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I apologize for the lack of updates. I work 60+ hours a week, and have been in a pretty rough headspace for the last few weeks.

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I rammed my gauntleted fist into the face mask of the massive elephant-like Grimm. The force of the blow pushed the fell beast back a dozen yards. I let gravity do its job, and pull me back to the ground as I charged my fist with an extraordinary amount of aura, before rocketing back towards it as soon as I hit the ground, and dodging the trumpeting sonic blasts shot at me by the others. Black petals trailing behind me, I once again slammed my fist into the same spot, and let loose with the aura I built up.

"Mountain Crusher!"

An explosion of energy leapt forth from my fist on impact, turning the beast back into particles of hard light. As I landed, a strange bear-like Grimm tried to take my head off with a swipe of his car-sized paw. I ducked under the swipe, and landed a combo of aura and ballistically enhanced punches to its gut, shattering the construct. I teleported behind a wolf Grimm with VATS, and cratered its skull. Then I jumped back to gain some distance, and stowed my ballistic fists, swapping them out for the Blade of the West I pried from Launius' cold dead hands.

"Now, lets test how my abilities affect my melee weapons." I reinforced the chrome-steel alloy blade with aura, and compressed the edge with Magnesis. Then I vanished in a flurry of petals, and reappeared behind a pack of beowulves, the entire group bursting into light.

"Oh, hell yeah! Speed plus super sharp blade equals OP." I raised my hand in a casual gesture, and halted the foot of the goliath trying to crush me, and tossed it away. "Only downside is I am definitely going to have to forge a new blade." I inspected my sword, and saw several severe chips in the edge. "Definitely not going to use my 1000-Cold-Nights until I reinforce it with some stronger alloys. Now let's try my guns." I equipped a pair of sawed of double barrel shotguns, both with the two-shot effect, and teleported to the goliath I had tossed, seeing it trying to stand. I appeared in front of its face, brought both shotguns to bear, and cranked all 4 triggers, unleashing a hail of explosive buckshot into it.

"You know," I began to speak, as the creature's corpse dissolved into light. "That would have been nasty as hell if these things were flesh and blood." I let my shotguns vanish into the Cube, and then withdrew one of the only completely custom-built firearms in my collection. A massive railgun-anti-tank rifle hybrid. 6-foot-long, with several accelerator cores down the length of the barrel, and simple single-shot bolt action, this thing was an absolute beast, meant for downing Vertibirds, cracking power armor and putting down the larger abominations. It fired a solid tungsten cylinder, 2 inches long, and 1 inch in diameter, at Mach 10. It was built for use with power armor, both to handle the extreme recoil, and to power it, although, it was more than capable of being powered by just sticking a fusion core in it, which I was currently taking advantage of. Instead of a standard pistol grip, I had bent some steel bars, into the vague shape of motorcycle handlebars, welded them halfway down the barrel, and made the trigger so that brake handles on both bars had to be depressed to fire. Then I put AA spiderweb sights on it, and shaped the stock so it really locked into the shoulder. But the best part? I enchanted it with bottomless. I never had to cycle the action, and the fusion core never ran out of charge. I brought the beast of a weapon to bear, and began to charge it up. The air in the room buzzed with static, the smell of ozone overpowering. Then, when I felt the charge was acceptable, I began to pull the trigger.

"Dragon-Fi- "

"Simulation override, code, Goodwitch."

"Override accepted. Shutting simulation down."

'Shit, I got carried away. Forgot I was indoors.'

I reached up and cycled open the bolt on the monstrous rifle, and ejected the tungsten round, then allowed the built-up charge to dissipate.

"Mr. Six, what are you thinking? Firing a weapon like that indoors. You could have caused serious damage to the school, or even worse, injured someone." Glynda was glaring at me heavily. I could almost feel the anger in her gaze. "I expected better of you."

I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly. "Yeah, sorry about that Glynda, I got a bit carried away. With my aura unlocked, I am so much stronger than I was, and I was really getting into trying to test my new limits. It's been a while since I got to cut loose, and just fight like that. Kinda lost myself to the excitement."

"Just try to be more careful in the future Mr. Six. That railrifle of yours is a formidable weapon. I felt the static build up from down the hall." At my nod, she gave me one last disapproving look, then turned and walked away, and back down the hall.

