ever moments, it was just a shame that the Monkey Staff, a Shen Gong Wu that turned the user into a monkey, left him with the intelligence of a monkey after prolonged use.
"Some guy called Hei 'Junior' Xiong, if we asked nicely enough, we could get some information in exchange for something that might be of use to him." Robo-Jack hinted towards something, to which Jack smirked in response.
"Like an army of robots to help with security."
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Chase looked at the chessboard with a calculating expression, trying to see all of the moves in front of him that was in front of him. His opponent truly was a cunning foe, one that could test even his mind when given enough determination.
Still, he had managed to get a portal open permanently between his lair in Remnant, and his lair in Earth, allowing his fallen warriors to come into this world as well. It not only ensured that he would be able to stay in contract with Earth, but it also bolstered his forces with the warriors that he had beaten and gained the loyalty of in the past.
Between the Grimm and his Fallen Warriors, Chase Young now practically had an army at his disposal that pretty much out-manned the Four Kingdoms of Remnant, something that if they were to find out about would outright put enough fear in the Councils of the Four Kingdoms to try and declare war against him just to try and put out his flame before he could truly get going.
"You seem to be deep in thought, is something the matter?" Chase looked at his opponent for the chess match, who was none other than the T-Rex that he had fed Wuya to a few years ago. It spoke with a posh male accent. Yet the funny part about the dinosaur was the fact that it was actually a girl, and have something like an admiration for him.
The Xiaolin monks and Jack found the whole thing rather amusing, even if they didn't voice it. They'd rather not go down the same way that Wuya had after all.
"I was just thinking about our new companions." Chase admitted, as he move a bishop. He was contemplating whether he should use the Eagle Scope on the Grimm like he did for T-Rex when she was originally under Wuya's control, who had bribed the dinosaur with sugar-cubes of all things.
It was almost laughable that Wuya had once been not only his partner in evil, but also a witch with godlike power, who had been trapped in a puzzle box twice. He had allowed her to regain her body, but had been able to stop her from gaining her powers, forcing her to go about other means to try and become the evil force that she once was.
Chase still looked back at Wuya's ultimate demise with a hint of fondness, even if he gained what strange admirer in the form of T-Rex on that day. That was the day that he truly put fear into Jack Spicer, who Wuya had stolen the Rio Reversio, the Shen Gong Wu that had brought T-Rex to life in the first place, from him in the first place.
He could have turned T-Rex back into a puddle of oil, but something about the intelligent dinosaur made him decide otherwise. Maybe it was so he could have intelligent discussions with someone who he knew would never betray him, trade ideas from time to time on what next step to take next.
"Well, do they trust you to the point that I do?" T-Rex asked, as she moved a pawn. Chase frowned in thought.
"As of right now, I'm not sure but I will…" Chase pushed when he saw his monitor flash, indicating that a call was incoming. "Sorry about this." Chase pressed a button and he nodded, before his face became absolutely thunderous.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT MONKS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED?!"
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Raimundo looked at the door of the questioning room that he currently found himself sitting in. It truly was a unique experience for him to find himself in, though he had to wonder just how this sort of thing hadn't happened before now. Still, when they were all taken in for being 'vigilantes', Raimundo offered to be the one that was questioned since he was the leader of the group and would have the most information available.
Omi, being the prideful and full-of-himself child he was, tried to claim to be the leader, but Kimiko and Clay thankfully shut him up before any misunderstanding could be made. He refused to allow Omi to be tortured for anything, even if he was sexist and narcissistic, believing himself to be superior to the other Xiaolin monks in every way, Raimundo didn't want his friend, who was practically his little brother to get hurt when it could have been avoided.
"What do you think they want Dojo?" Raimundo asked, before a green lizard-like creature with two hands poked his head out from Raimundo's sleeve, looking thoughtful of the situation. This was Dojo Kanojo Cho, a dragon.
