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Remnants of Madness
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RoM Prologue
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AN:
Amvmaster: Literally no point putting this here but hey if you wanna know I decided to have another go and rewrite an old fic of mine and well TBH I think I like how this one came out better than the old one.
Please note this is based on the Project Nexus Arena Mode not the actual Campaign itself.
Here is a word from my friend/beta reader.
Jericho: yes, I'm here of my own free will, no there's no gun to my head?! oh, hi I'm Jericho the editor for this shitshow
Amvmaster: You ain't editing shit!
Jericho: Not directly!
Amvmaster: I am… I'm not touching this now, enjoy reading!
Prologue
I don't even remember how it all happened.
All I knew is that I was playing a game, I got to the last real mission and then… My screen just went black and so did my vision.
Next thing I knew I was on a bus and I quickly noted that I was in my game, how could I tell?
Well how else would you explain the Masked mohawk scientist 2Bdamned sitting across from you explaining shit in the back of a bus?
I looked out the bus's window and my eyes widened as the scenery from the near desolate city covered in a various only colour filled neon signs to the near black skyline but I could clearly see the near reminiscent of red.
Oh no, this can't be, no no no, shit shit shit, I felt myself hyperventilate in shock, the only thing that pulled me back was 2B's voice telling me to breathe.
I couldn't understand a single thing he said. But quickly as I felt myself lose myself I placed my hands over my eyes and took four seconds to breathe in, holding it for another second I let out a small sigh, my mind was a mess, but I began to grasp what was going on.
…
…
…
Next thing I know I'm beating some homeless people to death with a flashlight then it all became a blur from there.
It was a bloodbath after the other, I twisted someone's neck one second god that fucking pop sound isn't going to leave me for a while and then I was shoving whatever was left of my broken weapon into another person's trachea something about having someone's blood shooting into your face is rather… disturbing.
And then I died.
…
…
…
It was good that it was quick, but fuck me it was jarring to suddenly wake up in the middle of a tube of this watery green goop, I found it was weird it tasted like apple crumble. But then I started to get more… acquainted with the idea of going through a mission, being stabbed and bleeding out only to suddenly wake up back in the tube.
It was a weird thing to get used to, first pain and then nothing and then apple crumble tube water.
But with it came a sense of irritation, like my life had now turned from a fear filled mess to a never ending death filled circus having me as the ringleader that conducted a rather visceral experience of death.
Soon my apple crumple tube water episodes became less as time progressed and I found myself getting better and better at becoming more finely tuned to become a walking talking death machine.
My adventure through the desolate world of Nevada had me visit multiple sceneries from an oil platform in the middle of a lava lake to a haunted house.
With these new places came their own assortment of differing enemies.
There were Zombie's, crazy Abominations, the occasional crazed agents/lunatics and fucking Ghosts!… How? I don't know I just gave up when I wound up on a TV show dedicated to killing their contestant's and showing off the many plethora of deranged executions that came along with it, all in the name of Entertainment.
It was… a roller coaster of ups and most painful, very painful downs that had me wondering if this was really worth it.
But then I was finally given my own room and with it the uncertain answer that I was not so sure I was truly looking for.
It was a big ole room, more like a giant penthouse you would see in Apartment buildings, but unlike the usual ones you would or what I have seen before where everything was luxurious, this place was bare minimum functional and practical, quite like the rest of the building and its contents.
On a side room that held the bathroom I quickly moved over wishing to get myself the much needed shower I had been dying for seeing as I had finished a mission on a train and I was rather sticky to say the least, but before I really jumped into my shower I paused and took a look at the mirror I had inside.
It was very rare that I found myself looking at my reflection, every other time I was either displeased with the new weight I had gained or the newest sweat pimple that had appeared on my shin, but unlike all the other times where I was more content with myself this seemed to be the one time I didn't like what I saw.
It had probably been the third time I looked at myself in the mirror while I was in this world and what I saw shook me, it was like I had been replaced entirely my expression had been the same as I always had a resting bitch face but looking at it more closely it was like my own soul had been sucked right out of me, I was unclear as how to describe it physically but I could just… see it… feel it.
That night I sat on my bed felt my entire world crumble and wondered when this would all end, but quickly remembered that this wasn't going to end.
Like this I was reminded of where I was and if this was anything like the game then I would be finding myself going through time loop after time loop, a never ending cycle to keep this point in time from killing itself, or so I think I could remember, the amount of times I had died and woken up had turned my focus from this world being a videogame and I was too concerned with just trying to get through the missions I had just been given.
"And this is my first loop too." I muttered, staring at my hands, fingers covered in scar tissue from the amount of wounds I had gotten in my early days.
"Fuck it, if this is going to be life I may as well make it worth something." I remembered saying to myself before getting up and walking away.
heading straight to the medical wing I quickly met Skinner and discussed with him the benefits of possible cybernetic enhancements, this seemed to quickly catch the GO3LM's attention and intrigue and before I knew it I was quickly put under anaesthesia for surgery.
My "Employees" appeared to be rather worried after my surgery, that was rather touching if I didn't quickly made my way to the Sleepwalker where I spent round after round testing my newest enhancements, having your spine replaced was something I wasn't fond of but after picking up and throwing a heavily armoured GO3LM into the ground so hard that it's internals turned into red soup put a lot of strain into one's back.
Never going to doubt Skinner again, but I wasn't done seeing as I knew another person that could very well kit me out with additional augments.
Something I believed would greatly benefit me in the end he sold me two augments that increased my bone density making me both twice as durable as before and stronger, something I wasn't going to say no to.
Nanobots that increased my regeneration up an additional 200%, something I was quite fond of as I didn't know how my prosthesis were going to affect me long term, if I even last that long.
But he also threw in a bonus in the form of a familiar large two handed great sword that I fondly knew to be the Binary sword, the same sword Jesus uses or Dr Christoff if i wanted to be technical.
Holding it in my hands I was mildly shocked to feel how light it was in my hands, then again my strength had gone up four fold or so.
With this I now had prepared myself to fight the Mandatus or what everyone called the Machine.
I had to fight through several waves of killer robots and listen to this guy who seemingly spoke in riddles, something I would have found nostalgic if I wasn't so damn annoyed with wanting to get this over with.
I had used a third of my ammo from my Rifle and I had quickly forced myself to rely on my Binary Sword to take these things down.
And then when I finally met the Machine I expected it to be the fight of my life, something that made my enhancements, my augments, my broken psyche worth it.
Instead… I was quickly met with disappointment as it went down like a Nokia in a blender and I was the Nokia.
Now I was standing in the middle of Nowhere, where I had to make a choice.
A choice to either go into the Light and imprint myself into another body or stay and allow MADNESS to sweep the entirety of Nevada.
A fucked up Hero's journey if I do say so myself.
Sitting down next to the desert road, I found myself contemplating everything, and just trying to find reason in this whole ordeal I had.
"Would 2B mind if I just sat here for a while?" I wondered out loud as I looked up at the sky and just stared at the clouds that rolled by, unlike before where the sky was straight red this time the sky was its pleasant blue where the day and night cycle wasn't so screwy since the sun hadn't been killed yet.
Pulling my bandana down from my face I let out a sigh before breathing in the rather pleasant air.
Why do I care about what happens to Nevada? This isn't my home, my home is back… home?
"Great looks like my memories fucked, probably caused by Skinner or Crackpot, wouldn't be surprised honestly if was both of them really." I exclaimed with a shake of the head.
Ok, let's see if I can at least remember something else about my old world like anime, immediately the thoughts of a teenager swinging a large red themed scythe popped into my head and it quickly put a smile on my face.
"RWBY, shit it has been a while since I remembered that series… too bad I had to end up in Nevada before someone did the right thing and made Volume 10 or rebooted it… I think it was Dillion Goo who said he was looking into getting the IP after Warner Bros decided to drop it after Rooster Teeth fell into bankruptcy or something." I talked to myself as I remembered the whole debacle.
"Damn I used to Write a lot of Self inserts dedicated to that series, that and a lot of other places… oof I can hear the reviews complaining about meta awareness, hahahaha." I felt nostalgic about the thought but quickly as it came up I was immediately reminded of another thing I missed. "Oooooooooh fuck I miss writing and consuming random amounts of media… and One Piece, shit I'm never going to see the end of the series either." Shaking my head I felt a weight had slowly been lifted off my shoulders… wait hold on.
Blinking in confusion I noticed how my weight wasn't being lifted.
I was being lifted, turning my head upwards and my eyes widened in shock as I saw something of a portal open up above me.
I felt my mind go blank as it tried to find logic in the explanation of a portal suddenly opening up above me but quickly as I tried to find logic I was quickly met with images of the in coming loops I was going to be facing and figured this must be the universe telling me its time move on already.
Steeling my resolve I took a deep breath and nodded in understanding as I found resolve in myself.
"Guess this is it, let's get this over with then." I said as I quickly kicked my legs down and immediately kicked myself into the portal as I figured this was the universe telling me that it was time for me to finally move on.
"Alright let's get this goooin-oh shit!" Suddenly the portal I went through turned into a tunnel of different coloured lights that forced my aviator covered eyes to close and before I knew it I felt myself being spat out.
When I hit the ground my body tumbled until I finally stopped when I hit something.
"Argh-ok didn't see this coming." I exclaimed tiredly as I blinked my eyes open and saw my glasses had fallen off.
Lifting my head I quickly looked around until I saw the familiar black frame red lensed glasses sitting a foot away, reaching over and taking them I slowly put them over my eyes and sat up.
Looking around I felt immediate confusion swell up as I was now in the middle of a forest.
"I… don't think this was supposed to happen."
Prologue end
Profile:
Name: Jackson
Origin: Noob
Outfit: Black and Red Trucker cap, Black Aviators with red tinted lenses, black Bandana wrapped around the lower face, black and red lined coat, black cargo pants held up but an ammo belt, Black armoured gloves, black Bulletproof vest, Backpack, black and red lined combat boots.
Weapons: Binary sword, Glock 17(Suppressor), HK416 (ACOG sight, Explosive magazine, Suppressor), Throwing Knives, Flash Grenades, Hand Grenades, Shurikens.
Augments: Legs and arms are replaced with cybernetic Prosthetics that Provide both strength and speed, Spine was replaced entirely in order to handle the load from the Prosthetics, Increased Bone density, Nanobot infusion that Increases natural regeneration by 200%(Aura will increase the percentage to ???%).
Aura colour: ???
Semblance: ???
Amvmaster: Literally no point putting this here but hey if you wanna know I decided to have another go and rewrite an old fic of mine and well TBH I think I like how this one came out better than the old one.
Please note this is based on the Project Nexus Arena Mode not the actual Campaign itself.
Here is a word from my friend/beta reader.
Jericho: yes, I'm here of my own free will, no there's no gun to my head?! oh, hi I'm Jericho the editor for this shitshow
Amvmaster: You ain't editing shit!
Jericho: Not directly!
Amvmaster: I am… I'm not touching this now, enjoy reading!
Prologue
I don't even remember how it all happened.
All I knew is that I was playing a game, I got to the last real mission and then… My screen just went black and so did my vision.
Next thing I knew I was on a bus and I quickly noted that I was in my game, how could I tell?
Well how else would you explain the Masked mohawk scientist 2Bdamned sitting across from you explaining shit in the back of a bus?
I looked out the bus's window and my eyes widened as the scenery from the near desolate city covered in a various only colour filled neon signs to the near black skyline but I could clearly see the near reminiscent of red.
Oh no, this can't be, no no no, shit shit shit, I felt myself hyperventilate in shock, the only thing that pulled me back was 2B's voice telling me to breathe.
I couldn't understand a single thing he said. But quickly as I felt myself lose myself I placed my hands over my eyes and took four seconds to breathe in, holding it for another second I let out a small sigh, my mind was a mess, but I began to grasp what was going on.
…
…
…
Next thing I know I'm beating some homeless people to death with a flashlight then it all became a blur from there.
It was a bloodbath after the other, I twisted someone's neck one second god that fucking pop sound isn't going to leave me for a while and then I was shoving whatever was left of my broken weapon into another person's trachea something about having someone's blood shooting into your face is rather… disturbing.
And then I died.
…
…
…
It was good that it was quick, but fuck me it was jarring to suddenly wake up in the middle of a tube of this watery green goop, I found it was weird it tasted like apple crumble. But then I started to get more… acquainted with the idea of going through a mission, being stabbed and bleeding out only to suddenly wake up back in the tube.
It was a weird thing to get used to, first pain and then nothing and then apple crumble tube water.
But with it came a sense of irritation, like my life had now turned from a fear filled mess to a never ending death filled circus having me as the ringleader that conducted a rather visceral experience of death.
Soon my apple crumple tube water episodes became less as time progressed and I found myself getting better and better at becoming more finely tuned to become a walking talking death machine.
My adventure through the desolate world of Nevada had me visit multiple sceneries from an oil platform in the middle of a lava lake to a haunted house.
With these new places came their own assortment of differing enemies.
There were Zombie's, crazy Abominations, the occasional crazed agents/lunatics and fucking Ghosts!… How? I don't know I just gave up when I wound up on a TV show dedicated to killing their contestant's and showing off the many plethora of deranged executions that came along with it, all in the name of Entertainment.
It was… a roller coaster of ups and most painful, very painful downs that had me wondering if this was really worth it.
But then I was finally given my own room and with it the uncertain answer that I was not so sure I was truly looking for.
It was a big ole room, more like a giant penthouse you would see in Apartment buildings, but unlike the usual ones you would or what I have seen before where everything was luxurious, this place was bare minimum functional and practical, quite like the rest of the building and its contents.
On a side room that held the bathroom I quickly moved over wishing to get myself the much needed shower I had been dying for seeing as I had finished a mission on a train and I was rather sticky to say the least, but before I really jumped into my shower I paused and took a look at the mirror I had inside.
It was very rare that I found myself looking at my reflection, every other time I was either displeased with the new weight I had gained or the newest sweat pimple that had appeared on my shin, but unlike all the other times where I was more content with myself this seemed to be the one time I didn't like what I saw.
It had probably been the third time I looked at myself in the mirror while I was in this world and what I saw shook me, it was like I had been replaced entirely my expression had been the same as I always had a resting bitch face but looking at it more closely it was like my own soul had been sucked right out of me, I was unclear as how to describe it physically but I could just… see it… feel it.
That night I sat on my bed felt my entire world crumble and wondered when this would all end, but quickly remembered that this wasn't going to end.
Like this I was reminded of where I was and if this was anything like the game then I would be finding myself going through time loop after time loop, a never ending cycle to keep this point in time from killing itself, or so I think I could remember, the amount of times I had died and woken up had turned my focus from this world being a videogame and I was too concerned with just trying to get through the missions I had just been given.
"And this is my first loop too." I muttered, staring at my hands, fingers covered in scar tissue from the amount of wounds I had gotten in my early days.
"Fuck it, if this is going to be life I may as well make it worth something." I remembered saying to myself before getting up and walking away.
heading straight to the medical wing I quickly met Skinner and discussed with him the benefits of possible cybernetic enhancements, this seemed to quickly catch the GO3LM's attention and intrigue and before I knew it I was quickly put under anaesthesia for surgery.
My "Employees" appeared to be rather worried after my surgery, that was rather touching if I didn't quickly made my way to the Sleepwalker where I spent round after round testing my newest enhancements, having your spine replaced was something I wasn't fond of but after picking up and throwing a heavily armoured GO3LM into the ground so hard that it's internals turned into red soup put a lot of strain into one's back.
Never going to doubt Skinner again, but I wasn't done seeing as I knew another person that could very well kit me out with additional augments.
Something I believed would greatly benefit me in the end he sold me two augments that increased my bone density making me both twice as durable as before and stronger, something I wasn't going to say no to.
Nanobots that increased my regeneration up an additional 200%, something I was quite fond of as I didn't know how my prosthesis were going to affect me long term, if I even last that long.
But he also threw in a bonus in the form of a familiar large two handed great sword that I fondly knew to be the Binary sword, the same sword Jesus uses or Dr Christoff if i wanted to be technical.
Holding it in my hands I was mildly shocked to feel how light it was in my hands, then again my strength had gone up four fold or so.
With this I now had prepared myself to fight the Mandatus or what everyone called the Machine.
I had to fight through several waves of killer robots and listen to this guy who seemingly spoke in riddles, something I would have found nostalgic if I wasn't so damn annoyed with wanting to get this over with.
I had used a third of my ammo from my Rifle and I had quickly forced myself to rely on my Binary Sword to take these things down.
And then when I finally met the Machine I expected it to be the fight of my life, something that made my enhancements, my augments, my broken psyche worth it.
Instead… I was quickly met with disappointment as it went down like a Nokia in a blender and I was the Nokia.
Now I was standing in the middle of Nowhere, where I had to make a choice.
A choice to either go into the Light and imprint myself into another body or stay and allow MADNESS to sweep the entirety of Nevada.
A fucked up Hero's journey if I do say so myself.
Sitting down next to the desert road, I found myself contemplating everything, and just trying to find reason in this whole ordeal I had.
"Would 2B mind if I just sat here for a while?" I wondered out loud as I looked up at the sky and just stared at the clouds that rolled by, unlike before where the sky was straight red this time the sky was its pleasant blue where the day and night cycle wasn't so screwy since the sun hadn't been killed yet.
Pulling my bandana down from my face I let out a sigh before breathing in the rather pleasant air.
Why do I care about what happens to Nevada? This isn't my home, my home is back… home?
"Great looks like my memories fucked, probably caused by Skinner or Crackpot, wouldn't be surprised honestly if was both of them really." I exclaimed with a shake of the head.
Ok, let's see if I can at least remember something else about my old world like anime, immediately the thoughts of a teenager swinging a large red themed scythe popped into my head and it quickly put a smile on my face.
"RWBY, shit it has been a while since I remembered that series… too bad I had to end up in Nevada before someone did the right thing and made Volume 10 or rebooted it… I think it was Dillion Goo who said he was looking into getting the IP after Warner Bros decided to drop it after Rooster Teeth fell into bankruptcy or something." I talked to myself as I remembered the whole debacle.
"Damn I used to Write a lot of Self inserts dedicated to that series, that and a lot of other places… oof I can hear the reviews complaining about meta awareness, hahahaha." I felt nostalgic about the thought but quickly as it came up I was immediately reminded of another thing I missed. "Oooooooooh fuck I miss writing and consuming random amounts of media… and One Piece, shit I'm never going to see the end of the series either." Shaking my head I felt a weight had slowly been lifted off my shoulders… wait hold on.
Blinking in confusion I noticed how my weight wasn't being lifted.
I was being lifted, turning my head upwards and my eyes widened in shock as I saw something of a portal open up above me.
I felt my mind go blank as it tried to find logic in the explanation of a portal suddenly opening up above me but quickly as I tried to find logic I was quickly met with images of the in coming loops I was going to be facing and figured this must be the universe telling me its time move on already.
Steeling my resolve I took a deep breath and nodded in understanding as I found resolve in myself.
"Guess this is it, let's get this over with then." I said as I quickly kicked my legs down and immediately kicked myself into the portal as I figured this was the universe telling me that it was time for me to finally move on.
"Alright let's get this goooin-oh shit!" Suddenly the portal I went through turned into a tunnel of different coloured lights that forced my aviator covered eyes to close and before I knew it I felt myself being spat out.
When I hit the ground my body tumbled until I finally stopped when I hit something.
"Argh-ok didn't see this coming." I exclaimed tiredly as I blinked my eyes open and saw my glasses had fallen off.
Lifting my head I quickly looked around until I saw the familiar black frame red lensed glasses sitting a foot away, reaching over and taking them I slowly put them over my eyes and sat up.
Looking around I felt immediate confusion swell up as I was now in the middle of a forest.
"I… don't think this was supposed to happen."
Prologue end
Profile:
Name: Jackson
Origin: Noob
Outfit: Black and Red Trucker cap, Black Aviators with red tinted lenses, black Bandana wrapped around the lower face, black and red lined coat, black cargo pants held up but an ammo belt, Black armoured gloves, black Bulletproof vest, Backpack, black and red lined combat boots.
Weapons: Binary sword, Glock 17(Suppressor), HK416 (ACOG sight, Explosive magazine, Suppressor), Throwing Knives, Flash Grenades, Hand Grenades, Shurikens.
Augments: Legs and arms are replaced with cybernetic Prosthetics that Provide both strength and speed, Spine was replaced entirely in order to handle the load from the Prosthetics, Increased Bone density, Nanobot infusion that Increases natural regeneration by 200%(Aura will increase the percentage to ???%).
Aura colour: ???
Semblance: ???
RoM ch 1
Jackson D. Holic
Making the rounds.
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Amvmaster: Alright, the first chapter is up and I am sorry that this is short. I had to write this one quickly because I have work and that's going to have me pushing this on the back burner until I get my days off, but I promise i will get the second chapter out when I get the chance.
Jericho a word for our readers?
Jericho: In my opinion first chapters should be the shortest
Chapter 1 Initiation, what Initiation?
"Ok aren't I supposed to be in the middle of waking up in 2B's lab?" I asked myself quietly, standing up I quickly double checked my rifle to see if it was still loaded. "Then again I'm exactly complaining either."
Flicking my rifle's safety on my eyes, I looked around the place… trees. "I can't say I don't miss this."
Can't say I'm familiar with this forestry though, then again I'm not exactly the king of anything forest related.
"Gonna need to start somewhere though, not like I packed much or water on me to last me this final trip," I muttered looking down at my bag that were mainly filled with grenades, shurikens, a canteen filled with at least liter and a half of water and whatever granola bar I had haphazardly threw in just incase I got munchy on either the helicopter or bus ride. "I'm going to give myself at the very least a day, maybe not even that if I really think of it."
Ammo wasn't much of a problem either, hell for all I know I'm in the middle of some kind of fantasy world or some shit so ammo is probably going to be scarce.
Throwing my bag back over my shoulders and then tossing my rifle over my shoulders where the magnets in my bag activated causing the rifle to stick in place while I grabbed my Binary sword that sat against a tree.
"Looks like you're going to get even more show time here darling." I said twirling the sword around my hand until I stopped it so the blade quickly rested on my shoulder.
Walking in a random direction I quietly grew used to the calm sounds of the forest, from the gentle breeze that rustled the trees' leaves to the light chirping of birds and the-
"Lets see, high fantasy, post apocalypse, possible sci-fi, what other Isekai tropes can I think up that would explain ending up in a forest?" I suddenly spoke up with my gloved hand lightly tapping my chin.
Maybe this is a chance to finally stop this violent cycle?
"Fuck it I need sleep." Turning my head up to the canopy I pushed myself against the ground, my prosthetic legs cracking the medium soft dirt as I jumped up, the force behind my jump nearly made me overshoot through the treeline if not for my free hand to quickly grab onto a rather large thick branch.
My fingertips easily breaking the bark as I quickly pulled myself to stand on the branch, using the brand as I stepping stone I quietly started testing various large branches, checking to see if they could be used as my new makeshift mattress, my body was fine but my mind was tired as the entire situation had me ready to just sleep.
finding a good large branch I quickly stabbed my sword into the tree's large er trunk and used it to quickly hang my things, starting by hanging my rifle by it's sling, my bag and finally my belt and drop holster.
"That should hold." I said placing my aviators in one of my belts pouches and pulled my coat off for me to quickly throw over my chest as a makeshift blanket.
Laying down on my branch bed I slowly pulled my hat over my eyes and immediately felt myself drift off to sleep.
It was seamless, the transition I mean.
From dreamless sleep or I think it was dreamless, straight to waking up as something hit my tree.
THUNK!
My body immediately moved, not in defense but in a startled fashion that caused me to suddenly roll off my branch mattress.
"Shit!" my mouth spewed out as I fell right out of the tree and my body quickly found itself hitting the ground back first.
Immediately I felt pain and then it quickly dulled as I could feel the Nanobots in my body quickly walked their way into negating the damage I had taken from my fall, speaking all after it happened even with me being quickly healed I still let out a mandatory "ow" to show my pain.
My eyes barely opened as I slowly sat up.
"Wha-"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
My eyes immediately opened as I heard shotguns going off in the air, turning my head in the direction of the sounds. I frowned as this answered some of my unasked questions, ranging from gun's existing as well as crossing out some of my fantasy Isekai theories.
Still that doesn't explain what the hell woke me up.
THUD!
Hearing the sound my head quickly spun around and I saw someone had just landed right in front of me, thankfully my blurry vision had quickly cleared up because those shotguns had pulled me out of my sleepy stupor.
AS the person finally stood I took in their appearance, black and red accent lolita dress, red cape, a silver emblem on their dresses waist belt, black stockings and black combat boots, Black short hair with red stylished highlights, their face was young and their skin was a near pure white that could have made most people mistake them for either not getting enough sun or they were possibly Vampiric.
Hopefully not the later, I fucking hate those things.
I somewhat narrowed my eyes in confusion as I thought I recognized this young girl, but my mind had quickly pulled a blank as she quickly turned her head to face me.
Both our eyes met and for the longest while the girl and I just seemed to freeze in place like angel statues(if you know you know!).
Suddenly our stalemate of staring had quickly been interrupted as I heard something drop down.
And then it hit me.
Literally.
Thump.
"Fuck!" I cried out, hands quickly went to my head as I flinched in pain, looking down at what hit me as it now sat on the ground in front of me, my teary eyes stared at my glock.
