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3rd Person Pov

Grimm studies lecture hall, Friday

Proffesor Port placed calmly I'm the front of the lecture hall as he continued to attempt to educate his students with one of his more..."eccentric" stories. Most of the class actually seemed to be enjoying his story, as while they were most definitely embellished, they were quite entertaining. And there indeed was some knowledge to be gleaned from the tales.

Several students however were particularly distracted, most notably team RWBY with an impatient Blake, Yang not paying any attention, Ruby dozing in her seat, and Y/n getting lost in his own thoughts over leather or traditional dusters.

(Its best you dont ask)

For the sake of not making the team look insane, The Kindred chose to hide themselves to reduce the risk.

Weiss was sat in her spot, staring at her scroll on her desk which was open on her desk and reading 3:59. She watched with frustrated impatience for the bell to ring, so of course, Jaune took this time to try and make a move. He slid up beside her, and began to speak as Weiss tried her hardest not to have a stroke.

Jaune, the hopeless romantic he is, admittedly tried his best.

Jaune: "So, Weiss, y'know, uh, I-I was thinking after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat?"

Jaune turns to face the teacher for a moment in order to make sure he hadn't noticed, but the proffesor was still lost in his tale.

"And, uh um, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis movie, if you wanna make the trip to Vale. I hear it's awesome."

Y/n does his best not to lose his shit at the similarity of the actors name to one earth as Jaune pauses for a moment as his words continue to have no effect on the ice queen, before he gives it one last try.

"Aaaand maybe after that, we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm, uh... Y'know."

In a few, almost audible seconds of waiting, a shrill ring ran through the room as her clock changed to 4:00. Proffesor Port was interrupted in his story telling by the familiar sound of the bell signaling the end of the class.

Port: "And then I-Oh. Timed that one wrong, I guess. The stunning conclusion to this story will have to wait! Until next time!"

Jaune watched as Weiss packed up her scroll and got ready to leave. Just before she did, Jaune made one last attempt to get even a word out of the heiress.

Jaune: "Weiss? Did you hear me?"

She didnt even stop walking away as she wandered all of his questions at once.

Weiss: "No, no, no, yes."

With a colossal groan of anguish and crushed dreams, Jaune faceplanted hard into his desk as the rest of team RWBY walked by behind him. Yang didnt even bat an eyelash, ruffling his hair as they walked by.

Yang: "One day."

Team RWBY Dorm

Blake stepped into the center of the dorm room as she tightened the wraps on her arms. Team RWBY was in varying states as they prepared for their big night out, all of them in different outfits for the occasion. Ruby and Weiss were currently sitting on their beds waiting, Yang was lying on her side on her bed totally chilling, and The Kindred watched with peculiar interest from the corner of the room.

Y/n was nowhere to be seen by anyone except for Ruby, who was trying her hardest not to look towards one of the far corners of the room, where Y/n was testing different outfits behind a screen he had summoned on the fly. Ruby had asked him why he was changing normally when he could just make outfits appear on him, but his response had been...

Y/n: "I plan on using this new outfit for pretty much my regular outfit like you with your hood and skirt. Itll feel more...official...if I actually try it on like a normal outfit. What, am I getting you all excited, rosebud~?"

All while he was looking around the corner of the screen, VERY much shirtless, and giving her a suggestive smile. She was determined to get back at him for the teasing that he had brought on from both himself and Yang, who had heard the whole conversation, but kept quiet since he had begun his little fashionista outburst in the corner.

Blake: "I thought that class would never end"

Ruby was snapped out of her little trance by Blake's appearance in the middle of the room, and decided it was time to get the ball rolling.

Ruby: "Alright guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!"

She leaps off of her bed with her arms raised excitedly, almost landing on Weiss who sarcastically remarks from her bed.

Weiss: "Im glad to see were taking this so seriously."

Yang attempts to defend herself from her spot on her bed.

Yang: "Hey, weve got a plan. That's...moderately serious!"

A stray ice cube flew from the corner of the room and lightly struck Weiss on the forehead, much to her annoyance, and surprisingly Wolfs amusement. Ruby spoke to get the team back on track.

