Chapter 6: Drinking with Qrow

Max and his new friend, Qrow arrived at a local bar. He kept a bottle of Kong in his suit pocket just for a warm-up. This also cause him to think what kind of currency do people use in Remnant.

"Hey Qrow." He said getting Qrow's attention. "Yeah?" Said Qrow. "What kind of currency do you people used in Remnant? Because i doubt that the money i have in my wallet is valid here."

"We use Lien, Max. Don't worry about not paying, drinks are on me." He said smiling as they both entered the bar.

The sounds of chattering, and the sound of piano playing old western music can be hear in the background. They went to go sit at a counter where the bartender is serving drinks. Max took the time to take out the Kong from his pocket before chugging it all down.

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Qrow notice this and told Max: "Just one or two. Right, Max?"

"Course, just a drink. No big drama." Max said after he finishes the scotch. What they both didn't realize was that a person beside Max was eavesdropping their conversation.

Qrow turned to the bartender. "Can we get a couple of beers, please?" The bartender looked and widened his eyes in surprise seeing Qrow along with a new fella.

"Oh deary me! It's you again. Please, i don't want no trouble." He panicked. "And you'll get non from me. I was just defending myself." Qrow said. "Tommy. He's..." The bartender gets cut off from Qrow.

"He'll be fine." Qrow pulled some lien and tossed it on the counter. "Here, have one for yourself."

The bartender stares at the lien, then he took it and stuffed the currency in his pocket. Looking up at Qrow, he smiled. "Thank you." He said while placing two bottles of beer at the table for Max and Qrow.

Both were taking sips from the bears. Qrow puts his bottle down for a second. "I wanted to say... thank you, Max. For getting rid of that psycho." "Well. someone has to deal with the pest. Now, i have to teach a bunch of kids how to fight, and guess what? I don't even want to teach, i have zero experience as a teacher, let alone becoming one." Max took a sip of his beer. "But then, Ozpin uses his silver tongue to make me join." Qrow chuckled. "Well that's Ozpin to you, he always that does to many people, including myself." He looks down at the counter frowning. "But that was the problem." He said as another song started to play.

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Max turned to look at Qrow. "What do you mean?" Qrow answered: "I mean, i have seen a lot of crazy crazy stuff, but Ozpin..."

"I've seen a lot of crazy, crazy stuff." A man whose sitting beside Max interrupted Qrow by repeating what Qrow said. Max turned to the man with an irritated glare. "Will you shut up?" "Will you shut up?" The man repeated. "Be quiet, buddy." Max said and tries to ignore the moron.

"The man chuckled. "They're dullards." He then begins to annoy the two men (including Max, who was about to lose his shit). "Oh Oum, you two are dull...HOHOHO."

"Hey, leave us alone, pal." Qrow warned, but the man brushed it off. "Hey, leave us alone, pal." He mocked. Meanwhile, Max is just about to be done with this asshole as he tried to enjoy his drink, but failed because this guy won't stop talking. "People had been leaving me alone for the last then years. I'm bored with being left alone. HaHaHa...".

WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Max had finally lost it. He slammed the bottle on the counter with anger, got up and grabbed the man by his coat and slammed his head on the counter repeatedly, followed by the guy letting out a 'whoa!', before Max drags his ass out of the bar.

"Get the hell off me!" The man demanded Max to let go off him, but was thrown by the said person. He landed on the ground and was knocked unconcious.

"Now get outta here, and don't come back, you bastard!" Max said. Feeling satisfied, Max went back to the bar with Qrow. "One more drink?" He asks.

Qrow couldn't help but smile. "Sure, just one more." "Exactly." They both hold their botltles and clinked them together for cheers before downing the beverage down their throats.

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The scene now cuts to the drunken duo taking shots of scotch, whiskey, tequilas. They now estabalishes themselves as BDf (Best Drunken Friends) as they sat on their asses downing more beers. They had trouble walking and their vision became fuzzy.

Max is now standing by the pianist laughing while slamming his fist on top of the piano, enjoying the music. "Ha, Ha, Ha!" Max turns to leave before patting the pianist's back and complimenting the music.

"That's great, pal." Max turning to Qrow, only to find out he's gone. "Qrow, where are you?"

Seeing that Qrow's not around, Max went to look for his new friend, "Hey Qrow!" He shouted, hoping that Qrow would answer. "Qrow! Qrow, where are you?" Max went towards the stairs to the second floor, but came across a man standing there minding his own business. Max went to ask the stranger. "You know which way my friend went?"