"Well, considering what you guys did to those thugs, they're probably going to ask you some questions on why you were fighting them and seeing your abilities, ask if you're going to be willing to help them fight for their case, providing that you don't get locked up for a good long jail sentence." Dojo offered his opinion, causing Raimundo's eyes to narrow at the last possibility. If they were given a jail sentence, then he would make sure to get everyone out of there without causing any unnecessary harm.
However, if they were forced to fight, then they would fight to incapacitate everyone that got in their way, and see how they would be able to keep out of the public eye. They however, refused to kill, even if Chase had tried to force them to do it. In the end, Chase had simply given up on trying to end things permanently, deciding that it was too much effort to try and convince them otherwise.
"Very perspective." Suddenly, Raimundo's thoughts were interrupted by the appearance of middle-aged grey-haired man. He was sharply dressed, with a green scarf around his neck and had a cane in his left hand and a mug of coffee in his right hand. He sat in the chair across from Raimundo, who eyed him cautiously, before he had up a device, which showed the Xiaolin Monks fighting the thugs before their arrest. "I must admit, I hadn't expected to find a group of teenagers who have the ability to manipulate the elements as efficiently as yours do, nor did I expect to find a group of teenagers able to fight as efficiently together without any formal training at a combat school." The man looked Raimundo straight in the eye. "Tell me, who are you."
Raimundo took some time to calculate what answer would serve him the best in this situation. If he told him anything, then he would have to leave out anything to do with Chase Young, admittedly, he could simply tell him everything before he was forced into serving immortal villain. Chase did want them to go to a Combat School or an Academy, and if this man was who he thought he was, then Raimundo could do what he had been meaning to do.
"My name is Raimundo Pedrosa, together with my friends, Kimiko Tohomiko, Clay Bailey and Omi, we trained together to fight darkness and evil. We were trained in a temple high in the mountains that was destroyed two years ago, when Grimm attacked it. Since then we have been travelling the world and helping those in need with help from our dragon, Dojo, while fighting both Grimm and common criminals." Raimundo to the man, who nodded, taking a sip from his coffee.
"I see." The man smiled, it was clear that the man knew he was hiding something, but wasn't going to push the issue. He eyed Dojo with a curious expression, before he looked at Raimundo again. "Do you know who I am?"
"If I'm correct, you're Professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon Academy, one of the most important men in Vale." Raimundo answered easily. "What do you really want with us? Surely a headmaster of a Huntsmen Academy wouldn't come all this way for four teenagers unless he wanted something from them.
"Straight to business I see. I can respect that." Ozpin mused, taking another sip of his coffee. "I want to invite you and your friends to Beacon Academy, I see you all with all of the potential in the world, but it's simply going to waste with no direction."
"You're not wrong there." Dojo responded under his breath. "My name is Dojo Kanojo Cho, the dragon that's been looking after these kids the best I can with the limited resources that we have available." Raimundo gave him a slightly alarmed look, did he really need to give that sort of information out to people he just met?
"Fascinating, I assume that you have another form." Ozpin asked, causing Raimundo to snort in amusement.
"He can turn into a 40-foot dragon. I seriously doubt you want him to try that in this cramp little room." Raimundo could be forgiven for being blunt about this, he had seen Dojo being stuck in a cramp room before, it wasn't a pretty affair.
"No, I suppose that wouldn't be for the best." Ozpin agreed easily, but Raimundo wasn't going to be too surprised if Ozpin try to convince Dojo to show him his dragon form at some point. There just seemed to be something about him that told him that the headmaster would eventually see it, especially if the Xiaolin Monks were to try and get to a destination without the use of a Bullhead, which Raimundo was sure that Dojo could outpace anyway.
"We'd like to attend your academy, all of us would. It's been a dream as long as we found out about Huntsmen and Huntresses and their purpose." Raimundo finally confessed, causing Ozpin to smile. It seemed that he had chosen correctly with the four of them after all.