Before I could do anything else, I was once again impacted by a living missile.

'This is going to happen often isn't it?'

The red- and black-haired girl began questioning me rapid fire, as Pyrrha and Yang walked into the simulator, slight looks of awe on their faces.

"What was that gun you pulled out where did you get it what's its namewhataboutthosegauntlets didyoumakethemwhydoyoucalloutthenamesofyourattackssometimeswhatdidusingmySemblancefeellikehowdidyoutossthatGoliathlikethat?" She took in a deep breath, and panted, clearly worn out from that tirade.

I looked up at Yang, who was suppressing laughter, with pleading in my eyes. That only made her laugh harder. So, I awkwardly patted Ruby on the head.

"Well Red, in order, that gun was a railrifle, I built it, its name is the Dragon-Fire Crossbow, the gauntlets are ballistic fists, I bought them from a friend of mine, most of my attacks have a splash zone, so I call them out so my allies can get out of said splash zone, using your Semblance was almost indescribable. The rushing of the air past you, the aura pushing your muscles to their utmost. It's fantastic, and I don't think I will ever tire of using it. And I was able to toss that Goliath because I'm strong."

Yang took this moment to speak up, finally recovered from her laughter. "I'd say that is an understatement. The only other person I've ever seen able to do that is my dad, and he has a super strength Semblance." She shuddered. "Imagine how strong you would be if you managed to copy it."

I nodded, already trying to plot a way to shake the man's hand.

'Super strength, you will be mine.'

"Alright, I think that is enough practice for the night, I should be perfectly fine tomorrow now that I've got a handle on Ruby and Pyrrha's Semblances, and I'm sure you girls are beat, especially with… the aura fiasco." All three girls visibly flinched at that. "Yeah, let's make our way back to the auditorium, and you girls get some sleep."

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I sat on the ground, leaned against a wall in the auditorium, Yang, Ruby, and Pyrrha sleeping within arm's reach, and was sorting through my inventory to kill time.

'I need to try to be a bit conservative with my fusion cores. I only have a few thousand of them, and I have no idea is Remnant has a suitable replacement. Maybe I can convert my power armor to run on Dust? Hmmm, that may work. And I need to see about making my explosive launchers work with Dust as well. Especially my Red Glare rounds. The Artillery Suit will need all the ammo I can manage to scrounge up if I ever have to use it. Thank god that 6 weapons mounted to the suit make it all count as one weapon for enchanting purposes, otherwise I don't think I'd have enough fusion cores to make the damn thing viable at all.' I was about to continue taking stock of the contents of my Cube, when Pyrrha sat bolt upright, tears in her eyes, and on the verge of hysterics, franticly searching the room, as if looking for someone. I Reached my hand out, and lightly set my hand on her shoulder. She immediately started, and whirled around, eyes wide in panic.

I whispered in the quietest and most soothing voice I could muster. "Pyrrha? Are you okay?"

Almost instantly, some of the panic left her eyes, but the tears only came harder. She nodded jerkily, and wrapped her arms around herself, and shivered, as if to ward off a chill. I sighed, and pulled her close to me, and wrapped my arms around her. She hesitated for just a moment, then leaned into me and laid her head on my shoulder, her shivering still apparent. "Nightmare?" I felt her nod. "Was it about unlocking my aura?" Another, more hesitant nod. "Do you want to talk about it? It will help, I promise." A long pause. Then she shook her head. "Alright. But you should really talk about it. If not with me, then with somebody. I promise, it will help." A nod. She began to pull away, but I kept my arm wrapped around her. I could feel her thinking, before she let the tension drain from her body, and she slumped against me. We stayed like that for a while, before her breathing leveled out as she fell asleep. I let go of her with one arm, and readjusted the both of gently for comfort.