"Oh are you ok!?" Hearing the girl speak, I didn't exactly see as my vision had been filled with red petals that hastily reformed into the girl that I was just having a staring contest with.
"I'm good, I'm good just… ow." I said, rubbing my head, nanobots had quickly gone to work fixing my newest injury. "I thought I kept it secured in my holster." I mumbled looking down at my glock.
Immediately as I mentioned it though the girl's attention shifted away from me and to my gun as she quickly snatched it off the grassy floor.
"Oh no, little baby I hope you're fine, a fall like that might've caused your internals to shift!" The quickly and seemingly started to expect my sidearm, as she ejected the mag and pulled the slide back slightly, her eyes narrowed before she turned her attention to me. "When's the last time you've done any maintenance on her?"
"Her?" Wait what?
"She's filthy, how are you supposed to go through initiation if your weapon is so dirty?" The girl seemed to continue her rant while checking my sidearm more extensively.
"Wait hold on, initiation?" I quickly asked as it was just the first thing I latched onto.
"Well duh, I can't exactly have you failing, seeing as we are partner's and all." The girl exclaimed before finally holding my glock back to me.
"Partners?" I muttered taking my pistol and just stared at this weird girl.
"Well yeah, don't you remember, the first person you make eye contact with is your partner for the next four years, she must've really hit your head isn't your aura supposed to stop that? Well then again it's not like you can keep your aura up all the time." The girl seemingly just continued with getting to her own conclusions.
Conclusions I chose not to rectify in the current setting as I was seemingly having one hell of a mind fart here.
What the hell is up with this girl? Why was she so excited with my gun? And what the hell does she mean partner's for the next four years?
"Come on, let's go before everyone else takes all the relic's." She said grabbing onto my arm and trying but pretty obviously failing in pulling me onto my feet.
Feeling sad I just pushed myself onto my feet and stopped her pulling entirely.
"Look I don't know what is going on here, but I can't exactly leave here this sudden." I said as the girl's eyebrows creased in mild confusion and she looked half ready to whine about needing to go. "Look, just wait for a minute while I get the rest of my stuff on." I said placing my glock in her hands.
she seemed to blink and moved her mouth to speak but stopped as I grabbed my coat and hat off the ground, putting them on. I looked back up at the tree and once again leaped right into the air, this time making a light grunting sound as I moved. Grabbing the familiar branch I had found myself sleeping on not too long ago I quickly reached over to my hanging equipment and started putting everything on, seeing as I had someone waiting for me I just opted to put my belt on and just grab everything else.
As soon as I had everything I looked over to another side of the forest where I saw what appeared to be smoke in the distance… Whatever this initiation was, I don't think anyone told them about fire safety in the middle of a forest.
Dropping down to the ground my legs buckled as I hit the ground with a crouch, looking back up I saw the girl was still standing in one place as she stared at me in awe.
"Wow look at your weapons!" Nevermind, she was actually looking at my weapons, putting them down though seemed to distract the younger girl long enough for me to quickly move about putting the rest of my gear on.
"I've never seen a gas operating system quite like this, how many rounds does it fire?" The girl asked holding my HK416.
"Either six or around eight hundred round's perminute, never really thought to look into it too much, it does the job though." I said strapping my drop leg holster to my thigh and making sure it was tightened by it's straps.
"That's so cool, and despite how small the ammunition is, anything going that fast would still kill a Grimm with ease." The girl exclaimed with awe while I paused putting my vest on, Grimm? Jesus why does my head hurt all of a sudden?
Feels like I know this term and I know this girl but at the same time I don't, almost like the information I'm trying to reach for is either out of reach or vanished.
Shaking my head I double checked my vest's mag pouches and was glad that my ammo unlike my glock hadn't fallen out.
Once everything was in place I reached over and placed my respective weapons in their designated places, with the exception of my Binary sword seeing as Ruby was currently looking at with a fine tooth eye, scrutinising every chip she could see on the blade.
"How could you let such a fine sword be chipped like this?" The girl asked, her eyes glaring at me as I just rolled my eyes at her obvious impression of a mother catching their kids just as they had their hands in the cookie jar. It would be impressive if it didn't look sad… and kinda adorable.
"Honestly it came like that when I first bought it." I quickly explained, I wasn't lying either and I knew from both visual and physical experience that the Binary sword wasn't going to let a few chips stop it from bisecting whatever dumbass I swung at.
"Also you're rather Judgy for someone who has yet to introduce themselves yet." I said slowly and quickly taking it out of her hand, I wasn't going to accidently cut her for taking it out of her hands, that would be dumb… and I don't exactly aim for killing kids of any sort, that was if they ever existed in Nevada in the first place.
"Uh well… you're right… I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose." She quickly introduced herself while I slid my sword on my back.
"Jackson, just Jackson." I said watching how Ruby nodded and then openly smiled at me.
"Well Jackson… Why is your stuff in a tree?" Ruby suddenly asked as I let out a sigh before grabbing my canteen.
"Cause that's where I was sleeping." I said opening it and taking a small sip, feeling the water rid myself of the dry feeling in my mouth and throat.
"What? you were sleeping in a tree? Wow you must've been uber excited to do the initiation." Ruby excitedly exclaimed, as she had already begun making up new information on the spot, something I should've been quick to rectify but at this point I realized this was probably going to put her in a mildly bad move… fuck it, not like I give enough of a shit to care about her feelings.
"Look Ruby-"
"Not the time Jackson, we need to head north and if my Dad, Uncle and Sister had ever taught me north is this way!" Ruby's head tilted to the sky before her hand quickly pointed in a single direction and started walking in said direction.
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"I got a bad feeling about this." Mumbled under my breath putting my canteen away and pulling my aviator's out, putting them on I quietly moved to follow the heavily red theme teen, hands holding onto my rifle as I immediately figured that we weren't exactly alone in this forest.
Chapter 1 end
Jericho a word for our readers?
Jericho: In my opinion first chapters should be the shortest
Chapter 1 Initiation, what Initiation?
"Ok aren't I supposed to be in the middle of waking up in 2B's lab?" I asked myself quietly, standing up I quickly double checked my rifle to see if it was still loaded. "Then again I'm exactly complaining either."
Flicking my rifle's safety on my eyes, I looked around the place… trees. "I can't say I don't miss this."
Can't say I'm familiar with this forestry though, then again I'm not exactly the king of anything forest related.
"Gonna need to start somewhere though, not like I packed much or water on me to last me this final trip," I muttered looking down at my bag that were mainly filled with grenades, shurikens, a canteen filled with at least liter and a half of water and whatever granola bar I had haphazardly threw in just incase I got munchy on either the helicopter or bus ride. "I'm going to give myself at the very least a day, maybe not even that if I really think of it."
Ammo wasn't much of a problem either, hell for all I know I'm in the middle of some kind of fantasy world or some shit so ammo is probably going to be scarce.
Throwing my bag back over my shoulders and then tossing my rifle over my shoulders where the magnets in my bag activated causing the rifle to stick in place while I grabbed my Binary sword that sat against a tree.
"Looks like you're going to get even more show time here darling." I said twirling the sword around my hand until I stopped it so the blade quickly rested on my shoulder.
Walking in a random direction I quietly grew used to the calm sounds of the forest, from the gentle breeze that rustled the trees' leaves to the light chirping of birds and the-
"Lets see, high fantasy, post apocalypse, possible sci-fi, what other Isekai tropes can I think up that would explain ending up in a forest?" I suddenly spoke up with my gloved hand lightly tapping my chin.
Maybe this is a chance to finally stop this violent cycle?
"Fuck it I need sleep." Turning my head up to the canopy I pushed myself against the ground, my prosthetic legs cracking the medium soft dirt as I jumped up, the force behind my jump nearly made me overshoot through the treeline if not for my free hand to quickly grab onto a rather large thick branch.
My fingertips easily breaking the bark as I quickly pulled myself to stand on the branch, using the brand as I stepping stone I quietly started testing various large branches, checking to see if they could be used as my new makeshift mattress, my body was fine but my mind was tired as the entire situation had me ready to just sleep.
finding a good large branch I quickly stabbed my sword into the tree's large er trunk and used it to quickly hang my things, starting by hanging my rifle by it's sling, my bag and finally my belt and drop holster.
"That should hold." I said placing my aviators in one of my belts pouches and pulled my coat off for me to quickly throw over my chest as a makeshift blanket.
Laying down on my branch bed I slowly pulled my hat over my eyes and immediately felt myself drift off to sleep.
It was seamless, the transition I mean.
From dreamless sleep or I think it was dreamless, straight to waking up as something hit my tree.
THUNK!
My body immediately moved, not in defense but in a startled fashion that caused me to suddenly roll off my branch mattress.
"Shit!" my mouth spewed out as I fell right out of the tree and my body quickly found itself hitting the ground back first.
Immediately I felt pain and then it quickly dulled as I could feel the Nanobots in my body quickly walked their way into negating the damage I had taken from my fall, speaking all after it happened even with me being quickly healed I still let out a mandatory "ow" to show my pain.
My eyes barely opened as I slowly sat up.
"Wha-"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
My eyes immediately opened as I heard shotguns going off in the air, turning my head in the direction of the sounds. I frowned as this answered some of my unasked questions, ranging from gun's existing as well as crossing out some of my fantasy Isekai theories.
Still that doesn't explain what the hell woke me up.
THUD!
Hearing the sound my head quickly spun around and I saw someone had just landed right in front of me, thankfully my blurry vision had quickly cleared up because those shotguns had pulled me out of my sleepy stupor.
AS the person finally stood I took in their appearance, black and red accent lolita dress, red cape, a silver emblem on their dresses waist belt, black stockings and black combat boots, Black short hair with red stylished highlights, their face was young and their skin was a near pure white that could have made most people mistake them for either not getting enough sun or they were possibly Vampiric.
Hopefully not the later, I fucking hate those things.
I somewhat narrowed my eyes in confusion as I thought I recognized this young girl, but my mind had quickly pulled a blank as she quickly turned her head to face me.
Both our eyes met and for the longest while the girl and I just seemed to freeze in place like angel statues(if you know you know!).
Suddenly our stalemate of staring had quickly been interrupted as I heard something drop down.
And then it hit me.
Literally.
Thump.
"Fuck!" I cried out, hands quickly went to my head as I flinched in pain, looking down at what hit me as it now sat on the ground in front of me, my teary eyes stared at my glock.
"Oh are you ok!?" Hearing the girl speak, I didn't exactly see as my vision had been filled with red petals that hastily reformed into the girl that I was just having a staring contest with.
"I'm good, I'm good just… ow." I said, rubbing my head, nanobots had quickly gone to work fixing my newest injury. "I thought I kept it secured in my holster." I mumbled looking down at my glock.
Immediately as I mentioned it though the girl's attention shifted away from me and to my gun as she quickly snatched it off the grassy floor.
"Oh no, little baby I hope you're fine, a fall like that might've caused your internals to shift!" The quickly and seemingly started to expect my sidearm, as she ejected the mag and pulled the slide back slightly, her eyes narrowed before she turned her attention to me. "When's the last time you've done any maintenance on her?"
"Her?" Wait what?
"She's filthy, how are you supposed to go through initiation if your weapon is so dirty?" The girl seemed to continue her rant while checking my sidearm more extensively.
"Wait hold on, initiation?" I quickly asked as it was just the first thing I latched onto.
"Well duh, I can't exactly have you failing, seeing as we are partner's and all." The girl exclaimed before finally holding my glock back to me.
"Partners?" I muttered taking my pistol and just stared at this weird girl.
"Well yeah, don't you remember, the first person you make eye contact with is your partner for the next four years, she must've really hit your head isn't your aura supposed to stop that? Well then again it's not like you can keep your aura up all the time." The girl seemingly just continued with getting to her own conclusions.
Conclusions I chose not to rectify in the current setting as I was seemingly having one hell of a mind fart here.
What the hell is up with this girl? Why was she so excited with my gun? And what the hell does she mean partner's for the next four years?
"Come on, let's go before everyone else takes all the relic's." She said grabbing onto my arm and trying but pretty obviously failing in pulling me onto my feet.
Feeling sad I just pushed myself onto my feet and stopped her pulling entirely.
"Look I don't know what is going on here, but I can't exactly leave here this sudden." I said as the girl's eyebrows creased in mild confusion and she looked half ready to whine about needing to go. "Look, just wait for a minute while I get the rest of my stuff on." I said placing my glock in her hands.
she seemed to blink and moved her mouth to speak but stopped as I grabbed my coat and hat off the ground, putting them on. I looked back up at the tree and once again leaped right into the air, this time making a light grunting sound as I moved. Grabbing the familiar branch I had found myself sleeping on not too long ago I quickly reached over to my hanging equipment and started putting everything on, seeing as I had someone waiting for me I just opted to put my belt on and just grab everything else.
As soon as I had everything I looked over to another side of the forest where I saw what appeared to be smoke in the distance… Whatever this initiation was, I don't think anyone told them about fire safety in the middle of a forest.
Dropping down to the ground my legs buckled as I hit the ground with a crouch, looking back up I saw the girl was still standing in one place as she stared at me in awe.
"Wow look at your weapons!" Nevermind, she was actually looking at my weapons, putting them down though seemed to distract the younger girl long enough for me to quickly move about putting the rest of my gear on.
"I've never seen a gas operating system quite like this, how many rounds does it fire?" The girl asked holding my HK416.
"Either six or around eight hundred round's perminute, never really thought to look into it too much, it does the job though." I said strapping my drop leg holster to my thigh and making sure it was tightened by it's straps.
"That's so cool, and despite how small the ammunition is, anything going that fast would still kill a Grimm with ease." The girl exclaimed with awe while I paused putting my vest on, Grimm? Jesus why does my head hurt all of a sudden?
Feels like I know this term and I know this girl but at the same time I don't, almost like the information I'm trying to reach for is either out of reach or vanished.
Shaking my head I double checked my vest's mag pouches and was glad that my ammo unlike my glock hadn't fallen out.
Once everything was in place I reached over and placed my respective weapons in their designated places, with the exception of my Binary sword seeing as Ruby was currently looking at with a fine tooth eye, scrutinising every chip she could see on the blade.
"How could you let such a fine sword be chipped like this?" The girl asked, her eyes glaring at me as I just rolled my eyes at her obvious impression of a mother catching their kids just as they had their hands in the cookie jar. It would be impressive if it didn't look sad… and kinda adorable.
"Honestly it came like that when I first bought it." I quickly explained, I wasn't lying either and I knew from both visual and physical experience that the Binary sword wasn't going to let a few chips stop it from bisecting whatever dumbass I swung at.
"Also you're rather Judgy for someone who has yet to introduce themselves yet." I said slowly and quickly taking it out of her hand, I wasn't going to accidently cut her for taking it out of her hands, that would be dumb… and I don't exactly aim for killing kids of any sort, that was if they ever existed in Nevada in the first place.
"Uh well… you're right… I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose." She quickly introduced herself while I slid my sword on my back.
"Jackson, just Jackson." I said watching how Ruby nodded and then openly smiled at me.
"Well Jackson… Why is your stuff in a tree?" Ruby suddenly asked as I let out a sigh before grabbing my canteen.
"Cause that's where I was sleeping." I said opening it and taking a small sip, feeling the water rid myself of the dry feeling in my mouth and throat.
"What? you were sleeping in a tree? Wow you must've been uber excited to do the initiation." Ruby excitedly exclaimed, as she had already begun making up new information on the spot, something I should've been quick to rectify but at this point I realized this was probably going to put her in a mildly bad move… fuck it, not like I give enough of a shit to care about her feelings.
"Look Ruby-"
"Not the time Jackson, we need to head north and if my Dad, Uncle and Sister had ever taught me north is this way!" Ruby's head tilted to the sky before her hand quickly pointed in a single direction and started walking in said direction.
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"I got a bad feeling about this." Mumbled under my breath putting my canteen away and pulling my aviator's out, putting them on I quietly moved to follow the heavily red theme teen, hands holding onto my rifle as I immediately figured that we weren't exactly alone in this forest.
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Jericho: Dumbass meets weapon manic in their natural habitat, and has a bitch fit
Chapter 2
You know I haven't been on a nature walk for a long time, so this was rather refreshing or it fucking would be if I wasn't wrestling a damn werewolf looking mofo that was trying bite my head off.
Asshole had the damn gull to ambush me, swipe my rifle outta my hand and was mounting me like… I am not going to finish the line of thought.
"Ruby, where are you!?" I called out as I had my arm in its mouth acting as a chew toy. "Ruby? Ruby!?" I called out another two times before letting out an annoyed growl and reached up and wrapped my free arm around its head and with a quick tug a loud snap of the neck I quickly pushed the dead monster off me.
Stepping back my eyes narrowed as I quickly counted the rest of the werewolves that were left over and found it to be rather… disappointing.
"Six, fuck me I've been killing robots that are more annoying that you shit heads." I expressed reaching over my shoulder and grabbing my binary sword's hilt.
Pulling the long sword off my back I rolled my neck and let out an audible sigh before pulling my bandana over my nose, and readied myself by pointing my sword at the closest charging werewolf that leapt up into the air.
Its jaw wide open ready to bite into my flesh and its claws held in front to dig into my flesh but was quickly met by the swipe of my sword quickly bisecting it's head from its body causing the rest of it to collapse onto the ground in a near ragdoll effect.
Seeing the next coming to me instead of waiting for it I threw myself right into the the path of the werewolf and quickly jumped up and chucked both my legs up drop kicking the thing in it's body sending the both of us in opposite directions with the werewolf shooting right through the otherside of the clearing while I quickly flipped back over onto my feet and skidded against the ground until I came to a stop right next to my rifle I had dropped beforehand.
Because of the ambush I had unexpectedly been a part of I had lost my rifle but now that I had it right in front of me I quickly stabbed my sword into the ground, picked up my rifle and with less than three seconds later I quickly sighted my rifle on the closest werewolf and fired.
a single pull was all I need as a single shot of non-existence exploded out of my rifle, the suppressor doing it's job and the ammo doing twice the needed work as it hit one in the chest and the explosive caused it's body to topple over with a good sized chunk of blacken flesh flying all over the place.
Sighting the next werewolf I continued to single fire mow down these things, that is if you counted mowing down the last three werewolves to non existence.
When all was said and done I slowly stood back up, my eyes darted around the place as I tried to find anything that could clue me in on the teenager that had up and left me to deal with these… whatever the hell these things were.
BANG!
Hearing the crack my body turned, gun raised as I saw another werewolf had managed to sneak behind me but instead of pulling the trigger like I usual did when I was flanked a familiar tone of a red blur shot right passed the thing and seemingly stopped to reveal Ruby in a crouched position, in her hands held a rather large and in charge red Scythe that made me step back as it's length had my immediate attention.
But just as I was distracted by Ruby I watched as the werewolf that flanked me dropped to the ground, their body bisected in two pieces. Jesus, that thing had to be on some level of sharpness to do this.
Then again my Binary blade wasn't something to scoff at either but damn this surprised me.
"Heeeeey, uh sorry for leaving you there, I figured you'd want to take the front and all." Ruby said as she had quickly turned from something of a rather stoic figure to that of an embarrassed teenager.
Pulling my free hand up I just started to rub my temples to stave off the future brain ache I was going to be feeling in the next minute.
"Uh Jackson?" I could just hear the sweet worry from the girl as I stopped my massaging and addressed the girl in front of me, she had the gall to even look embarrassed as she hugged her scythe closer to herself as a way of anchoring herself down, something I was guilty of doing as well from time to time but now was not the time for reminiscing.
"So you had a scythe and you decided to show me this now?" I asked, well it probably came off as sarcastic but either or it seemed to do the job as Ruby continued to look more guilty by the second.
"I'm sorry, I should've told you and-"
"And you should've communicated with me." I quickly jumped in, my tone was filled with disappointment as I tried to give my best impression of a disappointed dad/brother/Person-in-Charge(you try being in charge of a Mercenary company and not act like a disappointed commander when one of your own does something stupid).
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be," I quickly exclaimed, extracting my sword out of the ground and quickly putting it back on my back. "Be better, if you're going to be my… partner, you're gonna make mistakes I get that just do better."
I tried to channel my own inner Kratos as Ruby looked at me with wide eyes and quickly shifted her expression from one of sad guilt to one of determination.
"Right, well we better go before another pack of Beowolves comes to us, uh no offence but I don't think either of us were being too quiet not to be heard from everyone in the forest." Ruby said, her scythe quickly shifting to form a large rectangle box that she quickly slipped onto the back of her waist.
"Lead the way." I said with a nod double checking my Rifle's magazine to see if I needed to either switch the magazine for a fuller mag or if I needed to be prepared to swap for another on the fly.
"Right." Ruby said as the two of us quietly marched through the forest, my knowledge of those Beowolves fresh on my mind as I had watched them slowly disintegrate into black smoke, another pain flashed through my head but I quickly pushed through the pain as I slid my mag back into my rifle with a satisfying click that indicated that it wasn't going anywhere.
"You were pretty good out there, I nearly thought I didn't need to jump in." Ruby spoke up as I shook my head.
"Too soon Ruby a little too soon." I said, shaking my head, this girl is worse than me when it comes to awkward silence.
We continued walking in silence, through brush the two of us continued our trek.
Little was said between us but I never really cared to think about it seeing as my attention focused on the forest as it now held monsters, it would be rather surreal if not for my previous or I guess my current occupations profile.
Zed's were a dime in a dozen in the outlands so wolves were not something that had me too worried, but it didn't mean I wasn't cautious, Abominations weren't something I worried about but their speed had me on the ropes many times.
double checking my guns now became a regular occurance as we walked, something that seemed to catch my partner's attention.
"Why are you constantly checking your weapon?" Ruby asked, her eyes looking back every now and again towards me and then my gun.
"Nervous tick." I exclaimed, the excuse was quick and should more than explain it.
"Well can you stop, who knows what you're doing to his internals." His?
"You know… you did the same with my pistol." I pointed out watching how Ruby seemed to frown at me.
"What?"
"You, giving genders to my guns, I mean I get it, give your guns personality and all but why are you doing it?" I asked.
"W-well I don't do it to just guns I do it to all weapons and it isn't weird my sister called Ember Celica her girls and I called Cresent Rose my Baby cause your weapons aren't just your weapons, they are extension of yourself it's not like a third arm but like an additional part of your soul, it's like the small mission piece to make you whole." Ruby's voice grew in volume as she seemingly was impassioned by her own words. "So yeah I gave your weapons 'genders' because they are a part of you and if you can't see that then you don't deserve them, in fact you shouldn't have them in general!"
Oh boy, I set her off by accident.
"She's dying for a cleaning as she is absolutely filthy it's frankly amazing how she hasn't discharged by accident or fallen apart and with how you brutally smack your magazine against him is frankly scary and he looks to also be in the same state as her and don't get me started on your sword, who in the everloving fluffer knuckle just allows their sword to be chipped and not fix it!?"
While Ruby continued her tirade my attention was quickly pulled away as I heard something shake in the air, the trees seemingly were pushed around as my eyes turned upwards and widened in horror.
"And another thing-!"
"DOWN!" I cried out lunging forwards as I pushed Ruby down before I felt giant talons quickly grab me around my chest. "Shit!" Force behind the large talons forced me to the ground and with it my grip of my rifle.
Trying to reach down to grab it I was instead met with my body being pulled away just before I could grab my rifle.
"Jackson!" Hearing Ruby's cry I watched her quickly grab my rifle and with a burst of blurring red shot through the air and I saw her quickly grab onto the leg of the giant black raven as it had quickly taken off back into the air.
"Ruby what the fuck is this thing!?" I roared over the air as I quickly adjusted my hat so it didn't fall off my head because of my impromptu flight.
"It's a Nevermore! A big one too!" Ruby cried out as I felt the things feet slowly start crushing me. "I didn't think there would be any in the Emerald Forest!"
Not wanting to touch that new subject I quickly started to use my arms to pry this thing's foot off, but unfortunately for the first time I could feel my cybernetics actually struggle against this bird's grip.
So instead I quickly changed tactics from pushing myself free I latched onto the thing's feet, as my fingers grabbed onto it's scaly flesh.
Fine if you weren't going let me go then let me return the fucking favour.
the things skin immediately was ripped under my gloved finger tips, pain I had caused it quickly gave me freedom and instead of dropping from probably a thousand feet into the forest I quickly grabbed it's feet and with a mighty pull I climbed myself up it's leg it's feathers thankfully strong enough to hold my weight as I found myself hanging on right next to Ruby.
"Now what!?" I called out.
"I dunno but I think I can see the temple we're supposed to go to!" I just barely heard Ruby yell, turning my head down.
I too found the supposed temple she had seen, wait why the hell does she need to know where a temple is?
"Jump!" Just before I could ask, Ruby yelled out and pushed off the giant bird and began freefalling through the air.
"Wait… what!?" I yelled out my eyes bugged out of my eye sockets while my sunglasses drooped down.
Looking down I watched with bated breath as the younger teen fell right through the air and in panic I nearly pushed off to chase after her but instead just as she was getting closer to the ground a black and small yellow object crashed right into her.
"What the… FUCK IS GOING ON HERE!?" I finally roared out pushing my sunglasses upwards as I was actually reaching my limit.
CAW!
