I've finally finished this chapter, it's just been sitting there for so long. Sorry for not getting this done sooner, but I have other stories and I was considering whether or not to continue this one. Since people still read it, as I can tell from the fact that people, for some reason, still follow and favorite this story, I decided to continue it. There should be some differences between this chapter and previous chapters, it's longer, since I've started writing longer chapters, should have less mistakes, I repeat: should, and should have a wider variety of words.

Anyway, I've held you all up long enough. I present to you... Oh Cousin, My Cousin Chapter 15.

Chapter 15: Always a Pleasure

Robin looked at his reflection in the closet mirror, he was still topless. He traced his right hand down his left arm and poked the palm of his left hand; it felt better than it did last night when he first tried. Robin finished getting dressed and looked at his reflection again. He had a smile on his face, a genuine smile. He headed out the door and set off for Ozpin's office.

Robin hopped off the elevator and gave a hearty greeting. "Goooood morning!" The young man walked up to the window that Ozpin and Glynda were looking out of, then he noticed it. The Atlesian military was flying past.

"Ironwood certainly loves bringing his work wherever he travels." Glynda growled.

"Well, running an academy and a military makes him a busy man." Ozpin defended. "But yes, those are a bit of an eyesore."

Robin rubbed his temples. "Does he realise that this isn't the best time to parading his army about?" Before he could get an answer, an access requested alert flashed on Ozpin's desk.

"Come in." Ozpin confirmed as the elevator doors opened.

"Ozpin." Ironwood said as he walked through the doors, moving his arms in a friendly gesture.

"General." Ozpin replied with less enthusiasm.

"Please, drop the formalities." Ironwood chuckled. "It's been too long." He added as the two men shook hands. Glynda decided that that moment would be a good time to leave, Robin half wanted to join her.

"And Glynda! It has been far too long since the last time we met." The General smiled.

"Oh James..." Glynda started off, pretending to sound flattered. She leaned over to Ozpin. "I'll be outside." The Witch stated coldly.

"Glad to see she hasn't changed." Ironwood commented. Robin walked over to the man and offered him a handshake.

"General, I know it's only been about a week, but it's good to see you again." Robin almost had the force the words out of his mouth, he was actually very angry at the man in front of him. The army he brought with him being the sole reason.

"Robin, it's good to see you up." The general offered the young man a smile as they shook hands. Robin walked back over to Ozpin's desk and stood by the window, watching the crowds walk about.

"So... What has brought you to Beacon?" Ozpin asked the General as he poured a cup of coffee. "Headmasters don't typically make the trip with their students for the Vytal Festival." He pointed out as he handed the cup of coffee to Ironwood.

"Well, you know how much I love Vale this time of year." Ironwood joked as he added something to his coffee. "Besides, with you hosting, I thought this would be a good opportunity for us to catch up." He added, a hidden meaning to his words. One that didn't go unnoticed by the other Headmaster and teacher.

"I can certainly appreciate quality time between friends." Ozpin started as he sat down, pouring his own cup of coffee. "However, the small fleet you brought with you has me somewhat concerned." The Headmaster admitted, looking at the General for an answer.

"Well, concern is the reason I brought them." Ironwood conceded.

"To a school full of Hunters and Huntresses in training?" Robin asked sarcastically, he took a swig from his flask before continuing. "You do realise that bringing an army to a place filled with people training to protect the world is like saying: there's a big threat on its way and these Hunters and Huntresses and the trainees can't handle it." The man pointed out, the aggravation in his voice growing with every word.

"Robin-" Ozpin tried to caution, but the young man continued his rant.

"You've risked instilling fear in the people of Vale and the students of Beacon, do you remember what fear is James?" Robin asked, using Ironwood's first name to emphasise how much this decision had pissed him off.

"Robin-" Ozpin tried cautioning him again.

"It's a negative emotion, something that attracts the Grimm-" Robin was going to continue, but Ozpin hit his cane on the floor. The young man stopped talking instantly, his scowl lasted for a few seconds before fading to a regretful look. Robin took another swig from his flask and headed for the elevator.

"I've got lessons to plan." Robin excused himself as stepped into the elevator and pressed the ground floor button. The doors closed and Robin sighed, he ran his hand down his face.

"And my negative side comes out again. Looks like being positive is gonna be harder than I thought." The teacher laughed. With a ding, the elevator doors opened. Robin left the building and found a bench to sit on for a while.

