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January 3, 2553

Tai's house, Patch

"And that is how I ended up here" Daniel concluded. It took him a couple of hours to explain the summary of the war in great detail.

Tai just sat there in shock, knowing that there was a war worse than anything in Remnant that was unknowingly happening. "Daniel, I'm sorry that you had to go through that."

"Don't be Tai, I chose my path to fight and tolerated the consequences of my decision. The war has ended, and I hope it stays that way."

Tai then spoke, "I know a man that can help get to your home, he is very understanding and a good listener as well."

"Who is he then?"

"His name is professor Ozpin."

"Sounds like he is more of a teacher than someone to get off this planet."

"He is more than meets the eye Daniel and I think you will be satisfied of his much he can get done in a short timespan."

Daniel thought about it for a moment then gave his answer. "Where can I find him?"

"He lives in a place called Beacon Academy in the kingdom of Vale."

"So he is a teacher then."

"Like I said, he is more than meets the eye."

Thirty minutes later

Daniel was by the door, getting to leave for Vale until Tai put one of his hands on Daniel's shoulder, "Be careful out there, and tell your friends I said hi to them."

Daniel left out the part of his friends' deaths during the explanation to avoid any flashbacks.

Daniel's expression changed to a somber look, but Tai couldn't see it since he had his helmet on. "Yeah… I'll tell them. Tell Summer I said hello as well." Daniel then left the house into the forest, leaving a sad Tai to think about his dead wife.

One day later

At a cafe, Vale

Daniel was sitting at a table, enjoying the view outside as people were walking and driving. He pulled out his notebook and a pen and began writing.

January 4, 2553

It has been a day since my landing back on this world. Things have changed a lot over the past decade, but not for the better. Ever since I have arrived to Vale, there were many White Fang attacks. Wasted a lot of time and bullets because of them. Once I get to Beacon and find Ozpin, hopefully I can get the answers I need to leave.

What he was told by some people that the White Fang had been robbing stores for some time and no one has stopped them yet. He began to wonder how these kingdoms that train protectors of humanity let these attacks happen without even trying to stop the White Fang.

Daniel got up, placed a tip on the table, and headed toward Beacon. He walked past a robbed dust store that had cops investigating it.

"This is the third robbery this week! When are they going to stop?" One cop said.

"They'll stop once our pay grades are raised to do that job." The other cop responded. "At least there aren't any dead bodies to clean this time, that stuff is above my paycheck."

All Dani could do was stay silent and clench his fists in anger. He continued his journey.

As he was riding a bullhead, he began to plan for a backup plan in case things go out of hand. As the bullhead landed, the door opened to show a man with a cane, crooked glasses, a scarf and white hair.

"Hello Mr. Daniel, I believe you came here for answers, yes?"

"I'm sorry but I am looking for a man named Ozpin, do you know where he might be?"

"I am who you are searching for."

"I.. see. Is there a place where we can discuss in private?"

"Of course Mr. Daniel, please follow."

Daniel began to follow Ozpin until he felt a slimy tentacle crawling its way to his face.

You will join me once I am finished with my plan for it has just begun. Closer and closer to victory I will reach and you will see everything turn before your eyes.

"Mr. Daniel, are you alright?" Ozpin asked.

Daniel shook his head, the tentacle was gone and so was the strange voice. "Y-yes I'm fine."

"Let's continue shall we?"

As they were walking towards Ozpin's office, Daniel caught the stares and glares of the students that he passed by, but he wasn't fazed because he was used to it. His mind was mostly focused on what the voice meant by 'his plan'.

'Who is it?' Daniel thought.

Few hours earlier, Abandoned dust mine

One of the White Fang members ran to Ian's office to inform him that everyone is evacuating the base. As he got there, he saw Ian sitting down on a chair in the dark room, overlooking the chaos that took place below.

"Sir, we have been given orders to evacuate the mine while the soldiers are holding off the monstrosities."

Ian gave no response.

"Sir, we do not have time for this! We need to leave now-"

He was then cut off by Ian, or someone else's voice.

It spoke, "I have witnessed many worlds fall before me, but none were as weak and easily fooled as your kind."

The White Fang member saw two large dark figures fall from the ceiling.

Ian stood up, "I thank you for releasing me, now you will be repaid."

Little objects began to fall from the ceil by in large quantities and ran toward the WF member. He ran as fast as he could, but wasn't fast enough. One of the little things latched its small tentacles around the man and began diving into his chest.