The man replied. "Uhh, can't say, i'm afraid." Max continued to walk up the stairs. "Qrow?" He called and went to talk with a female faunus with dog ears. "Hey, you seen my friend anywhere?" she told him she has no idea who he's talking about. Max continues his way until he found him on the other side. "What are you doing, man?"

"Hello, Max." Qrow waved him over. When Max came over, Qrow forgot what he was doing then. "You know what, I don't know..." That was when he accidently dropped the shot to the first floor with the glass breaking into pieces. The two drunks looked to the ground then at each other and begin to laugh like it was the funniest thing ever. The music then changed into another song.

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The scene changed to Max and Qrow drinking more than they expected, and laugh some more. Qrow wanted to ask Max an important question. "Well, why ain't you married yet?" Max went dead silent at this, then he turned to Qrow. "No one would have me as their husband." Max said, not wanting to tell Qrow about his horrible past. Then the scene changed to Max jumping up and down, while Qrow was pounding his chest like a mad Donkey Kong. Max was then about to tell the real reason why he's never married, only to find out Qrow is missing again. "Qrow? Qrow!" Then the sound of glass smashing can be heard on the first floor. Max went to see what the ruckus was, and saw Qrow being surrounded by two men who were ready to tear him apart.

"Get away from me!" Qrow warned as he prepared to fight. "Slippery little shit, ain't he?" One of the men said to his partner before Qrow started to stand on the counter. Max quickly went downstairs to defend Qrow. "Come here, asshole! Come here!" The men muttered while trying to beat the old bird.

Max reached down the stairs and hollered to the two men. "Leave him alone, you crazy animals." Max said while still drunk from the drinks he had. Because of this, Max could barely walk. One of the men countered back. "Who do you think you're talking to?" "Nobody... I'm talking to nobody.." That got one of the men's attention to him fully.

"What did you say?" He said angrily. "What?" Max asked while still affected by alcohol. "I said what did you say?" Max pushes him away. "Get lost buddy!" "Shut up, mister!" His friend shouted. "Yeah... Shut your mouth, mister." The man who was pushed by Max repeated. They were about to fight when the scene transitioned to Max, Qrow, The bartender, and the men were line dancing while kicking their legs in the air laughing while a rock song accompanied by the pianist plays in the background.

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Everything went dark. The scene then changes to Max urinating outside the bar, and looked as drunk as ever. Once he was done pissing, he zips his pants and barely walking back inside the bar looking for Qrow But once he step his foot inside the bar, Max sees a lot of Qrows drinking, laughing, dancing, singing. Some were wearing female clothing.

"Qrow, where are you hiding now?" Max called out to try and find Qrow since there were Qrows all around the bar. QRRRRROOOOOWWWW!" No answer. "Qr ow...you...bastard!" Max headed for the stairs. "Oh Qrow!" Reaching the second floor, Max found 'Qrow', who was wearing female clothing. "Haha! Found you, Qrow!" But when Max blink, 'Qrow' was replaced by a woman.

"Do i look like a Qrow to you?" The woman asked, irritated by Max's drunkenness and strong breath. Max ignores her, and went to Qrow who was by the woman. "There you are, Qrow!" "How many have you had, pal?" 'Qrow' asked, only to be turned into a different person when Max blinked. Max continues to find Qrow , but turned to different people when Max interacts with different Qrows.

This goes on for a few minutes.

"Qrow, my man!"

"I'm Clyde. You got the wrong man."

"Damn it, Qrow, stop disappearing off on me!"

"Qrow? What are you talking about?"

"Just go home, will you?"

"I've been looking all over for you, Qrow!"

"What? I ain't Qrow."

Max was about to search some more when suddenly, someone grabbed him and turned him to face with Qrow (The real Qrow). "Max, Max, what are you doing?" He asked the drunk ex-cop, only to get smacked on the face by Max himself as an answer. Qrow held his cheek in pain from the slap. In return, Qrow retaliates by returning the slap. The duo ended up slapping each other back and forth while the whole bar watches in amusement.

SLAP!

SMACK!

SLAP!

SLAP!

SMACK!

Qrow and Max were seen sitting by the counter drinking their sorrows away.

"You're...you're a good friend to me, Max." Qrow said while holding his glass of beer."

The scene transates to Max and Qrow leaving the bar while laughing themselves to death. Both fell to the ground still laughing, and were both drunk as fuck. Unknown to them, there were many people recording the whole event on their scrolls hoping to get money off on DustTube. Qrow was clutching his stomach and vomitted on the ground, and Max went enduring off like a zombie. They didn't know the man that Max almost killed brought the cops along coming from behind. The man pointed his finger at the duo. "Th-there they are, there they are! Those are the men!"

