Chapter 3: Red Roses
Two weeks later, Beacon Academy
It has been over two weeks since Hartmann had came into this world, and how long he had been stayed in Beacon. During those two weeks, he had some conversations with Ozpin about Earth again and some other stuff Hartmann didn't know. Ozpin once told him about the Creatures that exist in Earth, if they are similar with Remnant.
Hartmann told him that the world had no other intelligent creatures instead of Humans. There weren't any Faunuses nor Grimm in earth, just Humans. Ozpin begin talking about Aura and Semblances in this world, which was completely foreign to the German. The Headmaster said that almost every person in this world possess this Aura and Semblance. When Hartmann told him that the People on Earth had neither possessed those two, Ozpin was a little surprised, but kept a calm face.
Sometimes, Glynda had trained him to fought the local grimm creatures in the forest and in the acedemy, which a teacher named Port had captured some of the grimm and bring it to the academy in cages. Most of them were the boars and wolves.
He managed to do well on fighting them as they are somewhat of a threat when facing against one or two. The skilled Huntsmen in the academy said that these types of grimm were little to no threat as they kept practicing of fighting and killing them.
Hartmann was able to see Coco and Velvet being Promoted to the next grade along with their 2 teammates and the other first year students. Hartmann admitted that seeing them happy makes him happy too, especially Velvet. The 2 girls wanted to invite Hartmann to one of the Parties, which he tried to refuse but they just Dragged him anyways.
Hartmann had gotten to know two more of their teammates, whom were both boys. They were Fox alistar and Yatsuhashi Daichi. Hartmann noticed how tall Yatsuhashi was compared to everyone else. He was either 7 or 8 feet which Surprised him, the tall man didn't mind however.
Needless to say, the German had a really fun time at the party with them. The students whom once giving him weird glances had stopped too and the think that Hartmann being here is now common, but they still observed his uniform which was a little odd. There was one time when Coco went behind him and gave his butt a little slap. It caught him off-guard and turned to Coco smirking smugly at him. She told him it's a common thing with her team.
Ozpin had told him that the new batch of first year students will arrive tomorrow, that means he will be learning in the academy with the rest. He was a little nervous, but he remembered that Coco and Velvet are still with him in the academy, which calm him down a little. They wished them good luck and hoped he can make more new friends within the first years.
Hartmann was now currently walking around the academy at the afternoon, since he got nothing better to do. He tried texting Coco and Velvet with his scroll, in which he had already gotten used to the typing and calling. He waited for their response and they said they were exhausted, so Hartmann decide to go to the City and find some cool stuff to look or buy.
He was wearing his usual Grey Shirt and another pair of Jeans, but he wasn't wearing his helmet and left it at his Room, which revealed his short brown hair. But this time, he was carrying one of his weapons with him and it was the Kar98k with atleast 2 ammo clips. He brought it just in case something bad is going to happen when he is out in the city alone.
Hartmann took a ride on one of the bullheads to the city. When he got there, it almost getting dark, but there were still people walking on the streets. As he was walking, he admired how beautfiul the city looked even at nighttime. There were still some shops which were still open, and there were atleast a few that opens for 24 hours.
He slouched his Kar98k on his left shoulder with the Rope support and kept on walking to find some interesting shops to look at. He eventually find one in the middle of some closed shops, it was called "From Dust till Dawn". Hartmann raised his eyebrow for a second until he noticed that 'Dust' was supposed to be 'Dusk', which followed with him letting out a light chuckle. Nevertheless, he headed to the store to see what he might find that interests him.
Hartmann entered the store as the bell rang inside from the door opening. He saw an old looking man on the counter with a little smile on his face.
"Good evening, kiddo. Welcome to my shop." The old man shopkeeper greeted him.
Hartmann waved at him and lokked around the entrance first before turning back to the old man. "Vhat do you sell in here?" Hartmann asked with his slight German accent. He was still practicing to speak English very fluently.