Ian, no, the monster walked up to the screaming man. "You will join me and together we will conquer this world."

The man stopped screaming like a human and screeched a terrifying sound that can put fear into the most hardened foe.

The monster smirked, "This is just the beginning."

Ozpin's office, Vale

Ozpin gestured his hand to a seat, "Have a seat Mr. Daniel."

Daniel accepted the offer and sat down and took off his helmet.

Ozpin sat at his chair next to a blonde woman standing. "This is my assistant, Glynda Goodwitch."

Daniel greeted her, "Nice to meet you miss."

"Likewise" was her only response.

"Now onto business, I was told that you are not around here is that correct?"

"Indeed."

Ozpin pulls out his scroll to show Daniel the ship he fell from. "Is this yours?"

"It was my captain's ship that was assigned to" Daniel corrected.

"Interesting, well as of now, the Atlesian military is 'dissecting' it as we speak."

Daniel didn't seem surprised by the news.

"You do not seemed surprised by this Mr. Daniel" Glynda said.

Daniel replied, "Well, I am not a one man army so I can't do anything about it unless you can convince them to stop what they are doing."

"That can be arranged" Ozpin commented. "You are a very interesting man Mr. Daniel, Tai has told me about you and I am sorry for what you went through."

Glynda turned to Ozpin, "Is there something that I am missing because you only told me about the ship Atlas found."

"I must have forgotten to tell you. Daniel here has supposedly faced enemies worse than the Grimm." Ozpin informed.

Good witch was in disbelief, "what can be worse than the Grimm and who is this enemy anyways for we have not heard of them?"

Daniel replied to Glynda's question, "Enemies that I hope never come here."

Ozpin looked intrigued, "How many people were lost in the war you were fighting Mr. Daniel?"

"My superiors counted several billion last time I asked them."

Glynda was having a hard time believing the statement. "That is impossible! There is no population that large. Ozpin, do really believe this man is telling the truth?!"

Daniel aggressively stood up and slammed gus hands on Ozpin's desk, "What makes you think that you know everything huh?! That a few billion lives is an exaggeration? I have SEEN and FOUGHT more things than you! You think that several billion is a lie, but I say to you, I and many others had bet their lives to try to save those people from dying. I won't let you shrug it off as a lie because it was my responsibility and I won't let you disrespect that."

Ozpin was surprised a little of how things instantly raised from zero to a hundred quick. He then tried to calm the situation, "Everyone calm down. Let's try to be civilized , I know this is hard to believe, but from the evidence that has been presented to us, the only thing we can do is trust in what Mr. Daniel is saying. And Daniel, please refrain from acting on your emotions."

Both calmed down for they knew he was right.

"Good, now Daniel I know this is sudden, but I have a proposition for you."

Daniel sat down with a quizzical look on his face, "What's the deal?"

Ozpin continued, "I will help you get back home and fix the ship you were on. While that happens, I want you to help Glynda teach and observe when she is called to do other duties. Do we have a deal?"

Daniel thought of his options. 'Well I don't have a house, I'm broke, can't replenish my ammo or clean my guns…."

"Will I have a roof over my head and get paid well for it?" Daniel asked.

"Of course Mr.-"

"Then we have a deal." Daniel interrupted.

"Well then, I see to that you will have your room."

Daniel nodded, "Thank you Ozpin, I greatly appreciate it."

Before Daniel entered the elevator, Ozpin stopped him, "And Daniel?"

Daniel turned around, "Yes?"

Ozpin gave a smirk, "Welcome to Beacon Academy. And remember, I will ask more questions the next time we are available for a little chat."

Daniel gave a nod and entered the elevator.

One hour later

Daniel looked at his key card and the door in front of him. 'This must be my room then' he thought. He used the keycard to unlock the door and once he opened it, he was surprised of how spacious the place was. There was a living room with couches and a large TV and next to it on the right was the kitchen and the room on the left of the living room was the bed area that contained one King sized bed, a small bathroom with a shower in it, and a medium size window to look st the scenic view of Vale.

'I must be in heaven right now' Daniel thought in awe. He jumped on the bed and latex there comfortably, "It's been too long since I slept on one of you and it feels so nice too."

After what Daniel calls a "reunion", he took off his armor and clothes and went to shower. After his, "once in a lifetime" shower, he put back on his clothes he wore today since he didn't have any other clothes to begin with.

"I'm going to need to get some clothes soon" he commented.