Hearing the Raven finally cry out I decided that enough was enough, grabbing onto their feathers I proceeded to pull myself up the bird's body my aim was to it's back and neck, it banked around from left to right forcing my climbing to pause as I saw it's head move around showing it's double set eyes, but instead of looking at me I could see it's attention was pulled downwards.
Following their eyes I saw they had quickly focused a slow growing group of people, uncertainty washed over my face as I was unsure if they too were teenagers like Ruby but the assumption was quick as I felt my eyes widen as I saw a giant scorpion exploded right into the clearing below.
"Oh come on, what next a fucking Ratholos comes flying in or no maybe a fucking T-rex." I muttered under my breath as I saw a familiar spec of red travel along the ground towards. "OH HELL NO!"
seeing where Ruby was going my body moved pulling my legs up and I kicked off the bird full force.
CAW!
"fuck you too tweedie bird!" I yelled back as I dropped right through the air, arms against my body while my legs held together as I fell to ground at 'Literal' neck breaking speed.
My destination was the ground as I tried to aim for the scorpion but it was clear I wasn't going to make it.
Quick thinking had been something I learned as I reached into my leg holster and pulled my pistol out, kicking my legs forwards I pulled shoulders backwards and flipped backwards, mid flip I quickly grabbed my pistol's slide and pulled it back loading a fresh one in the chamber as I fired in the direction of the giant scorpion.
Seven pulls of the trigger and seven bullets shot through the air and smacked against the insectoid's exoskeleton as they seemingly did nothing to it.
Gritting my teeth I chose to ignore this new problem and instead focus on my imminent fall.
"Shiiiiit!" I cried out as I readied myself for either a world of new pain or probably my death, here's to hoping it's a quick one!
"Jackson!"
"Wha-whoa!" Quickly as I heard my name I suddenly felt my body tackle through the air, confusion quickly settled as my entire being quickly turned into an absolute blur before I felt my back come crashing down against the ground as I rolled for a good while or so.
My arms immediately instinctively wrapped around what I recognized was another person but instead of focusing on what I was holding my mind was pulled to the pain in my shoulders and back.
When it finally came to an end though, the rolling I mean my eyes stared up to the sky as the blurred vision cleared up but by the pain I was feeling had me staying in place.
"Urgh, should've asked for the Doc to shut off my pain receptors." I mumbled as the pain I felt in my body was for real but I could at the very least say for certain that my nanobots were at the very least doing their civic duty of fixing me up but in the most pain-filled way possible.
Crack!
Bone! that was absolutely a-
Crack!
Ah! another one, oh god this is not going to-
CRACK!
"ARGH!" Ok that one made me make a noise, fuck I really should've of damn well told Doc to shut my damn pain receptor's!
"C-can you let go now!" Hearing a new voice my head turned down as I saw myself holding onto… ew gross a dude.
I grit my teeth in new pain as I let go and pushed this person off me, something the guy seemed thankful for or I think he was, the new pain had me laying my head back down against the ground.
Hold on… where the fuck was I again?
Clang!
Hearing the sound of metal meeting something I pulled my up, tilting it just enough for my eyes catch a familiar red themed teen in the distance, while a large Scorpion bashed their claws towards her.
"Oh yeah that's where I was." I spoke under my breath dropping my head back down, with newfound determination my teeth clenched against each other as I pushed myself onto my side, damn nanobots, could you be any faster?
huffing and puffing I slowly climbed onto my hands and knees before I felt a pair of hands on me.
"Whoa hey, here let me help-"
CLANG!
Head snapped in the direction towards Ruby as I saw her standing there with what I think was a look of disbelief, why disbelief? Trailing further along had answered that question as a familiar scythe laid on the ground a good thirty or so meters away.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Hearing another cry from behind me I watched as my… partner was forced to flee, meanwhile I was lying here on the ground.
CAW!
Looking up at the sky my eye's near bulge as the bir-Nevermore came flying back and with a giant flap of their wings I watched in horror as it launch it's own feathers off their wings and like a hail of javelins they impaled the ground it one of them unfortunately hit Ruby's Cloak.
My eyes went back to the scorpion and I saw it moving to Ruby, oh hell no!
Pushing whoever was pulling me off I pushed myself onto my feet and quickly pulled my hat and bandana off, my sunglasses had already been thrown off but I took no care of it as I reached over my shoulder and pulled out my Binary sword.
Getting onto my feet I glared right at the scorpion.
"HEY!" I roared at the top of my lungs the scorpion seemingly paused as it's body turned to face. "YEAH YOU DISCOUNT FUCKING SPIDER CUNT"
"COME GET SOME!" I continued flipping my sword around in my hand. I raised my sword and with a mighty heave I threw it full force like a spear and like I hoped it sailed true as the blade stabbed into the giant insect's body.
Trailing off I slowly started to pull my things off, starting with my bag that uselessly dropped to the ground with an audible thump, pulling my vest off I took a second to drop it alongside my coat.
"COME ON THEN WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG!" I called out to the Scorpion as my right hand went to my left arm as I quickly pulled a part backwards revealing a tiny compartment.
Inside sat five small red syringes the size of my palm.
Grabbing one I took a second before stabbing the needle right into my neck and injected the contents into my bloodstream, closing the compartment I watched as the Scorpion scuttled towards me while the contents of the syringe did their job.
"What's this compartment for?" I heard my voice echo as I felt my breath quicken.
"It's for these unique supplements, think of them as boosters of sorts but instead of boosting one's own immune system these boost your Nanobots efficiency." Doc explained.
My vision started to get fuzzy but also cleared up
"The hell does that mean?"
I could feel my pain wash away as my body felt warm
"Just think of it as a last resort, with this your nanobots will increase your healing factor threefold."
Screw warm, it felt hot.
"Damn that's cool… what else will it do?"
I was boiling at this point and I could feel my back was on fire.
"Well it's a last resort so if needed you could either overload your cybernetics and go into overclock mode which will turn your already insane strength and speed godly."
It wasn't just my back either I could feel in my arms.
"Cooooool but overclocking also means overheating though"
Hell, my legs weren't saved from this heat either.
"Indeed, that's why it's a last resort because it could cause a mild case of immediate death."
Suddenly the heat seemed to die down but just a smidge and I let out a chuckle.
"Oof that sucks-But damn is it worth it." I exclaimed with a wild grin on my face.
BRRRRAAAAAW!
Hearing the Scorpion give out it's own battle cry I couldn't help but wonder to myself
CRUNCH!
Who was going to die first?
Chapter 2 end
Jericho: Dumbass meets weapon manic in their natural habitat, and has a bitch fit
Chapter 2
You know I haven't been on a nature walk for a long time, so this was rather refreshing or it fucking would be if I wasn't wrestling a damn werewolf looking mofo that was trying bite my head off.
Asshole had the damn gull to ambush me, swipe my rifle outta my hand and was mounting me like… I am not going to finish the line of thought.
"Ruby, where are you!?" I called out as I had my arm in its mouth acting as a chew toy. "Ruby? Ruby!?" I called out another two times before letting out an annoyed growl and reached up and wrapped my free arm around its head and with a quick tug a loud snap of the neck I quickly pushed the dead monster off me.
Stepping back my eyes narrowed as I quickly counted the rest of the werewolves that were left over and found it to be rather… disappointing.
"Six, fuck me I've been killing robots that are more annoying that you shit heads." I expressed reaching over my shoulder and grabbing my binary sword's hilt.
Pulling the long sword off my back I rolled my neck and let out an audible sigh before pulling my bandana over my nose, and readied myself by pointing my sword at the closest charging werewolf that leapt up into the air.
Its jaw wide open ready to bite into my flesh and its claws held in front to dig into my flesh but was quickly met by the swipe of my sword quickly bisecting it's head from its body causing the rest of it to collapse onto the ground in a near ragdoll effect.
Seeing the next coming to me instead of waiting for it I threw myself right into the the path of the werewolf and quickly jumped up and chucked both my legs up drop kicking the thing in it's body sending the both of us in opposite directions with the werewolf shooting right through the otherside of the clearing while I quickly flipped back over onto my feet and skidded against the ground until I came to a stop right next to my rifle I had dropped beforehand.
Because of the ambush I had unexpectedly been a part of I had lost my rifle but now that I had it right in front of me I quickly stabbed my sword into the ground, picked up my rifle and with less than three seconds later I quickly sighted my rifle on the closest werewolf and fired.
a single pull was all I need as a single shot of non-existence exploded out of my rifle, the suppressor doing it's job and the ammo doing twice the needed work as it hit one in the chest and the explosive caused it's body to topple over with a good sized chunk of blacken flesh flying all over the place.
Sighting the next werewolf I continued to single fire mow down these things, that is if you counted mowing down the last three werewolves to non existence.
When all was said and done I slowly stood back up, my eyes darted around the place as I tried to find anything that could clue me in on the teenager that had up and left me to deal with these… whatever the hell these things were.
BANG!
Hearing the crack my body turned, gun raised as I saw another werewolf had managed to sneak behind me but instead of pulling the trigger like I usual did when I was flanked a familiar tone of a red blur shot right passed the thing and seemingly stopped to reveal Ruby in a crouched position, in her hands held a rather large and in charge red Scythe that made me step back as it's length had my immediate attention.
But just as I was distracted by Ruby I watched as the werewolf that flanked me dropped to the ground, their body bisected in two pieces. Jesus, that thing had to be on some level of sharpness to do this.
Then again my Binary blade wasn't something to scoff at either but damn this surprised me.
"Heeeeey, uh sorry for leaving you there, I figured you'd want to take the front and all." Ruby said as she had quickly turned from something of a rather stoic figure to that of an embarrassed teenager.
Pulling my free hand up I just started to rub my temples to stave off the future brain ache I was going to be feeling in the next minute.
"Uh Jackson?" I could just hear the sweet worry from the girl as I stopped my massaging and addressed the girl in front of me, she had the gall to even look embarrassed as she hugged her scythe closer to herself as a way of anchoring herself down, something I was guilty of doing as well from time to time but now was not the time for reminiscing.
"So you had a scythe and you decided to show me this now?" I asked, well it probably came off as sarcastic but either or it seemed to do the job as Ruby continued to look more guilty by the second.
"I'm sorry, I should've told you and-"
"And you should've communicated with me." I quickly jumped in, my tone was filled with disappointment as I tried to give my best impression of a disappointed dad/brother/Person-in-Charge(you try being in charge of a Mercenary company and not act like a disappointed commander when one of your own does something stupid).
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be," I quickly exclaimed, extracting my sword out of the ground and quickly putting it back on my back. "Be better, if you're going to be my… partner, you're gonna make mistakes I get that just do better."
I tried to channel my own inner Kratos as Ruby looked at me with wide eyes and quickly shifted her expression from one of sad guilt to one of determination.
"Right, well we better go before another pack of Beowolves comes to us, uh no offence but I don't think either of us were being too quiet not to be heard from everyone in the forest." Ruby said, her scythe quickly shifting to form a large rectangle box that she quickly slipped onto the back of her waist.
"Lead the way." I said with a nod double checking my Rifle's magazine to see if I needed to either switch the magazine for a fuller mag or if I needed to be prepared to swap for another on the fly.
"Right." Ruby said as the two of us quietly marched through the forest, my knowledge of those Beowolves fresh on my mind as I had watched them slowly disintegrate into black smoke, another pain flashed through my head but I quickly pushed through the pain as I slid my mag back into my rifle with a satisfying click that indicated that it wasn't going anywhere.
"You were pretty good out there, I nearly thought I didn't need to jump in." Ruby spoke up as I shook my head.
"Too soon Ruby a little too soon." I said, shaking my head, this girl is worse than me when it comes to awkward silence.
We continued walking in silence, through brush the two of us continued our trek.
Little was said between us but I never really cared to think about it seeing as my attention focused on the forest as it now held monsters, it would be rather surreal if not for my previous or I guess my current occupations profile.
Zed's were a dime in a dozen in the outlands so wolves were not something that had me too worried, but it didn't mean I wasn't cautious, Abominations weren't something I worried about but their speed had me on the ropes many times.
double checking my guns now became a regular occurance as we walked, something that seemed to catch my partner's attention.
"Why are you constantly checking your weapon?" Ruby asked, her eyes looking back every now and again towards me and then my gun.
"Nervous tick." I exclaimed, the excuse was quick and should more than explain it.
"Well can you stop, who knows what you're doing to his internals." His?
"You know… you did the same with my pistol." I pointed out watching how Ruby seemed to frown at me.
"What?"
"You, giving genders to my guns, I mean I get it, give your guns personality and all but why are you doing it?" I asked.
"W-well I don't do it to just guns I do it to all weapons and it isn't weird my sister called Ember Celica her girls and I called Cresent Rose my Baby cause your weapons aren't just your weapons, they are extension of yourself it's not like a third arm but like an additional part of your soul, it's like the small mission piece to make you whole." Ruby's voice grew in volume as she seemingly was impassioned by her own words. "So yeah I gave your weapons 'genders' because they are a part of you and if you can't see that then you don't deserve them, in fact you shouldn't have them in general!"
Oh boy, I set her off by accident.
"She's dying for a cleaning as she is absolutely filthy it's frankly amazing how she hasn't discharged by accident or fallen apart and with how you brutally smack your magazine against him is frankly scary and he looks to also be in the same state as her and don't get me started on your sword, who in the everloving fluffer knuckle just allows their sword to be chipped and not fix it!?"
While Ruby continued her tirade my attention was quickly pulled away as I heard something shake in the air, the trees seemingly were pushed around as my eyes turned upwards and widened in horror.
"And another thing-!"
"DOWN!" I cried out lunging forwards as I pushed Ruby down before I felt giant talons quickly grab me around my chest. "Shit!" Force behind the large talons forced me to the ground and with it my grip of my rifle.
Trying to reach down to grab it I was instead met with my body being pulled away just before I could grab my rifle.
"Jackson!" Hearing Ruby's cry I watched her quickly grab my rifle and with a burst of blurring red shot through the air and I saw her quickly grab onto the leg of the giant black raven as it had quickly taken off back into the air.
"Ruby what the fuck is this thing!?" I roared over the air as I quickly adjusted my hat so it didn't fall off my head because of my impromptu flight.
"It's a Nevermore! A big one too!" Ruby cried out as I felt the things feet slowly start crushing me. "I didn't think there would be any in the Emerald Forest!"
Not wanting to touch that new subject I quickly started to use my arms to pry this thing's foot off, but unfortunately for the first time I could feel my cybernetics actually struggle against this bird's grip.
So instead I quickly changed tactics from pushing myself free I latched onto the thing's feet, as my fingers grabbed onto it's scaly flesh.
Fine if you weren't going let me go then let me return the fucking favour.
the things skin immediately was ripped under my gloved finger tips, pain I had caused it quickly gave me freedom and instead of dropping from probably a thousand feet into the forest I quickly grabbed it's feet and with a mighty pull I climbed myself up it's leg it's feathers thankfully strong enough to hold my weight as I found myself hanging on right next to Ruby.
"Now what!?" I called out.
"I dunno but I think I can see the temple we're supposed to go to!" I just barely heard Ruby yell, turning my head down.
I too found the supposed temple she had seen, wait why the hell does she need to know where a temple is?
"Jump!" Just before I could ask, Ruby yelled out and pushed off the giant bird and began freefalling through the air.
"Wait… what!?" I yelled out my eyes bugged out of my eye sockets while my sunglasses drooped down.
Looking down I watched with bated breath as the younger teen fell right through the air and in panic I nearly pushed off to chase after her but instead just as she was getting closer to the ground a black and small yellow object crashed right into her.
"What the… FUCK IS GOING ON HERE!?" I finally roared out pushing my sunglasses upwards as I was actually reaching my limit.
CAW!
Hearing the Raven finally cry out I decided that enough was enough, grabbing onto their feathers I proceeded to pull myself up the bird's body my aim was to it's back and neck, it banked around from left to right forcing my climbing to pause as I saw it's head move around showing it's double set eyes, but instead of looking at me I could see it's attention was pulled downwards.
Following their eyes I saw they had quickly focused a slow growing group of people, uncertainty washed over my face as I was unsure if they too were teenagers like Ruby but the assumption was quick as I felt my eyes widen as I saw a giant scorpion exploded right into the clearing below.
"Oh come on, what next a fucking Ratholos comes flying in or no maybe a fucking T-rex." I muttered under my breath as I saw a familiar spec of red travel along the ground towards. "OH HELL NO!"
seeing where Ruby was going my body moved pulling my legs up and I kicked off the bird full force.
CAW!
"fuck you too tweedie bird!" I yelled back as I dropped right through the air, arms against my body while my legs held together as I fell to ground at 'Literal' neck breaking speed.
My destination was the ground as I tried to aim for the scorpion but it was clear I wasn't going to make it.
Quick thinking had been something I learned as I reached into my leg holster and pulled my pistol out, kicking my legs forwards I pulled shoulders backwards and flipped backwards, mid flip I quickly grabbed my pistol's slide and pulled it back loading a fresh one in the chamber as I fired in the direction of the giant scorpion.
Seven pulls of the trigger and seven bullets shot through the air and smacked against the insectoid's exoskeleton as they seemingly did nothing to it.
Gritting my teeth I chose to ignore this new problem and instead focus on my imminent fall.
"Shiiiiit!" I cried out as I readied myself for either a world of new pain or probably my death, here's to hoping it's a quick one!
"Jackson!"
"Wha-whoa!" Quickly as I heard my name I suddenly felt my body tackle through the air, confusion quickly settled as my entire being quickly turned into an absolute blur before I felt my back come crashing down against the ground as I rolled for a good while or so.
My arms immediately instinctively wrapped around what I recognized was another person but instead of focusing on what I was holding my mind was pulled to the pain in my shoulders and back.
When it finally came to an end though, the rolling I mean my eyes stared up to the sky as the blurred vision cleared up but by the pain I was feeling had me staying in place.
"Urgh, should've asked for the Doc to shut off my pain receptors." I mumbled as the pain I felt in my body was for real but I could at the very least say for certain that my nanobots were at the very least doing their civic duty of fixing me up but in the most pain-filled way possible.
Crack!
Bone! that was absolutely a-
Crack!
Ah! another one, oh god this is not going to-
CRACK!
"ARGH!" Ok that one made me make a noise, fuck I really should've of damn well told Doc to shut my damn pain receptor's!
"C-can you let go now!" Hearing a new voice my head turned down as I saw myself holding onto… ew gross a dude.
I grit my teeth in new pain as I let go and pushed this person off me, something the guy seemed thankful for or I think he was, the new pain had me laying my head back down against the ground.
Hold on… where the fuck was I again?
Clang!
Hearing the sound of metal meeting something I pulled my up, tilting it just enough for my eyes catch a familiar red themed teen in the distance, while a large Scorpion bashed their claws towards her.
"Oh yeah that's where I was." I spoke under my breath dropping my head back down, with newfound determination my teeth clenched against each other as I pushed myself onto my side, damn nanobots, could you be any faster?
huffing and puffing I slowly climbed onto my hands and knees before I felt a pair of hands on me.
"Whoa hey, here let me help-"
CLANG!
Head snapped in the direction towards Ruby as I saw her standing there with what I think was a look of disbelief, why disbelief? Trailing further along had answered that question as a familiar scythe laid on the ground a good thirty or so meters away.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Hearing another cry from behind me I watched as my… partner was forced to flee, meanwhile I was lying here on the ground.
CAW!
Looking up at the sky my eye's near bulge as the bir-Nevermore came flying back and with a giant flap of their wings I watched in horror as it launch it's own feathers off their wings and like a hail of javelins they impaled the ground it one of them unfortunately hit Ruby's Cloak.
My eyes went back to the scorpion and I saw it moving to Ruby, oh hell no!
Pushing whoever was pulling me off I pushed myself onto my feet and quickly pulled my hat and bandana off, my sunglasses had already been thrown off but I took no care of it as I reached over my shoulder and pulled out my Binary sword.
Getting onto my feet I glared right at the scorpion.
"HEY!" I roared at the top of my lungs the scorpion seemingly paused as it's body turned to face. "YEAH YOU DISCOUNT FUCKING SPIDER CUNT"
"COME GET SOME!" I continued flipping my sword around in my hand. I raised my sword and with a mighty heave I threw it full force like a spear and like I hoped it sailed true as the blade stabbed into the giant insect's body.
Trailing off I slowly started to pull my things off, starting with my bag that uselessly dropped to the ground with an audible thump, pulling my vest off I took a second to drop it alongside my coat.
"COME ON THEN WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG!" I called out to the Scorpion as my right hand went to my left arm as I quickly pulled a part backwards revealing a tiny compartment.
Inside sat five small red syringes the size of my palm.
Grabbing one I took a second before stabbing the needle right into my neck and injected the contents into my bloodstream, closing the compartment I watched as the Scorpion scuttled towards me while the contents of the syringe did their job.
"What's this compartment for?" I heard my voice echo as I felt my breath quicken.
"It's for these unique supplements, think of them as boosters of sorts but instead of boosting one's own immune system these boost your Nanobots efficiency." Doc explained.
My vision started to get fuzzy but also cleared up
"The hell does that mean?"
I could feel my pain wash away as my body felt warm
"Just think of it as a last resort, with this your nanobots will increase your healing factor threefold."
Screw warm, it felt hot.
"Damn that's cool… what else will it do?"
I was boiling at this point and I could feel my back was on fire.
"Well it's a last resort so if needed you could either overload your cybernetics and go into overclock mode which will turn your already insane strength and speed godly."
It wasn't just my back either I could feel in my arms.
"Cooooool but overclocking also means overheating though"
Hell, my legs weren't saved from this heat either.
"Indeed, that's why it's a last resort because it could cause a mild case of immediate death."
Suddenly the heat seemed to die down but just a smidge and I let out a chuckle.
"Oof that sucks-But damn is it worth it." I exclaimed with a wild grin on my face.
BRRRRAAAAAW!
Hearing the Scorpion give out it's own battle cry I couldn't help but wonder to myself
CRUNCH!
Who was going to die first?
Chapter 2 end
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Hello I don't have time to explain other than fucking working getting on my ass Arcane season 2 finally dropped so i spent time watching that, liked the ending not in love with it but it was alright.
Jericho is obviously A little fucked in the head and I've been telling him to go to bed… which he won't so hes a little-
Jericho: Hell the deep state is run by Lizards!
Amvmaster:... you get my point onto the chapter!
Chapter 3
CRUNCH!
I felt it, the earth under my feet was crushed under my feet as I bolted forwards, closing the distance between the giant Scorpion in what felt like a second or so I quickly stopped right next to it's claw and using my momentum I twisted my entire body and threw the heaviest punch I could ever conceive.
The giant claw immediately flew backwards as I heard-I felt it dislocated from their main body, the evidence shown as it's clawed arm dropped like the giant sack of potatoes it was now.
SCREEEEECH!
Letting out a maddenning grin as I watched as the damn thing stumbled back and then in retaliation it raised it's stinger and instead of running away or waiting for it to come down on me I lunged forwards.
Leg raised, I threw a side kick into the insect's carapace covered face, I could feel my cybernetic foot crack the things armour from the force and with it the insect's body was pushed backwards a good couple feet as it's legs stopped it from being pushed back any further.
The thing's body seemingly just dropped as if it had been knocked out, instead of going for the kill though my head quickly went back to Ruby who was just getting up.
Looking back up at the sky though I could see that Nevermore was in the air but from a certain point of view I could just barely tell that it was just circling around.
Rolling my shoulders I quietly jogged away towards Ruby or to be exact her fallen weapon.
"Jackson?" Hearing her voice though I paused midway through getting her weapon and looked at her.
"Sorry Ruby, I'm going to have to borrow Crescent Rose for a bit." I said picking up the scythe, a weapon I had some experience using previously. "I don't have a whole lot of time so you can absolutely shit on me later, for now I'm going bird hunting."
Raising her Scythe I dropped it against my shoulder before taking a second or two to breathe.
"How long do I have, Overclocking I mean?"
Lowering my body downwards my hand slowly gripped the earth.
"Depending on your use it can be between times such as ten minutes but that's if you are not going all out, honestly though full power with some rough estimates and the consumptions of your body's own lipids and body fat… five minutes, but you can regulate it via taking ten second breaks in order to breath so it can fluctuate between but once again I'd say five minutes overall."
"I got five minutes, I'll try to come down before that." I mumbled before pushing against the ground with my feet and pulling against it with my free hand, with the combination I found myself sprinting full ungodly speed across the clearing until I finally hit the treeline where I pushed my cybernetic legs down and shot right through the air.
"COME HERE TWEETY BIRD!!!" I cried out at the top of my lungs as I flew right through air, knowing better I was probably not going to hit the stratosphere from my jump but by fucking god did it feel like I was going to make it, my eyes tracking the giant bird as it seemed to circle, their head moving upwards as it had clearly heard me.
"Let's see if I got this right!" I said loudly as I quickly repositioned Crescent Rose with it's blade situated behind me and with the pull of the trigger I felt the recoil of the larger weapon push me further towards the Nevermore.
"Yes!" I yelled out in manic joy as my hand quickly grabbed Crescent Rose's bolt and with a twist push and pull I loaded another round in the chamber, another pull and recoil continued to push me as I was now in a more controlled fall where I was heading towards the Nevermore that I could just see climbing up towards me.