While doing a bit of people watching, Robin thought about his plans for the near future. The dance was coming up soon, he figured he would go to chaperone at least. The Vytal Festival was still a few months away, he had his next few classes planned out. The more he thought about it, the more Robin realised that he had a lot of free time and no idea what to do with it.

Then he realised something he could do. Rebuild Senbonzakura. It was something he needed to do and since he had a lot of time to spare, he could work without interruption. So long as he wasn't needed for anything, he doubted he would be considering he was the newest staff member. They would get someone more experienced if a problem arose.

"Alright." Robin grunted as he pushed himself up off the bench, he headed back to his room to grab the remains of Senbonzakura. Then he headed for the weapons workshop.

"Alright, let's see. How did I do this back at Signal?" Robin mused as he pulled up Senbozakura's blueprints on his scroll. He took out the remains of his katana and started to take them apart, looking for parts to salvage. Since he had forgotten to buy any of the parts he needed, he would have to make do with anything he could salvage and anything that was left over in the workshop. Luckily, he managed to salvage the independent sections of the blade. Some would need to have their connectors rebuilt, but none of the pieces had been broken. This was a huge relief for Robin, remaking the blades sections would have cost him since he had to make each section separately. Robin took apart the connectors and put any salvaged parts aside, he left the blade sections next to the salvaged pieces.

"Okay... Next is the handle. Specifically the pole for my scythe." Robin muttered to himself as he pushed the small button on the handle that started the mechanism for changing his katana into a scythe. The pommel shuddered, but it didn't drop and bring out the pole. Robin tried a few more times before deciding to take the handle apart. He studied the mechanism for it, finding a few pieces out of place or broken beyond repair. The young adult decided to salvage what he could and remake the handle. He managed to salvage the pole and few pieces from the actual mechanism, but was less than happy with what he had to work with. He would have to really on the fact that a good number of spare were laying around.

"Well, let's hope I don't have Dad's bad luck." The brunette sighed amusedly. He started looking around the other workstations and in the drawers. He managed to find a spare handle, one without a guard though, a few small gears and few other parts he needed. It should've been enough, but Robin had a feeling it would be a stretch. Senbonzakura had originally been made for short fights, it wasn't supposed to be able to handle longer skirmishes.

Robin sat down at a nearby terminal and connected his scroll, he brought the blueprints up on the screen and used the provided art tablet to mess about with them. He tried different combinations of parts and different arrangements. Eventually, Robin found a design he was happy with and downloaded the file to his scroll. Picking the device up, he got back to work on his weapon. He started off with remaking the connectors, then moved on to connecting the sections and making sure they could still change to and maintain their desired forms, after which, Robin made the new mechanism for the handle and implemented it, then fixed the pommel and pole into the handle and mechanism.

The brunette looked over his work, he was content with it so far. But then again, he still had to attach the blade and test the weapon to make sure everything worked like it was supposed to. Robin took his time with attaching the blade, this was probably the easiest part to mess up and the most costly if he did.

After slowly attaching the blade, Robin picked up the new Senbonzakura and looked it over. He was okay with the new weight of the weapon, it wasn't much heavier than usual, but he felt like it needed a new look. The handle was already different, instead of being black metal with a red same covering it, it was now black metal with brass diamonds on it. It felt a bit weird to hold, but the test run later would help him get over that. The pommel was still the same since he had reused it, he brushed his thumb over it and looked at his insignia.

A gear in the middle with three smaller gears inside of it and half a gear on each side, the whole thing was supposed to be reminiscent of a bird spreading its wings. Robin remembered that he had a few other possessions with his insignia on them, though most of them were in his room back on Patch.

Deciding to get back to what he was doing, Robin grabbed a drop sheet, a dust mask and some work gloves. He put the mask and gloves on and spread the drop sheet on the ground, he placed Senbonzakura on the drop sheet and grabbed a brush, a can of primer, a tin of black paint and a tin of gold paint. Robin shook the can for a couple of minutes before spraying the primer on the blade, he put an even amount of layers on both sides and put the can to the side when he was done. Then Robin opened up the tin of black paint, he dipped the brush in the paint and began to coat the blade. After doing two coats of black paint, Robin repeated the majority of the process with the gold paint. Although, instead of painting the whole blade in gold, he opted to paint an ornamental design on the lower half of the blade. This way he would also have an elegant design on the top half of each section of his scythe blade. If other people could aesthetically pleasing yet practical weapons, then so could Robin.

Once the paint had dried, Robin tidied everything up. Once he was done, he slid Senbonzakura into its scabbard and hooked the scabbard to his belt.

