It's been about a year since I started training with Ruby, Yang, and Qrow. I’ve trained long and hard with my Scythe and aura to be able to catch up with beacon’s standards! And yet, I STILL HAVE NO CLUE WHAT MY SEMBLANCE IS!
However, my inner monologue was ruined by vile beings known only as the Older sibling.
"I can't believe it's been a year!" Yang shouts while hugging Kyra,
Kyra had been ambushed. When did her two sisters get there? They were outside training but a moment ago. She nodded her head in assurance that they were indeed outside but naught a moment ago.
"Yep, I'm sad you two are going to Beacon without me," Ruby says, a little upset that she’s basically being left behind by her two sisters, one even getting in early!
"Ruby, let's go to From Dust till dawn tonight," Kyra says, trying to cheer up her look alike, yet the futility of her actions has yet to dawn on her.
"Okay, but you have to wear my present!" Ruby says, pulling out a light blue hood similar to her red one, quickly wrapping it around Kyra’s shoulders and pining it into place with pins similar to Ruby’s own ones.
"Yang, I will get my own bed at Beacon, right?" Kyra asks hopefully looking up to her older sister.
"Nope, you're sleeping with me! You spent the entire year in Ruby's bed, now it's my turn for the personal heat generator." Yang says cheerfully and side hugging Kyra again.
'Apparently, I generate a lot of body heat in my sleep. Scared a few people when we first found out. Then my sisters started taking advantage of it, especially during the winter. It actually got pretty cold on patch. Pair that with living in a log cabin. They actually fought over me so much due to the warmth my body generated while I slept… Kinda embarrassing really.’
"But." Kyra starts, finger up in the air to protest.
"No Buts, Ruby kept my second cute little sister for a year, now it’s my turn at beacon." Yang says, Kyra’s finger lowered as she sulked.
It's been a crazy year, the war against the Grimm has had a slight turnaround thanks to the introduction of gunpowder, now even people with weak/no auras and no semblances can fight back against the weaker grim and with some of the heavier weapon’s even the bigger monsters could be fought back against with the improved level of village defenses.
Kyra had even bought, and modified, a 4-wheeler with all sorts of crazy modifications, turbo boosting, dust powered engines that nearly tripled the efficiency and increased the horsepower by a whopping 50%.
"And here is my present for you, little sister," Yang says, handing Kyra a shotgun gauntlet similar to her own.
The gauntlet was painted to match her Pip-Boy and even held a similar aesthetic in design. It was a perfect gift because Pip-boy is basically melded with her left arm by this point.
"Awesome!" Kyra says, taking off the weight set she's worn since she's come to this world, said weight falls to the floor and cracks the wood upon impact.
"Oops." Kyra says, picking up one of the weights, as Yang also grabs the other one with both hands, surprise appearing on her face as she tests the weight in her hands for a second.
"Yikes! These things are like 500 kilos." Yang says in surprise, struggling to hold it for long.
Turns out the power scale on the pip-boy is exponential, and it gets significantly harder to increase with training once you pass 70, but Saiyans are training maniacs.
Intelligence went up from her experiments with combining dust and earth technology, which yielded some really good results with the founding of a company called Stark industries, which sells tech and weapons from the 1950s, and computer technology from the 90s and early 2000s.
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Kyra decided to keep a decent amount to herself, in order to stop it from being used for war against humans.
'Kinda took the Stark last name for myself.' she thought to herself, maybe there was some irony to be found with using the Stark name to make a weapons manufacturing company after tony had shut that down. But wasn’t Stark Industries already a weapons manufacturer before Tony got kidnapped?
Hell, there’s a miniature cap factory running in the garage, which makes around 1000 caps a day, and her total caps are around 50,000 at the moment, but she needs 100,000 for a nano suit, and a suit of T-60 power armor is 10,000 caps.
Luckily she had one when she crossed over, although for some weird reason it's stored in the Pip-boy frame and all, which is nice.
Thanks to the pip-boy, and Qrow's teachings, the scythe wielding skill reached level 3 and should be about equal with Ruby’s skill.
'I think Ruby has higher luck, though.'
As Kyra is thinking about things, Qrow walks in through the door to the living room. He took a nice big sip of the flask and put it away.
"Sorry I'm late, I was working with Ozpin to see what we could do about the production of anti-air platforms to defend vale from airborne Grimm attacks, Stark Industries is doing a lot of good." Qrow says, rustling Kyra’s air, only for her to smack his hand away.
'Oh yeah, I told Ozpin I dreamed about the fall of Beacon, and the thousands of flying Grimm that caused it.' Before handing him flak cannon designs and other anti-air designs.
It's amazing how all WWII weapon, and vehicle blueprints are stored on my Pip-boy. The technology is being used to provide a better quality of life for everyone.
I made the company Stark Industries with the help of Ozpin, and we are competing against the Schnee dust company, because it offers new alternatives to dust.
It's also treating Faunus' fairly, cause technically, I am one, and apparently we can use my tech against Atlas, because their technology functions on energy, and shielding from it, so it doesn't stop physical objects like the .50 caliber Mk 263 Black Tip, with a hardened steel core and features double valleys to reduce bearing surface thereby decreasing friction and increasing stability.
I remember meeting Weiss, of course I had my tail hidden, I know how humans are, I used to be one after all.
I also found out that I had a skill in Law, that I'm guessing transferred over from my law class, same with my managing skill I had in my previous life. Hmm….
I should try more of the skills I had in my previous life. They might even show up, sadly a mechanic skill didn't show up, it would have been useful when walking through a factory, to see if everything was functioning properly and check for part wear.
Then I met Blake while she was robbing from one of my warehouses with the White Fang, at the time I was level 24, and held my own against all of them, then revealed I was a 'Faunus', man did they look upset, because it was just after they accused me of pushing the Faunus people into slavery.
Blake left the White Fang after that, and I will probably see her at beacon, then there is Roman, man has he been busy, I couldn't even talk to him at all in the past 6 months, cause there was this massive mafia/gang war where the leader of the biggest gang was assassinated, and all the other gangs were all at each other's throats for territory.
Roman came out on top, not hurting innocents and disrupting Salem's plans without giving himself away, to be honest, well done, and that was after he went to the Branwen tribe and robbed them blind, sadly he's being forced to work for Cinder right now, well according
to Junior anyway.
"How strong are you now?" Yang asks, punching her fists together.
"Strong enough to punch and kill a death stalker with my bare fists." Kyra replies, blowing on her hands as if she just shot a .357 Smith and Wesson Revolver.
"You have bear fists?" Yang jokes, Finger guns pointed at Kyra, followed by a collective sigh around the room.
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Speeding down the road on her 4-wheeler, Ruby spoke up from behind her on the ATV.
"Why don't we run again?" Ruby asks, sulking that they couldn’t have a race.
"Do you want to keep having to pay to replace people's windows, Ruby?" Kyra asks, she and Ruby can both break the sound barrier, but only Ruby can do it silently.
"I could pull you along like I did the first time." Ruby protests.
"Why do you wanna hurry there? I wanna spend more time with you, since I'm getting sent to Beacon ahead of you." Kyra said as she moved to the side and sped ahead of an old lady driving a car down the road.
"Yep, however, your tail is making it hard for me to breathe." Ruby says.
"Die my instincts!!!" Kyra shouts, flooring the 4-wheeler, and pulling a wheelie.