He sat down on his bed and looked out the window to see the beautiful sunset slowly fade away to the night. Daniel gave a sad smile as he watched the sun set.

"I wish you guys were here to see this, especially you big bro." He watched the entire sunset then fell asleep since the initiation he will be participating will be tomorrow.

In Daniel's dream state

'Highway' city, planet Argitinius

August 3, 2545

Daniel and seven other marines were hiding behind a flipped over transport bus. Plasma fire whizzing past them and hitting the bus as the marines traded fire with the Covenant infantry. A medic was covering a injured marine's insides.

"Oh God! It hurts! Make it stop, make it stop!"

"Just hang on there soldier everything is going to be okay just keep looking at me your. I need someone to help me here!"

Me of the marines hurried over to the medic.

The medic gesture toward the injured marine, "I need you to keep pressuring the wound while I try to ease his pain!"

"Oh God please make it stop!" the injured man screamed.

Few minutes went by, the medic gave the last of his painkillers and wore off quicker than expected.

"Fuck, I'm out of painkillers!"

"What happened to the biofoam?!" A marine questioned.

"It got fucked up by those little bastards!" The medic looks around for any medical station. Lucky he did find it, but it was across the street. "There's one across the street, we need to get it!"

"Are you fucking crazy! (Plasma explosion) that's suicide!"

A sergeant next to Daniel, who was shooting his sniper rifle, tugged his shoulder, "Hey you!"

Daniel leaned his back against the bus and looked at the sergeant.

"I need you to get that biofoam from that medical station across the street!"(plasma explosion)

Daniel responded, "The kid can hold on a little longer, reinforcements will be here."

"The reinforcements won't get here in time! We are on our own god dammit! The kid will die if we don't get the fucking biofoam!"

Daniel looked at the dying man, who was screaming and crying, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

Daniel gave in, "Fuck it, cover me!"

"Covering fire!" The marines opened up on the infantry ahead while Daniel ran as fast as he could to the medical station. Plasma nearly missing him and almost did if it wasn't for the cars giving him cover. Once he got there, he tried opening the case to the biofoam, but was jammed. He started beating the case, "Come. On. You. Fucking. Piece. Of. Shit!" The case was dented, but didn't open. "Come On!" He gave one final punch and it finally opened. He took the biofoam and ran back behind the bus. He gave it to the medic and the medic performed the task and the injured man stop screaming.

"We need to get the kid to a safer location!" Daniel suggested.

The sergeant commented, "Where?! Well get mowed down as soon as we all move out of cover!"

Daniel looked around and pointed behind the group. "There! In that store behind us! Fifteen meters from here!"

The sergeant quickly decided, "Alright everybody! Fall back to that store, double time!" As the medic picked up the injured man, the man asked in fear, "I'm going to be okay, right?"

"You're going to be fine kid just hang on a bit longer!"

The sergeant then gave the order, "Alright let's move, move, move!"

Everyone sprinted towards the store, and as if luck was on their side, a wraith shot landed in the spot they were previously at and the bus exploded.

"Shit, wraith!"

Out of the smoke emerged a wraith and several gent squads. The wraith turret began firing at the marines. A plasma round hit the medic in the back and fell down dead. The injured man fell and rolled in pain. Daniel instantly turned around to get the injured man.

"Soldier, what the tuck are you doing?!" The sergeant yelled.

"Trying to save a life!" Daniel shot an elite, who was about to finish off the injured man, in the head which instantly killed the creature. He then quickly swept the injured man from the ground and hurried back to the store while plasma did was honed on him. Daniel covered the man as he jumped through the window of the store, shattering the glass.

"God dammit soldier, they almost got you."

"Well it was worth it."

A marine shouted from behind the store, "There's an exit back here we can take!"

Everyone ran through the exit which led to an alleyway. One marine closed the door and three others pushed a giant trash bin to block the door from opening.

The marines felt relieved for a moment until the injured man began to cough up blood.

Daniel's eyes widened, "Nonononono, don't do this to me kid we're going to get you out of here you hear me? We're going to get you home!"

The injured man didn't hear Daniel's plea and kept repeating, "Don't let me die Mama, I don't want to die Mama."

Daniel took off his ODST helmet and pumped the injured man's chest, "He's hallucinating! Where's the damn medic!?"

"He died man!"

"Fuck! We gotta help him!" Daniel tried to help the poor marine as the minutes flew by. The dead marine's final words were, "I'm sorry Mama."

