So," Washington said. "Before we start class any questions?" Ruby raised her hand and Washington points to her. "Yes, Ruby?"

"Where is your guy's armor?" She asked. The soldiers look at each other a shrug, but they all had all smiles on their face.

"What do you mean?" tucker asked.

"Yeah," Simmons said. "We're wearing them right now." The hunters in training look at each other with confused looks.

"Here, we'll show you," Washington said. "Jaune, can you come here please?" Jaune nods his head and walks over to Washington. "Take out your sword and swing at me."

"Uh…" Jaune muttered out. Washington did the come-get-me motion.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt." Jaune shrugs and takes out his sword.

"Ready?" Washington nods his head. "Okay, here it goes." Jaune swings his sword behind him gets a small running start and then does an overhead swing onto Washington.

Washington presses a small button on a device that was attached to his upper bicep and puts his arm up. The clang of two metal objects striking each other rang across the arena. Jaune closed his eyes halfway through his attack in case he accidently hit Washington. He opens one of his eyes and notices the familiar black armor with yellow trim of Washington's armor. However he looks closer and realizes it is only his arm that has the armor.

The students around them looked with shocked expressions. Jaune sheaths his sword. Washington then presses the button on his upper bicep and the armor starts to coil up and slides into itself until it is barely seen, tucked into the pocket of Washington's mechanism.

There is a moment of silence, and then one of the biggest squeals ever heard on the face of the planet. There is a blur of red followed by Rose petals across a couple of people's faces until Washington is met face to face with the youngest student in beacon.

"Washingtonhowdidyoumakethatit'ssocoolIwishicouldhaveonejustlikeit!" Ruby said hopping up and down. Yang grabs her younger sister's cape causing the reaper to stop mid-sentence. "Hrk, Bleargh." Ruby said as she slumped down from her cape choking her.

"Is she calmed down?" Carolina asked. Ruby stands back up and dusts herself off.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Ruby said. She gleams towards the soldiers. "It's just so cool how you guys made your armor do that!"

"Yeah, we even did it so each limb has its own personal mechanism," Tucker said. He presses the button on his chest and his entire chest armor starts going out. The aqua colored armor only covered his torso area while his legs and arms remained unarmored. The students give impressed nods.

"All right then, now that that's out of the way," Washington said. "Any other questions?"

"What's under the tarp?" Weiss asked pointing to the blue tarp.

"I am glad you asked Weiss!" Sarge said proudly. He begins to walk over to said tarp as he continued to talk. "I stayed up a lot of nights to finish him, and I only just got him here last class."

"Not even we know what's under there," Simons said.

"Honestly unless it's a pizza oven or some kind of bed, I don't really care what it is," Grif said.

"And I don't know whether to be excited or worried about what's under there," Carolina said.

The students gather around the tarp as Sarge puts a hand on it. He clears his throat and says in a very announcer like way, "Ladies, gentleman, students and Grif! I present to you…" he pauses for dramatic effect and then yanks the tarp off.

The tarp reveals a brown armored soldier. "Wait Sarge," Simmons said as he points to the soldier. "Is that…"

"Everyone, this is Lopez tres point O!" Everyone looks at the soldier. When it doesn't move for a solid minute Ruby asked a question.

"Why isn't he moving?" She asked.

"Because I still have to start him up," Sarge said. "He is a robot after all." There is a second of silence, and then all of the students scream.

"WHAT?!"

Sarge is then hit with a barrage of questions regarding Lopez.

"You can build a robot?!"

"What happen to the first two?"

"Why does he have the same armor of you guys?"

"Does he come with a gun attached to his arm?"

Eventually Sarge gets a little upset. "Enough questions!" he yelled. "I will explain all of them once we turn him on." The students nod and Sarge walks over to Lopez tres point O, with the other soldiers behind him.

"Let's hope he works," Simmons said. Sarge nods and goes on his knees and begins to fiddle with the switch, which of course he placed on the crotch plate.

"Why do you always put the switches in these spots?" Simmons said.

"Where am I supposed to put it?" Sarge asked.

"How about the back?" Grif suggested.

"Then the enemy can just turn it off themselves when they are within range."

"How about the head?" Tucker asked.

"It can get shot off."

"How about the stomach?" Caboose said.

"Same reason I can't put it in the back."

"We get it!' Ruby said. "Just turn him on!"

"Bow chicka bow wow," Tucker said. Sarge pulled out his pistol and shot tucker in the leg. "Ow! Jesus, take a joke asshole!"

Sarge ignored Tucker and tried pulling on the switch. However it seemed to be stuck on something. The students and soldiers noticed this and Donut spoke up.

