35 Infiltrate Beacon Academy

Cinder takes out her scroll and taps on the touch screen to release of a simulation of the entire layout of Beacon Academy, then she tosses her scroll on the throne table and widens the simulation by spreading it closer with both of her hands like she was doing a butterfly swimming stroke. The imagine grew bigger and there were red pinpoint dots on each of the three stories of Beacon Academy. The layout of the academy building is rather simple, first you have the middle level; which is the main gates and main grounds of the academy which housed all the Huntsmen and Huntress students inside of dorm rooms in groups of four(EX: Team RWBY- Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long- Thier first names make up the group name; Ruby Weiss Blake Yang-RWBY) then above the middle level was the Beacon Tower where the Headmaster Professor. Ozpin stays at in his main office keeping guard over the entire academy. Below the high level(Beacon Tower) and middle level was a restricted area below the academy itself (Like a hidden basement), only a few could enter this lower level known as the Beacon Vault(This vault contained perhaps one of the most powerful secrets known to the academy itself and Vale. The Fall Maiden.) Only Ozpin is granted full access to this level.

Cinder spins around the simulation and then targets a specific area by pinching her finger together, "The plan is very simple, me and four other young members will infiltrate Beacon Academy and disguise ourselves as third-year Junior Students(Beacon Academy follows the same rules of Highschool traditions), we will blend in with the students and cover the grounds of the entire school until we find the entrance into Beacon's Vault, then Neo will transform and disguise herself into one of the highest esteem Huntsman or Huntress so that she can have a one and one meeting with Ozpin, then she will copy his body form once she finds the vaults precise location. Once we find it, we will trap the 'real' Ozpin inside of this." Cinder takes out the darkest dust crystal anyone has ever lied their eyes on, its pure blackness mixed in with a dark purple hew which kind of resembled a shadow.

"What exactly is that?" Salem says with peaked interest.

"This only a fragment of how much power a dust crystal can wield, it is called dark matter dust, it contains thousands of heavily compressed dust crystals of every element fused with negative dark aura, to put it into perspective, if this dust crystal is larger and wider in size it will be able to contain Ozpin's immortal body and stop him from reincarnating into another human host by negating all his magical, time semblance, and aura powers, thus trapping him inside the crystal so that we may bring him to you." Cinder said in a slow and informative tone so that Salem could understand every word she was saying.

"Hmm, maybe you aren't so useless after all." Salem grabs the dark matter dust crystal with her little hands and inspects it closer to her face. "Interesting, you have my attention Cinder, but which team will you take with you to infiltrate Beacon?" She asked.

"My two henchman Emerald and Mercury. Maybe Shadow as well." Cinder coughs with a smile, her throat was still sore after what transpired in her bedroom.

"Very well, bring over Shadow and the rest of your team so I can give them a briefing."

Cinder signals Neo to bring Shadow and the rest of her group into Salem's throne room.

Moments later...

Shadow walks in the throne room with the cutesy Neo. Shadow was wearing his normal attire of a leather jacket and black-v neck undershirt, his face is full of disgust when he sees Cinder sitting with her slender pale legs crossed like nothing fucking happen.

'I hate that bitch so fucking much.' Shadow walks past her and sits as far away as possible from her.

Arthur Watts was fixing Salem's throne room with a colossal sized humanoid mecha-robot that had a bright white and gold color paint around it. The mecha was using gravity magnets to lift up the fallen brick and wood derby scattered across the throne room, just like Glynda Goodwitch's semblance the mecha robot put every derby back into perfect position and reconstructed Salem's entire throne room.

"Ah, so this is Cinder's new pet." Arthur chuckles as he gets off the giant mecha robot in a stylish fashion and hovers to Shadow with his hoverboots( Like Iron Man's jet-boots)

"Fuck you! I am no one's pet!" Shadow snarls as he clenched his fist, at this moment he wasn't tied up or cuffed( Not like any of those things would him down, unless it was Cinder's flame ropes which were fucked up, the more he struggled the more powerful the flames on the rope became, she is such a sadistic bitch, she was lucky that he was out of aura and manna, or she would have been dead in that very moment, even though it felt pretty good for him to release himself).