An hour passed, before the second of my new friends lurched upright, tears streaming down her face, shoulders shaking with barely suppressed sobs. Unable to reach out to her without waking Pyrrha, I used Magnesis to grab the zipper of her sleeping bag, and pulled her to me, and wrapped my free arm around her. She began to struggle, panic visible in her unseeing eyes. I whispered to her. "Red. Ruby. Calm down. Its just me, Tom. Everything is okay. Calm down. I am right here." She paused in her struggles, processing my words, before she too slumped against me, all the energy drained from her body and began to quietly sob. I began to whisper quite nothings to her, until she finally exhausted her tears, and slipped into the quite embrace of sleep. Both of the sleeping girls snuggled deeper into my sides.

'Well, this is awkward. Hopefully Yang stays asleep. And I just jinxed myself.' As if my thoughts sent a challenge to the universe, the buxom blonde chose that exact moment to stir, and sat up. She looked around while rubbing the sleep from her eyes, clearly looking for the tiny girl currently snuggled into my left side. It took a few moments for her to look over at me. A brief look of confusion came over her face before I mouthed the word 'nightmare' to her. Her eyes softened in sympathy. She then pointed towards Pyrrha, to which I nodded. Another look of sympathy. We sat in comfortable silence for a moment before she shrugged, and crawled over to me, dragging her blanket along with her. I looked at her, confusion clear on my face, before I recognized the look on her's.

It was the look of someone about to do something they were going to find hilarious.

Just a moment later, she gently plopped herself down on my lap, and cover the four of us with her blanket, then leaned back against my chest. She turned just enough to look me in the eye and grin, before she snuggled down, and let sleep take her.

'You know, I was kind of expecting her to freak out, because she is probably the over-protective sister type. I was not expecting her to plop herself in my lap.' I shrugged inwardly, and let my mind drift in a light doze, enjoying the warmth of another for the first time in centuries.

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The first light had just began to creep into the auditorium as I awoke. I used my Telekinesis to retrieve my PipPad, and check the time.

6:13 AM

'Good. That gives us an hour to get dressed, and 45 minutes to warm up. I should probably wake up the girls.'

I decided to start with Yang. With another application of Telekinesis, I began to poke Yang's forehead repeatedly. After the first few pokes, she tried to swat away the Telekinetic finger poking her head, but failed. After a few more, she turned and buried her face in my chest.

'Hehehehe, this is gonna be good!'

I gave her a good pinch on the ass, Telekinetically of course. This caused an immediate reaction.

She leapt to her feet, ready to knock whoever had the gall to pinch her butt the hell out. She was confused to find nobody within range to do so. Then a look of realization dawned on her and look down at me with a cocked eyebrow.

"What seems to be the problem, Yang?" I looked far to innocent to not be guilty. Sugar wouldn't have melted in my mouth.

"Somebody pinched my ass. Was it you?"

"Gasp, how could you accuse me of such a dastardly thing?"

"Uh huh. Well whatever. Do you know what time it is?"

I laughed and replied, "Its 6:15. I plan on being at the cliff by 7:30 so I can warm up a bit. You go get ready, I'll wake Ruby and Pyrrha."

She nodded, and walked away, but not before warning me not to pinch Ruby's ass.

I turned to look at the peacefully sleeping girl to my left, and began to nudge her with my Telekinesis. "Red. Its time to wake up." She stirred a bit. I nudged her a bit harder. "Come on Ruby. You need to wake up hun."

She scrunched up her eyes, and buried her face in my side to block out the light, and mumbled sleepily, "Just 5 more minutes daddy."

I had to fight really hard to suppress a laugh. "Come on Ruby, you need to wake up. We've only got an hour before we need to be at the cliff." The barely suppressed laughter was clear in my voice. Finally, she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes, before she realized where she was, what was going on, and just who it was who she called daddy. Her face turned as red as her namesake, and she took off in a burst of pink rose petals. This time I was unable to suppress my laughter, which woke up Pyrrha. It only took a moment to catch her bearings upon waking, and then began to apologize for waking me with her nightmare, then falling asleep on me. I patted her on the head, and replied, "Its no problem Pyrrha. I was awake anyway. And trust me, I know how bad nightmares can be. Especially after what you saw. I've seen plenty of things that still haunt my dreams on the rare occasions I sleep. Just remember. That was not your fault. You had no way of knowing what would happen to me. And if you ever need to talk about it, I'm always here." She only nodded, a grateful, slightly teary smile on her face. "Good, now, why don't you go get ready, and I'll get breakfast ready?"