"Finally done." Robin groaned as he stretched his back, only feeling content after a few clicks and a pop. The brunette left the workshop and looked up at the sky, it was dark. After staring at the shattered moon for a while, Robin began to head back to his room.

As Robin turned the corner, he spotted four individuals. One was Ruby, but the others were a mystery to him.

"We're from Haven. We're here for the Vytal Festival." The, presumably, leader of the three explained.

"In that case, I'll have to ask you to follow me." Robin piped up, he wasn't sure why, but he didn't want these three getting close to Ruby or her friends. "The students from other schools have their own dorms." The brunette added.

"We must have gotten turned around." The silver haired teen speculated, Robin didn't trust the smirk on the kids face. In fact, he didn't trust the look of any of the team, especially the leader. Sadly, he couldn't properly explain why, it was just a gut feeling at the moment.

"Whatever happened, if you'll follow me, I'll show you to your dorm." Robin ordered as he motioned for the three to follow him.

The walk to the dorms assigned to students from other schools was a long and quiet one, no one said a word as Robin showed the three students to where they would be staying. Once they reached the building, the students excused themselves and headed up the stairs. Robin started to head back to the regular dorms, but stopped by the statue of two Huntsmen standing on a cliff above a Beowolf. The young man stared up at the statue. He stared at the two Huntsmen for a little while, but soon shifted his attention to the Beowolf. Robin couldn't tell why, but he felt a surge of emotion when he looked at it. He felt anger, sadness, apathy and happiness all at once. The rush of emotion was enough to give him an excruciatingly painful headache, he collapsed to his knees and clutched his head. Letting out a scream of pain, Robin slammed his head into the ground. He stayed still like this for a while until another surge of emotion caused him to collapse onto his side, he let out another scream of pain. The brunette laid there for what felt like an eternity.

"Stop... it..." He panted. "Please you three, I can't... deal with this much... at once." Robin pleaded to his teammates. He knew they were there, they had been since last night. He could tell because he had used Nettle's and Tear's semblances.

Nettle's Tracker Vision semblance, last night Robin knew it had activated since he could see the footprints that had been left on the ground earlier in the day clearly. The only drawback being the fact that there was no way to tell how recent any tracks or imprints were. Then there was Tear's semblance, Healing Touch. It could purge impurities in the body and close wounds, that was it, it couldn't work miracles and cure diseases or bring back lost limbs.

"Wait... that means." Robin struggled to speak as he focused on a shadowy area of the courtyard, he teleported over to it. "Yep... all three."

Dusk's semblance, Shadow Travel. The user could meld into any shadow as long as they could see it, the problem being that it was taxing on the user's stamina.

Robin repeatedly used Shadow Travel to get back to his room. He staggered to his feet and scanned his scroll, the door opened and Robin rushed to his bed. He collapsed a few seconds later.

When Robin woke up, he found himself drenched in sweat. He got up and took a longer shower than usual, spending most of it thinking about what had happened the night before. He had had to deal with a few months worth of emotions all at once and none of them had been his own. It seemed that having his team with him in literal spirit meant that he had to deal with their emotions on top of his own. Robin finished his shower and got dressed, opting to go with a different look than normal.

Instead of his white dress shirt and black blazer, the brunette wore a crimson red t-shirt with a brown leather bomber jacket. In place of his dark blue jeans, he light blue ones. And instead of his black and white high-tops, the young man wore brown combat boots.

After getting dressed, Robin decided to pay his cousins and their team a visit. He had only talked with them once since he got back and it hadn't been a proper conversation as far as he was concerned. Knocking on team RWBY's door, the young man didn't have to wait long for it to open. Seeing a familiar pair of silver eyes, Robin smiled.

"Hey Rubes." He greeted.

"Robin! What are you doing here?" Ruby asked, a shocked and nervous expression crossing her features.

"What? I can't visit my cousins and their friends?" Robin answered with a laugh, only now noticing that Ruby was wearing a different outfit than usual. "You going out somewhere?" The young man inquired.

"Uh... Well..." Ruby stuttered and Robin could tell something was up.

"Ruby." The red eyed man stated firmly, his cousin looked at him in surprise due to change in his tone. "You're not hiding anything from me, right?" Ruby shrunk under his gaze, failing to find a response.

"Ruby, just let him in." Yang sighed as she opened the door fully, Robin noticed that everyone on the team was wearing a different outfit than usual.