"COME AND DIE YOU FLYING TURKEY FUCK!" I roared as I loaded another into the chamber and instead fired downwards forcing me to shoot right towards the Nevermore, where it opened it's giant maw and got ready to eat me hole, the idea just got me grinning as I twisted I twisted my body mid-air and swung Crescent Rose with all my strength.
The large blade doing it's immediate job as it stabbed in between the Nevermore's jaw, lodging it in the monster's muscles and into it's throat, with it hooked though I used Crescent Rose swing over the Bird's maw and land right on the back of head/neck.
Getting a better footing I loaded one more in the chamber and pulled a little bit as I readied myself for one helluva coup de gras.
"Next time try swallowing something else cockbite!" I yelled as I pulled the trigger and the recoil from Crescent Rose's rifle and with me pulling forced the blade to bisect the Birds head from their body.
With that I let out a tired laugh as I finally felt my body fall alongside the corpse of the slowly fading beast.
Edger Allen Poe can eat his fucking heart out.
Using the corpse to break my giant fall I still felt my body jolt as I managed to roll right off the things corpse and right onto the ground back first.
"Ow!" I managed to let out as I felt the heat from my body slowly disappear with it though came the new problem in the form of my body exploding in pain, something I had completely forgotten about until now.
"Oh by the way if you don't die Expect to feel your body's entire nervous system explode in pain from the complete over exertion of your Nanobots being put into Overclock mode, trust me you're going to wish you woke up in the healing tubes."
Regret was the first thing I thought about as my body continued to spasm, why did I even think Nanobots were a good idea!?
"Nanomachines, Son!"
"Fffffffuck you S-S-Senetor ARMSTRONG!" I cried out as I felt my eyes slowly close.
GRRRR!
Quickly my eyes open and I knew that I was not done yet, fuck me.
gritting my teeth through the pain I remembered my time before I ended up in this place, the fucking days of death I had gone through, the grueling torturous deaths and if you thought I was going to die so god damned soon then you are fucking mistaken.
pulling myself up I saw what looked to be a bear, the thing was black and covered in some thick looking armor, something I was growing quickly accustomed to lately, pulling Crescent Rose up I stabbed it's spear side in the ground and used the weapon to help me onto my feet while this thing slowly lumbered towards me while I glared at it.
But just as I was going to try and defend myself I heard the telltale sounds of shotgun fire and a yellow blur shot right over head, blinking my eyes seemed to focus on the yellow as it turned out to be a girl that drop kicked into the bear with little issue.
"Jackson!" Slowly turning my head around my eyes bulged as something slammed right into me and I felt my entire consciousness fade as I knew from whatever just hit was the last straw before I fully lost consciousness.
Beep Beep Beep
"Mmmhp sigh." Blinking my eyes open I could god damn feel I was in pain like serious fucking pain, god damn I can'ts move… ok thats not true I can move my hands and feet but thats only because of the cybernetics.
Where the hell am I?
Opening my eyes I quickly closed them as it was too damn bright, and that damn Beeping… fuck I'm in the hospital aren't I? Damn I guess that whole shit show I went through wasn't some weird BS dream I went through.
Suddenly I heard a door slide open and someone quietly walked in, great just in time.
Taking a minute to speak, I heard the person who walked into the room quietly and I could feel them mess around with something on my arm, probably the IV drip and I chose that time to quickly speak.
"H-hey, c-can you turn off the lights… please?" I asked my voice hoarse as my throat was drier than an Amy Shcumer stand up show.
"OH! You're awake! Hold on, let me get the Doctor." Quickly as they spoke I heard them quickly walk away and I let out a tired groan, god fucking damn it.
Sucking in a deep breath I slowly forced myself to move, and fortunately enough I did not feel much of anything that would resemble unimaginable pain… gotta be drugs, how else could I explain how my pain was quickly going away.
"God I damn well hungry like starving, Jesus I could barely move." I mumbled as I found my lack of real energy was because of my empty stomach.
Hearing the door open once more I finally opened my eyes and I saw a familiar red themed girl standing at the door.
"Oh shit… hey Ruby." I weakly greeted as the girl seemed to blink a couple times and her blank expression shifted to show one of absolute excitement.
"Jackson!" hearing the cry I couldn't help but cringe at the volume but the red blur of the girl had me reeling back as I found Ruby was quickly at my bedside, her expression was one of something something I don't know I don't care to really think about it but at least the girl was ok.
Unlike me of course.
"What the hell were you thinking! You could've died! Or that's what the Doctors said and I was so worried too!" Ruby loudly exclaimed as I knew that I had this coming.
Why couldn't I have died already?
"Ruby… water please?" I asked as I at least hoped they at the very least thought to leave something of water around in case someone woke up after being through the ringer.
"Oh yeah hold on, here drink it slowly, my dad always says that it's better to drink slowly or else you'd choke." Ruby said as I felt a straw was placed betwixt my lips, quickly I sucked on and I happily started to swallow the life-giving liquid as it thankfully wet my throat.
"Sigh finally… Now what is going on? Where am I? And… why the hell are you wearing a uniform?" As I just asked, Ruby was indeed wearing a school uniform, something I felt kinda fit the teen… not physically speaking of course but age wise seeing as she was well under seventeen and all, here's hoping I'm not going to be seeing Chris Hanson any time soon.
"Well I'm sorry to say Jackson but it's been Two years since the initiation and you were in a Coma."
…
…
…
Silence screams volumes as I gave Ruby my best version of my own cousin's dead bitch face stare and slowly I watched how she seemed to frown before one of us finally broke the silence.
"Alright fine it's been two days!" Score one for me, Ruby nil.
"Thank you, wasn't so hard to tell the truth now was it?" I casually spoke with a teasing tone, something Ruby seemed to pout at.
"How long until I get out of here?" I asked, my previous time in medical situations having prepped me to be in and out within minutes of walking up to the infirmary, but that was back with Skinner heading the infirmary.
"Nurse Tsune said you should be ok in about a week your pro-pros-your arms and legs seem to have done something to your body." Ruby explained as I felt like I was running on empty food wise I could barely pick up my arms but that didn't stop me from trying.
I pushed my arm down on the bed and slowly heaved myself up while I lightly grunted and gritted my teeth in discomfort until I was fully sitting up.
"Ruby… you got any food on you?" I asked looking at the girl as she seemed to blink, head quickly darting around the room until she let out a tired sigh and quietly pulled out a medium sized container, something I probably should question as to where she was was holding but I'm too damn hungry to think about it too much as she slowly peeled open the container.
Inside sat a large amount of cookies and it just had to be my favourite, chocolate chip.
"I'm going to regret eating this later but stuff it I'm hungry and these are my favourite." I muttered under my breath reaching out to grab a cookie only for the container to be snatched out of my grasp.
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"Ruby… what are you doing?" I asked, staring up at the girl as she was hugging the container like it was her new born child.
"T-these are my cookies, a-a-and I worked hard for them and I'm not letting anyone have them." Ruby said in a rather hysterical way and I mean crazy not funny.
"Ruby, I need food or else I am going to pass out I can already feel myself slipping." I explained as I could feel my vision slowly darken from the edges.
"Y-yeah well-"
"Ruby just one… I just…. Aaaah fuuuuuck." Oh shit there I go losing consciousness.
"Jackson?"
FML.
Chapter 3 end
Jericho: No shit Sherlock… well as least you can finally take a nap haha
Amvmaster: GO TO BED FUCK HEAD!
Jericho is obviously A little fucked in the head and I've been telling him to go to bed… which he won't so hes a little-
Jericho: Hell the deep state is run by Lizards!
Amvmaster:... you get my point onto the chapter!
Chapter 3
CRUNCH!
I felt it, the earth under my feet was crushed under my feet as I bolted forwards, closing the distance between the giant Scorpion in what felt like a second or so I quickly stopped right next to it's claw and using my momentum I twisted my entire body and threw the heaviest punch I could ever conceive.
The giant claw immediately flew backwards as I heard-I felt it dislocated from their main body, the evidence shown as it's clawed arm dropped like the giant sack of potatoes it was now.
SCREEEEECH!
Letting out a maddenning grin as I watched as the damn thing stumbled back and then in retaliation it raised it's stinger and instead of running away or waiting for it to come down on me I lunged forwards.
Leg raised, I threw a side kick into the insect's carapace covered face, I could feel my cybernetic foot crack the things armour from the force and with it the insect's body was pushed backwards a good couple feet as it's legs stopped it from being pushed back any further.
The thing's body seemingly just dropped as if it had been knocked out, instead of going for the kill though my head quickly went back to Ruby who was just getting up.
Looking back up at the sky though I could see that Nevermore was in the air but from a certain point of view I could just barely tell that it was just circling around.
Rolling my shoulders I quietly jogged away towards Ruby or to be exact her fallen weapon.
"Jackson?" Hearing her voice though I paused midway through getting her weapon and looked at her.
"Sorry Ruby, I'm going to have to borrow Crescent Rose for a bit." I said picking up the scythe, a weapon I had some experience using previously. "I don't have a whole lot of time so you can absolutely shit on me later, for now I'm going bird hunting."
Raising her Scythe I dropped it against my shoulder before taking a second or two to breathe.
"How long do I have, Overclocking I mean?"
Lowering my body downwards my hand slowly gripped the earth.
"Depending on your use it can be between times such as ten minutes but that's if you are not going all out, honestly though full power with some rough estimates and the consumptions of your body's own lipids and body fat… five minutes, but you can regulate it via taking ten second breaks in order to breath so it can fluctuate between but once again I'd say five minutes overall."
"I got five minutes, I'll try to come down before that." I mumbled before pushing against the ground with my feet and pulling against it with my free hand, with the combination I found myself sprinting full ungodly speed across the clearing until I finally hit the treeline where I pushed my cybernetic legs down and shot right through the air.
"COME HERE TWEETY BIRD!!!" I cried out at the top of my lungs as I flew right through air, knowing better I was probably not going to hit the stratosphere from my jump but by fucking god did it feel like I was going to make it, my eyes tracking the giant bird as it seemed to circle, their head moving upwards as it had clearly heard me.
"Let's see if I got this right!" I said loudly as I quickly repositioned Crescent Rose with it's blade situated behind me and with the pull of the trigger I felt the recoil of the larger weapon push me further towards the Nevermore.
"Yes!" I yelled out in manic joy as my hand quickly grabbed Crescent Rose's bolt and with a twist push and pull I loaded another round in the chamber, another pull and recoil continued to push me as I was now in a more controlled fall where I was heading towards the Nevermore that I could just see climbing up towards me.
"COME AND DIE YOU FLYING TURKEY FUCK!" I roared as I loaded another into the chamber and instead fired downwards forcing me to shoot right towards the Nevermore, where it opened it's giant maw and got ready to eat me hole, the idea just got me grinning as I twisted I twisted my body mid-air and swung Crescent Rose with all my strength.
The large blade doing it's immediate job as it stabbed in between the Nevermore's jaw, lodging it in the monster's muscles and into it's throat, with it hooked though I used Crescent Rose swing over the Bird's maw and land right on the back of head/neck.
Getting a better footing I loaded one more in the chamber and pulled a little bit as I readied myself for one helluva coup de gras.
"Next time try swallowing something else cockbite!" I yelled as I pulled the trigger and the recoil from Crescent Rose's rifle and with me pulling forced the blade to bisect the Birds head from their body.
With that I let out a tired laugh as I finally felt my body fall alongside the corpse of the slowly fading beast.
Edger Allen Poe can eat his fucking heart out.
Using the corpse to break my giant fall I still felt my body jolt as I managed to roll right off the things corpse and right onto the ground back first.
"Ow!" I managed to let out as I felt the heat from my body slowly disappear with it though came the new problem in the form of my body exploding in pain, something I had completely forgotten about until now.
"Oh by the way if you don't die Expect to feel your body's entire nervous system explode in pain from the complete over exertion of your Nanobots being put into Overclock mode, trust me you're going to wish you woke up in the healing tubes."
Regret was the first thing I thought about as my body continued to spasm, why did I even think Nanobots were a good idea!?
"Nanomachines, Son!"
"Fffffffuck you S-S-Senetor ARMSTRONG!" I cried out as I felt my eyes slowly close.
GRRRR!
Quickly my eyes open and I knew that I was not done yet, fuck me.
gritting my teeth through the pain I remembered my time before I ended up in this place, the fucking days of death I had gone through, the grueling torturous deaths and if you thought I was going to die so god damned soon then you are fucking mistaken.
pulling myself up I saw what looked to be a bear, the thing was black and covered in some thick looking armor, something I was growing quickly accustomed to lately, pulling Crescent Rose up I stabbed it's spear side in the ground and used the weapon to help me onto my feet while this thing slowly lumbered towards me while I glared at it.
But just as I was going to try and defend myself I heard the telltale sounds of shotgun fire and a yellow blur shot right over head, blinking my eyes seemed to focus on the yellow as it turned out to be a girl that drop kicked into the bear with little issue.
"Jackson!" Slowly turning my head around my eyes bulged as something slammed right into me and I felt my entire consciousness fade as I knew from whatever just hit was the last straw before I fully lost consciousness.
Beep Beep Beep
"Mmmhp sigh." Blinking my eyes open I could god damn feel I was in pain like serious fucking pain, god damn I can'ts move… ok thats not true I can move my hands and feet but thats only because of the cybernetics.
Where the hell am I?
Opening my eyes I quickly closed them as it was too damn bright, and that damn Beeping… fuck I'm in the hospital aren't I? Damn I guess that whole shit show I went through wasn't some weird BS dream I went through.
Suddenly I heard a door slide open and someone quietly walked in, great just in time.
Taking a minute to speak, I heard the person who walked into the room quietly and I could feel them mess around with something on my arm, probably the IV drip and I chose that time to quickly speak.
"H-hey, c-can you turn off the lights… please?" I asked my voice hoarse as my throat was drier than an Amy Shcumer stand up show.
"OH! You're awake! Hold on, let me get the Doctor." Quickly as they spoke I heard them quickly walk away and I let out a tired groan, god fucking damn it.
Sucking in a deep breath I slowly forced myself to move, and fortunately enough I did not feel much of anything that would resemble unimaginable pain… gotta be drugs, how else could I explain how my pain was quickly going away.
"God I damn well hungry like starving, Jesus I could barely move." I mumbled as I found my lack of real energy was because of my empty stomach.
Hearing the door open once more I finally opened my eyes and I saw a familiar red themed girl standing at the door.
"Oh shit… hey Ruby." I weakly greeted as the girl seemed to blink a couple times and her blank expression shifted to show one of absolute excitement.
"Jackson!" hearing the cry I couldn't help but cringe at the volume but the red blur of the girl had me reeling back as I found Ruby was quickly at my bedside, her expression was one of something something I don't know I don't care to really think about it but at least the girl was ok.
Unlike me of course.
"What the hell were you thinking! You could've died! Or that's what the Doctors said and I was so worried too!" Ruby loudly exclaimed as I knew that I had this coming.
Why couldn't I have died already?
"Ruby… water please?" I asked as I at least hoped they at the very least thought to leave something of water around in case someone woke up after being through the ringer.
"Oh yeah hold on, here drink it slowly, my dad always says that it's better to drink slowly or else you'd choke." Ruby said as I felt a straw was placed betwixt my lips, quickly I sucked on and I happily started to swallow the life-giving liquid as it thankfully wet my throat.
"Sigh finally… Now what is going on? Where am I? And… why the hell are you wearing a uniform?" As I just asked, Ruby was indeed wearing a school uniform, something I felt kinda fit the teen… not physically speaking of course but age wise seeing as she was well under seventeen and all, here's hoping I'm not going to be seeing Chris Hanson any time soon.
"Well I'm sorry to say Jackson but it's been Two years since the initiation and you were in a Coma."
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Silence screams volumes as I gave Ruby my best version of my own cousin's dead bitch face stare and slowly I watched how she seemed to frown before one of us finally broke the silence.
"Alright fine it's been two days!" Score one for me, Ruby nil.
"Thank you, wasn't so hard to tell the truth now was it?" I casually spoke with a teasing tone, something Ruby seemed to pout at.
"How long until I get out of here?" I asked, my previous time in medical situations having prepped me to be in and out within minutes of walking up to the infirmary, but that was back with Skinner heading the infirmary.
"Nurse Tsune said you should be ok in about a week your pro-pros-your arms and legs seem to have done something to your body." Ruby explained as I felt like I was running on empty food wise I could barely pick up my arms but that didn't stop me from trying.
I pushed my arm down on the bed and slowly heaved myself up while I lightly grunted and gritted my teeth in discomfort until I was fully sitting up.
"Ruby… you got any food on you?" I asked looking at the girl as she seemed to blink, head quickly darting around the room until she let out a tired sigh and quietly pulled out a medium sized container, something I probably should question as to where she was was holding but I'm too damn hungry to think about it too much as she slowly peeled open the container.
Inside sat a large amount of cookies and it just had to be my favourite, chocolate chip.
"I'm going to regret eating this later but stuff it I'm hungry and these are my favourite." I muttered under my breath reaching out to grab a cookie only for the container to be snatched out of my grasp.
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"Ruby… what are you doing?" I asked, staring up at the girl as she was hugging the container like it was her new born child.
"T-these are my cookies, a-a-and I worked hard for them and I'm not letting anyone have them." Ruby said in a rather hysterical way and I mean crazy not funny.
"Ruby, I need food or else I am going to pass out I can already feel myself slipping." I explained as I could feel my vision slowly darken from the edges.
"Y-yeah well-"
"Ruby just one… I just…. Aaaah fuuuuuck." Oh shit there I go losing consciousness.
"Jackson?"
FML.
Chapter 3 end
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Amvmaster: GO TO BED FUCK HEAD!
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Chapter 4 School times Part 1
A week had passed and I've gotta say I am reminded of why I hate hospital settings, fuck me was I ever happy to be leaving that damn room.
A week of laying in bed, shit a brick I just wanted to grab my glock and shoot myself to end all this patient waiting.
But it wasn't all bad… to an extent of course.
my time had been shifted between being moderately bored to the supposed class notes Ruby had shared with me to surfing on my newest form of technical distraction, my Scroll.
it was like an Iphone but… better like android better but worse than android… if that was ever possible which it is… god fuck all I don't know how to explain it any better than that.
all I ever did was just look up some random tidbits online… ok fine I looked at people who were smart enough to make a speedrun history of Remnant and let me tell you this place made nevada to a very very small margin just barely better.
Furries are a thing-sorry I mean "Faunas" are a thing, god no matter which universe I end up in I'm alway going to end up finding Furries, fortunately Nevada's version were crazed people wrapped up in straight jackets but that was probably me trying to keep myself sane from the first interactions I had with that specific type of enemy.
Regardless Racism is a thing… so bad in fact that I was seeing a very very basic alagory of Nazi's forming within the Faunas species called the white fang… hold on, is that allegory the right term?
Shit I don't know regardless they were a nice peace filled protest group quickly turned terrorist group-ISIS sorry no it's ISIS not Nazi's fuck me why am I like this?
Back to it White Fang bad and I see myself taking them on either sooner or what I am begging to be later cause I have more pressing matters to deal with.
School.
Letting out a tired groan I slowly rubbed my temples as I was still dealing with the inner turmoil of being in school.
The turmoil was rather simple seeing as I kinda promised myself that if I ever did go back to school that I would take it seriously but since I am here I'm wondering if this actually counts seeing as I didn't actively choose to go into this school.
"Jackson, are you ok? You look a little angry." Hearing Ruby I paused in my thoughts and just let out a tired sigh.
"It's nothing, just… trying to take all of this in and it's-" I paused for a couple seconds as I waved my hand out gesturing to the wide expanse of a campus the two of us were walking through. "-Just a lot to take in you know?"
"Yeah I was like that last week when Yang and I got here, don't worry you got the best partner to help you along." Ruby expressed rather confidently, something that surprisingly put a light chort in my throat.
"Yeah fine oh great leader, now I just need some fresh clothes." I mumbled under my breath while I lightly tugged against the collar of my new uniform's shirt, I had removed the tie and left the top two buttons undone.
Not one for uniforms but if I have to wear it I am going to be wearing it my way.
"Oh Yang can help you with that, but I think you're going to have to wait until the weekend for a shopping trip." Ruby quickly spoke up, I was surprised but I didn't try to question it as I more or less used to her guessing what I was thinking.
As the two of us walked through the campase Ruby chose to show me around while she walked me to our shared dorm room, a dorm I was going to have to share with three teenage girls… how ecchi shounen is atypically annoying.
Something I had a week or so to come to terms with with Ruby telling me random little tidbits of our… supposed team's new shenanigans to Nurse Tsune, someone who was very adamant to give me the Birds and Bees talk as well hand me a box condoms while leaving me a fair warning not to get my team quote on quote "Pregnant".
She unfortunately came back thirty minutes later to see me midway through blowing another condom balloon… I got through a third of the box before she quickly snatched the box off me and ruined my fun.
Ruby also wondered where I got the "balloons" from and asked if she could get any for the dorm and I told her where she could get some more immediately.
To say Tsune was done with my shit would be an absolute understatement.
"And this is your locker… I already put everything inside and I did a little extra." Ruby exclaimed as she showed my locker in a room filled to the brim with various lockers.
"Quite the tech on this thing." I noted as I opened the locker as Ruby had told me that I could unlock by either a code or my scroll, inside I was happy to see my weapons sat inside rather nicely along with some of my other things like my Sunglasses, Hat and Bandana.
"Well they are Rocket lockers, by the way be careful of Cardin he shoved Jaune into one a couple days ago in the middle of a tour and sent him in the middle of the Emerald Forest." Ruby explained as I raised an eyebrow as this was the first time she had told me this.
"And why are you telling me this?" I asked while picking up my glock and pulled the slide inspecting it.
I frowned as I saw the pistol was different, it looked… nicer, no wait it looked cleaner.
"Cause that's him over there." Looking up I turned to where Ruby was pointing and saw four teens casually making their way over, two of them looked rather dull while the other two were rather definitive with the shortest of the four having a big light green mohawk on their head and other was rather tall, maybe an inch taller than me and was built rather burly… is that the right word.
"He's a big jerk." Ruby exclaimed while I just shrugged and quickly went back to my glock where I quietly removed the suppressor with a couple of twists.
"Well well well boy's if it isn't little miss prodigal shorty what are you doing here?" Hearing a rather condescending voice I immediately chose to ignore it in favour of grabbing and stashing pistol magazines in my school coat as I wasn't planning on not lacking even while I was in a supposed school for future protectors of the world.
Stashing my glock's suppressor along with a couple of mags in my coat I quietly slipped my glock in the back of my pants waistband and quickly threw my hat and sunglasses on before I lightly SLAM'D my locker closed.
"Oh who's this?" The sarcastic nature of his voice caught me as the guy who was staring at me gave a rather sinister looking grin.
"This Cardin… is Jackson, MYYY PARTNEEER."
Ruby, why did you say it in that way? And especially in a proud way like that.
"Oh this is him!?" Cardin the tallest I quickly figured, quickly started to laugh. "Oh wow so he's the one sleeping right through the first week of class, alright alright tell me something I heard you took a beating from a beowolf the size of a chihuahua this true?"
The following laughter echoed through the locker room as I gave the ginger haired teen along with his lacky's a raised eyebrow.
Really? This is funny to you? Jesus Comedy has fallen rather low in this world if this is what gets people to laugh that hard.
"Shut up Cardin, for your information he killed a Nevermore!" Ruby seemed rather quick to come to my defence but I quickly grabbed her shoulder and lightly pulled her back just before she stepped any further forwards.
"Ease up you, let's just go to the cafeteria as I haven't had a real fill while I was in the infirmary." I had quickly changed the flow to pull Ruby away from falling for this guy's rather… pathetic attempt to get a rise out of me.
"Yeah you two better go get your fill of milk maybe that'll fix that height problem you got there Shorty." Cardin loudly exclaimed, Ruby looked ready to be pulled back into it but I quickly stopped it by throwing her cloak hood over her head.
"Come on you, just ignore em." I said pushing the smaller girl in front as she seemingly in a reluctant fashion just chose to walk along with me.
"Fine, but I told you he was a jerk." Ruby spoke as I could just barely hear that pout in her tone of voice.
"I'm not denying it, but it's not my problem and you shouldn't make it your problem." I exclaimed as the two of us finally walked out of the locker room.
"But they're the ones who are being jerks." Ruby pouted rather cutely as she obviously didn't like or take any real heed of my current advice.
"Don't worry bout it, if he causes any more problems I'll deal with him." I said bluntly as I felt my hand twitch at the possible prospect of dealing with such a… "Jerk".
Argh just thinking about calling someone a jerk is off putting.
The tour took us around the academy and I had to say… I was getting flashbacks.
"And this place is another classroom we take history here, don't know why we have to take it but Blake seems to like-oh Blake is my sister's partner and they are a part of our team… by the way we are a team now." Ruby explained as she seemed rather excited about being a part of a team.
"A team… didn't you tell me this earlier? Also a highschool with teams, gotta say that's… original." I said with a rather blunt fashion, my attention shifting from Ruby's tour guide bit and to the surrounding school itself.
The outside was something but the inside screamed prep school, I mean the uniform was a give away but this place was just an eye opener, who in the hell would pay for all of this? I mean this carpet who the hell would put carpet in the middle of a school?