Ruby: "Alright gang! Everyone remember your roles?"

Seeing as Weiss was fuming over the ocean cube incident, Blake spoke first.

Blake: "The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and get new recruits. If I can get in, then I can hopefully find out what they're planning."

Yang hopped down from her bed and produced her role with confidence.

Yang: "I've got a friend on the shady side of town who typically knows everything that's going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be to difficult."

Finally calming down from her fury, Weiss straightened herself out and spoke with no small amount of "I'm awesome" in her voice.

Weiss: "You, Y/n and I will head to the CCT tower to check the Schnee Records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Since I'm in the family, it shouldn't be too hard."

She then grew noticeably more agitated as she faced the screen in the corner of the room, which Lamb was looking at curiously.

"And if Y/n would like to actually PARTICIPATE now instead of playing dress-up then we can get going already!"

Y/n, remaining behind the screen, made himself tangible allowing them to hear him, as well as see his silhouette through the screen.

Y/n: "Hold your frozen horses Weiss-cream I'm almost done!"

His noticeably changed figure seemed to fiddle with a few things on its person behind the screen. Seemingly satisfied with his changes, he faced the screen, and just for the sake of making an 'entrance' he kicked the screen across the room, it dissipating into smoke before it hit the girls to dramatically reveal him in his new groove.

(I'll add references but you'll have to use your imagination at parts)

To most, it wouldn't seem too special, but he liked it, so they could go fuck themselves in his eyes. He wore a long, black leather trenchcoat that went down to his knees, with silver lining along the sides, sleeves and the trim of the collar. The coat had noticeably short sleeves, resting above his elbow to show off what seemed to be plated steel bracers on his forearms that were similarly styled. Atop his head was also a straight black baseball cap.

He wore fingerless gloves with silver steel knuckles and under his coat he wore a plain black T-shirt and a harness that crossed his chest and allowed a special holster to rest on the small of his back and two pistol holsters on his hips. Also managing to utilize the chest strap, was an over the shoulder katana scabbard.

(Oh yeah, strapped is an understatement. We ain't done yet)

He wore (you guessed it) black combat pants and steel toed combat boots with a similar silver styling. Down by his feet he wasted no space as both boots had a knife holster for ready access.

Before any of the girls could react to his new appearance, Y/n held up a finger and reached under the collar of his T-shirt to pull up a cloth face mask, with a familiar emblem on it. Once pulled up, the only readily recognizable feature of his face was his sharp silver eyes.

Y/n walked around in a bit showing the whole dig off as well as running towards a wall, jumping, and kicking off the wall to backflip and land on his feet back in front of his team. He tucked his mask away and put his arms out to his sides with a proud grin.

Y/n: "Ya see why I took so long? Whaddya think?"

The girls had, as you'd expect, varying reactions.

Weiss was impressed by the amount of thought he had put into it. His outfit accentuated his tall and bulky stature, but still managed to make him seem somewhat slick. And the consistent silver styling showed a certain commitment to a theme that she must admit she admired. She tried not too, but couldnt quite hide all of the impressed tone her response took on.

Weiss: "I will admit, it suits you."

Blake was mostly intrigued by the mobility the gear provided him despite how much he was wearing. All of his equipment was held tight to him, allowing them to act as extensions of his body rather than cumbersome attachments. This let him move around swiftly and freely, just as he displayed with his little acrobatic trick. Not to mention she admired his choices in bladed weaponry.

Blake: "It certainly seems efficient. I like it."

Yang was also intrigued by his choice of weaponry and how he chose to wear them. Everything was placed in a spot that would allow ease of access depending on the situation. He was already a force to be reckoned with, and now he looked like it too. Especially when his mask was up. His eyes alone could be pretty intimidating.

Yang: "You look tough! I doubt anyone will come after you without thinking twice. You and I might have to spare sometime soon!"

He faced Ruby for her opinion on the outfit, and got his awnser pretty easily as she was practically zooming all around him with stats in her eyes as she analyzed his entire outfit and arsenal.