"What's going on?" The brunette asked as he entered the room, Ruby closed the door as she stepped in front of him.

"We're going after Torchwick." Yang answered with a smile. Robin sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"You're going after Torchwick." He repeated. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't tell Ozpin about this." The young man stated. No one answered as an uncomfortable silence passed. "Because I'll be considered an accomplice." Robin answered for them.

"What do you mean you'll be considered an accomplice?" Weiss questioned.

"I mean, I'm going to help you." Robin explained with a laugh.

"But this isn't your problem." Blake pointed out.

"Wrong!" The young man exclaimed. "As a Huntsman, it is my duty to keep the people of Remnant safe. Roman Torchwick is a criminal that endangers the people I'm sworn to protect. So actually, this is my problem." He explained with a triumphant smile.

"Okay. But what will you do?" Weiss asked. Robin pulled out his scroll and waved it about in his hand.

"I'm quite good at hacking if I do say so myself, I can root around and see if I can find anything Torchwick's done recently. That could help with giving us an idea of where he is or what he might be doing." The Huntsman theorised as he put his scroll back in his pocket, he got a few nods from the team. "Good. By the way, who's the monkey?" He asked as he pointed to a monkey Faunus that was hanging outside the window.

After being introduced to Sun and Neptune, Robin made his way to Vale with the others. Once they arrived, everyone split up and went off with their assigned partners. Robin, being a full-fledged Huntsman, was by himself, he made his way to the public library. Once there, Robin rented a booth and hooked his scroll up to the terminal. He began setting up all the necessary programs he would need and started working.

Nothing, Robin had found nothing in the hours he had been searching. He had found a few bits and pieces about missing Dust shipments, but none of it could be connected Torchwick. Deciding to try searching one more time, Robin finally found something of note. Two Atlesian Paladins had been stolen while they were being transported, the thieves were apparently members of the White Fang. Though it was reported that a human had been working with them.

"Oh no, please don't tell me..." Robin didn't finish his sentence, hoping that it wasn't true. He shut down the terminal and retrieved his scroll. Robin rushed out of the library and began to head down the street, then his scroll went off.

"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-" Blake began, but she was cut off as someone started yelling.

"They've got robot and they're big, really big!" Sun's voice yelled through the scroll.

"Shit." Robin grumbled as he closed his scroll and started running, he only managed to run a few blocks before seeing two Atlesian Paladins charging down the street and towards the highway. Robin ran after them and hitched a ride on top of a car.

The highway was complete and utter chaos thanks to the two Paladins charging down it. Robin hopped from car to car as they kept diverting to try and get away from the human controlled mechs, he spotted Yang and Neptune on Bumblebee. Neptune took a shot at one of the Paladins before his weapon transformed to a naginata and he jumped at the same Paladin he shot, his weapon got stuck in the Paladins armour and he held onto it for dear life. Robin took a chance and jumped from the car he was on onto Bumblebee, the motorcycle shook as he landed behind his cousin.

"Sorry about that, but I decided to catch a ride." The brunette apologised to the blonde.

"No worries." Yang called back as she accelerated.

Eventually, Weiss dropped down from one of the upper roads of the highway and created a large patch of ice. One of the Atlesian Paladins slipped on the ice and fell to the ground below, but the other jumped over the obstacle and turned around. Weiss and Blake followed after the first Paladin. Yang brought Bumblebee to a halt and looked down from where her teammates had jumped from.

"Go help them, I'll take care of this one." Robin ordered, Yang nodded and followed after her teammates. Robin shifted himself to the front of the motorcycle and started it up, he drove straight towards the Paladin in front of him and passed between its legs.

Robin kept driving along the highway, the Atlesian Paladin not too far behind him. Eventually, he managed to find a length of road that led down to where team RWBY and the other Paladin were. Once he reached the end of the road, he kept driving forward before eventually doing a U-turn and stopping. The red eyed Huntsman had a quick stare down with the Atlesian Paladin before revving Bumblebee's engine.

"Yang! I'll pay for any damages later!" He yelled as he drove straight towards the Paladin. He heard his cousin scream something at him, but couldn't make out exactly what she said.

As Robin drove closer and closer to the Atlesian paladin, he started to stand in a crouching position whilst drawing Senbonzakura. He jumped from the motorcycle and stabbed his katana into the Paladin, it got stuck and Robin found himself hanging in front of the cockpit. He waved at the pilot before swinging himself up onto the top of the mech and pulled Senbonzakura out, he stabbed into the mech a few times and jumped out of the way of a metal fist that was flying at him.