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Jack smirked when he opened the door to the club that Robo-Jack mentioned. He had brought both Chameleon-Bot and Robo-Jack with him as extra protection, knowing perfectly well just how dangerous this little attempt to try and expand his 'business' around Remnant. If he was going to go around and start proposing that he send his robots to go ahead and start a protection business then he would need to show that they could actually could actually survive fighting these Huntsmen and Huntresses. It wasn't like they were all super-powered idiots like those Xiaolin Monks were, was it now?
Still, he wanted to make a good impression to the guy called they called 'Junior'. If he could use this man to get information on the criminal underworld, then he could see about expanding his business to all kind of people.
"That's the guy, or at least what his description is meant to be anyway." Robo-Jack interrupted when he spotted a man with two girls by the bar. Jack smirked eagerly as he made his way towards them.
The man had grey eyes, short black hair, and a black beard with a moustache. His choice of attire was a formal white dress shirt with a black vest over the top, a red tie, black gloves and black dress pants. The thing that stood out to Jack was that he was extremely tall, almost 7 foot in height.
The first girl had long black hair and pale green eyes, which was highlighted by highlighted by heavy cyan makeup. Her outfit consisted of a white, strapless dress with cyan lining, had a large white flower hairpin, a white feather scarf, white gloves, and a white bow. Her outfit was completed by a white bow and long white boots with heels.
Standing next to her seemed to be her twin if Jack was correct. She had short black hair and pale green eyes, highlighted by heavy red makeup. Her outfit was a red strapless dress with black lining, had large red and white feathers above her left ear, black fur hanging off her shoulders, red gloves, a black bow and long red boots with heels.
The man caught the sight of Jack and his little group, causing the man's eyes to narrow in suspicion, wondering just what the strange group was doing in his club of all places. Jack couldn't stop smirking at the tall man.
"So, are you the one that they call Junior, the guy who is meant to know pretty much everything?" Jack asked smoothly, Robo-Jack merely rolled his eyes, while Chameleon-Bot merely stood there silently, acting like his bodyguard, ready to deal with any threats.
"What if I am?" Junior scowled, the last thing he really wanted to deal with tonight was some cocky little punk who thought that he could get away with anything that he wanted. He really hoped that this punk wasn't one of those idiots who thought he could be a top dog because he had money.
"I have a proposition for you." Jack offered freely, before he brought out a small box from his jacket. "It's one that I think will benefit us both greatly." Jack brought out the Changing Chopsticks, and tapped the small box, which grow greatly in size to reveal it was a suitcase. When he opened the suitcase, numerous small robots flew out, hovering around Jack, Junior and the twins.
"What exactly are these meant to be?" Junior asked, crossing his arms, not looking particularly impressed by what he was seeing. Jack however smirked evilly, while Robo-Jack was struggling to stop himself from laughing evilly.
"My proposition. Changing Chopsticks!" Suddenly the small robots all grew in size, causing the twins to get ready to defend themselves from the numerous robots that suddenly had them surrounded. "Now, my proposition is simply this. I require information on the criminal underworld, and I hear that you send you provide men to anyone looking to hire. I'd like to start a business partnership with you, where I start sending out my robots for people looking for men. I'm willing to give you a split in the spoils for finding clients for me, providing they actually pay you of course."
Junior looked at Jack, then at his robots, who were floating around ominously, before they showed their weapons, which were claws, spinning blades, maces, guns, amongst their arsenal. Chameleon-Bot merely stood there, motionless, before it took showed its ability. Suddenly before their very eyes, Chameleon-Bot transformed into Junior himself, causing the man in question to blink a few times, just to make sure he was seeing things correctly.
"You see, I have resources beyond most people. I have an army of robots at my command, but then a thought came to me. I asked myself, "Why don't I try and make money with my robot army, allow them to be hired out by people who needed men", and with this in mind, I came to you, the man who is said to be the best information broker in Vale." Jack explained his reasoning, before he knocked on Robo-Jack's head, revealing that he was another robot of his. "I could even disguise my robots to look like your henchman as well, so what do you say?"
