Something Alien in Remnant

The sound of a whistling firework followed by a loud explosion could be heard across Vale as the Heist at the docks was underway; Drawing the attention of the others including Jason who had been unwittingly transformed into Speedfreak who put two and two together about the Docks, however getting back to Beacon and finding people or the authorities would take too long even as a speedster. With a split second decision made; Speedfreak burned up the asphalt by sprinting towards the docks.

——At the Docks——

"You really aren't the brightest banana in the bunch, are you kid?" Torchwick taunted Sun as he readied his cane while having the White Fang poised at the ready; "Go get him."

Sun twirled his staff out and began to beat down the rushing soldiers that aimed to take him out. "What's wrong? Can't do anything to us without your buddies?" He taunted Torchwick as he aimed his staff at the mobster before rushing in to fight him.

"He's mine!" Blake yelled out as she hopped over Sun to attack from above while the blonde struck from below.

Torchwick was accustomed to getting jumped and his unorthodox style of swiping and bludgeoning seemed to equalise the fight. He chuckled as he caught Blake in an overhead swing and managed to shoot Sun with his Firework Gun. "You two are a real pair…But until my double gets here, I'm not interested…Seeya later!" Torchwick taunted before firing a flare up at the container above them; "Or not~" He cackled before rushing off to the sound of metal creaking and cables snapping.

The knock to her head had dazed Blake for a moment but by the time she got her bearings; the Container snapped and sent the giant crate falling down to squish them both….

CARASH!

The Container hit the ground with a noise that echoed throughout the pier and brought both Ruby and Penny to the rooftops as they had followed the sound of Torchwick's gun. "HEY!"

"Oh, hello Red…Isn't it past your…FWOOSH…Bedtime?" Torchwick was about to taunt when something moved at a supersonic speed past him with Blake and Sun on their arms.

Speedfreak let their visor pop up as they set Sun and Blake down; "You two okay?" They asked and flicked their tail.

"What the hell are you?!" Sun asked in a fit of wonder and fear since this was something he hadn't seen before but Blake certainly had during Forever Fall…albeit in a split second.

"He's a friend, Sun…Jason, you think you can help take him like this?" Blake asked, wanting to get the White Fang/Torchwick dealt with before the problems from earlier came back up.

"He can't hit me if he can't keep track." Speedfreak grinned as he zipped off and began to rally a quick series of punches to disorient and bug Torchwick. "Hey, jerkwad…Messing with Dock equipment's illegal…"

"What is it with these weirdoes today?" Torchwick mentally sighed as he aimed at Speedfreak when they slowed down; "So, Zippy…What's your story? You friends with the kid and the goop thing too?" He quizzed and kept the muzzle trained on him.

"And if I am…Then I'll make sure it's even more of your problem." Speedfreak taunted him before vanishing into super speed again; Making sure to nail hit after hit on him as he tried to build up the damage.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Torchwick yelled out as he then shot at the ground, knocking the terrain off balance for Speedfreak as he toppled over and skidded on the ground. "Heh, Got you now you blurry little…." Torchwick gripped his cane and readied himself to start bludgeoning him.

"HEY!" Ruby yelled up at him as she readied her rifle; "You leave him alone!"

"Are you serious, red? I'm gonna nip this in the bud." Torchwick smirked as he then saw Penny peering over the edge out of curiosity; "Perfect…" He mused as he then shot at the innocent looking girl, though what he wasn't expecting was to see Ruby push her out of the way and take the shot for her; sending her flying backwards in the process.

Penny had her curious look turn to one of anger as she had her literal "Enemy Detected" Sensors going off; "Time to get Combat Ready!" She called out as she jumped down.

"Penny? We can team up, I'll keep Torchwick and the guys down here occupied and you handle the next part along with the jets." Speedfreak suggested as he looked to her.

"Right, but what will you do, strange being?" Penny asked as she was curious about this new creature that was standing in front of her.

"You ever heard of clay pigeon shooting?" Speedfreak hinted as he shut the visor down on his face and sped off towards the mob of White Fang who began their volley of bullets and yells to get the two of them.

"I understand; I shall target accordingly, Fast Lizard." Penny remarked as she targeted the airships flying in.

"The name is SpeedFreak!" He yelled as he dashed off without another word; moving between the WF attackers like a blur of fists and tail whips. 

"What's taking so long to beat a bunch of kids?!" Torchwick yelled at them but then balked when he saw the blur around them circling faster and faster.