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I walked into the locker room, after prepping a nice, fruit-based breakfast, to see Yang, dressed only in her panties, trying to get Ruby to change clothes, but the girl was adamantly refusing to do so where she could be seen by anyone who happened to walk in. I sighed, and used my PipPad to pull a fully assembled tent that would be big enough for Ruby to get dressed in from my Cube, and set it on the ground. "Here you go Red. Nobody will see you in this tent." She gave me a grateful look, then entered the tent, and began to change clothes. Yang looked at me with a pout, arms crossed under her naked bosom.

"I was trying to get her to stop being so body shy. She's gonna have to get over it soon, since we will have teams soon, and the rooms are co-ed."

I gave her a look, and replied, "It will be alright. I plan on us being partners anyway, so she will always have the tent to use."

Yang gave me a mischievous grin. "You trying to make a move on Ruby?" I heard an embarrassed squeak from the tent beside us.

I laughed, and replied, "Well, she did ask to hold my 'weapon'. She also slept with me last night, and then called my daddy this morning, so you could say she is making the move on me." I could almost feel the heat coming off of her blush through the tent.

Yang gave a fake gasp, a wide grin on her face, and teased Ruby. "Rubes, how kinky! Calling a guy, who is not your father, daddy!"

"Toooommm! Yannnnggg! That was an accident!" she said, an embarrassed whine in her voice.

I gave a good belly laugh at her misfortune, and unequipped my nightwear. "I know it was, but it's still funny." I stepped into the shower to have quick rinse, as Yang joined me.

"I have a serious question for you Yang."

She looked at me curiously. "Yeah, what's up?"

"Why are the people here okay with their children being in a situation where co-ed nudity is almost assured? Where I come from, this would be highly frowned upon."

For a moment, the only sound that could be heard was running water. Then, finally she spoke. "Its not really something people are 'okay' with, so to speak, it is just seen as necessary. You know how the Great War wiped out almost 90% of the male population? Well, it was even worse for Huntsmen. By the end if the war, there were only a handful left, and it is well known that the children of Huntsmen both possess more powerful auras, and are far more likely to become Huntsmen themselves."

"Ah, I get it. It is to encourage sex. More sex, more Huntsmen. Also, probably why there is usually a 1:3 male to female ratio on teams. I'm assuming polygamy is not only legal, but actively encouraged?" She responded with a nod.

"Where are you from anyway? As far as I know, this is the case all over the world."

"That my friend, is a secret. For now, at least." I turned off the water and toweled off, staunchly ignoring the puppy-dog eyes she was giving me. After a moment, she realized she wasn't going to get any thing out of me, so she turned off her shower, and walked out to the locker room with a huff.

I equipped my Riot Armor, with featherfall enchantment, and walked back out into the main locker room, where Yang was currently getting dressed while Ruby was standing near the tent.

"Thanks for letting me use your tent Tom. I still don't know how Yang can get undressed in front of people like that."

I ruffled her hair. "Anytime Red." I tossed the tent back into my Cube. "Now that Yang is dressed, let's find Pyrrha."

"Hello!" spoke said girl from behind us.

"Well, speak of the Devil, and she shall appear. Morning Pyrrha, you ready?"

She nodded, a confident smile on her face.

"Good. Now, out in the hall, I prepped a table of fruit. Feel free to help yourselves. I am going out to the cliff to warm up a bit." I turned, walked towards the door, and gave a wave over my shoulder. See you girls in a bit."

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My eyes closed, I took in a deep breath of the cool morning air, and circulated my aura around my body, activating Yang's Semblance, causing my hair to dance in the wind like black flames. I activated Pyrrha's Semblance, causing the iron particles in the sand around me to begin floating around me. Ruby's was next, the blood red petals dancing around me, smoldering from the heat I was putting off. And lastly, I floated rocks with Glynda's causing them to rapidly orbit me. I held this for 10 minutes, just barely outpacing my aura regen.

"Holy shit! How are you doing that?!" exclaimed a shocked voice from behind me.

I slowly dropped my Semblances, and then turned to face the newcomer, and checked his name with VATS. "I just that badass, Mr. Arc." I walked over and shook his hand. "The name is Thomas Six, but I go by Tom." I could tell that he was confused that I knew his name, but he decided to ignore it.