"Do I need to get the lotion?"

"No, Donut," Sarge said. Sarge gripped the lever furiously and started to push down as hard as he can. Eventually the lever switched and then sparks flew from the crotch. Everyone heard the sound of a machine starting up and waited. Lopez is still for a moment, and then speaks.

"Bonjour," Lopez said. Some of the soldiers sigh of relief while others groan in annoyance.

"Well, at least it isn't Spanish," Simmons said.

"I'm not sure if this is an improvement," Washington said.

"Affirmative, la langue de commutation de sortie à l'espagnol," The French robot says. There are a couple of beeps, and then lopez speaks again.

"Hola,Me nombre es Lopez, Como puedo ayudarte?" he asked. Now every one of the soldiers moaned.

"Are you kidding me?!" Carolina yelled.

"Why? Just why?!" Grif asked.

Sarge chuckles and says "Just like the good old days."

"Why did you have to say the word Spanish you stupid cyborg!" Grif yelled at Simmons.

"Hey," Simmons started. "It's not my fault he decided to listen to me!"

"It kind of is," Washington said. "I mean, you are the one who can speak to robots."

"Well I never had time to test my theory! It's not like I can tell Lopez to sit down and he will sit."

Lopez turned to Simmons, nodded his head and said "Roger, sentado." He then sat down on the floor with his legs crossed. Everyone just looked at the weird robot. Carolina pulls out a strange device. The object was circular and it seemed to have something in the middle of it.

"Hey Church," Carolina said. Just then the middle of the device glowed blueish color and Church appeared from it. The holographic AI turned to Carolina.

"What's up?" Church asked.

"You think you can install something into Lopez so Simmons can't do… whatever it is he's doing." The hologram shrugs.

"I can try .I don't know how to install a firewall against a cyborg's semblance though. It could take some time."

"I'll see if I can help you out," Simmons said. "We can go into his head together, see if we can find a solution."

"All right cool."

"Say, can't Simmons control Church?" Donut asked. "I mean, an AI isn't that much different from a robot. And technically Lopez does have an AI controlling him." The soldiers look at each other.

"Hey Church," Simmons said. "Take out a top hat and cane do a dance." Simmons said that while wiggling his fingers. Church flips him off.

"Fuck you I'm not doing that," He said.

"Well worth a shot."

"HEY!" Ruby yelled. The soldiers turn to Ruby and then realized they still had a class to teach. However before they could speak Ruby spoke again. "Howwereyouabletogetchurchontoahologramthingie?!" Ruby said so fast that no one could understand her. Well, no one except her team.

"In English please!" Carolina asked.

"She's wondering how you were able to create a hologram," Yang answered.

"A portable one at that," Weiss continued. "Actually I am wondering that myself."

"We went to town," Sarge said dragging Lopez away to the side. He sets the robot against the wall while Simmons kneels down next to him. "Got the parts and made it ourselves."

Sarge was about to explain how they made it but Sun cut him off.

"Honestly I don't care about the portable hologram machine," sun said. "I want to know more about… it." Sun pointed to Church who flipped him off, much to everyone's surprise.

"I'm not an 'it' monkey boy. I'm an AI," Church said.

"Ai this Ai that!" Scarlet yelled. "What is an AI anyway? What does the A stand for?"

"Artificial," All of the soldiers, even Caboose, answered.

"And the I?" Sun asked.

"Intellegence."

"What was the A again? I wasn't listening," Ruby said.

"Enough! We're wasting class time," Washington said.

"Hey it's not our fault you guys take forever standing around talking!" Yang said.

"Yeah yeah," Washington said. He motions the hunters in training to follow him to the middle of the arena while the rest of the soldiers relax next to Lopez. Carolina would have gone to help him but she had to stand next to ."Anyway, to get started you will be sparring with your partner today."

"Wait what?" Jaune said with a gulp. "I have to fight Ruby?!" (For those of you who don't remember, in chapter 11 I made everyone pair up with different partners whenever the Reds and Blues took over for a training day. The partners are a mixture of team SSSN, JNPR, and RWBY. The partners are Jaune and Ruby, Blake and Ren, Weiss and Sun, Nora and Scarlet, Neptune and Yang, and Sage and Pyrrha. Anyway, back to the story!)

"Relax Jaune," Washington said. "It's going to be hand to hand combat only today." Most of the student's groaned to this. Yang does a little cheer.

"Prepare to get your butt whooped Neptune!" she said pointing at her blue haired partner. Neptune cowered behind his Leader.

"Sun, I'm scared," he said.

"Take the beating like a man dude," the monkey Faunus said.