While in the air, Robin changed Senbonzakura into its scythe form. He reared the scythe back and looked at his target, the Paladin's right arm. Robin began his descent as the Paladin launched a salvo of rockets at him, the Huntsman smirked as he effortlessly cut through the hazards with a flurry of spins. Robin reared Senbonzakura back again as he got closer to the joint of the arm, he put all his might into the next swing.

The arm flew off and crashed to the ground.

Robin landed and made some distance between himself and the mech, he came to a halt and held his scythe at a downwards angle. He charged at the Paladin, aiming for its left leg this time. The brunette dodged the shots that were fired at him, keeping his eyes on the Paladin's leg. He slid underneath a punch and lunged at the left leg, Senbonzakura caught the joint and cleaved through it. Robin cheered, but gulped when he saw the same fist as before heading towards him. He used his scythe to guard himself and braced for impact, the fist collided with the scythe and sent Robin flying into a column. He peeled himself off of the column and fell to the ground, he pushed himself up using his scythe as a support. Robin glanced behind him and saw Yang activate her semblance, he decided to follow suit.

Robin changed Senbonzakura back into its sword form and returned it to its scabbard. Rolling his shoulder, Robin took a step forward. A small crater formed at the force behind the step. He smirked at the Paladins pilot and dashed for the severed arm, running faster than he normally could. Robin reached the arm and grabbed hold of it, he dragged it behind him and ran straight at the toppled Paladin again. The Huntsman raised the arm behind him and slammed it into the Atlesian Paladin with an over head swing, the Paladin and the arm shattered into hundreds of pieces. Robin saw someone eject themselves from the cockpit, he looked over at the pilot.

It was a girl. Her hair was pink and brown and the same could be said for her eyes, she was wearing a rather elegant looking outfit.

Robin drew Senbonzakura again and charged at the girl. He swung at her, but she shattered like a mirror as soon as the blade made contact with her. He looked around and saw the girl guarding Torchwick. Robin ran over to team RWBY as they approached the pair.

"Ladies, Ice Queen... Birdie." Roman started, addressing everyone present. "Always a pleasure. Neo, If you would." The man stated. The girl, Neo, took a bow. Yang charged forward and attempted to punch Neo, the girl and Roman shattered as soon as the blonde's fist made contact. The teens and young adult looked around for any kind of sign as to where the two had gone, then they heard a bullhead flying off. Looking in the sounds direction, they saw Roman and Neo standing in the bullhead before the doors closed and the carrier disappeared.

"Get back here Roman!" Robin shouted vehemently, refusing to look away from where the bullhead had been.

"Robin..." Ruby called, concern lacing her voice. Robin sheathed Senbonzakura and turned to face the team.

"Let's get back to Beacon." He stated, trying to avoid the subject he knew she was about to bring up.

"Torchwick called you Birdie, that was your old nickname. How does he know it?" Ruby asked, causing the others to look at him in surprise.

"Because he was the first person to use it." Robin admitted with a sigh. "Believe it or not, Torchwick used to be a student at Beacon. He left one year and never returned, then he started showing up in news reports as a criminal and... well you get it." The Huntsman halfheartedly explained.

"So that's why got involved with the investigation." Weiss realised. "You've seen what he can do before. You were trying to protect us, weren't you?" She asked.

"Yep. Girls, Torchwick is dangerous, more so than you realise. So please, give up on this investigation." Robin pleaded, a sincere and sad look in his eyes.

"That's not fair! We've come this far and you're just going to tell us to give up!" Blake yelled at Robin, the man simply averted his gaze.

"Blake..." Yang put her hand on her partners shoulder in attempt to get her to calm down.

"Please..." Robin pleaded again, his voice shaky this time. "Before you end up getting hurt." He added.

"Robin." Ruby said firmly, getting her cousin to look her in the eyes. "We are not going to give up." She stated, her conviction showing clearly from the look in her eyes.

"Fine." Robin conceded, he let out a long sigh and gave the girls a big smile. "Guess I'll have to help to make sure none of you get hurt." The team looked at him in surprise. "What? You think I'm gonna let my cousins and their friends risk themselves without supervision? I think not!" The man stated theatrically, getting thankful smiles from the girls. "Now come on, we need to get back to Beacon."

So, what did ya think? We got a brief look at Robin's semblance, and no it is not the same as Yang's, established a few things, and moved the plot along.

I'll see you all in chapter 16.