"Your Semblance is pretty awesome. All of the Semblances I've seen pretty much do just one thing. Like my mom's Aural Regeneration, or dad's Amplification. But you were doing like… 5 different things."

I gave him a shrug. "I'm not really sure what my limits are, but as far as I can tell, my Semblance is Telekinesis. The burning rose petals is just a visual quirk."

He nodded, then said, "Well it was nice to meet you Tom, but I'm gonna let you get back to whatever it was you were doing, and go hype myself up. Peace!" With that, he turned and walked to the edge of the cliff and began to mutter to himself.

'What a strange guy. Eh, oh well, I'm sufficiently warmed up now, and the girls oughta be here any second.' As I finished the thought, I felt the now familiar impact of Ruby glomping me at transonic speeds.

"Hey Red. Did you enjoy the fruit?"

She nodded vigorously. "Those were the best strawberries I've ever had. Where did you get them?"

"I grew them."

Yang piped up, "You garden? Didn't take you for the green thumb type."

"I mostly grew edibles. Potatoes. Pineapples. Carrots. You know, that kind of thing."

Pyrrha gave me an impressed look. "Not many people chose to live off the land. Most rely on farmers, and just buy produce from a store. That is a very useful talent."

I shrugged. "I just had a lot of time on my hands, that's all. I really don't need to eat. I mostly grew them for something to do. I put most of the food I grew in my Cube here. Its great for keeping food fresh."

Ruby looked up at me hopefully. "Do you have any more strawberries?"

I gave her a pat on the head, and chuckled a response. "Of course, Red. I have more of them than you could ever eat."

Yang laughed at that. "You haven't seen her actually eat them. I doubt you could have grown enough in an entire lifetime."

I gave her a look that said, 'I know something you don't know' and replied, "Yang, I believe you underestimate the amount of time I had." I looked at the clock on my PipPad. 7:55 am. "Alright girls, 5 minutes till. We should make our way over to the start zone."

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"Today, you will choose your partner for the next 4 years of your life, and likely the rest of your careers as Huntsmen, so it is in your best interests to be paired with someone you will get along well with. That being said, the first person you make eye contact with upon landing will be your partner. Good luck, and I hope you have a landing strategy."

'Landing strategy? What…' I looked down at the metal plate underneath my feet. 'Well, good thing I went with my Featherfall Greaves.'

If looks could kill, the glare I sent Ozpin would have killed him, and wiped his family line from the annals of history.

SPROING!

The spring-loaded metal plate under me sprung, launching me far into the distance.

'You know, flying is kinda… peaceful.' My peace lasted of all of 10 seconds.

"BIRDY NO!"

"Thank you!"

Then came the rapid blasts of shotgun fire, a .50 caliber rifle being fired, and trees crashing.

I shrugged, and decided to add to the noise. I equipped my customized Orbital Drop power armor, and fired a burst of my jet pack to kill my forward momentum, and then plummeted to the ground.

CRASH!

I may or may not have left a 10-foot deep crater in my wake.

After jet packing my way out of the crater, I reequipped my Riot Armor, and set off in the direction of my quest marker, hoping to meet Ruby on the way.

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"CAN EVERYBODY CHILL THE HELL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS?!" shouted Yang.

'One…. Two….'

Cue girlish screaming.

"Oh no, some girl is in trouble!" exclaimed the hammer wielding, hyperactive ginger named Nora.

Just as she said that, I heard the tell-tale sound of somebody falling from a great height. I looked up and met Ruby's eyes.

"Tom! A little help here! Please!"

A few deft flicks of my fingers, and I was back in a set of my power armor, and I launched myself skyward with the jetpack.

"I gotcha Red." Just before she impacted the hard metal of my suit, I equipped a 3-piece suit I had the obligatory Featherfall on, and caught her princess style. As gravity began to take hold on us once again, I said, "Hey there Red. Just dropping in?"

She groaned as if in actual pain. "Come on, not you too." I could feel us beginning to speed up. "I get enough of bad puns from Yang."