Junior couldn't help but looked interested by the deal that Jack was throwing his way, it seemed as though the teenager had every part covered with this deal that he was proposing. The fact that Junior himself could make some money by acting as the middle man was enough to make the deal extremely inviting.
"Kid, you've got yourself a deal." It really was too good of a deal to turn down, how many people could claim to have a business partner who could make an army of robots with ease. It was now just a matter of making sure that these robots were actually good enough to at least put up a fight against the Huntsmen and Huntresses in the world of Remnant.
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Chase looked at the Shen Gong Wu in his hand cautiously. It was the Eagle Scope, and it was also the same Shen Gong Wu he had used to give T-Rex the ability to think and speak for itself. Yet why was he taking a hard long look at the Shen Gong Wu itself?
He was considering using it on the Grimm that had followed him, to give them the same ability as T-Rex. It was a risky idea, they unlike T-Rex weren't completely loyal to him and would try and kill him if he didn't at least tame them first and foremost. T-Rex didn't need taming for she was infatuated with him to the point that if he asked her to, she would happily throw herself off of a cliff.
Sometimes Chase regretted feeding Wuya to her, but at the same time, he knew that it needed to be done, to stop her from betraying him ever again. He was the ruler of the world, and the last thing he needed was someone continuously trying to stab him in the back.
Still, now that Chase thought about it, it probably wasn't the best timing to use the Eagle Scope on the Grimm just yet, he'd rather wait until they were as well tamed as his fallen warriors. Now they were jungle cats tamed so well that they could actually set up the table with just a click of a finger, and if he needed them to do so, he could use his jungle cats to intimidate anyone into submission. Dojo knew all too well just how terrifying Chase could make his jungle cats be if he wanted to.
However, he right now felt that he needed to send his fallen warriors out to be his spies, so he could find some Huntsmen or Huntresses who had potential to one day cause him problems in the future. He knew that the Academy Headmasters would cause him problems if he did anything stupid, but there was always the underlings that had enough problem to one day stand tell to try and prove themselves to their leaders that they could.
It really was such a shame that Jack messed up in that job interview at the Schnee Dust Company, they apparently didn't like his robots too much, but at least he was smart enough to try and get a deal with an information broker that was known to know everything.
The Xiaolin Monks finding themselves being accepted into Beacon Academy was another piece of good news, it would give Chase a good insight into how the Academies worked and it would give him more knowledge on the future Huntsmen and Huntresses that might become an issue in the future.
Suddenly, a crow landed on his shoulder and started to whisper into his ear, causing Chase to smirk to himself. "So the White Fang are planning to attack a train which has Dust are they? Well, let's see if they can actually put up a fight."
With those words he stood up and proceeded to walk to the outside of his lair and fly off towards Forever Falls, the location that his crow had told him the train would be hit. It was time to see if this terrorist group was even as dangerous as the world made them out to be.
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Raimundo sighed as Kimiko shouted at Omi for a remark he had made about women, again. He really did wonder how the young boy believed that he was the best candidate for being the leader of the group when he came out with comments like that. He turned towards Clay, who merely shrugged at him, he had been thinking the same thing as him, after all this time you'd have Omi would have known not to say something sexist.
In a way, letting Kimiko beat him up was the best way for him to leave what he should and shouldn't say. Raimundo ducked as Omi was sent flying in his direction, slamming into the building behind him with Omi left seeing stars. He looked at Kimiko, who was angrily snarling in Omi's direction, wiping her hands as if she had just taken out the trash.
Raimundo cringed. There was a damn good reason why he avoided trying to piss off his girlfriend, she was absolutely known for her temper, and considering she was the Dragon of Fire, it made her temper all the more difficult to control at times. Still, it was one of the things that he did love about her though, she always did look sexy when she angry, something that always seem to annoy her.
Hey, he couldn't help it, it was the truth after all.
"You okay there little partner?" Clay called out to Omi, only to get a groan of pain in response. Huh, Kimiko must have been really pissed off to have hit him that hard. Raimundo wondered just what Omi said to her this time. Raimundo walked up to Kimiko and gave her a questioning look as he pulled her into an embrace, she looked away blushing in embarrassment at his questioning look.