"Anything you might think off. I have Dust, Magazines, books, tools, cartridges, and more." He said.
Hartmann think about the 'Dust' part that the old man said. Back at the academy, both Glynda and Ozpin had told him about the whole importance of the 'Dust' in Remnant. It was a main source on how Humanity was able to move on and fight against the Grimm. His weapons does not need these 'Dust' as all weapons in earth needed Gunpowder for it to work.
The Hybrid-weapons that these people made mainly consists of dust, mostly the ones with the gun parts. Hartmann thought 'Hybrid-weapons' because literally each person he ever met with a weapon is always a Hybrid. Most of them were Gun-Melee weapons. It was crazy at first sight, but now had gotten used to seeing them.
Hartmann started looking around the shop that might interested him. He found some few magazines about weapons, he figured he will buy some of them about all those weird Hybrid weapons he see everywhere in the academy.
He then saw a girl at the corner of the store wearing a black and red dress, along with a cape and hoodie on her back. She was reading some sort of weapon magazine, he also noticed she was wearing some things on her ears, he didn't know what it is but it implied him that it made her to not hear anything.
Hartmann shrugged and continued looking around the store. When he was still looking around, there were 6 men that had entered the store. They were all armed and it looked like they will rob this store. The Shopkeep looked at them confused a little, until one of them came to the counter with the rest behind him.
The man had orange hair and his skin is fair. He wore a white coat, black gloves, and a bowler hat while carrying a cane on him. The orange haired man took off and flicked the cigar and looked to the old man while crossing his arm.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?" The bowler hat man questioned to the old man, with one of the henchmen pointed the gun at him.
"Please, just take my lien and leave!" He said fearfully with his arms raised in the air.
"Shh shh shh shh shh. Calm down, we're not here for your money." The bowler hat man replied.
Hartmann was able to hear the conversation from the back. He went back to the front to investigate what is going on. "Hey, what's going on?" He asked.
The bowler hat man and the 5 Henchmen turned their heads to the German, the one pointing the gun at the shopkeep turned the weapon to point at Hartmann. Hartmann eyes wide a little and raised his arms. He wasn't able to switch to his Kar98k on his shoulder that fast. He als notice that the Bowler hat man was the same person that he saw back in Junior's club two weeks ago.
"Well. It seems we're not alone here." The bowler hat man said before turning to the Henchmen. "You three grab the dust. Check over that boy to see if he has anything useful." They nodded as three of the henchmen went to the dust canisters on the wall, using some cylindrical objects that is sucking the dust from the canister, meanwhile one of them slowly went to Hartmann with his pistol still raised up at him.
"Look, i do not want any trouble here. So can you kindly put your weapon down?" Hartmann asked.
"Not a chance, kid." The Henchmen glared at him through his sunglasses as he asked him to give what stuff he has that will be useful to them. Hartmann said he only had his rifle here, which the Henchmen looked at it, eyebrows raised in confusion.
The last henchmen was still on the front with the Bowler hat man as he took off a briefcase and put it on the counter. "Crystals. Burn. Uncut." He said referring to the crystals inside the counter, the shopkeep grabbed a few of the crystals and put them on the counter, which the henchmen grabbed them and put them inside the briefcase.
One of the henchmen went to the Canisters and was about to grab the dust inside it, till he see another figure on the corner of the shop, whom was the girl that Hartmann saw. The girl was currently preoccupied with a weapon magazine.
He gritted his teeth and whipped out his red-bladed sword to the girl. "Alright kid. Put your hands where i can see them." He threatened.
Unfortunately, do to the girl wearing her headphones which was covered by the hoodie, she cannot hear what the Henchmen said. The Henchmen became irritated at the girl since she didn't comply, in which he started walking to her.
"Hey, i said hands in the air! You got a death wish or something?" The Henchmen roughly put his hand on her shoulder, which made the girl turned around to the man with a surprise looking face as the hood fell off from her head.