Continuing with the tour Ruby finally showed me the cafeteria and I was greeted with another team that Ruby and the rest of the team befriended and also solid food that actually looked good.
I had quickly gone about stuffing a tray of various foods that I was close to devouring from the buffet itself but I had decency to not do so.
When I finally sat down I looked around and saw the new friends Ruby had made were staring at me with wide eyes.
"Get your own food." I said before quickly going about devouring my stack of food.
"So you are… Jackson correct?" Hearing the question I paused in my eating to look at the red head who looked rather uncomfortable.
"Yeah you're the guy that went woosh boom and blamoooh!" The lighter toned redhead loudly exclaimed as she looked rather excitable, it was a lot more to handle than what Ruby had as I just shrugged and went back to eating.
"Haha… yeah sorry about that I guess he wasn't kidding when he said he was hungry, I should've taken him here sooner." Ruby admitted, I glanced to my side and saw how embarrassed she looked and I fully paused in my eating and swallowed the food I had stuffed into my mouth.
"My body had consumed a lot of my own body weight in order to produce the energy and force I needed to take on those… grimm." I had hesitated at the last second but in my defence I was still put off by the idea that monsters that disappear after you kill them was rather stupid.
"The infirmary wouldn't allow me to put the weight back via solid food so I had to wait to be released, I would've been out sooner but I didn't have my… Aura unlocked until a day or so after I woke up." I further explained as Aura was a new thing entirely, something I chose not to think about cause it's entire thing kinda made my head hurt.
I mean it was like I knew what it was but also I had no clue what it was at the same time, hence my head hurt whenever I thought of it.
"Wait, you didn't have your aura unlocked during the initiation?" The guy with pink highlights asked, his tone was quite clearly one of surprise.
"No… why is it a prerequisite or something?" I asked before taking another bite out of my food and then continued with my thoughts. "Don't see the problem I've done… well no I don't think that counts, neither does that time with the… that show maybe… no I guess that whole machine debacle is the closest I can get to the initiation."
"The machine debacle? What happened to what machine?" The blonde guy asked as I could see he was rather invested with me all of a sudden.
"Eh don't worry about it, I killed it and I shouldn't be seeing that thing pop up any time soon." I waved my hands to emphasise the point across.
"Oooo was it like some reality bending type of machine that if killed you had to do an entire loop of time in order to keep the fabric of reality together?" The ginger haired girl asked as I just paused entirely and slowly stared at the girl.
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The girl seemed to quickly drop her head and I quickly went back to eating, during the short conversation I had managed to get through a third of my food on the tray.
"Uuuuuuuh ooooookay, well I'm Jaune," the blonde introduced themself. "That's Pyrrha." The red head. "Ren" Pink highlights "And well Nora" and the ginger girl.
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"Weeeeeell this has been great come on Jackson I think it's time for me to show you our dorm." Ruby quickly spoke up and I just looked at her and then back to my tray, gesturing to it with one hand.
Ruby gave me a frown that said that it was time to go and I frowned before reluctantly placing my fork down on the empty portion of the tray.
"Sigh, right fine, sorry team-"
"Juniper."
"-Juniper, best I go then." I said giving Ruby a small thankful nod before taking the rest of my tray and the two of us moved to the exit, not before dumping the rest of my food away with great reluctance but I could see Ruby was rather adamant for us to leave rather quickly.
When we were a good distance away from the cafeteria I watched Ruby move and kicked me right in the shin… the metal shin.
"Aaah! that hurt!" Ruby yelped as she hopped around lightly on her other foot while grabbing her hurt foot.
"How hard is it to remember I'm a quadruple amputee with cybernetic prosthesis?" I asked, reaching down and pulling my pants leg up to show my prosthesis.
"Well I'm sorry but that entire thing back there was more awkward than my first day here!" Ruby complained, hopping around until I quickly reached over and grabbed her arm helping her keep balance. "Why were you so cold to everyone?"
"I'm sorry I like to eat my food in silence." I pointed out rather casually, I mean it was the same thing back at base but I admit every now and again I liked to hang around with others for a meal or two.
"Well… you could've been nicer." Ruby pouted as she finally placed her foot down, I quickly guessed her Aura had done it's job at healing her little owie.
"Sorry I'm not a social butterfly… what about the rest of our team, they're gonna be like team Juniper?" I asked but the tilted head of Ruby told me that I needed to provide further context. "I mean with the amount you told me about your sister and her partner, are you sure if they are comfortable with having a guy in their dorm room?"
"Oh that, they'll be fiiiiiiine, well Blake didn't seem to care but Yang took a little time to convince so yeah I say as team leader you are A OK Jackson." Ruby poked her tongue out of the side of her mouth while giving me a thumbs up, quite the pose.
"…Your confidence in your sister is incredibly misplaced." I plainly pointed out, my memories of my time in the infirmary coming back as I heard Nurse Tsune silently complain about Yang and her explosive temper and she had already put a good couple of second years in the infirmary for a day or two.
"Ah no it isn't, trust me I'm your partner and she's my sister." Ruby said with further misplaced confidence that I just chose to leave alone.
I was in the belief that actions spoke louder than words and I had a feeling Yang was also in the same mind set.
When Ruby finally showed me to our shared dorm I watched as she opened it up revealing a rather large room with four beds… well two bunk beds to be exact… I mean I got the bunk bed on the books but the one hanging on ropes gave me an immediate sense of danger.
"Yeeeeeaaaah forgot to tell you about the bunk beds we did this on the first day too." Ruby spoke up as she walked into the room.
Following inside my eyes turned to one of the other residents on the bottom book bed, this probably the first time I was seeing this person as they wore the school uniform, they had long black hair, with a rather large black bow sitting on top and their eyes were a bright amber yellow that was very reminiscent of cat's eyes.
She laid on the bed reading a book and just lowered it enough to look in my direction before pulling the book up, covering her face once more showing a clear disinterest.
"Blake it's Jackson, Jackson this is Yang's partner Blake!" Ruby loudly introduced as I heard the door to our dorm close, guess I forgot to close it.
"Hi." Blake just turned the page of her book as I quickly recognized her disinterest was more than just an obvious show.
"Charmed." Was all I said looking back at Ruby as she seemed to sheepishly chuckle as the interaction was clearly not something to her liking.
"Come on this here is your bed, the bathroom is over there, warning if possible you better get to it first before Yang as she takes foreeeeever to shower herself." Ruby explained, showing me the obvious look of the room.
"Is my baby sister telling lies!?" Hearing the call from said bathroom my eyes turned to see the door swing wide open and reveal a rather well… is there a word for being both curvy and fit? Cause those thighs and abs tell me there is.
Not that I am into them but they were two of the first five things I noticed when this girl revealed themselves.
The other three were her long golden mane of hair pulled back into a high ponytail, those purple eyes of her and the last well… chesticles comes to mind.
"Oh it's that guy who saved my sister, what? never seen someone of my hotness?" The blonde exclaimed as she gestured to herself, which to be fair to me it was hard not to stare as she was wearing fucking short shorts and an orange sports bra.
"Yaaaaaang! Put some clothes on!" Ruby yelled out as she was quick to throw a big hoodie at the blonde.
"Guh? Why are you jealous of me or something?" Yang joked casually throwing the hoodie on with little fuss. "Also since he's bunking with us hes going to be seeing us whether you like it or not."
There was something off about that last bit, the way I saw her eyes seemed to flash red for the briefest of moments and the look she gave me.
"I'm not exactly comfortable with living with a guy." Hearing Blake speak more than a word seemed to catch everyone's attention, another page turned and she quickly continued. "No offence but how can we trust you not to do anything in our sleep?"
This seemed to catch Yang's attention as I saw the red in her eyes but this time her eyes stayed red, a clear incling in my head as well as obvious deduction told me that I had to nip this now or else I'd find myself in some random ecchi-esc shenanigans.
"Uh I… you know I've never had to actually defend myself in this manner, hold on give me a second here." I said, holding a finger up and then turning around to think.
"Take your time." Yang's tone told me that was a clear lie with how restrained she sounded.
"Well… Laziness comes to mind, I can't exactly be bothered to do anything and also there is the age difference… wait is there an age difference?" I quickly asked, turning my head around, looking at Yang, Blake and then Ruby. "Hold on, how old are you girls?"
"You do know it's rude-"
"Do I look like I give a fuck?" I quickly jumped in between Blake's sarcastic jab. "Answer the question."
"Well I'm fifthteen." Ruby quickly spoke up and immediately I made a sound of disgust, this seemed to get a response as the girl looked at me with wide fearful eyes. "What!? I was enrolled early, why is there something wrong with my age?
"Ignoring the clear panic you got there Ruby, yes I'm not interested in someone not in my age group." I said with a shake of the head, I mean I did look like just a second or so but that age range had me reeling back immediately.
"Well, we're seventeen." Yang said as I could see her tone had shifted from anger to light annoyance? Shit I don't know but she at the very least sounded like she had an attitude.
"That's not exactly better you know right?" I threw back folding my arms watching how Yang seemed to widen her eyes, the red immediately shifting back to a surprised look, confused purple.
"And why's that?" Blake asked the seemingly right question.
"Simple, you lot are not exactly twenty and up, you know the same range someone that's Twenty six should be looking for in a… partner" I had no real word to look for but I chose partner instead of using words like 'Lover', 'GF', or my personal favourite 'Waifu Material'.
"But wait aren't we partners?" Ruby quickly asked.
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"I… I am not going to clarify, seeing as I think your sister can explain it better than I can, but short answer not that type of partner Ruby." I quickly answered as I saw the two older girls slowly catch up, Blake immediately shoving her head back into her book while Yang looked flabbergasted.
"You're Twenty Six!?" Yang yelled out, clearly not believing for a second… also I am kinda glad Ruby closed the dorm door. "You look like you're at our age, the hell do you mean you're twenty six!?"
"…What?" My eyes immediately narrowed before I quickly power walked to the nearby bathroom.
Unfortunately and I don't know why but the infirmary didn't put a mirror in my ensuite bathroom so I had to use whatever metal surface I could get to check my face which led to some rather amusing Carnival mirror illusions.
As soon as I looked at the mirror my eyes widened in absolute shock as gone was my old tired face that was covered in fresh scar's the medical tubes couldn't exactly heal and instead of an old face what I saw was a young teenaged face, a face I hadn't seen since I was seventeen.
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"WHAT THE FUCK!?"
Chapter 4 end
Jericho: Don't worry what 10 less years. At the very least you're now a protagonist. Good luck and happy trauma dumping… haha
Amvmaster:… Sorry my friend is once again deprived of sleep.
Chapter 4 School times Part 1
A week had passed and I've gotta say I am reminded of why I hate hospital settings, fuck me was I ever happy to be leaving that damn room.
A week of laying in bed, shit a brick I just wanted to grab my glock and shoot myself to end all this patient waiting.
But it wasn't all bad… to an extent of course.
my time had been shifted between being moderately bored to the supposed class notes Ruby had shared with me to surfing on my newest form of technical distraction, my Scroll.
it was like an Iphone but… better like android better but worse than android… if that was ever possible which it is… god fuck all I don't know how to explain it any better than that.
all I ever did was just look up some random tidbits online… ok fine I looked at people who were smart enough to make a speedrun history of Remnant and let me tell you this place made nevada to a very very small margin just barely better.
Furries are a thing-sorry I mean "Faunas" are a thing, god no matter which universe I end up in I'm alway going to end up finding Furries, fortunately Nevada's version were crazed people wrapped up in straight jackets but that was probably me trying to keep myself sane from the first interactions I had with that specific type of enemy.
Regardless Racism is a thing… so bad in fact that I was seeing a very very basic alagory of Nazi's forming within the Faunas species called the white fang… hold on, is that allegory the right term?
Shit I don't know regardless they were a nice peace filled protest group quickly turned terrorist group-ISIS sorry no it's ISIS not Nazi's fuck me why am I like this?
Back to it White Fang bad and I see myself taking them on either sooner or what I am begging to be later cause I have more pressing matters to deal with.
School.
Letting out a tired groan I slowly rubbed my temples as I was still dealing with the inner turmoil of being in school.
The turmoil was rather simple seeing as I kinda promised myself that if I ever did go back to school that I would take it seriously but since I am here I'm wondering if this actually counts seeing as I didn't actively choose to go into this school.
"Jackson, are you ok? You look a little angry." Hearing Ruby I paused in my thoughts and just let out a tired sigh.
"It's nothing, just… trying to take all of this in and it's-" I paused for a couple seconds as I waved my hand out gesturing to the wide expanse of a campus the two of us were walking through. "-Just a lot to take in you know?"
"Yeah I was like that last week when Yang and I got here, don't worry you got the best partner to help you along." Ruby expressed rather confidently, something that surprisingly put a light chort in my throat.
"Yeah fine oh great leader, now I just need some fresh clothes." I mumbled under my breath while I lightly tugged against the collar of my new uniform's shirt, I had removed the tie and left the top two buttons undone.
Not one for uniforms but if I have to wear it I am going to be wearing it my way.
"Oh Yang can help you with that, but I think you're going to have to wait until the weekend for a shopping trip." Ruby quickly spoke up, I was surprised but I didn't try to question it as I more or less used to her guessing what I was thinking.
As the two of us walked through the campase Ruby chose to show me around while she walked me to our shared dorm room, a dorm I was going to have to share with three teenage girls… how ecchi shounen is atypically annoying.
Something I had a week or so to come to terms with with Ruby telling me random little tidbits of our… supposed team's new shenanigans to Nurse Tsune, someone who was very adamant to give me the Birds and Bees talk as well hand me a box condoms while leaving me a fair warning not to get my team quote on quote "Pregnant".
She unfortunately came back thirty minutes later to see me midway through blowing another condom balloon… I got through a third of the box before she quickly snatched the box off me and ruined my fun.
Ruby also wondered where I got the "balloons" from and asked if she could get any for the dorm and I told her where she could get some more immediately.
To say Tsune was done with my shit would be an absolute understatement.
"And this is your locker… I already put everything inside and I did a little extra." Ruby exclaimed as she showed my locker in a room filled to the brim with various lockers.
"Quite the tech on this thing." I noted as I opened the locker as Ruby had told me that I could unlock by either a code or my scroll, inside I was happy to see my weapons sat inside rather nicely along with some of my other things like my Sunglasses, Hat and Bandana.
"Well they are Rocket lockers, by the way be careful of Cardin he shoved Jaune into one a couple days ago in the middle of a tour and sent him in the middle of the Emerald Forest." Ruby explained as I raised an eyebrow as this was the first time she had told me this.
"And why are you telling me this?" I asked while picking up my glock and pulled the slide inspecting it.
I frowned as I saw the pistol was different, it looked… nicer, no wait it looked cleaner.
"Cause that's him over there." Looking up I turned to where Ruby was pointing and saw four teens casually making their way over, two of them looked rather dull while the other two were rather definitive with the shortest of the four having a big light green mohawk on their head and other was rather tall, maybe an inch taller than me and was built rather burly… is that the right word.
"He's a big jerk." Ruby exclaimed while I just shrugged and quickly went back to my glock where I quietly removed the suppressor with a couple of twists.
"Well well well boy's if it isn't little miss prodigal shorty what are you doing here?" Hearing a rather condescending voice I immediately chose to ignore it in favour of grabbing and stashing pistol magazines in my school coat as I wasn't planning on not lacking even while I was in a supposed school for future protectors of the world.
Stashing my glock's suppressor along with a couple of mags in my coat I quietly slipped my glock in the back of my pants waistband and quickly threw my hat and sunglasses on before I lightly SLAM'D my locker closed.
"Oh who's this?" The sarcastic nature of his voice caught me as the guy who was staring at me gave a rather sinister looking grin.
"This Cardin… is Jackson, MYYY PARTNEEER."
Ruby, why did you say it in that way? And especially in a proud way like that.
"Oh this is him!?" Cardin the tallest I quickly figured, quickly started to laugh. "Oh wow so he's the one sleeping right through the first week of class, alright alright tell me something I heard you took a beating from a beowolf the size of a chihuahua this true?"
The following laughter echoed through the locker room as I gave the ginger haired teen along with his lacky's a raised eyebrow.
Really? This is funny to you? Jesus Comedy has fallen rather low in this world if this is what gets people to laugh that hard.
"Shut up Cardin, for your information he killed a Nevermore!" Ruby seemed rather quick to come to my defence but I quickly grabbed her shoulder and lightly pulled her back just before she stepped any further forwards.
"Ease up you, let's just go to the cafeteria as I haven't had a real fill while I was in the infirmary." I had quickly changed the flow to pull Ruby away from falling for this guy's rather… pathetic attempt to get a rise out of me.
"Yeah you two better go get your fill of milk maybe that'll fix that height problem you got there Shorty." Cardin loudly exclaimed, Ruby looked ready to be pulled back into it but I quickly stopped it by throwing her cloak hood over her head.
"Come on you, just ignore em." I said pushing the smaller girl in front as she seemingly in a reluctant fashion just chose to walk along with me.
"Fine, but I told you he was a jerk." Ruby spoke as I could just barely hear that pout in her tone of voice.
"I'm not denying it, but it's not my problem and you shouldn't make it your problem." I exclaimed as the two of us finally walked out of the locker room.
"But they're the ones who are being jerks." Ruby pouted rather cutely as she obviously didn't like or take any real heed of my current advice.
"Don't worry bout it, if he causes any more problems I'll deal with him." I said bluntly as I felt my hand twitch at the possible prospect of dealing with such a… "Jerk".
Argh just thinking about calling someone a jerk is off putting.
The tour took us around the academy and I had to say… I was getting flashbacks.
"And this place is another classroom we take history here, don't know why we have to take it but Blake seems to like-oh Blake is my sister's partner and they are a part of our team… by the way we are a team now." Ruby explained as she seemed rather excited about being a part of a team.
"A team… didn't you tell me this earlier? Also a highschool with teams, gotta say that's… original." I said with a rather blunt fashion, my attention shifting from Ruby's tour guide bit and to the surrounding school itself.
The outside was something but the inside screamed prep school, I mean the uniform was a give away but this place was just an eye opener, who in the hell would pay for all of this? I mean this carpet who the hell would put carpet in the middle of a school?
Continuing with the tour Ruby finally showed me the cafeteria and I was greeted with another team that Ruby and the rest of the team befriended and also solid food that actually looked good.
I had quickly gone about stuffing a tray of various foods that I was close to devouring from the buffet itself but I had decency to not do so.
When I finally sat down I looked around and saw the new friends Ruby had made were staring at me with wide eyes.
"Get your own food." I said before quickly going about devouring my stack of food.
"So you are… Jackson correct?" Hearing the question I paused in my eating to look at the red head who looked rather uncomfortable.
"Yeah you're the guy that went woosh boom and blamoooh!" The lighter toned redhead loudly exclaimed as she looked rather excitable, it was a lot more to handle than what Ruby had as I just shrugged and went back to eating.
"Haha… yeah sorry about that I guess he wasn't kidding when he said he was hungry, I should've taken him here sooner." Ruby admitted, I glanced to my side and saw how embarrassed she looked and I fully paused in my eating and swallowed the food I had stuffed into my mouth.
"My body had consumed a lot of my own body weight in order to produce the energy and force I needed to take on those… grimm." I had hesitated at the last second but in my defence I was still put off by the idea that monsters that disappear after you kill them was rather stupid.
"The infirmary wouldn't allow me to put the weight back via solid food so I had to wait to be released, I would've been out sooner but I didn't have my… Aura unlocked until a day or so after I woke up." I further explained as Aura was a new thing entirely, something I chose not to think about cause it's entire thing kinda made my head hurt.
I mean it was like I knew what it was but also I had no clue what it was at the same time, hence my head hurt whenever I thought of it.
"Wait, you didn't have your aura unlocked during the initiation?" The guy with pink highlights asked, his tone was quite clearly one of surprise.
"No… why is it a prerequisite or something?" I asked before taking another bite out of my food and then continued with my thoughts. "Don't see the problem I've done… well no I don't think that counts, neither does that time with the… that show maybe… no I guess that whole machine debacle is the closest I can get to the initiation."
"The machine debacle? What happened to what machine?" The blonde guy asked as I could see he was rather invested with me all of a sudden.
"Eh don't worry about it, I killed it and I shouldn't be seeing that thing pop up any time soon." I waved my hands to emphasise the point across.
"Oooo was it like some reality bending type of machine that if killed you had to do an entire loop of time in order to keep the fabric of reality together?" The ginger haired girl asked as I just paused entirely and slowly stared at the girl.
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The girl seemed to quickly drop her head and I quickly went back to eating, during the short conversation I had managed to get through a third of my food on the tray.
"Uuuuuuuh ooooookay, well I'm Jaune," the blonde introduced themself. "That's Pyrrha." The red head. "Ren" Pink highlights "And well Nora" and the ginger girl.
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"Weeeeeell this has been great come on Jackson I think it's time for me to show you our dorm." Ruby quickly spoke up and I just looked at her and then back to my tray, gesturing to it with one hand.
Ruby gave me a frown that said that it was time to go and I frowned before reluctantly placing my fork down on the empty portion of the tray.
"Sigh, right fine, sorry team-"
"Juniper."
"-Juniper, best I go then." I said giving Ruby a small thankful nod before taking the rest of my tray and the two of us moved to the exit, not before dumping the rest of my food away with great reluctance but I could see Ruby was rather adamant for us to leave rather quickly.
When we were a good distance away from the cafeteria I watched Ruby move and kicked me right in the shin… the metal shin.
"Aaah! that hurt!" Ruby yelped as she hopped around lightly on her other foot while grabbing her hurt foot.
"How hard is it to remember I'm a quadruple amputee with cybernetic prosthesis?" I asked, reaching down and pulling my pants leg up to show my prosthesis.
"Well I'm sorry but that entire thing back there was more awkward than my first day here!" Ruby complained, hopping around until I quickly reached over and grabbed her arm helping her keep balance. "Why were you so cold to everyone?"
"I'm sorry I like to eat my food in silence." I pointed out rather casually, I mean it was the same thing back at base but I admit every now and again I liked to hang around with others for a meal or two.
"Well… you could've been nicer." Ruby pouted as she finally placed her foot down, I quickly guessed her Aura had done it's job at healing her little owie.
"Sorry I'm not a social butterfly… what about the rest of our team, they're gonna be like team Juniper?" I asked but the tilted head of Ruby told me that I needed to provide further context. "I mean with the amount you told me about your sister and her partner, are you sure if they are comfortable with having a guy in their dorm room?"
"Oh that, they'll be fiiiiiiine, well Blake didn't seem to care but Yang took a little time to convince so yeah I say as team leader you are A OK Jackson." Ruby poked her tongue out of the side of her mouth while giving me a thumbs up, quite the pose.
"…Your confidence in your sister is incredibly misplaced." I plainly pointed out, my memories of my time in the infirmary coming back as I heard Nurse Tsune silently complain about Yang and her explosive temper and she had already put a good couple of second years in the infirmary for a day or two.
"Ah no it isn't, trust me I'm your partner and she's my sister." Ruby said with further misplaced confidence that I just chose to leave alone.
I was in the belief that actions spoke louder than words and I had a feeling Yang was also in the same mind set.
When Ruby finally showed me to our shared dorm I watched as she opened it up revealing a rather large room with four beds… well two bunk beds to be exact… I mean I got the bunk bed on the books but the one hanging on ropes gave me an immediate sense of danger.
"Yeeeeeaaaah forgot to tell you about the bunk beds we did this on the first day too." Ruby spoke up as she walked into the room.
Following inside my eyes turned to one of the other residents on the bottom book bed, this probably the first time I was seeing this person as they wore the school uniform, they had long black hair, with a rather large black bow sitting on top and their eyes were a bright amber yellow that was very reminiscent of cat's eyes.
She laid on the bed reading a book and just lowered it enough to look in my direction before pulling the book up, covering her face once more showing a clear disinterest.
"Blake it's Jackson, Jackson this is Yang's partner Blake!" Ruby loudly introduced as I heard the door to our dorm close, guess I forgot to close it.
"Hi." Blake just turned the page of her book as I quickly recognized her disinterest was more than just an obvious show.
"Charmed." Was all I said looking back at Ruby as she seemed to sheepishly chuckle as the interaction was clearly not something to her liking.
"Come on this here is your bed, the bathroom is over there, warning if possible you better get to it first before Yang as she takes foreeeeever to shower herself." Ruby explained, showing me the obvious look of the room.
"Is my baby sister telling lies!?" Hearing the call from said bathroom my eyes turned to see the door swing wide open and reveal a rather well… is there a word for being both curvy and fit? Cause those thighs and abs tell me there is.
Not that I am into them but they were two of the first five things I noticed when this girl revealed themselves.
The other three were her long golden mane of hair pulled back into a high ponytail, those purple eyes of her and the last well… chesticles comes to mind.
"Oh it's that guy who saved my sister, what? never seen someone of my hotness?" The blonde exclaimed as she gestured to herself, which to be fair to me it was hard not to stare as she was wearing fucking short shorts and an orange sports bra.
"Yaaaaaang! Put some clothes on!" Ruby yelled out as she was quick to throw a big hoodie at the blonde.
"Guh? Why are you jealous of me or something?" Yang joked casually throwing the hoodie on with little fuss. "Also since he's bunking with us hes going to be seeing us whether you like it or not."
There was something off about that last bit, the way I saw her eyes seemed to flash red for the briefest of moments and the look she gave me.