"Alright, just need to get them high enough and we can get this done right!" Speedfreak thought as he picked up speed enough to create a tornado around them and send the White Fang into the air with the updraft; "Alright, Penny! PULL!" He yelled out to signal her.

"Roger!" Penny responded as she started to use her floating array of sword to fire precision shots and knock each White Fang Member out of the wind trap and into unconsciousness.

However it looked like despite Penny having shot down the other airships, one lay hanging low and out of sight enough for Torchwick to climb on to. "Transforming freaks and laser shooting kids? Everyone just keeps getting weirder!" Torchwick though as he yelled at the pilot to take them out of there and flew away into the night.

——Later——

Speedfreak and Penny had rounded up the White Fang who got caught up and handed them over to the police while the others were questioned. However by the time that Team RWBY and what remained of NPR had come to the docks to investigate what happened, most of it had revolved around Blake.

"So this is what you get up to when we're not around, huh?" Nora asked Speedfreak as they finished with the WF and decided to leave Ruby and the others to talk with Blake. "Because I gotta say, we were stuck waiting around for you for the longest while..Pyrrha was starting to get worried about you." 

Pyrrha blushed a little as Nora called her out; "H-Hey…I was just worried that someone might have caught you out in public and you got taken somewhere." She stammered as she watched him curiously; "Though that begs the question, how come you're like this? The last time we saw you was when you were that giant hound." She would ask him since she definitely remembered Speedfreak from the Forest.

"Well…You were kind of half right." Speedfreak explained before going over what happened; Him being cornered by Neo, her using perfume to overwhelm his senses and then knocking him out to get him interrogated by Torchwick. "So when I heard that explosion here, I dashed off to try and help."

The others nodded but then something didn't seem to click, it was around when they noticed that Jason hadn't shown up and it was now nighttime; "Uh…Jason…How long have you been Speedfreak?"

Speedfreak raised an eyebrow; "Well…Being this guy kind of makes it hard to keep track of time so maybe…Few minutes, give or take?" He theorised and then looked around himself and noticed that he wasn't beeping or flashing.

"…It's been nearly an hour…Don't you normally run out after like five minutes?" Ren asked curiously as he was started to get concerned that this wasn't normal even for Jason.

"That's weird…Now that you mention it, there was that time in between Torchwick interrogating me th-" Speedfreak froze once the penny dropped and a sudden thought came to mind; "Oh…my…God…"

"What, What is it?!" Nora asked as she realised that if Jason was getting worried than it can't be good; "Are you stuck like this now?!" 

"No way…I can't be stuck like this for good! Come on…Normal…Normal…Normal! Human! Me!" Speedfreak thought to himself as he speed-paced; though to everyone else, it looked like he was buzzing on the spot. However after a few seconds of this, he turned back from Speedfreak into Jason with a dimmer flash of light.

"I think I know what just happened to me…" Jason said and he started to grin widely.

——Meanwhile on the other side of town——

Torchwick groaned as he lit up a cigar once he locked up the warehouse, "Great, so it isn't just the fact that I lost ALL my money! Or the fact that I'm now plagued with a kid that is friends with not one but TWO new freaks that want to pick at me! It has to be the fact that Little Red and her wannabe hero friends decided to ruin my shot at getting some money back!" He yelled into the echoing expanse of the warehouse but stopped when he heard a familiar tap of heels; "And where were you this whole time? I thought I told you to not be late!" He reprimanded Neo with a stern look.

"I did precisely as you asked and got our friend ready for more questioning…When I got back to check and see if he was ready to be transported, he was gone." Neo texted to him; "So I've been spending the best part of an hour trying to find him!" She ranted at him through text with puffed cheeks.

"Then you should've…Okay, never mind…I can't even get mad at you right now." Torchwick sighed as he sat on a crate; "We're down 8 mill and with that flaming chick breathing down our necks, we need to get a steady source of cash flow going…Thankfully we still have one of the warehouses that we can offload to another base and black market the crap out of it."

On cue, another voice popped up; "How very disappointing Roman, I thought that you were going to be filling this place up with Dust as you so put it." Cinder mentioned as she looked around at all the free space.


"Look, I've been dealing with a lot today and the fact that the mutts from the White Fang could barely scratch up enough to cover our losses…You can't blame me for the whole thing." Torchwick pointed out as he gestured to Cinder with his cigar but flinched when she made it light up again.

"True, I can't…But I also can't ignore the fact that I went out of my way to sweeten the deal for you to aid in our plans and this is all that you have to offer for me?" Cinder mentioned as a tan skinned girl and a silver haired boy shook their heads at him.