"Maybe you should keep your pet on a leash." Arthur puffs up his jacket and shakes off machine oil from his hands, he been working on a new superweapon project back in his laboratory before he was summoned into Salem's throne.

Shadow is pissed beyond measure, he wanted to kill everyone in the room again, but he knew it would be futile, he would be outnumbered again by the Knights of Salem and every other villain in the RWBY verse, that and Salem who looked quite adorable in her loli-form, well adorable and evil looking.

"Shadow you have proven your powers, but you haven't proven your allegiance to me. You tried to kill me and everyone in my castle, that is very much punishable by death, but instead, I have an important mission for you." Salem stands up and is barely reaching eye-level with Shadow.

'Damn she is pretty cute up close." Shadow thought to himself as he looked into her deep red eyes and tiny 4,7 ft body that was in a tight black long dress.

Shadow: "What is the mission? And I only tried to kill you guys because you attacked me first." He crossed his arms and stared down Salem with his silver-red eyes. His eyes kept changing color depending on which bloodline and form were active(At this moment his Demon Eyes and Faunus form were in full force, his Grimm bloodline was growing eviler by the second, so he contain it by staying in his Faunus form which had dark silver-white hair like Ozpin, but no Faunus features, not yet, they laid dormant. Shadow was barely keeping his human form only with his Draconic Grimm shifting abilities which made him look like a young Ozpin with whiter hair and red eyes.

"The mission is to infiltrate Beacon Academy as a student and capture or assassinate the Headmaster known as Ozpin." Salem angrily clenched her fist when she said that 'name'.

Shadow: "What is it in for me?"

Salem: "Riches beyond your imagination and an unlimited supply of dust, spells, and powers that can make you more powerful than a God, you will also be at the front lines with me in my new perfect world, which will be rid of the real evil which is humanity itself."

'Tempting offer, I get to finally go to Beacon Academy and meet team RWBY, if I play my cards right I can get them to fight Salem with me and then make them join me after her defeat once I become the ruler of all of Remnant, but before I do that I must get my revenge on that bitch Cinder. I assume I have to team up with that psycho along with Emerald, Neo, and Mercury; Soon Roman Torchwick and others will join the fray as well as we all bring down Beacon Academy. I think I am close to choosing which side I want to be in.' Shadow clenched his fist, he knew that these villains only gave him one thing. Power. He had tested out his strength, abilities, and powers by killing the many Grimm in the Land of Darkness and then fighting Adam, Emerald, Mercury, Cinder, Neo, and Salem in though epic battles. The villains had sharpened his skills and powers into a deadly destructive weapon. So he thought that staying longer with them would make him more powerful than he already is.

"Alright, Salem I accept your mission. Under a certain condition." Said Shadow as he walked closer to her.

"And what would that be?" Salem takes another sip of wine from her glass cup.

"I am going to need new combat gear and a weapon." Shadow grinned as he holds out his hands for a handshake.

"Get your filthy paws away from her!" Tryian enters the room angrily, he is followed by an injured Emerald and Mercury who looked at Shadow with pure hate in their eyes. They wanted to kill the hell out of him.

Salem pushed aside Tryian and shakes Shadow's hands, "I can arrange that with our best engineer(Arthur) and our best weapons designer." She looks over at Arthur and then calls Adam to tell him to make a weapon for Shadow.

"Good. Let me pick the designs." Shadow takes Cinder's wine and drinks all of it in one gulp, then flicks his middle finger at her.

"Remeber all of you have one year to train and prepare for the inflation of Beacon Academy. There is another mission I want you to take today Shadow, there will also be more missions in the meantime to train you for the infiltration of Beacon Academy." Salem hands him over an envelope.

"Cinder and Adam will be going with you to a specially designated area. Your weapons and gear will be ready by then. Now go out and show me how powerful and worthy you really are." Salem waves everyone off to get out of her throne room.

'I will become a legend no matter what. I survived long enough in this hell, its time I fight back for good.' Shadow clenched his fist and glared directly at Cinder who was sharping her onyx-steel blades, she then winks at him. Shadow starts thinking of the numerous ways of how to get his revenge on Cinder. As he walks out the throne doors, he was stopped by Emerald and Mercury.

Mercury: "We got some unfinished business to talk about." He punched his knuckles together.