Ruby: "You look so freakin' COOL!!! Your all flexible and agile while you've still got ways to defend yourself too! All your weapons are easy to reach no matter where you are AND they show that your effective at any range! That and you can hide your face and be all ominous and tough looking! ITS AWESOME!"

She paused in her rant for a moment as she noticed something was missing though, at least in her eyes.

"But what about your longer ranges? Your pretty good with rifles too right?"

She then pouted angrily at him as she realized a flaw in his outfit from what he had told her.

"And I thought you said this was gonna be your casual outfit! You look like your ready to fight a war!"

Y/n however only widened his prideful smile as he awnsered her.

Y/n: "First of all, that's what took me so long, and it's a surprise. I cooked up somethin special for long range that your gonna like. Secondly, now that I have this whole thing figured out, I can just dismiss the guns and such when I dont need it and boom, casual clothes."

To demonstrate his point, he snapped his fingers, and all of his weapons, as well as his hat, gloves and bracers seemed to disintegrate off of him in a smokey way. His back holster under the coat stayed on though. Wolf was interested by the display, and hovered around Y/n as he continued.

"That one is just in case of emergency. I have all these holsters and stuff on me because it takes a bit of concentration to summon weapons on the fly. It's easier if I keep the essentials on me."

To showcase his point again, he seemed to close his eyes in concentration for a moment, before shadows seemed to fly onto him, allowing all of his gear to return to him.

Ruby, having also enjoyed the display of his transformation, was satisfied with his response, but still pouted at him slightly.

Ruby: "Well now I wanna know what you made!"

Y/n smirked at her as he playfully ruffled her hair.

Y/n: "Dont worry rosebud, you'll see tonight."

Holding him to his promise, Ruby was ready to set everything in motion.

Ruby: "Alllllright! Now that were all ready, let's get started! Well meet up near Yang tonight to go over what we found!"

She pumped her fist excitedly into the air.

"Let's do this!"

???: "Yeah!"

With the outing once again delayed, the entire groups attention was stolen by none other than Sun, who was hanging by his tail on a tree branch outside of the open dorm window. Blake was the first to react, genuinely surprise he was there.

Blake: "Sun!"

Y/n: "Dude...why. I mean, I get it, style points and all that, but theres a door."

Yang: "How did you get up there?"

Sun: "Ah, it's easy. I do it all the time!"

Weiss recoiled in disgust and Y/n got ready to shoot Sun put of the tree.

Weiss: "You do what!?"

Not seeming to get what he himself had implied, Sun responded casually as of he had done nothing wrong.

Sun: "I climb trees all the time!"

Y/n, having a hard time deciding whether or not Sun was just stupid or not, sighed and relaxed himself as Sun flipped through the window and into the room. He of course took no notice of The Kindred, who could only be seen by team RWBY.

"So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"

Blake stepped forward slightly to explain the situation.

Blake: "We are going to investigate the situation...as a team."

She gestured back towards the others to further the point.

Ruby: "Sorry, Sun. We dont want to involve friends if we dont have to."

Completely waving off the concern for their friends safety, Sun responded.

Sun: "Psh! That's dumb! You should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune."

He pointed his thumb back at the window as he finished speaking. Y/n quickly zipped over to the window and leaned out. Looking to the left he saw as Neptune was just standing casually on a thin ledge that stretched around the dorm building. Neptune looked over to Y/n and waved casually.

Neptune: "Sup Y/n. Nice getup."

Y/n: "Thanks. How the hell did you get up here?"

Neptune: "I have my ways. Seriously though can I come in now? Were like, really high up right now."

With a sigh, Y/n hoisted Neptune into the room by his arm, and dropped him over next to Yang. He did not fail to notice however when Neptune threw a wink at Weiss while he was being dragged around. Ruby made some quick adjustments to fit everyone into the plan.

Ruby: "Alright! Y/n and I will go with Weiss. Sun, you can go with Blake. And since she doesnt have a partner, Neptune can go with Yang. Everyone good?"

It seemed that things would finally get underway, but Weiss shuffled nervously for a moment.