The girl is fair-skinned with silver eyes and has neck-length black hair with red tips.
The girl looked at him confused for a second, until the Henchmen gestured at his ear, motioning her to lower down her Headphones. She does so and lowered them to her neck. "Yes?"
"I said, put your hands in the air, now!" The Henchmen threatened
"Are you robbing me?" She asked while raising her eyebrow a bit.
"Yes!" He exclaimed.
"Oooh..." The girl smirked and nodded a little.
At the counter. Hartmann was keep getting questioned by the Henchmen with The bowler hat man waiting for his men to finish the robbery. Then they heard a 'Heeyah!' and the Henchmen that was threatening the girl flew past them as he crashed to the wall. Hartmann looked at the Henchmen on the floor eye-wided, however the Bowler hat man was not fazed by this.
He calmly motions to another one of his Henchmens to handle with the girl, the Henchmen nodded and ran to her position with his gun raised at her. "Freeze!"
The girl just smirked and rushed to the Henchmen with her speed as it made both her and the Henchmen flew out of the store through the window. Hartmann, the bowler hat man and the other Henchmens looked outside the crash as the Red caped girl got up and activated some sort of Red scythe which was twice the size of her
She looked at the Orange haired man and the Henchmen as she starts twirling her Red scythe weapon around and stick the blade to the ground, which the Headphones she was wearing got hit by it as it turned down.
The orange haired man observed her for a second. "Ok...Get her!"
Three of his Henchmen ran outside the store to deal with the Scythe girl as the two of them stayed inside the store. Fortunately, one of them did not had his gun pointed on Hartmann, which made him the opportunity to strike.
Hartmann quickly unholstered his Kar98k and quickly smacked the first Henchmen to the head, knocking him out. The Orange haired man and the second henchmen noticed him as the latter withdrew his sword and charged at him.
Hartmann then fired a round to the charging henchmen's hand, the bullet went through his palm as he fell to the ground and cried out in pain. The Bowler hat man looked at him in a slight shock as he was able to penetrate his aura fast.
Hartmann quickly cock the bolt and was about to fire another round at the man, but the latter charged to him and took some hits to the German with his cane. Hartmann tried to fight back, but the Bowler hat man kicked him in the gut and sending him outside to the streets through the second window.
The girl was still fighting the three henchmens, she managed to took down two of them with ease. The last henchmen fired his sub-machine gun to the girl, but she evade all the shots using her scythe weapon which was firing some rounds that knock her back a little.
She then slide down and hit the Henchmen's legs, sending him to the air. She stick the blade area to the ground and twirl herself around the weapon before letting it go and smack the Henchmen from Mid-air.
The girl landed safely to the ground and saw Hartmann slowly getting up. She rushed to him and decided to help him up. "You okay?" She asked.
Hartmann slowly nodded, still recovering from the crash through the window which the sharpnel had hurt his whole body a little. "Danke. Thank you."
The girl didn't know what the first word meant, but she smiled at the second one. Both of them heard some footsteps and they saw the Orange haired man walking out of the store, looking at the knocked out henchmens. "You were worth every cent. Truly, you were."
He looked to Hartmann and the red haired girl as he was impressed by the actions they did for a young age. "I am very impressed of what you did to them, especially you boyo." He said pointing to Hartmann with his cane.
"Manage to penetrate aura in an instant, it certainly is a sight to be seen. You could make a good Henchmen too." He smirked at the thought of Hartmann joining with him.
Hartmann just raised his eyebrow on what the man said. For what he can tell, the man is some sort of a criminal and he didn't want to be part of the bad guys. He just got in this city too for atleast two weeks or so. "I do not know who you are, but i will not join with you."
The man just rolled his eyes as the answer was expected to him. 'We already have one anyway...' He thought in his head.