"You're telling me that you expect us to deal with not just a bunch of kids with more arsenal than the cops but also some weird monsters with freaky powers on top of THAT too?" Torchwick remarked incredulously and threw the cigar to the side since it was now burned.

"I asked you to do something and I expect you to do it." Cinder warned him as she made a fireball in her hands; "Though that whole thing with monsters and powers does have me curious." She admitted as she grabbed a chair and sat opposite of the two with a smirk. "So, tell me more about this "Kid" who stole your money and his friends~"

——The Following Morning in Ozpin's Office——

"You wanted to see me, Professor?" Jason asked as he opened the door and walked in.

"Yes, take a seat…There is something that I've been deliberating over and we think could help things forward." Ozpin explained as he watched the boy pull up a chair.

"Myself and Professor Ozpin have been monitoring you with your progress, not just after the last conversation that we had…But since you had joined Beacon." Glynda explained as she noted his grades; "You've been rather exemplary with your academia here and from what we've discerned, you've been able to do so without relying entirely on that watch of your's."

"I uh…Try not to lean on it too much when I don't have to because of it's time limit." Jason explained as he felt a little embarrassed by what he could tell was a veiled compliment from Goodwitch; "However there's something that might have…Changed that."

Ozpin leaned forward in his desk; they had spent a good few days determining all of his forms ranging from the crystal being called Gemomancer to a four-armed being known as Titan, Jason had originally intended to call it Atlas but Ozpin opted for the former since it would've been less confusing. "What exactly?"

Jason thought long and hard about what he was going to tell them; it was one thing to explain the changes but he couldn't exactly spill how it was that it came to be; "I was messing around with it while trying to help find Blake…Then the next thing I know, I heard an explosion and rushed to go find out what was wrong, I didn't even notice that something had changed until it was pointed out."

Ozpin nodded, he wasn't that much of a simpleton to realise that there was a lot more to what he was saying but he didn't want to pry anymore unless it alienated Jason. "That doesn't answer the question, what is it that's changed?"

"Well, I think I might have unlocked a Master Control of the Watch…So now instead of transforming by pressing it." Jason said as he remained still but then in a brief flash of green; he had transformed into Sunspot. "I can do it by thinking of the form I want to take."

Ozpin was surprised that this could change that much with him; "I see…And it does this with all of them? Including the armoured ones?" 

"I never actually tested it but let's find out." Sunspot admitted and decided to turn the symbol on his chest; Slowly having more and more armour form around him until it finally stopped.

Standing in front of Glynda and Ozpin was the new Armoured Sunspot: His head was encased in a dark orange helmet, with his flame still being cast out of a vent at the top which was currently closed, a lighter orange visor with yellow dots for eyes and three grillplates as a mouthguard. His neck and shoulders were covered by orange plating while his right arm had white segmented armor and an orange gauntlet for his hand. His left arm ended instead in an orange cannon, with the middle portion containing parts of Sunspot's inner magma body. His white torso piece is separated from his neck piece by metal tubes that also go around to his back, his legs were also covered by white armor plating for his thighs and dark orange for his knees, shins and feet, with two sets of metal tubes connecting the thighs and shins together. "So this is probably the first time that I used this thing, so I'm not gonna test it in your office with all due respect." Sunspot mentioned with a metallic grating to his voice like he was actually inside armour.

"My thanks, I don't think that it would be a good look if you melted my office like candle wax." Ozpin playfully chided him; "Though judging from that arm-gun, it would be better to play it safe even when it comes to training…"

"It doesn't look like it has affected much on this side." Sunspot admitted as he noticed that nothing out of the ordinary however after a couple of minutes, he heard the usual beeping before the armour timed out of both that AND the Sunspot form.

"Interesting, so you seem to have full control of your base form but the additional options like your armoured forms seem to still time it out." Ozpin noted it down on the "List of things to monitor Jason for" Bullet points.

"I think it might apply to the Grimm forms but I don't think it'd be a good idea to test on them yet." Jason explained as he then took a seat.

"Probably for the best in this time…But I do have another reason for calling you here." Ozpin explained as he brought up Nora, Ren and Pyrrha's profiles along with his own. "Even when Mr Arc was still present, you maintained a good rapport and demonstrated you have good skills as a tactician along with a decent friendship with team JNPR…Though while I do have good trust in Ms Nikos in her leadership, I can't just simply have one solo person and a team comprised of three so I would like to offer you a question…"

Jason nodded as he watched to see what Ozpin would ask of him.

"Would you like to take over as the new Team Leader for Team JNPR?"