-First Person-
It's been a couple of weeks since the night I fought that IMC Ronin titan and came out to the girls about who I really was. Since then? Nothing's come up. No sighting, weird people, nothing. It's made me doubt the fact if IMC were really here in the first place. What if that pilot was like me? Stranded? Well, they definitely don't have to worry bout that now. Since, yknow.
It may have been the tremendous rest I got from being out of classes but, I healed up pretty quickly. A tad bit faster than I usually do. Maybe it was the actual food I ate for a change instead of MREs. Still though, I've thankfully been able to enter classes before the semester ended. Thinking about it, its funny because when I returned, everyone asked if I was okay and what not. Between me and the girls, as well as Ozpin, we made an allibi.
~Flashback~
"Hey, Pilot! Its cool to see ya, man! What messed you up?"
Jaune asked me and the gals as we all, and I mean, all came up with our own excuses. First it was me then RWBY, in that order.
"Beowolf."
"G-Giant whale grimm!"
"He went too fast."
"Slipped off a rooftop."
"Me~"
~End~
Bleugh. Thinking back to that "Me~" by Yang, I couldn't help but cringe a bit. But, oh well.
Currently, I was headin' back to my dorm after a long day of classes. First up was with Oobleck. Pretty spazzy guy, especially since he moved around so quickly, I had to use my pilot training just to follow along. Sufice to say I became the illegal note passer of the class. Then next was Port's grimm studies. Since the day we met, he's been cool with me and vise versa. So I always paid attention no matter how boring the story. Then finally was Professor Peach's dust studies. She's pretty standard for a professor but, her experiments are always fun. Lately, she's helped me try to find out more about dust to use in my ammo. So that was cool.
I came to a stop at my door and was anout to open it when I heard something from inside. Somethiing among the lines of foosteps and the familiar sounds of my guns. Even looking at the door itself, it was slightly open. Thinking the worst case scenario, since yknow the entire IMC debacle? I reached for my thigh holster and pulled out my trusty Wingman. Holding onto it, I grabbed the door knob and waited for the footsteps to come closer to the door. When they were, I opened the door and immediately pressed the barrel of my handcannon onto the person's forehead. Who oddly let out a cute squeak-oh no...
Looking at exactly who it was, my worst suspicions were confirmed when I saw Ruby's horrified face.
"Ugh....Ruby...I'm so sorry but, what the hell are you doing here? Especially in my dorm room which I locked."
Lowering my Wingman, she straightened herself out a bit before sheepishly chuckle.
"Well...You see...I came here to ask if I could borrow something and Athena opened the door for me. She let me grab it buuuut..."
Looking at my gun rack, my eyes went a bit wide as to how cleaned they looked. Looking back at Ruby, her hands were covered in grease and other gun residue. Sighing, I gently placed a hand on her head and patted it. Something she quickly warmed up to since she smiled and luaghed soflty.
"Maybe I should just shoot you now..."
Ruby's eyes shot wide open as I then laughed out loud and she stood in place. Confused before realizing I was just joking and groaning out.
"Jerk!"
"Hey, wait a sec...Where's Athen-"
"I AM HERE, PILOT."
"Fuck!"
Whipping my head to Athena, she just looked at me with her single eye as Ruby now had her turn to laugh.
"Hah! Should've seen your face!"
Growling softly, I couldn't help but smile at her little antics. She's seen the worst yet, still pushes on with her optimism and purity.
"Fine. It was a bit funny. Where were ya?"
"I LEFT TO GO OBTAIN SOMETHING FOR MISS ROSE FROM MY CHASSIS DATABASE."
Ruby's chuckling and snickering soon stopped as she began to sweat in spot. Slowly turning to her, I squinted at her.
"What did you want....?"
"U-Uhm.....I wanted to know you shirt size!"
"Alright. You forced my hand. Time to interro-say what now?"
"SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH, PILOT."
Lookin at Ruby, she wore a sheepish smile and small embarrassed blush as she then cleared her throat.
"I wanted to make a shirt for you! But I didn't know what size you were so I came ask."
"I see. Why didn't you grab one of my shirts-oh...right."