"I'm not exactly comfortable with living with a guy." Hearing Blake speak more than a word seemed to catch everyone's attention, another page turned and she quickly continued. "No offence but how can we trust you not to do anything in our sleep?"
This seemed to catch Yang's attention as I saw the red in her eyes but this time her eyes stayed red, a clear incling in my head as well as obvious deduction told me that I had to nip this now or else I'd find myself in some random ecchi-esc shenanigans.
"Uh I… you know I've never had to actually defend myself in this manner, hold on give me a second here." I said, holding a finger up and then turning around to think.
"Take your time." Yang's tone told me that was a clear lie with how restrained she sounded.
"Well… Laziness comes to mind, I can't exactly be bothered to do anything and also there is the age difference… wait is there an age difference?" I quickly asked, turning my head around, looking at Yang, Blake and then Ruby. "Hold on, how old are you girls?"
"You do know it's rude-"
"Do I look like I give a fuck?" I quickly jumped in between Blake's sarcastic jab. "Answer the question."
"Well I'm fifthteen." Ruby quickly spoke up and immediately I made a sound of disgust, this seemed to get a response as the girl looked at me with wide fearful eyes. "What!? I was enrolled early, why is there something wrong with my age?
"Ignoring the clear panic you got there Ruby, yes I'm not interested in someone not in my age group." I said with a shake of the head, I mean I did look like just a second or so but that age range had me reeling back immediately.
"Well, we're seventeen." Yang said as I could see her tone had shifted from anger to light annoyance? Shit I don't know but she at the very least sounded like she had an attitude.
"That's not exactly better you know right?" I threw back folding my arms watching how Yang seemed to widen her eyes, the red immediately shifting back to a surprised look, confused purple.
"And why's that?" Blake asked the seemingly right question.
"Simple, you lot are not exactly twenty and up, you know the same range someone that's Twenty six should be looking for in a… partner" I had no real word to look for but I chose partner instead of using words like 'Lover', 'GF', or my personal favourite 'Waifu Material'.
"But wait aren't we partners?" Ruby quickly asked.
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"I… I am not going to clarify, seeing as I think your sister can explain it better than I can, but short answer not that type of partner Ruby." I quickly answered as I saw the two older girls slowly catch up, Blake immediately shoving her head back into her book while Yang looked flabbergasted.
"You're Twenty Six!?" Yang yelled out, clearly not believing for a second… also I am kinda glad Ruby closed the dorm door. "You look like you're at our age, the hell do you mean you're twenty six!?"
"…What?" My eyes immediately narrowed before I quickly power walked to the nearby bathroom.
Unfortunately and I don't know why but the infirmary didn't put a mirror in my ensuite bathroom so I had to use whatever metal surface I could get to check my face which led to some rather amusing Carnival mirror illusions.
As soon as I looked at the mirror my eyes widened in absolute shock as gone was my old tired face that was covered in fresh scar's the medical tubes couldn't exactly heal and instead of an old face what I saw was a young teenaged face, a face I hadn't seen since I was seventeen.
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"WHAT THE FUCK!?"
Chapter 4 end
Jericho: Don't worry what 10 less years. At the very least you're now a protagonist. Good luck and happy trauma dumping… haha
Amvmaster:… Sorry my friend is once again deprived of sleep.
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Chapter 5 School Times Part 2
Since when the hell have I looked like this?
Was it before or after the portal? During the initiation? Was it while I was in the infirmary?
Fuck!
SHATTER!
Blinking my eyes I quickly pulled myself back into reality as I found myself sitting at the cafeteria once more, in my hands sat a familiar-no sorry what sat was the remnants of a glass cup I had just been using to hold and drink my bottle of tropical juice I had grabbed from the buffet.
"Whoa, good thing your arms are made out of metal or that would've hurt." Hearing yang joke my head turned to the blonde that sat across from me as she had an amused grin plastered on her face clearly enjoying my absentmindedness to a great extent.
"Yang leave him alone." Ruby quickly whined as she was quick to help me clean up my mess, something I was quick to join in as it was my fault I made the mess.
"Are you good for today?" Blake asked, it was clear she wasn't asking for the sake of being nice but she was more curious than anything else.
"Yeah I should be fine, not like anyone is going to straight up call on a guy who just got out of the infirmary." I said as I figured whoever did that was clearly being a dick or something of the like.
"Yeah I get what you mean but hey good news today's the first day for combat class, I can now get some much needed aggression out of my system." Yang eagerly exclaimed, clearly she was ready if the yellow flecks of what I think are embers coming off her hair said anything.
"Well I'm more excited for Weapon engineering class, I've wanted to work in the school forge for a week." Ruby said as I raised an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Why didn't you go earlier?" I asked as the two of us finished cleaning my mess of juice and glass.
"Cause I wasn't allowed until school introduction was over, now that its over we can now take classes we chose, I took Weapon engineering." Ruby explained.
"I took Gym class." Yang jumped in, raising her arm and showing off her bicep, which I would've seen if not for her uniform sleeve getting in the way.
"I took Literature studies." Blake spoke in between eating her meal.
"And I've got…?" Looking at my newly given scroll I looked at my schedule and raised an eyebrow at the given class I had been given seeing as I was never asked what class I wanted. "Dustology with Professor Peach?"
"Ooo you're lucky you got one of the absent teachers." Yang said with a mock jealous tone.
"Absent? The hell do you mean by absent?" I asked, what is this class just perpetually taught by a Sub or something?
"We talked to some second years and they say Professor Peach is one of the few teachers that doesn't turn up to their classes" Blake explained while I blinked in surprise.
"If that's so then why the hell do they keep her class around?" I wondered, confused as to why this shit was able to be kept around if there was no teacher around or better yet why not just replace the teacher entirely.
"They never told us, just said if you're lucky to end up in it you shouldn't complain about it." Ruby said with a nondescript shrug. "Oh we are going to be late, we should get going."
seeing the time I let out a tired sigh but nodded in understanding as I had finished my food a minute ago.
"So, Grimm studies?" I asked, seeing that it was our first official class of the day.
"Oh you are going to love Grimm studies." Yang's smirk was rather large, a near grin as she was loosely amused at the future class while she walked away from the table.
"The hell is she smirking about? I asked Blake, she just shrugged before quickly following her partner.
"Come on, we don't wanna be late, not like how we were last week." Ruby said as I raised my eyebrow as I remembered how she told me about how our team and JNPR were actually late to class.
Letting out a tired sigh I just hoped this class would at the very least be interesting.
Nevermind it's not interesting whatsoever, the amount of my fellow students with their heads on the lecture desks sleeping was staggering to say the least.
I counted up to four, five… seven? Yeah sure seven out of the entire class that were wide awake or well half of them were, the other half were just half-make that four, four of us are awake.
I was happy to say at the very least that I slept fine, my fear of Ruby's bunk dropping was an interesting fear but I admit I had scarier things that could or better yet would have kept me up.
I slept like a log until I was forced to wake up.
Back to the class though… god this guy is still going.
"-and that class is how I rode a beowolf into a herd of Minos, but little did I know I was then kidnapped by the Ilumina-"
I could tell this guys stories were interesting but his tone was so dull and I had to force myself to stay awake, fortunately my partner was one of the other few people that was wide awake.
Looking to my side I found my attention drawn towards Ruby's note tak-no sorry those are doodles… amusing doodles I can at the very least admit that.
"Professor Poop?" I whispered, catching Ruby's attention her head quickly turned to look up at me.
"Hehehe sorry." Ruby awkwardly chuckled as I got a better look at one of her doodles, it was a clear parody of Professor Port, the guy who was putting everyone to sleep, he was now sporting a bigger rounder body and had little squiggles I had quickly deduced were stick lines to show his new title/name wasn't just for giggles.
Amusing.
Looking back up at the professor or to be exact his black board I saw bits and pieces of information written down as well as rather detailed looking sketches of differing… Grimm, something I will need to grow accustomed to quickly by the looks of it.
I was half tempted to do some more further research into Grimm with my scroll but after learning a rather brief history from this worlds equivalent to TikTok/YoutubeShorts(it was one of the few ways I could digest some of this new information) I figured being taught about it from an actual teacher would do me some good.
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Ok fine in reality I procrastinated looking up Grimm for more brain rotting videos… it was all awful but not so awful that it made me stop watching more of it.
God, even Nevada had a better entertainment setting than this place… then again it was mainly death shows and the occasional cooking show to break up the monotony of death and the guts of it all.
But shit it was entertaining enough.
Where was I going with this?
"Ahem!" Hearing Port, yeah that's his name, everyone seemed to wake almost immediately and turned their attention to the teacher. "So after such a fine tale I believe it is time to stretch the old muscles and seeing as we technically have a new student with us Mr Wine can you please get changed and make yourself over to the middle of the front of the class."
Blinking in confusion I quickly realised that Port was addressing me… since was my name fucking Wine?
Shaking my head I quietly removed my blazer and just rolled my sleeves up revealing my black metal prosthesis'.
Jumping over my desk and into the middle of the front of the classroom.
"I don't need to change." I said readjusting my gloves before going to the back of my waist and pulled out my Glock, with the way Port just chuckled told me he wasn't surprised but to be honest I wasn't even certain was going on until I finally noticed the giant rattling cage on the other end of the classroom.
"Has that thing been there the whole time?" I mumbled in confusion before disengaging the safety and then pulled the slide back.
With a nice clean click I knew I had a fresh round in the chamber, something though seemed to make Port chuckle in a rather loud and boisterous fashion.
"Good good, better to be prepared to fight than not as I always say!" Port loudly exclaimed, slamming his large axe blunderbus against the cage's gate causing it to finally open up.
in a black blur I watched and without a second thought I quickly jumped up and flipped myself right over the black blur my eyes narrowed as I felt something was off.
Landing back onto my feet I turned to face my opponent and blinked when it turned out to be one of those werewolves I had seen when I woke up in the forest.
"Well, let's see what's going on with me." I muttered under my breath as the werewolf turned around and charged at me.
seeing the wide swinging swipes of their claws my body had quickly moved to dodge them, the swings were slow that much I could tell but there was this weird disconnect I was getting between my dodges.
"Jackson!" Hearing the cry I quickly pulled my fist up, landing a heavy uppercut or well just heavy for the werewolf to stagger backwards.
"Beowolves are pack hunters but they are easier to deal with one on one!" Hearing Ruby's advice I simply shrugged as my attention was less on the "beowolf" but more on myself.
Looking at my left prosthetic my eyes moved back to the beowolf and found myself rather eager in testing this disconnect I was feeling.
But I'll deal with that later.
Pulling my gun up though I quickly shot at the beowolves leg and I watched in mild interest as the 9x19mm seemingly forced the monster to drop down onto a knee.
"Well that's interesting." I mumbled quickly putting my gun's safety back on. I quickly holstered it back unto the back of my waist as I now had another new thing to experiment with.
Probanot the best time to do so as I had a lot to figure out, but hey I'm curious.
Lunging forwards the beowolf seemingly charged forwards to meet the challenge, their claws ready to dig into me but I didn't allow that to happen as my hands flew up and latched onto the bottom and top jaw of their head and with a twisted grin hidden under my bandana I pulled with full force.
The sound of flesh being ripped and bones cracking under my prosthetics echoed throughout the classroom as the beowolves carcass dropped to the ground in two halves.
"Well that was quite the show." I heard port loudly exclaim as I slowly turned to look back up at the rest of the class as I saw everyone was now wide awake and staring at me with varying degrees of shock and by the looks of Jaune straight horror inducing terror.
Ring!
Hearing the bell go off my eyes turned back to Port as he was quick to dismiss the class while handing a variation of homework, something I didn't find myself doing regardless if I needed to or not.
Moving over to my dropped coat I quietly threw it on before I saw Ruby giddly bouncing over to see me while the rest of our team silently slinked away heading outside of the classroom.
"Wow that was brutal, did you really have to go that far?" Ruby exclaimed as I her tone betrayed her entire question as she sounded rather giddy, her eyes were wide open and that smile threw me for a second as if I had seen that exact smile before, but for obvious reasons it kinda alluded me as to where I saw it before.
"Something was off with my prosthetics, I wanted to test something." I explained as it was true something was off, almost like there was a lag of sorts, I was uncertain of it but I needed to test it more to make sure if this was true or not.
"Oh do you need to see the Nurse then?" Ruby quickly asked, quickly I shook my head and directed her to guide me out of the classroom and towards the next lesson.
"I'm good, little concerned though seeing as I am not exactly a history kinda guy." I explained, it was lie as I did have an interest in history but that was mainly because of guns, general hijinx and sometimes a little bit of curiosity and such.
But it didn't always stick just as well as Warhammer lore did to an extent, now I need to know if this place has a variant of Warhammer here or not, Nevada didn't but that was because it was a world filled with their own Grimdark Bullshit.
"Hope you're ready cause Professor Oobleck is a little hard to understand at times." Ruby warned.
"Please I speak in the majority of grunts, I think I can handle it." I said with a casual confidence, something that I usually don't have but I had a feeling I could handle it.
45 minutes later
"Ok nevermind I can't understand him for shit."
"Mr Wine, while I appreciate that you have finally healed enough to attend classes I ask that you please keep such crass language outside of my classroom." Profess-Doctor Oobleck quickly spoke out as he had paused in his tirade of a lesson just to reprimand me.
something I heard Yang snickering as she had quietly sat right next to me, obviously amused at me being called out in the middle of less.
"Sorry, Doctor I didn't mean any offence, it's just your lesson plan is… rather advanced for someone like me." I quickly spoke before giving the blonde next to me a quick elbow jab to their arm.
"While I do understand your predicament I would advise you to put some trust in me for what I am teaching not only you but the entire class the basics of history, the building blocks to how society was created," Oobleck seemed to pause as he stared upwards. "Both from the positive and negative sides, but with it I believe you will all learn that with this fundamental knowledge-"
Great I think I set off the good Doctor, geez it's like Ruby but instead of impassioned ranting of weapon cleaning and maintenance it was history.
shit just encase, I decided to ask a rather important question.
"Does he do this all the time?" Turning to Yang she just smirked before giving a rather uncaring shrug.
"He gave us the same speech on our second day." Yang explained as I just nodded in understanding.
Great… so this place is filled with a variety of interesting teacher characters.
"Great now we just need a bondage artist and we'll have us quite the shonen anime trope shit show." I muttered as my eyes darted around as I knew we already had the bullying jock posse formed, the popular girl, the childhood friends who have the will there they won't they thing going on, the semi incompetent blonde and no I am not talking about Yang, the dark broody teenager who seemingly has a dark but shocking backstory(not like I was calling myself out but come on Blake).
And what else did we have?
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looking at Yang and Ruby more specifically I promptly decided to not to go any further into thinking about it.
"Uh fuck it I don't give a shit."
"Mr Wine-!"
Shit!
3rd period
After class our third period and that's where I quickly found myself walking into a class by myself, seeing as this was personal classes teams/partners were semi uncommon to be ending up in the same class.
Hence while I was slowly walking into the classroom I was semi surprised to see that room was very reminiscent of that of a science class room with various large work bench desks sitting around and a large board at the front of the room.
My limited knowledge on Dust quickly became apparent as I slowly found myself sitting at the back by myself while I slowly watched the room slowly be filled with my fellow students, each one holding some books that I quickly assumed had something to do with this class's whole curriculum.
Pulling out my scroll I began looking up random searches of "how to dust for dummies" the irony was that my search barred a lot of fruit so I quickly opened the first link and I quickly skimmed through the information and I got the basic's and by basic's I mean I got the kindergarten basic.
Dust is used for everything… The limit of one fuel source has forced the world to ignore most other forms of energies other than the basic ones such as water turbines, wind, charcoal and geothermal, quite a bit but they clearly ignored wind turbines, solar and other more detailed variants of energy sources.
Then there were the Variants of dust itself being from the simplistic to the more exotic like Acidic dust or Burn dust or hard light dust.
Hardlight caught my attention but as soon as I saw it was kind of soft locked to the Atlas military quickly put a damper on my interest, but quickly my eyes turned back to a type of dust that had my undivided attention.
Gravity.
Flipping through the various uses of Gravity dust I was more or less hooked at the idea of a dust that was as versatile as Gravity dust.
Used in Hover technology this Dust was cool as it was pretty much the embodiment of force itself, the recoil of rounds from using Gravity dust was shockingly awesome and if not carefully mixed correctly could destroy most weapons that weren't built to hand the force of pure gravity shooting out of their weapons.
The pictures and thumbnails of Gravity dust fails were in the hundreds of thousands as I found myself scratching my chin in interest. the likeliness that my weapons could handle Gravity dust was unlikely but my prosthetic themselves'.
Looking at my gloved hand I was reminded of the initiation where with Overclocking mode I could dislocate/destroy a giant armoured scorpion's claw with a full on punch imagine if I put gravity dust into the mix.
Suddenly the door to the classroom opened and I quickly turned my scroll off and watched as a woman wearing a peach pink lab coat walked right into the middle of the class.
"Hello student apologies for being twenty five minutes late. My attention was pulled away for some time and with it I am unfortunately not going to be here tomorrow." The woman exclaimed, the information seemingly caused everyone but me to let out tired and annoyed moans.
"I understand the displeasure but let us not dwell on tomorrow's problems and let's focus on today's challenges." The woman, no i guess Ms Peach quickly picked up a piece of chalk and started writing down something on the blackboard. "Alright today I will teach you about Magical Circles and yes that is the Official terminology but for this class we will for now refer to them as Personal Ritual Circles or PRC's for quick abbreviation."
Hearing this my attention was quickly pulled as I tried to focus on the blackboard itself as Ms Peach wrote a couple sentences on the board before quickly shifting from writing to straight drawing.
"PRC's are a Huntsmen and Huntresses best friend if they wish to start branching into the Dustmancy Category or to be even more exact Dust Alchemy which is a topic that you will be taught later into the year but for now we will focus today's lesson on PRC's, what they do, what they can do and most importantly creating your own PRC." As the information was presented I couldn't help but frown.
I wasn't frowning in annoyance or general confusion but frowning in curiosity as to what PRC was, I mean Magic Circle was a good basic but by the way the teacher went about it there was a clear distinction to this specific topic.
"Tomorrow while I am away Professor Goodwitch will take over as she can best handle the topic of PRC's personally." The news seemed to cause a new chorus of groans from everyone while I just shrugged, I mean I didn't know who Goodwitch was exactly but with the way everyone was groaning she must be quite the mental handful.
"Alright enough of that and let's get back to the lesson." Ms Peach exclaimed, pulling everyone back into the lesson quickly.
While the lesson continued I at the very least understood the premise of PRC's but I think I got it exactly just yet.
Well at least I'm interested to an extent.
Lunch + Free Period
"So how was nerd class?" Was the first question I got as I sat myself down at the table that held my team.
Yang being the one to initiate the conversation wasn't much of a surprise as I noted how her tone from yesterday shifted from 'ready to kill when needed' to a more 'I'm going to tease you' fashion.
Something I never really took an interest in even as we ate earlier at breakfast.
"Nerd class is a bit much but I'm trying to get it." I exclaimed watching how Yang just smirked in light amusement.
"That's good to hear, my class was awesome, the forge is like a dream come true." Ruby quickly spoke up as she began to brag about how cool her class was while I nodded along not truly paying attention as I dug into my food.
While I ate though I slowly started to twitch my fingers and my legs every now and a again between bites, it wasn't a tick or something I was more or less testing my own prosthesis, the first class was still in the back of my mind as I tried to figure out a reason for this unease of lag I had been feeling.
The twitches revealed the lag was there but it was small, not like microseconds but I'd say a fraction of a second was a good basis for what I was feeling.
Shit if I was an Astartes I'd say that this was something to be absolutely concerned about but my intuition told me that this lag wasn't too serious, more like I needed to do an adjustment of sorts to myself.
"Jackson you there?" hearing the question my head snapped up to my left as i saw Ruby was looking at me with concern. "You alright, you spacing out there for a while there."
"Yeah it was almost scary in a way." Yang continued to tease but I could hear something in her tone that told me she was in a fashion concerned which was strange but I chose to ignore it and the worry I was presented with a small shrug.
"I'm fine just spacing out, nothing to really be concerned about." I said watching how my partner just frowned but quickly shifted her expression to that of the bright girl she was.
"That's good, I'm going to have to go to my next class after lunch though, it's a leader's only class, something that's kinda mandatory for every leader in school." Ruby explained as I nodded in understanding.
"Try not to fall asleep in class." I said as I gave the small girl a rare but light shove to her shoulder, I was forced to be cautious with my interactions with everyone but thankfully the light shove just made the younger girl tip over a bit before righting herself back up.
her smile quickly shifted to that of an annoyed pout, quickly I was reminded of an annoyed younger sister from an anime with how she looked but quickly as I thought about it I just pushed that thought to the side, not like I was going to be finding anything like anime in this damn place.
Cartoons was something I was quick to recognize, but Anime or something similar was both in the category of few and non-existent in this place.
It was rather sad to say the least.
I mean Nevada was in the same boat but then again I was probably more focused on survival over looking for entertainment that could potentially distract me from my nightmares or my shit filled life of live die and repeat.
"So what is everyone planning on doing during their free period?" Ruby asked, the question pulled me back out of my head as I bit my lip in thought.
"Well I'm going to do some stretches and check out the rest of the school, just going to prepare myself for Combat class after free period." Yang exclaimed as she was quite clear that she was going to chill out and wait for what I assumed was the punching and kicking of a lifetime.
"I'm going to go to the library and study some homework my class gave me." Blake answered speaking for the first time in the whole while, almost forgot she was there if not for her slow but clear movements to eat her lunch or turning the page of the book she was currently reading… I think that was her third book or something.
Everyone seemed to turn to look at me as I just shrugged, not like I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do during free period but suddenly the last class's Topic popped into my head.
"I'm gonna go back to the dorm and do a little studying on PRC's" I said with a shrug watching how everyone just nodded, well Blake and Ruby did but Yang just stared at me with wide eyes.
"Really PRC's? But aren't you a frontline fighter?" Yang questioned as I paused but quickly remembered that PRC users were technically support or long range types and I guess the initiation revealed to her that I was more of a frontline fighter.
"Shocking as it seems I'm actually a variant fighter, I only get in close when I'm forced hence why I have a sword but two guns." I explained deciding to not mention the throwing ordinance I had in my pack as I completely forgot to use them earlier during the initiation. "I was forced to learn how to fight between a good distance and face to face."
"Wow… well you definitely fooled us and here I thought you were just a crazed adrenaline junkie." The tilt of my head must've caught Yang's attention as she just stared back at me in a rather blank fashion. "Uh Grimm Studies? Remember how you literally tore that beowolf in half?"
"…Oooooh, yeah I get what you mean… Guess I'm a more complicated, not so one dimensional person." I sarcastically said at the end.
"Could've fooled us." Blake quipped, something that shocked me but instead I just took the full brunt of the sarcastic comment.
"Well at least I know I'm loved." I said going back to my food only to notice that it was all gone, must've eaten it all damn.
Meanwhile I heard Ruby simply chuckle, quite clearly amused by our rather small antics, something that I was quick to believe was going to be an occurring event.
letting out a tired a leaned my head back and stared at the ceiling and wondered.
Was this really my life now?
Chapter 5 end
Jericho: well at least we can say you're a C student now get back to work… popcorn tastes better with some misery. I don't know why. Did you not hear me get back to work
Amvmaster: You are a worry, you know that?
Since when the hell have I looked like this?
Was it before or after the portal? During the initiation? Was it while I was in the infirmary?
Fuck!
SHATTER!
Blinking my eyes I quickly pulled myself back into reality as I found myself sitting at the cafeteria once more, in my hands sat a familiar-no sorry what sat was the remnants of a glass cup I had just been using to hold and drink my bottle of tropical juice I had grabbed from the buffet.
"Whoa, good thing your arms are made out of metal or that would've hurt." Hearing yang joke my head turned to the blonde that sat across from me as she had an amused grin plastered on her face clearly enjoying my absentmindedness to a great extent.
"Yang leave him alone." Ruby quickly whined as she was quick to help me clean up my mess, something I was quick to join in as it was my fault I made the mess.
"Are you good for today?" Blake asked, it was clear she wasn't asking for the sake of being nice but she was more curious than anything else.
"Yeah I should be fine, not like anyone is going to straight up call on a guy who just got out of the infirmary." I said as I figured whoever did that was clearly being a dick or something of the like.
"Yeah I get what you mean but hey good news today's the first day for combat class, I can now get some much needed aggression out of my system." Yang eagerly exclaimed, clearly she was ready if the yellow flecks of what I think are embers coming off her hair said anything.
"Well I'm more excited for Weapon engineering class, I've wanted to work in the school forge for a week." Ruby said as I raised an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Why didn't you go earlier?" I asked as the two of us finished cleaning my mess of juice and glass.
"Cause I wasn't allowed until school introduction was over, now that its over we can now take classes we chose, I took Weapon engineering." Ruby explained.
"I took Gym class." Yang jumped in, raising her arm and showing off her bicep, which I would've seen if not for her uniform sleeve getting in the way.
"I took Literature studies." Blake spoke in between eating her meal.
"And I've got…?" Looking at my newly given scroll I looked at my schedule and raised an eyebrow at the given class I had been given seeing as I was never asked what class I wanted. "Dustology with Professor Peach?"