Only a moment later we alighted on the ground. "Come on, puns are Yang good humor." I set her down as she only groaned harder. "So, you got a partner?" She gave me a toothy grin.

"I do now." She sped over to the pedestals, and grabbed the white knight, and sped back.

"Nice. Alright, that's- "

"JAUNE! MOVE!"

I heard Pyrrha shout, and spun around just time to see the boy from the cliff barely manage to dodge a Rad- I mean DeathStalker's stinger. Quickly I pulled out my anti-material rifle, loaded it with explosive rounds, and put a mag in its head with VATS.

It didn't stand a chance.

"Thank you!" Jaune turned to look at me, and gave me a grateful smile.

"No problem, man. Now, why do you go grab your relic, and- "

The earth began to quake in time with crashing footsteps.

RRRROOOOOOOOAAAARRRRRR!

My blood ran cold. 'No… God… Please no!' I recognized that roar.

I spun around, and came face to face with a being straight out of my nightmares.

It was a 40-foot-tall lizard, with beady red eyes behind its bone white mask. Its horns curved wickedly, and its man-sized claws were sharper than an obsidian blade. Red saliva dripped from its foot-long teeth.

I shouted, "Everyone, get back to the cliff! I'll hold it off!"

Ruby turned to look at me, fear evident in her eyes. "W-what is that thing?"

I turned to her, a grimace on my face.

"That, is a Deathclaw Empress."

Pyrrha gasped in shock, and exclaimed, "Isn't that the thing that nearly cut you in half?"

I nodded. "It was. And the last time I faced it, it took an army 3 days to bring it down. You all need to run. I'll keep its attention." I pulled out my Dragon-Fire Crossbow, and brought it to bear. "Now, GO! Y'all won't stand a chance against this thing! Tell Ozpin to call in every single hunter he can get his hands on. Call in the army, the hunters, everybody. I'll hold it off for as long as I can." I turned and gave them a grin. "It was nice to have met you all." My piece spoken, I took off in a blast of rose petals.

The air crackled with static, the smell of ozone thick as I let off shot after shot with my Dragon-Fire Crossbow all the while running in circles around the beast. I hazarded a glance back at where I had left the other, and smiled when I saw them running back to the cliff.

"Good. They are getting out of my splash zone." I equipped my Mobile Artillery Suit, and slid to a stop, its sheer mass halting my forward momentum. The suit was a customized T-60 with a black and gold paint job. But the most important parts of it were its inbuilt weaponry. A pair of Red Glare launchers mounted on either shoulder, a pair of SMMG's mounted on the arms, and a pair of 20mm grenade machine guns mounted on either side of the stomach of the armor.

A feral smile split my face underneath my helmet, as I turned on VATS, and hit the beast with everything the suit could dish out.

"Hellfire Rain!"

High Explosive. Incendiary. White Phosphorus. Armor Piercing. Fragmentation.

Thousands of rounds, rockets and grenades.

Five full minutes of a bombardment heavy enough to wipe a small country off the map.

The smoke and fire began to die down as I stepped out of my armor.

ROOOOOAAAARRR!

I threw myself into the air with my Telekinesis just in time to keep from being crushed beneath the massive paw of the fell creature.

I took a good look at it, one of my many perks reveling how much health it had left.

3/4 of a bar.

My most powerful weapon short of my MIRV only did 1/4 of its health.

I dodged another swipe of a gargantuan paw.

I cast a look around to make sure everybody was clear. Thankfully, I was free to go all out.

'God, please forgive me for what I am about to unleash upon this world. But I don't think anything short of a few nukes will put this bitch down.'

I pulled out a special backpack I had made for just such an occasion as this. Twelve mini-nukes, bundled together, and synced to a clacker.

Another swipe dodged, but this time, I landed on the hand, and began to run up its arm. I obscured its sight with copious amounts of iron sand, and it began to roar in pain.

"GOTCHA BITCH!" With a Telekinetically enhanced throw, I tossed the bag into its now open maw, and plugged its airhole with my sand, and then leapt free. Then, burning off the last of aura, I used Glynda's Semblance to encase the creature in a stone mausoleum.

CLACK!

FWUMP!

I watched the enemy indicator for a moment, waiting with bated breath, before the red dot blinked out of existence. I waited for another 5 minutes or so, before deciding the beast was actually dead.