As I told Ruby my suggestion, I opened my drawer to show it was full of tank tops, undershirts, sweats and shorts. Closing it, I snapped a finger at her.
"Touche."
Giggling softly, Ruby smiled before Athena spoke out.
"MY PILOT'S SHIRT SIZE USED TO BE A MEDIUM BEFORE HE JOINED THE SRS. HE IS NOW LARGE."
"O-Oi! Easy with the info!"
"Perfect! Now all I have to do is get the design! Oh! Hey Pil-uhm...(Y/N)? Wanna come to the cafeteria? My team and JNPR are there."
"Hm...Eh. I'm done for the day. Might as well. What's the worst that could happen?"
-Third Person-
Ruby and (Y/N) had just entered the cafeteria after making a pit stop at RWBY's dorm to pick up something. That something being a binder that had "Vytal Festival Activities: Property of Weiss Schnee" hastily scribbled out with a red marker. Replacing it was "Best Day Ever Activities." Ruby let out a giant heave as she slammed the binder on the table in of the group as their attention was ripped away from, well, nothing. Most of them were bored. Especially Yang.
Ruby soon cleared her throat before holding out a hand to gesture at everyone.
"Sister! Friends....!Weiss and Boyfriend!"
"Hey-!"
"What!?"
Everyone minus Ruby yelled out in unison before she snickered since it was a joke referencing Penny calling (Y/N) her boyfriend. After everyone calmed down after knowing it was a joke, Ruby spoke.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream!"
"This oughta be good..."
"Tellin' me, she just referenced Abe Lincoln..."
Yang gave me a confused look as she caught a berry in her mouth.
"A dream that one day, the four of us will come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had... ever!
"Did you steal my binder?"
Weiss asked as the young pilot tried to give her a small nod but, Ruby's hand whacked the back of his head on the way up to make a peace sign.
"I am not a crook."
"What are you talking about?"
"Probably trynna make some demonic strawberry ritual..."
"I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!"
"I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?"
Right after in a form of instant karma/justice, Yang gets hit square in the face by an apple. Glaring at the one who threw it, Nora, the red head boo'd out as (Y/N) gave Nora a thumbs up. Which didn't go unnoticed as Yang then glared at (Y/N).
"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store.
"O——h humor her, Snow Angel. Its not everyday Ruby uses forty percent of her brain."
Weiss covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing as (Y/N) received a glare from Ruby. One he responded to by putt his visor up and giving Ruby a wink before putting it back down. Soon after, Yang could be seen glaring, obviously still irked by the apple, before picking up an apple and throwing it. Nora could be heard giggling as the apple hit a random person with a "hey!"
"I don't know. I think I might sit this one out."
"Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!"
"I got it!"
"I for one think that-"
Weiss was then cut off when an apple pie flew from across the table. Hitting Weiss straight on the face before every one turned to who threw it. Obviously, it was Nora since she was standing up and still hand her arm outstretched. But, she tried to sit down and play it off as Ren's fault as Pyrrha hand a over her mouth and Jaune was wide eyed.
"Oh no...oh no no no! I know exactly will happen next! Don't you da-!"
The pilot said while pointing at Yang but, karma came around to the group as the person hit earlier yelled;
"FOOD F———IGHT!"
Yelping out, (Y/N) sprung from the table and made a mad dash for the cafeteria lunch line counter. He saw something fly towards him so, he activated his phase module and slipped into the dimension. Coming out of it, he was now behind the countertop with the other lunch-ladies as he went to check what tried to hit him-what the hell?
"A fucking sword fish!?"
"PILOT, I DETECT YOUR HEARTRATE IS ABOVE AVERAGE. ARE YOU ALRIGHT?"
"They tried to impale me!?"
"COPY THAT, PILOT. TRY TO WITHSTAND UNTIL I ARRIVE."
"What!? Athena! Wait!"
-First Person-
Hell hath no fury like a titan scorned. No pun intended. I began to mini-panic as I knew Athena was on her way so, I looked over the countertop to see the horror they had caused. And the only way I could describe it were the minutes prior to the fold weapon's detonation.