Weiss: "Uhm, actually Ruby, why dont you two go with Yang? I mean...she is your sister..."

Ruby seemed to ponder the idea for a moment while Y/n had a pretty good idea of what was going on.

Ruby: "But then who would go with you?"

Weiss shyly responded.

Weiss: "W-well...I gues Neptune could go with me..."

Neptune, having picked up what Weiss was putting down, pointed at Weiss with the most suave look he could muster. Y/n was not at all blaind to the move Weiss was trying to pull and leaned down to whisper what was up into Ruby's ear. The young huntress snickered slightly, bit managed to contain herself as she pretended to think about Weiss's offer.

Ruby: "Hmm...yeah...nah."

And just like that Ruby and Y/n were walking out the door with a distraught Weiss being dragged along.

Weiss: "But-but..."

Y/n laughed a bit at her reaction and hoisted Weiss to her feet, patting her on the back before pulling ahead a bit as they continued on their journey.

Y/n: "Dont worry Weiss, you'll get your shot."

Weiss merely crossed her arms in an angry pout as she followed along.

In front of the CCTS Tower

Y/n Pov

Luckily Weiss had gotten over us totally ruining her shot at Neptune by the time we reached the CCT. And I'd always seen it from afar of course but jesus CHRIST THIS THING IS MASSIVE.

Ruby: "Wooooow! I forget how big the transmit tower looks up close!"

Y/n: "Christ, I feel like I'm standing next to an aircraft carrier."

Weiss: "You should see the one in Atlas!"

Ruby: "Wasn't that the first one?"

Y/n: "Wait a second, theres more?"

Weiss gave Ruby a disappointed look at my lack of knowledge of the CCT.

Ruby: "It didnt seem important until now!"

Weiss let out a hardy sigh before she started talking.

Weiss: " In total, there are four towers of the Cross Continental Transmit System, or CCT Towers. Atlas had them built in order to unite the four kingdoms. It was their gift to the world after the great war. They are what allow communications and such like our scrolls to work."

Y/n: "Oh, I get it. They're like gigantic cell towers. Fair enough."

Ruby put on a fake high and mighty act to taunt Weiss with.

Ruby: "Oooh look at me! My names Weiss! I know facts! I'm rich!"

I couldnt really hold back laughing a little at Weiss's disdain for the impression.

Y/n: "I mean, she isn't wrong you know."

Weiss: "Don't be pests! Besides the only reason we're here is because you like the tower so much! We could've just as easily made a call from the library!"

Ruby: "I know but it's so cool! Ooh, I'm going to take a picture!"

Ruby pulled her scroll out of her pocket to take a picture, but in her excitement she fumbled the thing and sent it skidding across the pavement. I was about to go fetch it when someone else got to it before I did.

???: "Oh!"

They went and picked up the scroll and held it out, then I finally noticed who it actually was. And honestly, it's a miracle I didnt recognize her instantly, I mean, she is pretty unique.

Penny: "You dropped this."

Y/n: "Oh shit!"

Ruby: "Penny!?"

Penny seemed similarly shocked to see us. I mean we havent seen her since...

Penny: "Oh! Uuh..."

Ruby: "Where have you been? We havent seen you since that night at the docks!"

Y/n: "Yeah, you had us kinda worried."

Penny shuffled around nervously for a little bit before she responded anxiously, trying to pretend she didnt know us.

Penny: "S-sorry I think your confused."

She hastily tossed Ruby her phone back before she excused herself and started to hastily walk away.

"Uh-Ive gotta go!"

She turned on her heels and began to high tail it out of there. Weiss turned towards us.

Weiss: "What was that about?"

Y/n: "No idea but..."

Ruby: "We're gonna go find out."

We began to follow in the direction Penny ran off to.

Y/n: "Go make the call Weiss! We'll catch up!"

And so the 'chase' began.

Or, yknow, as far as I'm aware that is.

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(Alright, heres ch3. I realize it's pretty short at 3300 words, but I feel like I owe it to you all to get at least something out. Nonetheless I gooe you enjoyed.)

(Until next time.)