Daniel kneeled by the dead body and looked at his bloody hands, which were shaking. Everyone heard a gun load and turned around to see a young marine, around eighteen at most, kneel with his eyes wide, tears streaming down from them, and a magnum pointed at his head.

Time seemed to slow as the others tried to stop him. The time ticked and tocked as the young marine slowly pulled the trigger.

Morning, outside the dream state

Daniel instantly sat up, sweat pouring down rapidly, and heavily breathed. He tried to comprehend what had just happened, but was interrupted by the blaring of the alarm clock, which Daniel quickly smashed out of instinct. He brought his legs out of the bed and sat there for a few minutes, looking at the sunrise. 'I guess it's time for the initiation' he thought.

In the auditorium, Team RWBY POV

All the students, ranged from first to fourth year classes, sat in their seats. First years st the front to the fourth years being at the back. Everyone was consulting with on another, wondering why they were called here.

"What do you think this is about Yang?" Ruby asked.

"I honestly have no clue, could be another announcement about the Vytal festival" Yang responded seeming unimpressed.

"Learning about the Vyral festival is important! What if they are changing the rules this year to make the fighting more challenging?" Weiss said.

Blake was suspicious, "I don't think they would give any announcements about that this early in the year. Something is happening, and it's not what we expect."

"I'm sure you're just paranoid Blake, nothing interesting is going to happen" Yang responded.

As soon as she made that statement, Glynda walked in stage, "I am sure you all are wondering why we called you here. We are here to see the performance of a new teacher that will be attending here today and today is his initiation."

Yang then contradicted herself, "This is going to be interesting."

"This giant screen behind me will display the initiation, of you cannot see the screen, you may use your scrolls to watch it."

People from the back began to pull out their scrolls to watch. Ruby began jumping up and down on her seat, "Iwobderwhitgeteachetwillbelikewhatkindofwrapondieshehave?what'shissemblancelike?actuallywhatkindofcombatclithesdoesheuse?"

"Ruby! Please stay seated and watch the screen!" Weiss demanded.

"Chill out ice queen" Yang joked.

"Why you-" Weiss didn't get to finish what she was going to say because the light dimmed and the screen was on.

The camera showed emerald forest from the cliff where every student will begin from. The scene from the forest wasn't what made Ruby and Yang's eyes open wide in shock. What did was the person going through the initiation.

"Who is that?" Weiss asked.

"It's him" Ruby muttered in shock.

"What was that Ruby?" Weiss said.

"They're back Ruby" Yang said aloud.

It was Blake's turn to ask, "Who is the person Yang?"

Yang turned to her, "I've met him before years ago, he is part of a group that go by the name-"

"Fireteam Hellfire" Ruby finished, "but where is everyone else?"

Cliffs of Emerald Forest

Daniel stood on the launch platform with Ozpin beside him. Daniel had his battle rifle, rocket launcher, and smgs and his mags along with his machete.

"Are you ready Mr. Daniel?" Ozpin asked.

Daniel got in position, "ODSTs are always ready to drop deep into hell professor."

"That's the enthusiasm I was looking for from a person like you."

"Wait what-" was all Daniel could say before he was launched into the forest to fetch an "artifact".

Ozpin watch Daniel fall as he stood by the edge of the cliff, smiling and taking a sip from his coffee, "This is going to be an interesting year. An ODST he says? I wonder what that is. Better remember that for our next meeting."

Daniel did not expect the sudden launch, and he did not appreciate it, but he knew what his objectives were:

Retrieve the artifact and return.

Kill anything that gets in his way.

Show no mercy to anything.

His instincts from military training kicked in and he slowed his decent. He unsheathed his machete and readied it. Once his machete made contact with the dude of a tree, he slid down and landed without a scratch.

'Another happy landing' Daniel thought. He swapped his melee with his battle rifle and began his journey to the waypoint he marked while making the fall.

'Just a kilometer away, good.'

Daniel ran toward the marked location. About a quarter way through, he stumbled upon a beowolf pack in an open field. They noticed him and charged. Daniel quickly shot as he walked back to leave space between his rifle and the enemy. The titanium rounds easily pierced through the wolves' armor and went out the other end. They began to drop in a large amount.

"Is that all you got?!" Daniel roared.

A giant scorpion and then appeared from the trees.

"Why do I have bad luck?" He deadpanned.

The scorpion charged at Daniel and struck first with its tail.