"Okay!" Washington said stopping the chattering that was going on. "Everyone spread out with your partners. You need more room so you don't get in the way of other students."

"yes sir!" the students said. As they all began to spread out, Simons and Church were ready to fix Lopez.

"I'm going in," Church said. "Simmons since Ai's can compute things a little bit faster, I may or may not be able to make a firewall by the time you find a way in."

"All right, good luck Church," Simmons said. The AI nods and enters Lopez.

"Higagakerg!" The Spanish robot said as the AI went into him.

Simmons puts his hand in front of Lopez's head. "Let's see, maybe if I do this…" Simmons closed his eyes and tried to see if he could get into Lopez's head. Simmons closed his eyes and concentrated. He imagined what it would be like to be Lopez. When that didn't work he tried just forcing his conscious into Lopez's. Simmons made a bunch of straining noises as he tried to find a way inside the robots head.

He did it long enough for Grif to say "Don't pop a blood vessel nerd." Simmons opens his eyes and grumbles at Grif. He takes a deep breath and sits crossed legged across from Lopez. He closes his eyes and continues to think of ways he could try to get into Lopez's head.

"You're not meditating or taking a nap are you Simmons?" Sarge said.

"No of course he isn't!" Donut said. "He is obviously getting ready for my world famous massages!"

"Will you guys be quiet!" Simmons said without opening his eyes. "I'm trying to concentrate. Donut if you so much touch me I burn your hand with fire dust." The soldiers just shrugged the threat off but they followed Simmons request and kept quiet.

"Shouldn't we be helping them?" Doc asked the other soldiers. All of them were just standing around next to the robot.

"I actually want to see if the idiots can actually make it so Simmons can't control Lopez," Tucker said.

"Yeah, imagine if it fries his circuit brain!"Grif said. The two soldiers laugh at seeing Simmons spaz out because of the firewall.

However Simmons tuned them out. He was concentrating too hard to even notice or care. Suddeny;, a thought came to him. "What if I…" he thought. He slowly reached out his hands in front of Lopez, hoping that it would make the connection a little easier. However since he had his eyes closed and didn't realized he was almost touching Lopez, as the Robot didn't say anything.

His fingers touched the cold metal of his brown armor and Simmons was about to say oops, but when he opened his eyes he realized he wasn't in the arena anymore. In fact, he was in a pitch black room. He looked around and felt no solid material below or around him it was as if he was floating.

"What is this place?" Simmons said aloud. An echo was the only thing that responded. "Is this what Lopez's head is like? It's nothing like what I would have expec― OOOF!"

Simmons felt his body hit the ground, hard. "Why do I hurt?" he groaned out. "I'm not even in a physical body! Wait, am I?" he shakes his head and gets up and looks around. The blackness he was in is gone completely. It was now replaced with a blue octagon with white lines going all around it. In the middle of the room was a very tall tower with a bunch of buttons and wires on it.

"Simmons?" he heard a familiar voice said. He turns and sees Church looking at him. Along with… Delta? Delta was messing with what looked to be a computer on the middle tower thing. Simmons stands up and looks at the two AIs, he is surprised to see they are the same size as him.

"Church, what's Delta doing here?" Simmons said pointing to the green AI.

"Uhhh…" Church managed to sputter out. The green AI floated to Simons.

"Hello Simmons," he said. "It has been a while since our last converse. How have you been?"

"I've been fine," Simmons said with a confused look. "But how are you here? I thought you and the other AI's were destroyed by the emp?"

"I was. I am merely a memory of Delta made by Epsilon. The way he talks, the way he thinks, all of this is just a memory. Epsilon created me because he wouldn't get lon―"

"Because I didn't want to do all the thinking myself!" Church interrupted. "Ha ha! Yep that's totally it! So Delta, why don't you continue trying to put up that firewall huh?"

"Of course, Church." With that the Green AI floats back to the computer and Simmons looks at Church.

"You get lonely?" Simmons said with slight sarcasm.

"Shut up," Church said.

"Relax, it's between you and me. So this is Lopez's head?"

"Yep, pretty much. We haven't gotten a lot done though, we were having trouble trying to find a firewall that would keep you out, but also not mark us as a virus and try to… you know delete us."

"Yeah I guess that makes sense. But I think my consciousness is kind of like an AI's."

"I would have to agree with Simmons theory," Delta said not looking up from his computer thing. "Unless that is his actual physical body, I am assuming it is his cybernetic conscious, and is relatively the same as AIs."

"Well why don't we see if it is his physical body," Church said making his Sniper rifle disappear. He puts his hand to his helmet and calls out. "Theta! Where are you?"