'I am most definitely going to loot that corpse. Those claws would make for a wicked sword.'

So, I equipped my HAZMAT suit, and made a rudimentary air lock with a wave of my hand to keep as much of the radiation locked inside the box as I could. I checked the now cooling corpse of the creature that haunted my dreams for a very long time.

20x Deathclaw Empress nails

400 yards of Deathclaw Empress hide

90x Deathclaw Empress teeth

1x Deathclaw Empress Mask

Various bones

'Nice. Those claws and bones will make some pretty nice weapons. They even seem to be made of some kind of bio-metal.'

I tossed all the loot into my Cube, and exited the heavily irradiated tomb, equipped a set of daywear, and leaned up against the side of the block of stone to rest while I waited on Ozpin to arrive.

'Man, I never expected aura to be such a power up. It took me and 10,000 men 3 days to bring down the one back home, and it was weaker than this one. It may have been overkill for me to try and call in the army.'

After 15 minutes or so of waiting, I finally saw several bullheads crest the horizon, so I sent up a flare, and waited for them to land.

XxXxXxXx

"So, let me get this straight. You said, and I am quoting Ms. Rose on this, 'Call all the hunters you can, call the army, everybody,' then, we call in 20 of the best hunters we have, some off of important missions, and you have already killed it?" Glynda all but screamed at me, apoplectic because of my supposed waste of time and funds.

I sighed, and pulled one of its claws out of my cube. "This is one claw of the beast I just fought. Yes, I called everyone in, because I had no way of knowing I would be able to kill it. The last one of those things I fought, it took an army of 10,000 men 3 days to bring it down. And this one was roughly twice as strong. Of course, I assumed I wasn't going to manage to kill it. Hell, the only reason I was able kill the beast is because I managed to drop 20 kilotons of ordinance down its throat. I fully expected to die trying to hold it off long enough for you all to arrive." I threw the claw back in storage. "So yeah, forgive me for underestimating the power of aura."

She looked me contemplatively, then nodded, and said, "I can let it slide this once," then turned and walked back onto the Bullhead waiting to take us back to Beacon.

'Ugh, what a pain. What the hell was I supposed to do, let those kids fight that monster and hope we managed to kill it?' I shook my head, and laughed sardonically, then Cubed the MAS, and loaded up on the Bullhead.

XxXxXxXx

I sat in the auditorium, mostly ignoring the team announcements, until I heard Pyrrha's name called.

"Now, unfortunately, once of our students has dropped out, leaving his partner alone. Fortunately, another student was without a partner, but still retrieved a relic. So, we will be placing the two together. Pyrrha Nikos, Weiss Schnee, Lie Rin, and Nora Valkyrie will be Team PLNW(platinum) led by Pyrrha Nikos."

I patted Pyrrha on the shoulder in congratulation and gave her a smile, then turned my attention back Ozpin when I heard my name.

"And finally, Thomas Six, Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long will be Team SLVR(silver), led by Thomas Six."

Pyrrha gave me a congratulatory smile, and then yang punched my shoulder, a large grin on her face.

"That concludes the team announcements. If your name was not called, I am sorry to say, you did not pass. That being said, you will have one week until classes start in order to familiarize yourselves with the campus and your team. You will receive your room numbers to your scrolls. Goodnight."

I turned to my new team, and instructed them to wait until the auditorium cleared out.

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"Here it is girls. Room 101," I deadpanned. "By the way, our headmaster has a horrible sense of humor."

Yang gave me a curious look, but I just waved her off and said, "I'll tell you later." I passed my PipPad over the scroll reader, and the door opened. "In the meantime, lets get settled in for tonight. I really need a rest after fighting that fucking thing." I walked over to the bed nearest the wall, equipped a set of my nightwear, and collapsed. 'I know I don't need sleep, but damn it, after fighting that fucking thing again, it sounds really nice right now.'

After a few minutes of shuffling around, the girls finally settled in. "Goodnight Team SLVR. Tomorrow, I'll tell you all my story."

After a few "Nights," in reply, the room fell silent, and I started to doze off, before I was struck by a sudden thought.

"Where did the 'V' come from?"

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