"Ooo you're lucky you got one of the absent teachers." Yang said with a mock jealous tone.
"Absent? The hell do you mean by absent?" I asked, what is this class just perpetually taught by a Sub or something?
"We talked to some second years and they say Professor Peach is one of the few teachers that doesn't turn up to their classes" Blake explained while I blinked in surprise.
"If that's so then why the hell do they keep her class around?" I wondered, confused as to why this shit was able to be kept around if there was no teacher around or better yet why not just replace the teacher entirely.
"They never told us, just said if you're lucky to end up in it you shouldn't complain about it." Ruby said with a nondescript shrug. "Oh we are going to be late, we should get going."
seeing the time I let out a tired sigh but nodded in understanding as I had finished my food a minute ago.
"So, Grimm studies?" I asked, seeing that it was our first official class of the day.
"Oh you are going to love Grimm studies." Yang's smirk was rather large, a near grin as she was loosely amused at the future class while she walked away from the table.
"The hell is she smirking about? I asked Blake, she just shrugged before quickly following her partner.
"Come on, we don't wanna be late, not like how we were last week." Ruby said as I raised my eyebrow as I remembered how she told me about how our team and JNPR were actually late to class.
Letting out a tired sigh I just hoped this class would at the very least be interesting.
Nevermind it's not interesting whatsoever, the amount of my fellow students with their heads on the lecture desks sleeping was staggering to say the least.
I counted up to four, five… seven? Yeah sure seven out of the entire class that were wide awake or well half of them were, the other half were just half-make that four, four of us are awake.
I was happy to say at the very least that I slept fine, my fear of Ruby's bunk dropping was an interesting fear but I admit I had scarier things that could or better yet would have kept me up.
I slept like a log until I was forced to wake up.
Back to the class though… god this guy is still going.
"-and that class is how I rode a beowolf into a herd of Minos, but little did I know I was then kidnapped by the Ilumina-"
I could tell this guys stories were interesting but his tone was so dull and I had to force myself to stay awake, fortunately my partner was one of the other few people that was wide awake.
Looking to my side I found my attention drawn towards Ruby's note tak-no sorry those are doodles… amusing doodles I can at the very least admit that.
"Professor Poop?" I whispered, catching Ruby's attention her head quickly turned to look up at me.
"Hehehe sorry." Ruby awkwardly chuckled as I got a better look at one of her doodles, it was a clear parody of Professor Port, the guy who was putting everyone to sleep, he was now sporting a bigger rounder body and had little squiggles I had quickly deduced were stick lines to show his new title/name wasn't just for giggles.
Amusing.
Looking back up at the professor or to be exact his black board I saw bits and pieces of information written down as well as rather detailed looking sketches of differing… Grimm, something I will need to grow accustomed to quickly by the looks of it.
I was half tempted to do some more further research into Grimm with my scroll but after learning a rather brief history from this worlds equivalent to TikTok/YoutubeShorts(it was one of the few ways I could digest some of this new information) I figured being taught about it from an actual teacher would do me some good.
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Ok fine in reality I procrastinated looking up Grimm for more brain rotting videos… it was all awful but not so awful that it made me stop watching more of it.
God, even Nevada had a better entertainment setting than this place… then again it was mainly death shows and the occasional cooking show to break up the monotony of death and the guts of it all.
But shit it was entertaining enough.
Where was I going with this?
"Ahem!" Hearing Port, yeah that's his name, everyone seemed to wake almost immediately and turned their attention to the teacher. "So after such a fine tale I believe it is time to stretch the old muscles and seeing as we technically have a new student with us Mr Wine can you please get changed and make yourself over to the middle of the front of the class."
Blinking in confusion I quickly realised that Port was addressing me… since was my name fucking Wine?
Shaking my head I quietly removed my blazer and just rolled my sleeves up revealing my black metal prosthesis'.
Jumping over my desk and into the middle of the front of the classroom.
"I don't need to change." I said readjusting my gloves before going to the back of my waist and pulled out my Glock, with the way Port just chuckled told me he wasn't surprised but to be honest I wasn't even certain was going on until I finally noticed the giant rattling cage on the other end of the classroom.
"Has that thing been there the whole time?" I mumbled in confusion before disengaging the safety and then pulled the slide back.
With a nice clean click I knew I had a fresh round in the chamber, something though seemed to make Port chuckle in a rather loud and boisterous fashion.
"Good good, better to be prepared to fight than not as I always say!" Port loudly exclaimed, slamming his large axe blunderbus against the cage's gate causing it to finally open up.
in a black blur I watched and without a second thought I quickly jumped up and flipped myself right over the black blur my eyes narrowed as I felt something was off.
Landing back onto my feet I turned to face my opponent and blinked when it turned out to be one of those werewolves I had seen when I woke up in the forest.
"Well, let's see what's going on with me." I muttered under my breath as the werewolf turned around and charged at me.
seeing the wide swinging swipes of their claws my body had quickly moved to dodge them, the swings were slow that much I could tell but there was this weird disconnect I was getting between my dodges.
"Jackson!" Hearing the cry I quickly pulled my fist up, landing a heavy uppercut or well just heavy for the werewolf to stagger backwards.
"Beowolves are pack hunters but they are easier to deal with one on one!" Hearing Ruby's advice I simply shrugged as my attention was less on the "beowolf" but more on myself.
Looking at my left prosthetic my eyes moved back to the beowolf and found myself rather eager in testing this disconnect I was feeling.
But I'll deal with that later.
Pulling my gun up though I quickly shot at the beowolves leg and I watched in mild interest as the 9x19mm seemingly forced the monster to drop down onto a knee.
"Well that's interesting." I mumbled quickly putting my gun's safety back on. I quickly holstered it back unto the back of my waist as I now had another new thing to experiment with.
Probanot the best time to do so as I had a lot to figure out, but hey I'm curious.
Lunging forwards the beowolf seemingly charged forwards to meet the challenge, their claws ready to dig into me but I didn't allow that to happen as my hands flew up and latched onto the bottom and top jaw of their head and with a twisted grin hidden under my bandana I pulled with full force.
The sound of flesh being ripped and bones cracking under my prosthetics echoed throughout the classroom as the beowolves carcass dropped to the ground in two halves.
"Well that was quite the show." I heard port loudly exclaim as I slowly turned to look back up at the rest of the class as I saw everyone was now wide awake and staring at me with varying degrees of shock and by the looks of Jaune straight horror inducing terror.
Ring!
Hearing the bell go off my eyes turned back to Port as he was quick to dismiss the class while handing a variation of homework, something I didn't find myself doing regardless if I needed to or not.
Moving over to my dropped coat I quietly threw it on before I saw Ruby giddly bouncing over to see me while the rest of our team silently slinked away heading outside of the classroom.
"Wow that was brutal, did you really have to go that far?" Ruby exclaimed as I her tone betrayed her entire question as she sounded rather giddy, her eyes were wide open and that smile threw me for a second as if I had seen that exact smile before, but for obvious reasons it kinda alluded me as to where I saw it before.
"Something was off with my prosthetics, I wanted to test something." I explained as it was true something was off, almost like there was a lag of sorts, I was uncertain of it but I needed to test it more to make sure if this was true or not.
"Oh do you need to see the Nurse then?" Ruby quickly asked, quickly I shook my head and directed her to guide me out of the classroom and towards the next lesson.
"I'm good, little concerned though seeing as I am not exactly a history kinda guy." I explained, it was lie as I did have an interest in history but that was mainly because of guns, general hijinx and sometimes a little bit of curiosity and such.
But it didn't always stick just as well as Warhammer lore did to an extent, now I need to know if this place has a variant of Warhammer here or not, Nevada didn't but that was because it was a world filled with their own Grimdark Bullshit.
"Hope you're ready cause Professor Oobleck is a little hard to understand at times." Ruby warned.
"Please I speak in the majority of grunts, I think I can handle it." I said with a casual confidence, something that I usually don't have but I had a feeling I could handle it.
45 minutes later
"Ok nevermind I can't understand him for shit."
"Mr Wine, while I appreciate that you have finally healed enough to attend classes I ask that you please keep such crass language outside of my classroom." Profess-Doctor Oobleck quickly spoke out as he had paused in his tirade of a lesson just to reprimand me.
something I heard Yang snickering as she had quietly sat right next to me, obviously amused at me being called out in the middle of less.
"Sorry, Doctor I didn't mean any offence, it's just your lesson plan is… rather advanced for someone like me." I quickly spoke before giving the blonde next to me a quick elbow jab to their arm.
"While I do understand your predicament I would advise you to put some trust in me for what I am teaching not only you but the entire class the basics of history, the building blocks to how society was created," Oobleck seemed to pause as he stared upwards. "Both from the positive and negative sides, but with it I believe you will all learn that with this fundamental knowledge-"
Great I think I set off the good Doctor, geez it's like Ruby but instead of impassioned ranting of weapon cleaning and maintenance it was history.
shit just encase, I decided to ask a rather important question.
"Does he do this all the time?" Turning to Yang she just smirked before giving a rather uncaring shrug.
"He gave us the same speech on our second day." Yang explained as I just nodded in understanding.
Great… so this place is filled with a variety of interesting teacher characters.
"Great now we just need a bondage artist and we'll have us quite the shonen anime trope shit show." I muttered as my eyes darted around as I knew we already had the bullying jock posse formed, the popular girl, the childhood friends who have the will there they won't they thing going on, the semi incompetent blonde and no I am not talking about Yang, the dark broody teenager who seemingly has a dark but shocking backstory(not like I was calling myself out but come on Blake).
And what else did we have?
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looking at Yang and Ruby more specifically I promptly decided to not to go any further into thinking about it.
"Uh fuck it I don't give a shit."
"Mr Wine-!"
Shit!
3rd period
After class our third period and that's where I quickly found myself walking into a class by myself, seeing as this was personal classes teams/partners were semi uncommon to be ending up in the same class.
Hence while I was slowly walking into the classroom I was semi surprised to see that room was very reminiscent of that of a science class room with various large work bench desks sitting around and a large board at the front of the room.
My limited knowledge on Dust quickly became apparent as I slowly found myself sitting at the back by myself while I slowly watched the room slowly be filled with my fellow students, each one holding some books that I quickly assumed had something to do with this class's whole curriculum.
Pulling out my scroll I began looking up random searches of "how to dust for dummies" the irony was that my search barred a lot of fruit so I quickly opened the first link and I quickly skimmed through the information and I got the basic's and by basic's I mean I got the kindergarten basic.
Dust is used for everything… The limit of one fuel source has forced the world to ignore most other forms of energies other than the basic ones such as water turbines, wind, charcoal and geothermal, quite a bit but they clearly ignored wind turbines, solar and other more detailed variants of energy sources.
Then there were the Variants of dust itself being from the simplistic to the more exotic like Acidic dust or Burn dust or hard light dust.
Hardlight caught my attention but as soon as I saw it was kind of soft locked to the Atlas military quickly put a damper on my interest, but quickly my eyes turned back to a type of dust that had my undivided attention.
Gravity.
Flipping through the various uses of Gravity dust I was more or less hooked at the idea of a dust that was as versatile as Gravity dust.
Used in Hover technology this Dust was cool as it was pretty much the embodiment of force itself, the recoil of rounds from using Gravity dust was shockingly awesome and if not carefully mixed correctly could destroy most weapons that weren't built to hand the force of pure gravity shooting out of their weapons.
The pictures and thumbnails of Gravity dust fails were in the hundreds of thousands as I found myself scratching my chin in interest. the likeliness that my weapons could handle Gravity dust was unlikely but my prosthetic themselves'.
Looking at my gloved hand I was reminded of the initiation where with Overclocking mode I could dislocate/destroy a giant armoured scorpion's claw with a full on punch imagine if I put gravity dust into the mix.
Suddenly the door to the classroom opened and I quickly turned my scroll off and watched as a woman wearing a peach pink lab coat walked right into the middle of the class.
"Hello student apologies for being twenty five minutes late. My attention was pulled away for some time and with it I am unfortunately not going to be here tomorrow." The woman exclaimed, the information seemingly caused everyone but me to let out tired and annoyed moans.
"I understand the displeasure but let us not dwell on tomorrow's problems and let's focus on today's challenges." The woman, no i guess Ms Peach quickly picked up a piece of chalk and started writing down something on the blackboard. "Alright today I will teach you about Magical Circles and yes that is the Official terminology but for this class we will for now refer to them as Personal Ritual Circles or PRC's for quick abbreviation."
Hearing this my attention was quickly pulled as I tried to focus on the blackboard itself as Ms Peach wrote a couple sentences on the board before quickly shifting from writing to straight drawing.
"PRC's are a Huntsmen and Huntresses best friend if they wish to start branching into the Dustmancy Category or to be even more exact Dust Alchemy which is a topic that you will be taught later into the year but for now we will focus today's lesson on PRC's, what they do, what they can do and most importantly creating your own PRC." As the information was presented I couldn't help but frown.
I wasn't frowning in annoyance or general confusion but frowning in curiosity as to what PRC was, I mean Magic Circle was a good basic but by the way the teacher went about it there was a clear distinction to this specific topic.
"Tomorrow while I am away Professor Goodwitch will take over as she can best handle the topic of PRC's personally." The news seemed to cause a new chorus of groans from everyone while I just shrugged, I mean I didn't know who Goodwitch was exactly but with the way everyone was groaning she must be quite the mental handful.
"Alright enough of that and let's get back to the lesson." Ms Peach exclaimed, pulling everyone back into the lesson quickly.
While the lesson continued I at the very least understood the premise of PRC's but I think I got it exactly just yet.
Well at least I'm interested to an extent.
Lunch + Free Period
"So how was nerd class?" Was the first question I got as I sat myself down at the table that held my team.
Yang being the one to initiate the conversation wasn't much of a surprise as I noted how her tone from yesterday shifted from 'ready to kill when needed' to a more 'I'm going to tease you' fashion.
Something I never really took an interest in even as we ate earlier at breakfast.
"Nerd class is a bit much but I'm trying to get it." I exclaimed watching how Yang just smirked in light amusement.
"That's good to hear, my class was awesome, the forge is like a dream come true." Ruby quickly spoke up as she began to brag about how cool her class was while I nodded along not truly paying attention as I dug into my food.
While I ate though I slowly started to twitch my fingers and my legs every now and a again between bites, it wasn't a tick or something I was more or less testing my own prosthesis, the first class was still in the back of my mind as I tried to figure out a reason for this unease of lag I had been feeling.
The twitches revealed the lag was there but it was small, not like microseconds but I'd say a fraction of a second was a good basis for what I was feeling.
Shit if I was an Astartes I'd say that this was something to be absolutely concerned about but my intuition told me that this lag wasn't too serious, more like I needed to do an adjustment of sorts to myself.
"Jackson you there?" hearing the question my head snapped up to my left as i saw Ruby was looking at me with concern. "You alright, you spacing out there for a while there."
"Yeah it was almost scary in a way." Yang continued to tease but I could hear something in her tone that told me she was in a fashion concerned which was strange but I chose to ignore it and the worry I was presented with a small shrug.
"I'm fine just spacing out, nothing to really be concerned about." I said watching how my partner just frowned but quickly shifted her expression to that of the bright girl she was.
"That's good, I'm going to have to go to my next class after lunch though, it's a leader's only class, something that's kinda mandatory for every leader in school." Ruby explained as I nodded in understanding.
"Try not to fall asleep in class." I said as I gave the small girl a rare but light shove to her shoulder, I was forced to be cautious with my interactions with everyone but thankfully the light shove just made the younger girl tip over a bit before righting herself back up.
her smile quickly shifted to that of an annoyed pout, quickly I was reminded of an annoyed younger sister from an anime with how she looked but quickly as I thought about it I just pushed that thought to the side, not like I was going to be finding anything like anime in this damn place.
Cartoons was something I was quick to recognize, but Anime or something similar was both in the category of few and non-existent in this place.
It was rather sad to say the least.
I mean Nevada was in the same boat but then again I was probably more focused on survival over looking for entertainment that could potentially distract me from my nightmares or my shit filled life of live die and repeat.
"So what is everyone planning on doing during their free period?" Ruby asked, the question pulled me back out of my head as I bit my lip in thought.
"Well I'm going to do some stretches and check out the rest of the school, just going to prepare myself for Combat class after free period." Yang exclaimed as she was quite clear that she was going to chill out and wait for what I assumed was the punching and kicking of a lifetime.
"I'm going to go to the library and study some homework my class gave me." Blake answered speaking for the first time in the whole while, almost forgot she was there if not for her slow but clear movements to eat her lunch or turning the page of the book she was currently reading… I think that was her third book or something.
Everyone seemed to turn to look at me as I just shrugged, not like I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do during free period but suddenly the last class's Topic popped into my head.
"I'm gonna go back to the dorm and do a little studying on PRC's" I said with a shrug watching how everyone just nodded, well Blake and Ruby did but Yang just stared at me with wide eyes.
"Really PRC's? But aren't you a frontline fighter?" Yang questioned as I paused but quickly remembered that PRC users were technically support or long range types and I guess the initiation revealed to her that I was more of a frontline fighter.
"Shocking as it seems I'm actually a variant fighter, I only get in close when I'm forced hence why I have a sword but two guns." I explained deciding to not mention the throwing ordinance I had in my pack as I completely forgot to use them earlier during the initiation. "I was forced to learn how to fight between a good distance and face to face."
"Wow… well you definitely fooled us and here I thought you were just a crazed adrenaline junkie." The tilt of my head must've caught Yang's attention as she just stared back at me in a rather blank fashion. "Uh Grimm Studies? Remember how you literally tore that beowolf in half?"
"…Oooooh, yeah I get what you mean… Guess I'm a more complicated, not so one dimensional person." I sarcastically said at the end.
"Could've fooled us." Blake quipped, something that shocked me but instead I just took the full brunt of the sarcastic comment.
"Well at least I know I'm loved." I said going back to my food only to notice that it was all gone, must've eaten it all damn.
Meanwhile I heard Ruby simply chuckle, quite clearly amused by our rather small antics, something that I was quick to believe was going to be an occurring event.
letting out a tired a leaned my head back and stared at the ceiling and wondered.
Was this really my life now?
Chapter 5 end
Jericho: well at least we can say you're a C student now get back to work… popcorn tastes better with some misery. I don't know why. Did you not hear me get back to work
Amvmaster: You are a worry, you know that?
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Chapter 6 School times Part 3(final part)
Combat class, a class I wasn't exactly looking forward to as my information on the class told me that this was more or an arena rule based spar/fight where Aura was out a health bar and if you got knocked out of the arena then that was a clear loss.
How… civilized.
I mean all the arena's I've been to were to the death and if you were thrown out then you were considered as good as dead.
This must be what Culture shock was like because these rules while making sense was a foreign concept of sorts.
Fight's end when your Aura hits the red, ok seems fine enough to follow especially when I watched a couple fights happen before.
The ring out rule had me a little put off, I mean wasn't this a fight? Why was there a Sumo ring out rule here? I mean what's stopping someone from just picking whoever you're fighting and just throwing them out of the ring, shit I could probably do that with little ease.
but that thought was quickly put to the side as I finally watched my partner Ruby finally get on the stage, I was curious to say the least what her fighting style really was, I mean I never really saw it much while I was at the initiation seeing as I kinda just took it over.
but now that I was seeing it I had to say… Ruby's bullshit, girl was moving just as if not faster than me when I took my Nano Syringes as she seemingly almost teleported around and used her weapons' own powerful weapons recoil to either shoot around peoples defences or change the direction of her movement altogether.
It was frankly funny to see her move but doubly so when she was hooking her Scythe around either her opponent's body parts or weapon just open their defense long enough for her to throw some recoil assisted kicks to the guys head.
But what got me though was Ruby in all her absolute movement could've-no Should've finished the fight within seconds of the fight starting.
So why didn't she?
More fights continued and I continued to watch with raised eyebrows, the hyperactive girl that I met yesterday had one helluva backswing with that hammer of hers.
The silent one was quite agile but in comparison to Blake it was rather miniscule as she just duked him with her… I'm gonna say after images? Clones? Shadow powers?
This entire world's powers made Nevada's own more confusing powers look simple.
The only couple of people who I couldn't figure out was that redhead and her partner, Jaune was it? Shaking my head of the thought I thought back on either one's fights.
Redhead was quite simply broken, her moves were fluid, strikes were precise and frankly she looked like she knew where everything was and acted accordingly, almost like she had her own tingle in the back of the head.
Who knows, maybe that's her own personal power.
But then there was her Partner, the blond one who reminded me a lot of myself in my early days of being in Nevada and not in a good way.
He over commits to his swings, his body is an awkward mess, stance is off to the point a little breeze would push him over and that's just the small stuff.
The kid has absolutely no idea what he's doing to the point that it was pitiful to just watch, I felt myself wince every time he blocked that guys mace with his shield until he ultimately hit the ground.
The guy with the mace seemingly just grinned as they raised their mace but quick as he did the lights finally came on indicating that the fight was officially finished.
I took no real time to listen to Ms Goodwitch as I just watched the blond kid frown, he was clearly feeling the ever so sincere lecture he was being given and the other guy was ever so smug about the fight.
"Now we have time for one more fight." Hearing Ms Goodwitch I pulled my attention away from the two and towards the large screen as the randomized generator rolled until it finally stopped one two screenshots.
one being of Yang and the other… shit.
"Yang Xiao Long and Jackson Wine, can the two of you please make your way to the locker room and acquire your respective weapons." Hearing instructions Yang immediately bounced out of her seat before her eyes turned to me and I could see excitement in her eyes.
"Heh I've been wanting this for a while now." Yang said as she almost skipped away.
"Good luck." Hearing Ruby's encouraging words I turned to give the Red Riding hood expy a nod before slowly hobbling my way over.
I had found my locker and quickly went about inputting the code and opening it, looking at the contents I stared heavily at my rifle, I saw what bullets do but I felt an underlying reluctance to really use my gun against Yang.
taking a deep breath I looked down at my thigh holster and then with a quick movement I removed and placed my thigh holster inside the locker.
grabbing my sword I gave it a long look as flat blades reflective surface and saw myself.
The more I stared the more the world slowly started to grow more quiet as I heard the faint sounds of yells, cries of pain, the scream of steel digging into flesh and then the gun shots, the crunch of-
"Jackson!"
blinking my head snapped up and I turned to see Yang on the other end of the locker room.
"Yo, are you coming or are you scared!" Yang yelled out and I found myself frowning as I quickly put my sword on my back, feeling the magnet in my jacket keep the sword in place I quickly slipped my sunglasses and hat on.
Making my way out I fidgeted with my hat until I finally stood at the doorway that led back into the classroom.
Yang had already walked in and stood in the middle of the room as she was doing a couple warm up punches until she finally saw me and stopped to look at me.
Walking into the arena the lights of the room darked leaving the only lights on were in the arena's.
I heard Ms Goowitch recite the rules, but my head was already going back to the locker room and to what happened, until I heard Yang pull me back once again.
"So you think you can handle all this?" The question had me a little put off so I just gave Yang a blank look before slowly pulling my sword out over my shoulder.
"Pretty certain neither one of us do much thinking." Stating a rather blunt fact something that Yang seemed to stall, taking a couple seconds her face started shifting into one of annoyance before flicking her wrists.
Quickly as she did the bright yellow bracelets immediately unfolded and rearranged themselves as they quickly formed a pair of large gauntlets that formed over her forearms and hands, I noted the bright red shotgun shells that sat around the bulk of her gauntlets.
Punching her arms downwards I heard a pair of loud clicks and clacks reminiscent of a pair of shotguns being racked and loaded with fresh rounds.
"So you think I'm just brainless." The accusation came quickly but instead of trying to rectify or explain my words I just tilted my head.
"If you came to that conclusion… sure, that's what I was saying." I shook my head as Yang was clearly going to be one of those fighters… not like I could really talk though.
With a quick sidekick the bottom of my sword quickly flipped around in the air and my hand until I gave it a test swing.
"Students I want a clean spar, and please remember that this goes until one of your Aura hits the red or when one of you steps out of the arena." Goodwitch exclaimed quite loudly, giving the teacher a nod I quickly reminded myself that this was a spar not a-
"Begin!"
AAAAANG!
BANG!/BANG!
My eyes widened as I watched Yang punch her arms down and then with twin explosions at her feet she shot forwards like a missile that was coming…OH SHIT!
Raising my sword I quickly blocked Yang's missile induced punch with the flat side of my sword but then I heard it.
BANG!/CLANG!
My body was immediately forced backwards my boots skidding against the floor until I finally stopped, the fuck was that!?
"Pay attention!" Yang's yell immediately pulled me back, my eyes going back to the girl as she was coming at me and a barrage of fists that I was quick to dodge as I saw, heard and damn well felt her weapons as I quickly blocked and narrowly dodged this girl's gauntlet covered punches.
Gauntlets that were firing straight buckshot!
Having enough of it I quickly threw myself to the side with a familiar sidestep and then threw myself back with a quick backwards somersault.
Landing in a crouch I watched how Yang just grinned as instead of rushing after me just stood there bouncing on the balls of her feet, watching and waiting as I slowly took a last couple of seconds of reprieve to breath while I watched Yang ever so casually taunted with a "come on" gesture with her hands.