"I'm up here!" a childlike voice said from somewhere up above. Simmons looks up to see a purple and orange AI on a… skateboard. He was wall riding the circular room.

"Well get down here, I want you to meet someone." The purple AI made a sad moan and made the skateboard disappear as he floated down. He lands next to Church and stands next to him with his hands behind his back. He looks nervously at Simmons.

"Theta, meet Simmons." Simmons does a little wave and Theta waves halfheartedly back.

"Hello…" Theta said shyly. Church puts a hand on Theta's helmet.

"Theta, pull up Lopez's camera's for us would you?" Church asked.

"Sure thing." Theta waves his hand upward and a small computer appears before him. He then puts his hands together and then take them apart to reveal a holographic keyboard Theta begins typing and Simmons has a question.

"So… since I'm like half AI, think I can do this kind of stuff?" he asked. Church walks up to him and puts a arm around his shoulder.

"I'm not sure," Church said as they began walking a little. "Tell you what though, once we see if this is your physical body or not, I'll let D give the run down." They stop walking when they were able to see Theta's screen.

"Okay, got it," Theta said. He presses the corners of his screen and drags them apart, making the picture larger. Theta presses a button the screen and Lopez's camera turns on. The first thing they noticed is an outstretched hand touching Lopez's chest.

"Well at least we can say this isn't my physical body," Simmons said. "Still though, how come I felt hurt when I entered in here?"

"Perhaps it is because you are technically human," Delta said. "Since we have no human bodies, we feel nothing. Meanwhile you may still feel certain pain while in your AI form."

"Huh… good to know," Simmons said.

"Didn't know you wanted to cop Lopez a feel Simmons," Church said.

"Yeah yeah, can we get on with AI training?"

"Right right right, Delta!" The green AI stopped typing and looked at Church and Simmons. "I'll take over for you, get Simmons some training in."

"Okay," Delta said. With a flash the two AIs switched places. "Let us begin Simmons."

"All right," Simmons replied. Delta was about to go over some basics but Simmons remembered something. He turns around to Theta asked him something. "Hey Theta?"

The purple Ai let out a tiny yelp and turned to face Simmons. "W-what is it?" he asked. Simmons looked theta face to face.

"Think you can do me a favor?"

"I can try." Simmons smiles to calm the AI down.

"Thanks. Since Lopez is still speaking another language can you try to find the language output around here? I want to make it so he speaks English."

"I think I can do that." Theta said with a nod. He summons his skateboard and begins wall riding the circular room.

"All right, let's get some AI training going." Simmons said.

With Washington:

"Let's get hand to hand training going everyone!" Wash said. All of the partners were spread out and were waiting for Washington's next instruction. Washington pulled out a Scroll Tablet from his pocket and began messing around with it.

All of a sudden parts of the arena glowed around the students and they looked down in shock. Light rings encircled all of the partners. The rings were large enough that the students could dodge attacks without stepping out as long as they were careful, but small enough to make it a challenge to stay in.

"All right, here's the deal," Washington said. "You will be sparring with your partner for fifteen minutes. The rings represent your quote unquote 'arena.' If you step out of the arena your partner will get points. If you fall on your back or stomach while your partner is up, your partner gets the point. The person with the most points at the end of the match wins, and moves onto marksmanship. Everyone else will stay here with me to practice more hand to hand combat, understood?"

The students all give various responses of yes. Washington taps his scroll again and on the giant screen the students profile appear next to their partners. Lines separated the partners from other partners.

"Okay, scoring system's up and running…" Wash tapped the scroll and the ten minute timer came up. "And now timers set." Washington faces the students one last time. "Any questions before we start?" Pyrrha raised her hand. "Yes Pyrrha?"

"Why must we fight in such a small space?" the magnetic girl asked.

"In times of certain fights you might have to fight in small spaces and you have to utilize that as much as you can. Sometimes leaving the space can be deadly, such as fighting on a moving train, over lava, just to name a few."

"All right but why are we learning hand to hand anyway?" Dove said. "I mean we're always going to have our weapons on us so it doesn't matter."

"That arrogance is going to kill you one day Dove." Dove looked shocked that Washington said that. "If you honestly think you will have your weapon all the time, in perfect fighting condition, you are a fool." Washington noticed some students actually believed Dove more than him so he sighs. "All right then, I'll make you all a deal. You all get one shot to hit me. If you do, you get to go to marksmanship even if you have no points. If you don't you can't try again and you lose five points. Is that a deal?"

A couple of the students get smug grins and all of them give various forms of yes.

"All right then, face your partners." Everyone does as they are told. "Sparring in five, four, three, two…" Washington presses the button and the timer begins. "One."

To be continued.