The man then dropped his cigar to the ground and smash it with his cane as he continued. "Well, Grey and Red, I think we can all say it's been an eventful evening, and as much as i love to stick around..." He pointed his cane to Hartmann and 'Red', confusing the former a little. He saw the bottom part of the cane open up, revealing a cross grid and an opening.
"I'm afraid this is where we part ways."
As he said that, the man fired a red blast at Red and Hartmann. Red quickly held on to the latter's hand as she fires her scythe to the ground, launching both of them to the air. Hartmann let out a scream as he landed to the ground with a thud, while Red landed on her knees.
"You could have warned me about that." Hartmann said.
"Sorry." She said while nervously smiled at him. She turned back to the front of the store and saw that the Bowler hat man was nowhere near. Hartmann noticed it too as both of them were currently looking for him.
"There he is." Hartmann saw him climbing up a ladder from an apartment building to the roof. Red saw him too. The old man shopkeeper went out to of the shop as 'Red' turned to him. "You okay if we go after him?" She asked.
"Uh-huh."
Red sprinted to the ladder as Hartmann tries to catch up with her. When they both reached the ladder, 'Red' shoots her gun-scythe to the ground as it launches her up, giving her a boost. "Hey! Wait for me!" Hartmann shouted and put his Rifle on his back while climbing up the ladder.
The man reached the edge of the roof with 'Red' tailing behind him and Hartmann successfully climbing up from the ladder. "Hey!" Red shouted.
The man stopped at the edge as he didn't look back at her. "Persistent..."
Red readied her stance and her gun-scythe weapon to fight him, Hartmann catches up beside her and did the same thing with his Kar98k. All the sudden, a bullhead appeared infront of the Man, then the pilot of the bullhead activated the headlight and aimed it to Hartmann and 'Red', which they had to look away since the light is blinding their eyes.
This allowed the Bowler hat man to get on the bullhead. When he made it in, he turned back to Hartmann and Red with a smirk on his face. "End of the line Grey and Red!" The man took out a red crystal and throw it to Hartmann and 'Red' , which they looked at it in confusion.
The man then fired another blast at them, Hartmann tried to shield 'Red' and protect her from the blast. Hartmann notice a woman jumping infront of them just as the blast hit them, creating a large explosion.
"Whoa-ho-ho-ho!" The man cheered for a second until he look back to the roof as the smoke starts to fade. "Huh?"
Hartmann kept shielding 'Red' until both of them noticed that they were okay from the explosion. They turned to a woman infront of them as she was activating some sort of Purple force field as it fades. 'Red' looks at her in awe, while Hartmann observe the woman and knew who it was. "Ms. Goodwitch?"
As they look on to her, Glynda push her glasses back and waves her wand to the bullhead, which had summoned several purple streaks to it. The purple streaks hit the bullhead from all sides as it was thrown around, The man was also being thrown around in the back until he made his way to the cockpit, where a Black hooded person was piloting the Aircraft, struggling to control it. While beside him was a woman in a red dress sitting on the co-pilot seat, hanging on.
"We got a huntress!" The man exclaimed.
The woman in red from the co-pilot seas gets up and headed towards the back as the Bowler hat man took the co-pilot seat with the Hooded person still piloting the bullhead.
Back outside, the Bullhead was about to leave the area. Glynda began to glow purple, which amazed Hartmann a little, then she fires another purple blast as it went above the aircraft, resulting in a dark storm-cloud right over it.
The Bowler hat man and the hooded person looked at the storm from above the window. "The hell?" The Bowler hat man said.
With a flick of her wand, the storm cloud unleashes large ice shards that is pummeling the Bullhead and even broke through the window, two of them narrowly misses the man and the Hooded pilot.
The woman in red reached the back and look to Glynda, Hartmann and 'Red' on the roof, which the Blonde woman gave her a narrow glare. The red woman's arms and chest light up like fire and then she aims a burst of fire energy at Glynda, which the latter blocks them with her wand. The fire energy splattered with some of them landing infront of Hartmann's feet.