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He told the cops, and one of them tackled Qrow to the ground. Max saw this, panic taking over from drinking so much, he began running away from the cops.

"I got him...I got the bastard." Cop 1 told to his fellow officers while restraining Qrow. "NEVER!" Max screamed from the top his gut. He then took a left that led to an alleyway. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" He kept going straight in the alleyway only to get blocked from another cop that was in front of him.

"You stop right now, you drunken fool!" Max quickly turned right and continued running. "I said stop!" The cops still going after his ass. "I'M AN AMERICAN!" Max was still fleeing from the cops until he sees a fence straight ahead. "Give it up, moron! You got nowhere to go now!" "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" Max screams at the cops for the last time before jumping over the fence. We see our drunken anti-hero fleeing to God knows where until everything went black.

Timeskip

"Max? Are you okay?" A young girl's voice calling out to Max.

"is he dead?" Another voice was heard.

"No, you dunce! He's not dead obviously." An annoying high class voice said.

"Let's break his legs to see if we can wake him up!"

"No, Nora! We will not do that!"

"I must say. Max do know how to dress in style."

"Really Coco? Now it's not the time to admire Max's choice of clothing."

"Aww come on, Vel. He looks dashing!"

Max didn't knew how long he passed out, but hearing a lot of voices is making his hangover worse. He opened his eyes, his vision blurry, and he sees twelve figures in front of him. Max struggled to get up. "Oh, you moron, Max," he muttered to himself. Once he's fully standing up, his vision returns to normal. Despite this, he still feels greasy. "You moron...not again."

While Max is dealing with his hangover, a familiar voice that he recognized was heard. "Mr. Payne, are you all right?"

Max turns his head towards Pyrrha, along with the rest of her team, Team RWBY, and four new people, people that Max never met aside from the bunny faunus he saw less than two days ago, who were all staring at him with concern. "Oh no, there's no need to worry, Pyrrha. Wait, what are you kids doing here?" He asks. Confused as to why are the students were in the same area he's in.

Blake answered. "We were about to hang out to the park until Ruby found you near Beacon academy's grounds." Max did a double take on what Blake said. Max looked around to be sure, and sure enough, he slept outside of Beacon. He facepalmed and sighed. "Goddammit, Max."

"Why were you sleeping out in the open, Max?" Yang questioned while everyone was curious. "I don't know. All i remember is that your uncle and i were enjoying ourselves at a bar. We got so drunk and..." "Wait, you were with our Uncle Qrow?" Ruby asked, cutting off Max.

"Umm, yeah." He said. "So where is he?" "Shit! I forgot that we were chased by cops, and they tackled Qrow, and i escaped."

"WHAT?" Everyone screamed, making Max cringe. "Hey! Not so lou-euggh!" Max didn't get to finish as he begins to vomit, creating a large nasty grey colored puddle on the ground.

"EWW!"

"I think i'm about to puke as well."

"Gross!"

"Hey, don't get puke on my clothes!"

"I definitely did not want to see that."

Max finishes puking before looking back at the students. "I think i need to get to my room." He tried to walk, but was walking clumsily. Jaune and Ren holds Max to keep him steady. "We'll meet you guys later." Jaune told his friends, and they left before wishing Max to take care of himself.

Timeskip

They reached their destination, and Max sees a letter taped to his door. Max grabs the letter and opens it, revealing his schedule for the classes he was suppose to teach, and he was suppose to teach tomorrow. There is also a weird Iphone looking device in the letter as well. Max finds a note attached on the scroll. The note looked like instructions on how to use it, which Max will read later. Max takes his keys and unlocked the door, and thanked Jaune and Ren for support. They left and Max closes the door, and immediately fell on the bed and passes out for the whole day, waiting for what's about to come tomorrow.

Meanwhile, at the bar where Max and Qrow had fun last night, several cops were questioning the Bartender as to what happened that night. The bartender said that he saw someone punching a drunkard repeatedly before dragging him outside. The cops ordered him to lead them to the surveillance room to find out more. As they entered the room, one of the cops accidently knocks over a cup, which spills it's contents on the floor. The cop shrugged at this and proceeds to follow the bartender and his fellow officer. Unbestknown to them, a trail of liquid begins to make it's way onto the socket behind the monitors. As they were watching the recording of last night's events, The monitor shut off all of a sudden before exploding on their faces, destroying the evidence and killing everyone in the room instantly.