Daniel rolled to the side to avoid from being crushed and used his machete to try and chop off the tail, which got stuck for the second time. "Goddammit!" He was then smacked away by the scorpion's pincer and his back hit against a tree.

Daniel shook it off and got back up. 'Ok note to self, always dodge the pincers' he thought. He whipped out both smgs and charged at the scorpion, who was roaring in pain from the injury on the tail. The creature saw Daniel run at it and flung its tail at him, but missed entirely and the tail was stuck it the ground. It swung its pincers and Daniel slid under both of them.

Daniel hopped onto the scorpion, aimed his smgs at the head, and went guns blazing. The bullets were punching through the scorpion's thick armor plating so fast that the bullets began to go to the bottom of the head and a massive hole was made from the top.

Daniel heavily breathed. It was over, for now. 'AndI thought it was going to be the end of me this time' he thought.

He got off the dead animal and resumed his journey for a short bit. A giant snake then came out of nowhere and tried to land a direct strike at Daniel.

Daniel groaned as he pulled out his launcher, "I don't have fucking time for this!" He fires and the rocket instantly blew up the snake's entire head. He walked up to it, "Are you done now?" And resumed his journey.

His entire time was run, kill all hostiles in the area, keep moving. As he killed the last beowolf, he was already at the location. "Time does fly when your life is in danger" he commented.

He gave a good look at the structure that had the artifact. "Looks like it was built around this world's Medieval period. He walked up the edifice and saw that the "artifact" was not an artifact. 'Are you fucking kidding me?'

"I put my life in danger JUST to get A FUCKING CHESS PIECE?!" And stomped his way to the king piece, grabbed it from the small stone pillar, and smashed the small pillar with his bare hands. He raised up the piece, "This better be worth it Ozpin, you hear me?!"

In the distance, instead of being angry from Daniel's disrespect, he chuckled at how stupid Daniel looked when yelling at the air.

Daniel stuffed the chess piece in his side pocket and returned to Beacon.

In the auditorium

Every student was amazed of how this new teacher was very accurate and never missed a single shot with his weapons, but some, like Blake, were skeptical because his shots were on point, too accurate. More accurate than the teachers themselves. Ruby, however, was filled with excitement, "DanielisgoingtobeourteachercanyoubelievethisYangheisgoingtoteachushiswaysthisisgoungtobesoexciting!minusthebadwordsheusesbutstillexcirubg!"

Glynda came back on stage, "This marks the end of the initiation, the rest of the day is yours, dismissed."

'There is something that this teacher is hiding from us' Blake thought, 'and I need to find out what it is he is hiding.'

"Blake!" Yang called out, "Are you coming?"

Blake snapped out of her trance, "Oh, uh yes I'm coming."

In Daniel's room

Daniel dropped his mags on the table and counted how much he had left.

"Three mags of my sub machine guns, two for my rifle, and one rocket. That's fucking great, spent two months worth of ammo for the stupid initiation. I need to find an alternative. And I still need clothes (sighs) just great."

He did the same things as he did yesterday when he first got here and later on his bed. 'Tomorrow is the first day of being a teacher, I hope the kids don't give me hard time like I did to my drill instructor.' He smiled a bit and fell asleep.

Above the planet Remnant

A slip space portal opened revealing one giant dark blue ship along with dozens of others with varying sizes. In the control room of of the capital ship sat a hairy beast with golden plated armor, showing that he was the captain of the ship. He brushed his short hairy goatee. On his sides were massive creatures wielding a weapons that looked similar to a giant hammer. Both wore obsidian black armor with blood red outlining the edges and spikes on the shoulder piece and their mouths not covered by their helmets, exposing their razor sharp teeth to instill fear into their enemies.

The captain looked at the planet with his pearl white eyes and growled. "I smell the humans' presence here." The creature said it a deep, soar voice. He stood up from his chair and walked down, "For years, we defied the Covenant, and held our borders from the Banished. For years, we scavenged worlds to replenish our fleets from the devastating Flood invasion. For YEARS we looked for a new place to call home and begin for dominance once again. Look at how we are rewarded my brothers for our patience! This very planet will be our foundation to a glorious empire!" He turned around, "Today brothers the Shadow Legion begins their dominion with this planet!"

The captain's brethren roared their battle cry for they knew they will become a feared faction they used to be. The captain spoke again, "And fear not my Jiralhanae brothers, we will not fail again." He then looked back at the planet, "And I will make sure of that."