The woman then summons another energy underneath Glynda, she quickly back-flips and dodged the explosion from the energy. The explosion had destroyed parts of the roof as the debris were getting scattered everywhere. Glynda gathered the debris with her semblance as she created a large purple arrow, which amazed both 'Red' and Hartmann.
Glynda launch the arrow to the bullhead, the fiery woman used her fire energy and launched three fire blasts to the large arrow, shattering most of the arrow. Glynda reforms the arrow, and it gotten closer to the Cockpit.
The hooded pilot quickly leaned the bullhead, with the result of the spikes hitting the top of the aircraft, destroying some of the parts. Glynda seperates the arrow and reshaped it into three more arrows, which starts encircling the Bullhead.
The red-dress woman stumbled a bit and saw the arrows encircling the bullhead, she reacted by forming several orange glowing rings around herself, which she then expanded it around the bullhead and destroying the arrows.
The Bullhead was going to leave the area again, this time Ruby reacted by switching her scythe to it's rifle form and started shooting four rounds to the bullhead. Hartmann reloaded his Kar98k and fired two rounds to the bullhead.
The woman blocked Ruby's shots with her palm as the bullet shattered with ease, while the bullets from Hartmann's Kar98k misses her by inches. Hartmann focus his sight and then he fired another bullet to the woman.
The bullet traveled from the rifle as it slowly make it's way to the bullhead and to the woman. Without her noticing, the bullet had made contact to the woman's left arm. The bullets pierces the aura of the woman as it kept piercing until it hit the flesh, penetrating her entire arm as it went out to the back of it, letting out some blood.
(Quick note: Imagine the X-Ray bulletcam sequence in the sniper elite series)
Back to normal speed, the woman got shot to the arm by Hartmann, she cries out in pain as she fell down to the floor of the bullhead while stopping the rest of the blood from flowing out of her arm.
"Yeah!" Hartmann cheered as he managed to hit her. Glynda smiled at him before turning back to the bullhead and used her semblance to stop it from escaping.
The man and the pilot noticed the Bullhead was not moving as the former look to the woman on the ground, grunting in pain. He growled and turned to the Hooded pilot. "Take care of them. I'll deal with the controls."
The pilot nodded as he exited the pilot seat and went to the back. The bowler hat man switched his seat to the pilot seat as he took control of the Bullhead. While walking to the back, the hooded person grabbed a gun from the side of the bullhead and some drum mags
When the Hooded guy reached the back, he look to the red woman on the ground which was still grunting in pain, before looking at the roof. 'Red', Glynda and Hartmann look back to the bullhead and there was another person on it.
The Hooded person then equipped his gun and inserted a drum mag to the weapon as he aimed it to the trio. He unleashed a barrage of bullets to the trio. They scattered while avoiding all the bullets from hitting them.
Glynda still managed to hold the bullhead still as Hartmann and 'Red' begin to return fire with their rifles to the bullhead. The hooded guy took cover before unleashing more bullets to the snipers. Hartmann fired his last bullet from the clip as it looked it was going to hit the hooded guy to the head, but he duck down and made the bullet to hit the wall.
A little frustrated now, the hooded guy reloaded and inserted another mag. This time he focused on Glynda whom was the one responsible that made the bullhead to not move.
Hartmann noticed that the Hooded guy had his sights on Glynda, which was still focusing to froze the bullhead on it's place.
"Ms. Goodwitch! Look out!" Hartmann shouted.
Glynda losed focus and turned to him on what he meant. She look back to the bullhead and saw that the Hooded person was aiming at her with his gun, smiling. She didn't had time to react when the Hooded guy started firing hordes of bullets to her, but Hartmann quickly grabbed her arm and pull her away just as the bullets hit the ground.