"You wanna… fine… let's play." I muttered under my breath before reaching for my bandana and pulling it over my nose.
As soon as I had placed my bandana over my nose I launched myself forwards, the ground under my feet cracked as I sprinted at Yang, not going all out in the sprint I met a wide eyed Yang as her gauntlets immediately moved but not before the bottom of my foot met her chin.
Her body was lifted into the air and with a twist of my body my free hand reached out grabbing her by the leg, I pulled dragging and swinging her by the leg around before pulling her up and then at the apex I swung her down, their body slamming into the ground as it cracked under forced followed by her body shimmering a a pale yellow like energy around her body.
Dropping her leg I quietly stepped back a couple steps, as I felt that tingle in the back of my head but unlike the usual intensity it was like a light poke to the back of the head, something I took seriously as I moved,
Watching Yang I saw something in her hair start to glow before a spark of fire seemingly exploded from her hair.
Immediately the area around the girl exploded as I watched her get up, hair was not set a blaze as she turned her head and I saw her eyes, red like yesterday but this time instead of changing I saw the red in her eye grow deeper?… Does that make sense?
Oh here's that tingle, swiping my sword across I deflected Yang's punch and immediately countered with a punch of my own to her face.
instead of backing away she instead tanked it and that tingle immediately went off but it was too late as I felt her fist lodge itself right into my stomach, not feeling the actual pain from the attack I quickly pulled my head back into the fight as I dropped my sword and threw a punch into Yang's ribs.
The force seemingly pushed her far enough backwards to leave me some much needed breathing room which wasn't much as it was like a metre or so backwards, quietly the two of us got into our own respective fighting stances.
Suddenly that Lag I was feeling before back in Grimm studies wasn't so prominent any more.
Yang was still glaring at me while I silently stared back at her behind my polarised sunglasses.
Raising her arms up in the form of a boxer I let my torso droop forwards while my arms just dangled and relaxed.
Silence echoed throughout the arena as the tension was palpable to the point that you could almost cut it apart with a knife.
Yang was then the first one to move and my eyes tracked her as she shot forwards, her arm raised and thrown forwards as she threw a wide haymaker something I was quick to move around with a pivot as her gauntlet exploded with another buckshot, reaching under I threw a knee up striking her in the side but instead of wincing she just glared at me and I watched as her arm came back as her elbow slammed into my face.
Not feeling the pain was disorientating but the force behind it caused me to react with an obvious wince before it was quickly pushed to the side with that tingle in my head and with pure instinct my body quickly leaned backwards dodging another buckshot fist and quickly kicked my legs my shoe covered feet slamming into Yang's whatever and jumped onto a handstand before coming back into my lowered stance once more.
Eyes darted between Yang and to the large screen as I saw our individual Aura bar's and I saw how ridiculous this was with Yang's being in the light green while mine was in the yellow, the fuck?
Quickly my body moved side stepping and then continuing with a flurry of jumps and somersaults as I pulled my attention back to yang as she was now throwing a barrage of punching buckshots, the sounds of her gauntlets echoing through my mind as I felt my vision begin to blur.
Suddenly the arena I was in was quickly replaced as I was now standing in a familiar stage, a game show, a fucked up representation of entertainment that has been in the back burner of my mind for a long while.
my eyes darted around as I tried to focus but then I heard that crowd, the audience as they just craved something to induce their dopamine.
Blood.
Carnage.
Death.
Instinct cried out as my body quickly moved as I grabbed my fallen sword.
Facing Yang I saw her but her form started to shift into a familiar body of Regular armoured MAG agent.
And then I heard its cry, and my body moved once more.
The MAG ran at me as I saw their hands were covered in a pair of black gauntlets with gun barrels.
Rushing forwards the MAG started firing their gauntlet barrels, the slugs that coming at me were quick to be dodged with a dip and sidestep I kicked myself off the ground and brought my sword downwards the MAG seemingly grunted before bringing their arms up as their gauntlets immediately blocked the attack.
But as soon as my feet hit the ground I started to swing my sword in a wild flurry that slammed into the MAG's gauntlets causing sparks to erupt between the two metals until I finally had enough and pulled back a step and got low pulling my sword back to my waist I took a deep breath.
The MAG, seeing no longer feeling the barrage of attacks, pulled their arms down and raised their leg up ,ready to throw a straight kick but just as the cloned behemoth moved I shot forwards.
Twirling and twisting my body around my sword followed along as it arc'd around and slammed into it's heavily armoured body, using my full strength the MAG skidded it's giant armoured boots against the ground for a good couple metres and then dropped to a knee.
Taking a second I then shot forwards once again full speed and threw an immediate kick to their head and I watched in a grim but righteous satisfaction as their head flew back followed by their helmet finally coming undone.
"Finally now I kill this fucking-what?" As I mumbled under my bandana my breath hitched in horror as MAG's usual bald head was replaced with a familiar blond's.
Taking a step backwards my eyes blinked and suddenly the Show's arena I was in shifted, as if a veil was quickly lifted away and I found myself stunned as I saw that I was in the classroom.
"W-w-what?" I asked before I suddenly felt that tingle again and my head quickly moved to the source and I saw Yang on her feet with her gauntleted fist raised and thrown forwards.
BOOM!
The gauntlet covered fist immediately exploded with a bright fire and the force I felt behind it had me flying, my eyes seemingly blinked as I felt weightless for a minor second before I was tugged by my leg and I saw Yang appear back into my view as followed by their other gauntlet that was thrown downwards.
The tingling in my head screamed but I could do nothing as in a stunned but familiar fashion I accepted it.
BANG! CRACK! SHATTER!
AAAAANG!
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Opening my eyes instead of the familiar green I was greeted with a tall ceiling and then Yang's smug smile as she looked down on me.
"Told you to pay attention." Hearing her speak her form seemingly shifted into the familiar armour MAG but instead of their actual face it was the Bald headed cloned behemoths.
One blink though and they shifted back into reality and I just closed my eyes, what the hell was that?
The world seemingly shifted in auto pilot as I stood up, Goodwitch talked about something but I wasn't listening, my eyes moved back up to the large screen that had our aura.
Yang's Aura bar was in the light Orange, dark Yellow while my own was absolutely empty.
I felt something hit my shoulder.
I felt the tingle in my head but it was barely noticeable as I looked over to see a smirking Yang as she said something but I didn't hear it.
Shit I couldn't hear anything-no sorry it was less of me not hearing it and more on the lines that I wasn't listening.
Autopilot movement, my body just moved along with it, sitting back with everyone else I saw Ruby moving around saying something to Yang before looking back at me.
I saw how bright her expression was as she said something, I didn't catch it but the way she looked at me I just gave her a smirk and shrugged.
This response seemed to do the trick as she turned back to the front.
The rest of the class proceeded as follows: more fights, more wins, losses, then there was a random lecture and then the only thing I heard was the bell, which seemed like the only thing I could really hear.
Everyone moved back to the locker rooms, to put away their weapons.
I hobbled in the back as I slowly found my Locker, a number was pressed and it opened. Putting my sword back inside I stood there and just stared at my equipment and I could see a seemingly glitch as everything was covered in blood for a good second but then shifted back to normal.
I just stared blankly and then closed the door, but it didn't, a quick blink I tried to close it again.
Clang.
Blink.
Clang.
Blink.
Clang.
Frown.
Clang.
Fuck.
Clang.
Come on.
Clang.
Oh for-
Clang.
Don't do this to me.
Clang.
…
…
…
Clang.
…
…
…
"RAAAAAAAARGH!"
SHUNT!
Quickly my hands moved and dug into the metal of the locker and with a mighty rage filled heave I picked up my locker and threw it up across the locker room and then directly through the window.
taking a good second I then shifted back to the wall where my locker once stood and then threw an anger filled fist into the concrete wall.
SMASH!
A large hole that was just big enough for a regular person to climb through sat in the side of the building.
Suddenly my hearing came back as I heard the rushing clicking of high heels marching in my direction and I quickly turned my heated glare in the direction where the marching combat instructor seemingly faltered in their steps as they stared at me.
letting out a huff I sat myself down at the bench as I heard her quickly call everyone to leave the room if they were done putting their weapons away and soon was left alone with me.
Stewing in my lack of thoughts I just stared at the hole that I created just trying to breath and calm myself down, soon though I heard the click clacking of heels again and I looked up and over to see Ms Goodwitch giving me a heated glare but it seemingly started to shift into something of pity.
Quickly as I saw it my head turned back to the hole and I just stared while I had a simple thought go through my head, probably the only piece of reflection I could think about in the current moment.
I should've Died a long time ago.
Chapter 6 end
Amvmaster: Heeeeey and a word from Jericho to go into the fight.
Jericho: Yang is bullshit but only because she's a slugger with a large MP Bar… Sorry i meant a large pool of aura
Amvmaster: Are you still on your phone? You know what I don't care, there are more technical reasons as to why the fight went the way that it did but the main point across… It would have been a fair fight if one of the fighters was actually fighting, but he wasn't, hint hint 'he' being the one who was going for the kill not the fight… you know what nevermind!
Moving on this will kinda be the last chapter of the year, I'm going to have two weeks off! But during that time I will be busy with IRL crap and I'm waiting on a commission from a friend of mine.
Soooooo Hiatus? Maybe for like two, three weeks?
Ah well hope you all have a good christmas, hanukkah and whatever else you celebrate and happy new year.
Combat class, a class I wasn't exactly looking forward to as my information on the class told me that this was more or an arena rule based spar/fight where Aura was out a health bar and if you got knocked out of the arena then that was a clear loss.
How… civilized.
I mean all the arena's I've been to were to the death and if you were thrown out then you were considered as good as dead.
This must be what Culture shock was like because these rules while making sense was a foreign concept of sorts.
Fight's end when your Aura hits the red, ok seems fine enough to follow especially when I watched a couple fights happen before.
The ring out rule had me a little put off, I mean wasn't this a fight? Why was there a Sumo ring out rule here? I mean what's stopping someone from just picking whoever you're fighting and just throwing them out of the ring, shit I could probably do that with little ease.
but that thought was quickly put to the side as I finally watched my partner Ruby finally get on the stage, I was curious to say the least what her fighting style really was, I mean I never really saw it much while I was at the initiation seeing as I kinda just took it over.
but now that I was seeing it I had to say… Ruby's bullshit, girl was moving just as if not faster than me when I took my Nano Syringes as she seemingly almost teleported around and used her weapons' own powerful weapons recoil to either shoot around peoples defences or change the direction of her movement altogether.
It was frankly funny to see her move but doubly so when she was hooking her Scythe around either her opponent's body parts or weapon just open their defense long enough for her to throw some recoil assisted kicks to the guys head.
But what got me though was Ruby in all her absolute movement could've-no Should've finished the fight within seconds of the fight starting.
So why didn't she?
More fights continued and I continued to watch with raised eyebrows, the hyperactive girl that I met yesterday had one helluva backswing with that hammer of hers.
The silent one was quite agile but in comparison to Blake it was rather miniscule as she just duked him with her… I'm gonna say after images? Clones? Shadow powers?
This entire world's powers made Nevada's own more confusing powers look simple.
The only couple of people who I couldn't figure out was that redhead and her partner, Jaune was it? Shaking my head of the thought I thought back on either one's fights.
Redhead was quite simply broken, her moves were fluid, strikes were precise and frankly she looked like she knew where everything was and acted accordingly, almost like she had her own tingle in the back of the head.
Who knows, maybe that's her own personal power.
But then there was her Partner, the blond one who reminded me a lot of myself in my early days of being in Nevada and not in a good way.
He over commits to his swings, his body is an awkward mess, stance is off to the point a little breeze would push him over and that's just the small stuff.
The kid has absolutely no idea what he's doing to the point that it was pitiful to just watch, I felt myself wince every time he blocked that guys mace with his shield until he ultimately hit the ground.
The guy with the mace seemingly just grinned as they raised their mace but quick as he did the lights finally came on indicating that the fight was officially finished.
I took no real time to listen to Ms Goodwitch as I just watched the blond kid frown, he was clearly feeling the ever so sincere lecture he was being given and the other guy was ever so smug about the fight.
"Now we have time for one more fight." Hearing Ms Goodwitch I pulled my attention away from the two and towards the large screen as the randomized generator rolled until it finally stopped one two screenshots.
one being of Yang and the other… shit.
"Yang Xiao Long and Jackson Wine, can the two of you please make your way to the locker room and acquire your respective weapons." Hearing instructions Yang immediately bounced out of her seat before her eyes turned to me and I could see excitement in her eyes.
"Heh I've been wanting this for a while now." Yang said as she almost skipped away.
"Good luck." Hearing Ruby's encouraging words I turned to give the Red Riding hood expy a nod before slowly hobbling my way over.
I had found my locker and quickly went about inputting the code and opening it, looking at the contents I stared heavily at my rifle, I saw what bullets do but I felt an underlying reluctance to really use my gun against Yang.
taking a deep breath I looked down at my thigh holster and then with a quick movement I removed and placed my thigh holster inside the locker.
grabbing my sword I gave it a long look as flat blades reflective surface and saw myself.
The more I stared the more the world slowly started to grow more quiet as I heard the faint sounds of yells, cries of pain, the scream of steel digging into flesh and then the gun shots, the crunch of-
"Jackson!"
blinking my head snapped up and I turned to see Yang on the other end of the locker room.
"Yo, are you coming or are you scared!" Yang yelled out and I found myself frowning as I quickly put my sword on my back, feeling the magnet in my jacket keep the sword in place I quickly slipped my sunglasses and hat on.
Making my way out I fidgeted with my hat until I finally stood at the doorway that led back into the classroom.
Yang had already walked in and stood in the middle of the room as she was doing a couple warm up punches until she finally saw me and stopped to look at me.
Walking into the arena the lights of the room darked leaving the only lights on were in the arena's.
I heard Ms Goowitch recite the rules, but my head was already going back to the locker room and to what happened, until I heard Yang pull me back once again.
"So you think you can handle all this?" The question had me a little put off so I just gave Yang a blank look before slowly pulling my sword out over my shoulder.
"Pretty certain neither one of us do much thinking." Stating a rather blunt fact something that Yang seemed to stall, taking a couple seconds her face started shifting into one of annoyance before flicking her wrists.
Quickly as she did the bright yellow bracelets immediately unfolded and rearranged themselves as they quickly formed a pair of large gauntlets that formed over her forearms and hands, I noted the bright red shotgun shells that sat around the bulk of her gauntlets.
Punching her arms downwards I heard a pair of loud clicks and clacks reminiscent of a pair of shotguns being racked and loaded with fresh rounds.
"So you think I'm just brainless." The accusation came quickly but instead of trying to rectify or explain my words I just tilted my head.
"If you came to that conclusion… sure, that's what I was saying." I shook my head as Yang was clearly going to be one of those fighters… not like I could really talk though.
With a quick sidekick the bottom of my sword quickly flipped around in the air and my hand until I gave it a test swing.
"Students I want a clean spar, and please remember that this goes until one of your Aura hits the red or when one of you steps out of the arena." Goodwitch exclaimed quite loudly, giving the teacher a nod I quickly reminded myself that this was a spar not a-
"Begin!"
AAAAANG!
BANG!/BANG!
My eyes widened as I watched Yang punch her arms down and then with twin explosions at her feet she shot forwards like a missile that was coming…OH SHIT!
Raising my sword I quickly blocked Yang's missile induced punch with the flat side of my sword but then I heard it.
BANG!/CLANG!
My body was immediately forced backwards my boots skidding against the floor until I finally stopped, the fuck was that!?
"Pay attention!" Yang's yell immediately pulled me back, my eyes going back to the girl as she was coming at me and a barrage of fists that I was quick to dodge as I saw, heard and damn well felt her weapons as I quickly blocked and narrowly dodged this girl's gauntlet covered punches.
Gauntlets that were firing straight buckshot!
Having enough of it I quickly threw myself to the side with a familiar sidestep and then threw myself back with a quick backwards somersault.
Landing in a crouch I watched how Yang just grinned as instead of rushing after me just stood there bouncing on the balls of her feet, watching and waiting as I slowly took a last couple of seconds of reprieve to breath while I watched Yang ever so casually taunted with a "come on" gesture with her hands.
"You wanna… fine… let's play." I muttered under my breath before reaching for my bandana and pulling it over my nose.
As soon as I had placed my bandana over my nose I launched myself forwards, the ground under my feet cracked as I sprinted at Yang, not going all out in the sprint I met a wide eyed Yang as her gauntlets immediately moved but not before the bottom of my foot met her chin.
Her body was lifted into the air and with a twist of my body my free hand reached out grabbing her by the leg, I pulled dragging and swinging her by the leg around before pulling her up and then at the apex I swung her down, their body slamming into the ground as it cracked under forced followed by her body shimmering a a pale yellow like energy around her body.
Dropping her leg I quietly stepped back a couple steps, as I felt that tingle in the back of my head but unlike the usual intensity it was like a light poke to the back of the head, something I took seriously as I moved,
Watching Yang I saw something in her hair start to glow before a spark of fire seemingly exploded from her hair.
Immediately the area around the girl exploded as I watched her get up, hair was not set a blaze as she turned her head and I saw her eyes, red like yesterday but this time instead of changing I saw the red in her eye grow deeper?… Does that make sense?
Oh here's that tingle, swiping my sword across I deflected Yang's punch and immediately countered with a punch of my own to her face.
instead of backing away she instead tanked it and that tingle immediately went off but it was too late as I felt her fist lodge itself right into my stomach, not feeling the actual pain from the attack I quickly pulled my head back into the fight as I dropped my sword and threw a punch into Yang's ribs.
The force seemingly pushed her far enough backwards to leave me some much needed breathing room which wasn't much as it was like a metre or so backwards, quietly the two of us got into our own respective fighting stances.
Suddenly that Lag I was feeling before back in Grimm studies wasn't so prominent any more.
Yang was still glaring at me while I silently stared back at her behind my polarised sunglasses.
Raising her arms up in the form of a boxer I let my torso droop forwards while my arms just dangled and relaxed.
Silence echoed throughout the arena as the tension was palpable to the point that you could almost cut it apart with a knife.
Yang was then the first one to move and my eyes tracked her as she shot forwards, her arm raised and thrown forwards as she threw a wide haymaker something I was quick to move around with a pivot as her gauntlet exploded with another buckshot, reaching under I threw a knee up striking her in the side but instead of wincing she just glared at me and I watched as her arm came back as her elbow slammed into my face.
Not feeling the pain was disorientating but the force behind it caused me to react with an obvious wince before it was quickly pushed to the side with that tingle in my head and with pure instinct my body quickly leaned backwards dodging another buckshot fist and quickly kicked my legs my shoe covered feet slamming into Yang's whatever and jumped onto a handstand before coming back into my lowered stance once more.
Eyes darted between Yang and to the large screen as I saw our individual Aura bar's and I saw how ridiculous this was with Yang's being in the light green while mine was in the yellow, the fuck?
Quickly my body moved side stepping and then continuing with a flurry of jumps and somersaults as I pulled my attention back to yang as she was now throwing a barrage of punching buckshots, the sounds of her gauntlets echoing through my mind as I felt my vision begin to blur.
Suddenly the arena I was in was quickly replaced as I was now standing in a familiar stage, a game show, a fucked up representation of entertainment that has been in the back burner of my mind for a long while.
my eyes darted around as I tried to focus but then I heard that crowd, the audience as they just craved something to induce their dopamine.
Blood.
Carnage.
Death.
Instinct cried out as my body quickly moved as I grabbed my fallen sword.
Facing Yang I saw her but her form started to shift into a familiar body of Regular armoured MAG agent.
And then I heard its cry, and my body moved once more.
The MAG ran at me as I saw their hands were covered in a pair of black gauntlets with gun barrels.
Rushing forwards the MAG started firing their gauntlet barrels, the slugs that coming at me were quick to be dodged with a dip and sidestep I kicked myself off the ground and brought my sword downwards the MAG seemingly grunted before bringing their arms up as their gauntlets immediately blocked the attack.
But as soon as my feet hit the ground I started to swing my sword in a wild flurry that slammed into the MAG's gauntlets causing sparks to erupt between the two metals until I finally had enough and pulled back a step and got low pulling my sword back to my waist I took a deep breath.
The MAG, seeing no longer feeling the barrage of attacks, pulled their arms down and raised their leg up ,ready to throw a straight kick but just as the cloned behemoth moved I shot forwards.
Twirling and twisting my body around my sword followed along as it arc'd around and slammed into it's heavily armoured body, using my full strength the MAG skidded it's giant armoured boots against the ground for a good couple metres and then dropped to a knee.
Taking a second I then shot forwards once again full speed and threw an immediate kick to their head and I watched in a grim but righteous satisfaction as their head flew back followed by their helmet finally coming undone.
"Finally now I kill this fucking-what?" As I mumbled under my bandana my breath hitched in horror as MAG's usual bald head was replaced with a familiar blond's.
Taking a step backwards my eyes blinked and suddenly the Show's arena I was in shifted, as if a veil was quickly lifted away and I found myself stunned as I saw that I was in the classroom.
"W-w-what?" I asked before I suddenly felt that tingle again and my head quickly moved to the source and I saw Yang on her feet with her gauntleted fist raised and thrown forwards.
BOOM!
The gauntlet covered fist immediately exploded with a bright fire and the force I felt behind it had me flying, my eyes seemingly blinked as I felt weightless for a minor second before I was tugged by my leg and I saw Yang appear back into my view as followed by their other gauntlet that was thrown downwards.
The tingling in my head screamed but I could do nothing as in a stunned but familiar fashion I accepted it.
BANG! CRACK! SHATTER!
AAAAANG!
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Opening my eyes instead of the familiar green I was greeted with a tall ceiling and then Yang's smug smile as she looked down on me.
"Told you to pay attention." Hearing her speak her form seemingly shifted into the familiar armour MAG but instead of their actual face it was the Bald headed cloned behemoths.
One blink though and they shifted back into reality and I just closed my eyes, what the hell was that?
The world seemingly shifted in auto pilot as I stood up, Goodwitch talked about something but I wasn't listening, my eyes moved back up to the large screen that had our aura.
Yang's Aura bar was in the light Orange, dark Yellow while my own was absolutely empty.
I felt something hit my shoulder.
I felt the tingle in my head but it was barely noticeable as I looked over to see a smirking Yang as she said something but I didn't hear it.
Shit I couldn't hear anything-no sorry it was less of me not hearing it and more on the lines that I wasn't listening.
Autopilot movement, my body just moved along with it, sitting back with everyone else I saw Ruby moving around saying something to Yang before looking back at me.
I saw how bright her expression was as she said something, I didn't catch it but the way she looked at me I just gave her a smirk and shrugged.
This response seemed to do the trick as she turned back to the front.
The rest of the class proceeded as follows: more fights, more wins, losses, then there was a random lecture and then the only thing I heard was the bell, which seemed like the only thing I could really hear.
Everyone moved back to the locker rooms, to put away their weapons.
I hobbled in the back as I slowly found my Locker, a number was pressed and it opened. Putting my sword back inside I stood there and just stared at my equipment and I could see a seemingly glitch as everything was covered in blood for a good second but then shifted back to normal.
I just stared blankly and then closed the door, but it didn't, a quick blink I tried to close it again.
Clang.
Blink.
Clang.
Blink.
Clang.
Frown.
Clang.
Fuck.
Clang.
Come on.
Clang.
Oh for-
Clang.
Don't do this to me.
Clang.
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Clang.
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"RAAAAAAAARGH!"
SHUNT!
Quickly my hands moved and dug into the metal of the locker and with a mighty rage filled heave I picked up my locker and threw it up across the locker room and then directly through the window.
taking a good second I then shifted back to the wall where my locker once stood and then threw an anger filled fist into the concrete wall.
SMASH!
A large hole that was just big enough for a regular person to climb through sat in the side of the building.
Suddenly my hearing came back as I heard the rushing clicking of high heels marching in my direction and I quickly turned my heated glare in the direction where the marching combat instructor seemingly faltered in their steps as they stared at me.
letting out a huff I sat myself down at the bench as I heard her quickly call everyone to leave the room if they were done putting their weapons away and soon was left alone with me.
Stewing in my lack of thoughts I just stared at the hole that I created just trying to breath and calm myself down, soon though I heard the click clacking of heels again and I looked up and over to see Ms Goodwitch giving me a heated glare but it seemingly started to shift into something of pity.
Quickly as I saw it my head turned back to the hole and I just stared while I had a simple thought go through my head, probably the only piece of reflection I could think about in the current moment.
I should've Died a long time ago.
Chapter 6 end
Amvmaster: Heeeeey and a word from Jericho to go into the fight.
Jericho: Yang is bullshit but only because she's a slugger with a large MP Bar… Sorry i meant a large pool of aura
Amvmaster: Are you still on your phone? You know what I don't care, there are more technical reasons as to why the fight went the way that it did but the main point across… It would have been a fair fight if one of the fighters was actually fighting, but he wasn't, hint hint 'he' being the one who was going for the kill not the fight… you know what nevermind!
Moving on this will kinda be the last chapter of the year, I'm going to have two weeks off! But during that time I will be busy with IRL crap and I'm waiting on a commission from a friend of mine.
Soooooo Hiatus? Maybe for like two, three weeks?
Ah well hope you all have a good christmas, hanukkah and whatever else you celebrate and happy new year.