On one end of the cafeteria, you had Nora standing on top of a hill of tables while singing "I'm Queen of the castle." And down below her were the rest of JNPR. Then on the other side was Team RWBY. Little Red soon stomped her foot onto the table and chanted out while pointing at JNPR and holding a milk carton.
"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful! Justice will be delicious!"
She yelled before crushing said milk carton in her hand. The rest of RWBY yelled out in cheer before everything came to a halt. All they could hear now was a low growling to which they turned to only to spot me....drenched in milk.
"Nora?"
"Yes?"
"I used to be a mercenary. What offer do y'all have?"
"Oh oh oh!"
Nora beamed with a smile as she then pointed at Ren, Pyrrha then Jaune.
"I'll give you half of my sap stash from the trip! Ren can cook! Pyrrha can teach you how to fight! And Jaune....! Uhm..."
"I got comic books!"
Nora pondered a bit before Jaune yelled out. Seemingly on board with turning me into a mercenary again. Even Pyrrha and Ren were on board since Pyrrha gave me a "hello~!" and wave while Ren nodded with a smile. Turning to RWBY, I waited for them to catch on.
"U-Uh...Oh! I can make you cookies!"
"I can give you my notes for Oobleck's class."
"I have some new books you can read."
"I got myself~"
RWBY went down the list but, Yang shattered it. And not in a good way.
"Tempting!"
Pulling out my Wingman, I looked around before finding a small potato on the ground. Inserting it into the cylinder slot of the Wingman, I held it up at RWBY. Gaining some rather betrayed looks from them.
"Just tell me when, Queen..."
"Off with their heads!"
RWBY cheered as Nora jumped down from the table castle and proceeded to flip a table. Causing a bunch of melons to fly into the air. Ren ran over to a tray of melons and flipped over them before stomping on the tray. Launching the melons up, he then turned and kicked them towards RWBY. Jaune was quite impressive since he somersaulted over a melon and gave an overhead toss. And Pyrrha was the most simple yet effective as she grabbed some melons and javelin tossed them.
Meanwhile for me, I shot some of the melons midair to make a cluster bomb-slash-pellet rain effect.
"Yang! Turkey!"
The rest of RWBY went to take cover from the raining thunder as Yang sprang forward. Somersaulting her hands into two turkeys, she gave one last show of strength as she then one-two punched two melons out the air before backflipping over another. Landing on her feet, she roared out as she dashed forward and comboed about five melons before uppercutting the last one.
"Well shit...."
Blake soon sprang out from behind Yang as she rolled to grab two baguettes. Running forward with Yang right behind her, Blake cut two incoming melons before allowing Yang to shoot the turkeys forward. Pyrrha jumped out the way in time as I was left with Jaune. I tried to anti-air the things but my potato rounds just bounced off. Which didn't come off as surprising. Jaune got hit by both as he flew back into me. Causing the two of us to fly backwards, I got my footing and the caught the poor guy.
"Get back in there, soldier!"
Looking back at Pyrrha, she was in a stalemate, no pun intended, with Blake as they glared at one another. Blake suddenly front flipped over Pyrrha as she used her semblance to leave behind a shadow. Something that made me gasp out as Blake then did it again to avoid another attack from Pyrrha.
"Oi! That's cheating! Fine! Semblances it is!"
Blake soon tossed one baguette at Pyrrha, who easily dodged it before lancing forward at Blake. Hitting her square in the chest, Blake was thrown back as I ran forward to pressure them. Midrun, Yang jumped onto the tables and was going to attack me before two baguettes flew past me and forced her to block but, one hit her. Then I saw Ruby get the same idea as me since she slid by on a tray.
Knowing the others could handle red, I grabbed a leak off the floor and held it like a knife as I saw Weiss heading forward. Deciding to cut her off, I grabbed a soda can off a table and shook it before tossing it right at the ground behind me. Jumping up at the same time, it launched forward with a bit of speed. Its the same trick a pilot used in the gauntlet to break the record.
Flying at Weiss, I saw her eyes widen before she grinned. Cocking an eyebrow, I suddenly felt something hit my side as I was shot past the same countertop I tried to hide behind. Slamming into a refrigerator door, I looked up hazily to see Yang with a triumphant smile as Weiss dashed forward with a ketchup bottle.