The Hooded person growled as he take cover from the shots by 'Red' and Hartmann's guns. He then took out a grenade from his pocket, it was a stick grenade, just like what Hartmann had back at his dorm.
He threw it near the trio which forces Glynda to use her semblance on ruby and Hartmann to pull them away from the grenade. She rolls herself away, just as the grenade exploded and quickly got up. The trio saw the Hooded person glaring at them, but not noticing that the Hooded person set his eyes on Hartmann.
The door of the bullhead soon closed as the aircraft can be seen escaping the area. Glynda sighed as she did not able to stop them from getting away. Hartmann felt a little worried that he done something wrong to her.
"Sorry for distracting you." Hartmann apologized referring to the part where he had to pull her away and made her lose focus on stopping the bullhead.
Glynda turned to him with her usual straight face. "It's fine." Hartmann sighed in relief hearing that.
Both of them turned to the Red-caped girl as the latter looked at them in awe, mostly at Glynda. "You're a huntress..." She said. Hartmann and Glynda shared the same looks to eachother before turning back to the girl in red, with Glynda giving her a light glare.
"CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH!?" 'Red' asked excitedly with a pleading, awe-stricken face.
Short timeskip, in an interrogation room
After the whole robbery scene and the fight with the Red-dress woman and the Hooded guy, 'Red' was taken to an interrogation room by Glynda. Hartmann joined with them since Glynda is going to have a small talk after she's done interrogating the little 'Red' girl.
The German was currently standing at the side of the table while leaning against the wall. He look to 'Red' whom had an amazed face at first when she met Glynda, then it turned to one of shame with her head down. While Hartmann was leaning beside the wall, Glynda paces around the table that 'Red' is seated at.
"I hope that you realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly, young lady. You had put yourself and one another in great danger" Glynda said as she referred to Hartmann on the one another. The German sighed since she was right about that, but Hartmann didn't blame the girl in red.
"They started it!" 'Red' exclaimed, claiming herself that she is not guilty in this.
Hartmann stepped in. "She is actually right about that." He said to Glynda, defending her. 'Red' smiled at him as Gylnda gave him a glare. Hartmann gulped a little when seeing that fearful glare.
"Mr. Hartmann, this is between me and the girl. So will you please not interrupt this conversation?" Glynda asked sternly.
Hartmann stepped back and nodded. "Of course, Ms. Goodwitch. I apologize."
Glynda turned back to 'Red' which she frown again and went back to her shameful face. Glynda paced around the table again while holding her black scroll as she said. "If it were up to me, you'd be sent home, with a pat on the back....." "Red' starts smiling again while leaning infront of the table. Glynda turned her head to 'Red' with her usual menacing glare. "....and a slap on the wrist!"
Hartmann raised his eyebrow and so did 'Red' as Glynda demonstrated by whipping her riding crop and smack it to the table. This startled both of them as 'Red' let out an 'Eeek!' and leaned back to the chair, while Hartmann just stepped back and moved in to one of the corners of the wall.
Glynda eventually calmed down. "But... there is someone here who would like to meet you."
'Red' thought on who is this person that wanted to meet her, while Hartmann might already know that it was going to be Ozpin. As Glynda moved away from the door behind her, a familiar Grey-Haired man walked to the room with a Plate of cookies on one hand. It was Ozpin, like what Hartmann guessed.
When Ozpin entere the room, he immediatly set his eyes on 'Red'. "Ruby rose." Ozpin said her name.
"So that is her name?" Hartmann thought to himself about 'Red's name being revealed to be 'Ruby'. He also thoughted on how the heck does Ozpin already knew her name.
The Headmaster begin to lean closer to her face. "You...." Ruby kept looking at her with eyes-wide and her mouth opened in amazement, while also waiting what he was going to say next. "....have silver eyes." And with that, Ruby looked away briefly, feeling a little uncomfortable. "Uh, um..."