"I know he might have said something, but you need to control your anger Kim, I'd rather we avoid being arrested for a second time." Raimundo told her gently, kissing her forehead as he stroked her hair. Kimiko smiled at Raimundo, as Clay pulled Omi out of the imprint that Kimiko had left him in, the poor boy was still completely out of it.
Raimundo and Kimiko did argue more often than not about some of the stupidest things possible, but if anything the arguments always seemed to make the relationship all the more closer. Chase Young had initially tried to stop the relationship blooming further than friendship, but eventually gave up after seeing that not only was he never going to succeed, but the fact that the relationship seemed to make the two of them fight better when they were together.
"I love you." Kimiko smiled lovingly, before she kissed him. Things might not be the best being forced to serve Chase Young, but at least they had this.
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"So what do you think? Impressive huh?" Jack couldn't help but look gleeful as he introduced his robots, who looked just like Junior's henchmen. The henchmen in question looked rather concerned by seeing robots that looked absolutely identical to them, it really made them wonder if they were being replaced or not.
"You couldn't tell the difference between the real thing and the duplicate." Junior had to admit, he was rather impressed by the creation. It really did make everything easier to do, the only downside to this was the price, but if the robots had none of the intelligence issues that his henchmen had, then he wasn't going to complain.
Money well spent you'd have to say right now, but all that needed to do was wait for some idiot to try and get some information out of Junior in an aggressive manner. It was bound to happen with all of the cocky Huntsmen and Huntresses in training after all. They all thought that they were invincible until they were either beaten to the inch of their life or just had their freedom taken away from them. It happened to the Xiaolin Monks, so why couldn't it happen to anyone else?
Jack was already counting the money that he would make from this business route he had taken, just because the Schnee Dust Company didn't like his ideas for robots, believing them to be too unmarketable of all things. Please, if Atlas could get away with some of the things that they were believed to be developing, then surely he was hardly in the wrong himself.
Seriously, just because he wasn't solely going for the Grimm with his ideas and had mentioned Humans and Faunus as things to use his robots on as well didn't mean it was a bad thing, he might be a self-proclaimed 'Evil Boy Genius', but that didn't mean he was blind to the world and all of its faults. There were some bad people out there that needed to be stopped no matter the cost.
Seriously, what hypocrites. He was pissed off enough that he was honestly considering going after the Schnee Dust Company Heiress to use her as a way to vent some of his frustration off. Jack stopped his ranting thoughts and just looked back at how that came out. He grimaced, that would have been a horrible thing to say out loud. Thank god he had better self-control over his vocal cords these days.
"So, how many people have asked about my services?" Jack couldn't stop himself from asking, after all, how many people could resist the chance to have their own robot army? If you were in the criminal underworld and you were given a chance to get an army of killer robots without having to waste money on some unintelligent morons, you'd take it wouldn't you?
"There's been quite a few enquiries, though most of them are understandably sceptical about how truthful the claims are." Junior told him. Jack took a moment to rub his chin in thought, before he smirked.
"How about we send them a video then. If you don't believe what they have to see with their ears, then they'll believe what they say with their eyes." Jack offered, grinned darkly over the money that he could make from this operation. He would make the Schnee Dust Company pay for overlooking him and tossing him aside.
He would make sure of it.
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So that's chapter 2 done.
I'm not going to lie, I've actually had the most fun in years writing this story so far.
I'm rediscovering just why I started to write stuff for this site in the first place and it's because of stories like this.
Sure it'll probably never be very popular in terms of favourites, follows and reviews, but that's not important as far as I'm concerned.
To me, as long as I have fun with an idea, then I'm perfectly happy to go along with it.
Anyway, in the next chapter some of the main RWBY characters will finally be introduced and I'll try to do my best at writing some fight scenes...
Let me know what you think about this chapter, it'll be nice to get some feedback.
Until next time goodbye and goodnight.