"I'm down...But don't count me out!"
Pulling myself off with a comical pop, I sprint towards and vaulted over the countertop in time to see Weiss zoom right past me and collide with a pillar. Even snapping it across the middle as she fell into the arms of Ruby who caught her as the pillar landed her. Landing with a dust kick up.
"Weiss! Don't leave me! N———o!"
"Holy shit!! Nora! You just killed her!"
Yang ran up from behind and stuck her hands once again into two turkeys, nasty I know, before meeting Ren half way who was holding two leeks for daggers. Meeting, they traded blocks as Yang began to catch up on Ren before uppercutting him into the air.
Correcting his path, Ren went to toss his two leeks to hit but, Yang dodged both of them as she went into air. Shooting a fist down at Ren, he rocketed down into a pile of tables. Creating a shockwave effect as said tables were blown away, Ren tried to get up but, ultimatelh gave in.
"H-He's dead too!"
Watching more, Nora jumped in with a melon stuck to a steel pole and met with Yang. The blonde of whom jumped back and dodged before roaring out as she threw a punch. Nora did the same and they were on a path of who could hit the hardest. The question was answered as Yang was hit with an uppercut swing that sent her straight through the roof. Standing with wide eyes, I finally came to a decision...
"Yeah! No...I'm out!"
I ain't one to quit a fight but, this was getting out of hand as Nora just sent Yang into space! I can't survive that!
Looking back at the fight, Blake just dodged debris as she then picked up a link of sausages. Twirling it around herself, she whipped it forward and hit Nora into a soda machine. Causing it to spill its contents and reveal to the redhead on what to do. And that was to toss the cans like grenades which, actuallh worked since this bought Pyrrha enough time to use her semblance. Collecting the soda cans, she soon shot them forward to which Blake couldn't dodge the carbonated salvo core.
Sending her into a wall behind Ruby, Little Red was now mad and serious since she then got into a running position. Bursting forward with a small roar, anything loose like soda cans, plates and other food objects were picked up into a whirlpool as Ruby yelled out. Bursting into rose petal whirlpool, Pyrrha and Nora saw their doom as Jaune and Ren stood to their feet. Although, they soon got sucked into the vortex along with the girls before skidding to stop in front of a wall.
What shocked me here is that Ruby skid to a stop with so much force and speed that she cracked the floor along with the wall. Jumping high into the air, JNPR stuck to the wall as they were bombarded by all the objects Ruby picked up along her path. Landing shortly after with a triumphant pose, JNPR slowly peeled off the wall and slid down it onto the floor.
"Holy...."
"I love these guys...!"
Turning around, I saw the blonde boy from the docks along with a blue haired guy covered in purple. Oh. Yikes. Guess there was some collateral damage. However, all fun came to a stop as Goodwitch burst into the cafteria. Causing me to yelp, I accidentally unloaded a spring trap on the ground and launched some things at the teacher. Making me go wide eyed, she growled as she caught the things with her semblance. Sending them forward to regroup with all the other stuff, everything awoke as everything, and I do mean everything, went back onto place.
With the fix of her glasses, Goodwitch spoke.
"Children? Please...do NOT play with your food..."
Everyone sat back as I walked up before Nora burped out. Causing us to all jump and look at her as Yang's yelling could be heard. Crashing through the ceiling and landing like a comet, everyone soon began to laugh before another crash came. Although, this was at the window and "this" was Athena's fist coming through the window. Poking her head through, I knew what was about to occur. A massacre.
"Oh no...."
"PILOT, MULTIPLE HOSTILES DETECTED. ACTIVATING BURST CORE."
"Athena! Wait!"
Although, it was too late since the moment I yelled "wait" she slammed the drum into her XO-16 gun. Hailing fire on everyone minus me and Goodwitch, we watched in horror as everyone was....wait...painted a pea green?
As the burst core ended, everyone stood in place as they dripped with pea pod residue. Looking to Athena, she simply stared at me.
"ALL HOSTILES, NEUTRALIZED. WE DID GOOD, PILOT."
She then held a thumbs up as I shakily did the same...
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