Hartmann took a closer look and saw that Ruby's eyes were silver, which is very unique to him and probably to Ozpin aswell. "I wonder if having those are very important?" Hartmann thought to himself about the silver eyes.
"So! Where did you learn to do this?" Ozpin asked while gesturing his head to Glynda's scroll, which it is showing Ruby fighting off the 3 Henchmen at the streets. Hartmann took a look and was impressed and confused, the former about Ruby's fighting skills, and the latter about how did they get that footage.
Ruby then answered. "S-Signal academy." which she had stuttered a bit.
"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" Ozpin asked again.
"Well...one teacher in particular." Ruby stated.
"I see..."
Ozpin put down the plate of Cookies at the table, infront of Ruby. Hartmann thought on how delicious the cookies were, he always loved those snacks back in earth. Ruby hesitantly picked one and somehow ate the whole thing in one bite, until the point she started shoving the rest without any rebutall.
Hartmann chuckled and find her a little cute when she did that.
As Ruby kept eating the cookies, Ozpin continued. "It's just that I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before. A dusty, old crow..."
"Oh, Datt's mah unkul" Ruby said mumbling to her full mouth as she was still eating the cookies. Ozpin, Glynda and Hartmann stared at her with their eyebrows raised, not understanding what she just said.
Seeing this, Ruby quickly swallows and wipes her mouth in embarrassment. "Sorry. That's my uncle Qrow. He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. And now, I'm all like, Hooowaaah! Witchaaaa!" Ruby does some karate moves at the last part, which made Hartmann chuckled a bit.
"She seems interesting.." The German thoughted in his head about Ruby.
"So i noticed." Ozpin said while putting his mug down on the table. He lean a little closer, putting both of his hands on the table and continued. "And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
Ruby then answered. "Well...i want to be a huntress."
Glynda just sighed leaning her head to Hartmann and spoke. "Same answer everytime."
Hartmann shrugged and replied. "I do not blame her."
Back with Ozpin, he is still asking some questions to Ruby on why she wanted to be a huntress. "You want to slay monsters?"
"Yeah!" Ruby replied.
Glynda and Hartmann turned back to Ruby, while the red riding hood girl continued. "I only have two more years of training left at signal and then i am going to apply to beacon."
At this point, she began to talk faster and faster with her enthusiasm growing. "You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" Ruby giggled a little before continuing. " I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just SO much more romantic and EXCITING and COOL and really, GGOOSSHH, you know!"
Ruby flips out of the last part while looking at the three people infront of her wide-eyed and a crazy smile. Ozpin, Glynda, and Hartmann stared at her for a few seconds, with the blonde and the German sharing looks to eachother.
The latter let out a chuckle. "An energetic one here." He said referring to ruby, Glynda just rolled her eyes and look back to the girl.
Ozpin breathed for a moment and asked Ruby. "Do you know who i am?"
"You're professor Ozpin, You're the headmaster at Beacon." Ruby answered.
Ozpin smiles for a moment. "Hello."
"Nice to meet you." Ruby quickly replied.
"You want to come to my school?" He asked offering her.
She gladly accepts. "More than anything."
Ozpin glanced to Glynda and Hartmann. The former showing her disapproval while looking away, and the latter giving him a shrug and let him do it. Ozpin turn back to ruby and spoke. "Well, okay."
Hearing this, Ruby smiles at them wide-eyed and open-mouthed, until she jump from her chair and punching her fist to the air while squealing. "ThankYouThankYouThankYou." Ruby sit back down and cleared her throat. "I mean, Thank you Professor." She lightly smiled.
"You're welcome. You may leave now, Ms. Rose." He said gesturing his head to the door behind him. Ruby smiled and got up as she leaves the room, leaving the trio alone.
"Well, it is getting late, i might as well go back to my room." Hartmann said as he was about to leave the room.
"Not so fast, Mr. Hartmann." Ozpin said, stopping Hartmann to leave as the latter looked to him with a nervous face. "W-What is it, Professor?" He asked nervously.
"We would want to have a little talk with you." Ozpin said with Glynda tapping her big scroll. Hartmann sighed in defeat and walked to the interrogation table that Ruby sat on. He inhales and looked at them. "What is it you want to talk about?" Hartmann asked.
"This." Glynda tapped her scroll as it went to the surveillance cameras agains that had captured the fight scene. This time the camera was focusing on Hartmann using his Kar98k and shoot it to the Henchmen's hand. It then changes at the rooftop where Hartmann fired another bullet to the woman in the red dress and it hit her arm, which made her to fell down to the bullhear floor as she criees out in pain.
"How did you manage to penetrate their aura so easily?" Ozpin asked wanting to know, while feeling a bit amazed too.
"I..do not really know, i just used my rifle and then it just happened." Hartmann said while he put down his Kar98k on the table. Ozpin and Glynda studied the rifle that can penetrate aura quickly.
Ozpin thought of the rest of the weapons on this "Earth" planet. "Do you think those weapons you have can do the same thing as this one?" He asked.
Hartmann just shrugs. "I think so, they are all from earth. If my Rifle can do the same damage to them, i guess the rest can do to."
Both of them begin to thought how dangerous his nation had made his weapons, that counts to the rest of it's allies and enemies. If one of them invaded all of remnant, they might lose. Glynda shook her thoughts away as she thought of the atlesian army after that, since they are powerful.
Ozpin inhales and spoke. "Look, Try not to cause anymore trouble like this one, if anyone finds this video they might raise some questions. Even Atlas..."
Hartmann didn't know what Ozpin meant of the last part but he quickly nodded and it will never happen again.
"It's getting late too. You might as well go back to Beacon. Don't forget that tomorrow you will be enrolling in the academy." Ozpin reminded him.
Hartmann nodded and got up from the chair, grabbing his rifle as he begin to walk out of the room with Glynda following him from behind. Ozpin stayed for a moment and took a sip from his mug while sighing having to thought about something else. "Soon...my boy. Soon..."
Back to Beacon Academy
Hartmann went back to his room and opened the door. He sighed and put down his Kar98k on the table as he slouches on the bed. He thought about tomorrow of him enrolling in the academy with the new first year students.
Either they might be like Coco and Velvet or something else. He is a bit nervous but he will encourage himself to make some new friends. He can also meet Ruby again and might become great friends.
Hartmann smiled as he was getting ready for bed. He still thought of what type of people other than Ruby that he will meet. "I might possibly meet another girl with a german name."
Hartmann chuckled to himself at that as he was joking to himself. He closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Somewhere in a warehouse
At the night sky, a bullhead was slowly landing itself infront of a warehouse that is far from the city. As the bullhead landed, the side door had opened with a black hooded guy helping an injured red-dressed woman.
They were the people who helped the bowler hat man to escape when he robbed the dust store. The Bowler hat man got off from the pilot seat and went to the warehouse where dozens of masked people were carrying some boxes.
"Hey! We have a wounded here. If anyone knows medical experience then come help us." He said.
Two of the Masked Henchmen quickly ran to the woman and the hooded guy as the latter gave her to them. The masked henchmens helped her up to the med bay.
Meanwhile, the hooded person stayed outside of the warehouse, seeing the rest of the people inside either working or helping the woman. He then thought of the boy back at the roof. He seemed familiar and top of that, his weapon looked familiar to him aswell.
He look to his PPSh-41 on his hand as he turned to the shattered moon at the sky, glaring at it. He needed more answers about all of this, and who the kid from beacon is. It may take long, but he'll get the chance. Giving the shattered moon one last look, the hooded person turned back to the warehouse
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Apologies for short chapter. But i hope you enjoyed it
There is a new villain in town!
Who is he? What does he know of Hartmann? Is he not from remnant?
Find out in the future.
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