Ironwood The Matchmaker

Once Mesa finished speaking, there was an awkward silence. Ozpin was having a silent headache while Glynda sighing, Mesa brought them no end of shocks and troubles. Ironwood was looking between the shamed Winter and the embarrassed Mesa and thinking silently. Among the adults, only Qrow had a happy look on his face, he was drinking while giving Mesa the thumb up sign. Qrow was truly impressed by Mesa and had new profound respect toward the youngman, Mesa managed to annoy Ironwood and Glynda far more than Qrow could even hope to do. He even got The Ice Queen marrying herself off to him. To Qrow, Mesa was a great and talented young man.

Ruby was still blushing, she didn't expect Mesa to be such a playboy. On the other hand, Weiss was looking at her sister. To think her sister assaulted a younger man left her shocked and blushing. Weiss shook her head and looked determined at Mesa, she will support her sister against the devil no matter what.

Ozpin coughed breaking the silence then said " I think we should leave, you two did a lot of damage and noise here. Glynda, if you please fix the damage."

Glynda nodded while Ironwood said " I would like to talk with specialist Schnee alone for now. We can continue our talking later, Ozpin "

Ozpin nodded then looked at Ruby and Weiss " You two should go back to your team for now "

Weiss replied " She is my sister, I have to stay with her "

Ozpin said " I understand miss Schnee, you can talk with her later. For now leave the matter to us "

Weiss said " But I …."

Winter interrupted " Weiss! Go with your team leader, I will talk with you later "

Weiss nodded reluctantly and left with Ruby. Ozpin looked at Mesa, who in return looked back and said " I know, I caused quite the trouble today. I will leave and save you seeing me for the rest of the day…. Also I will stop pranking and insulting you in any shape or form till the end of the festival, that is my bottom line. Bye"

Mesa then teleported away leaving Ozpin staring at the air. Glynda was pissed " I hate when he does that. We have to find a way to stop his teleporting semblance "

Qrow asked " Ozpin, What did he mean by stopping the insulting and pranking? "

Ozpin coughed " I will explain it to you later. James, once you finished talking with miss Schnee come to my office. Qrow come with me "

Ozpin left whole Qrow followed him. Glynda started repairing the surrounding. The general took his subordinate back to the ship.

unbeknownst to them, Mesa was less than 100m away from them. Mesa was standing inside a sweet shop, he ordered " Get me festival special cookies "

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In Winter's ship, Ironwood stood with serious face looking at Winter. The two were currently alone.

" Did Mesa tell the truth earlier? " Ironwood asked

" Yes sir …. He didn't tell any lie " Winter replied

" I'm disappointed in you. You lost your control over yourself because you had some drink. That is truly unbefitting of you " Ironwood told her

Winter muscles tensed hearing him, Ironwood continued " For lying to your superiors and hiding important information, you deserve a severe punishment "

Winter lowered her head. Ironwood didn't show any emotion as he continued " Keeping your honour was more important than anything to you, is that right?"

Winter flinched slightly and replied without raising her head " I couldn't bring myself to tell you the details. Back then, I was ashamed of my actions, I lost control and ended in a bed with a random young man and what is worse, he was the thief I was looking for. He made fun of me by leaving a note informing me about thievery. I didn't know his name or where he came from. I checked the cameras in the hotel, but he wasn't caught on anyone. He was like a ghost, what should I have told you? I kept trying to find him for since then. It is like he never existed in the first place "

Ironwood sighed " If it was someone else, the punishment will be directly being kicked out of the army "

Winter clenched her hand and said " I don't want any special treatment. I will receive my punishment no matter what "

Ironwood replied " I didn't mean it this way. If it was someone else other than Mesa. I would have kicked you. I'm not given you a special treatment "

Winter to the first time looked up at him, the confusion was apparent on her face.

Ironwood clarified " Somehow, in losing control and hiding the truth. You have save Atlas from a great disaster. Did you watch the news about the grimm incident the other day? "

Winter shook her head " I didn't have time to watch the news, but I heard from soldiers that the grims were stopped by a group of students "

Ironwood replied " That was barely correct. Here check this "

Ironwood took his scroll out and showed her the scenes from that day. Winter watched calmly at the beginning but her face was changing fast the more she watched. At the end of the video, she was completely shocked, she had never seen something like this before. She looked at the general " Sir, this is ?"

Ironwood answered her " This terrifying scene is the result of a single student using his semblance at full power "

Winter gasped at his words " How could this be ?"

Ironwood replied " Unbelievable? Isn't it? That was Mesa's semblance without holding back. If back then, you managed to caught him or informed us about him and somehow managed to corner the guy. Try to imagine what the result would have been. I have no doubt no matter who is going after him, they all will fail in hunting this monster down. You should know even after this, he didn't look weak or tired, I'm 100% sure he still can do the same move a second of even a third time. "

Winter gulped hearing this. Winter asked " I thought earlier his semblance is teleporting "

Ironwood nodded " That was his semblance as well. He got two semblances, the first can give him the ability to generate a repulsive or attraction force about specific centers like what you saw in the video. As for the second, we still don't understand how it works exactly, but it gives him the ability to teleport and becoming intangible. He can literally be untouchable, everything will pass through his body as if he was a ghost"

Winter stayed silent. Ironwood continued " That young man possess two rare and extremely powerful semblances. In addition, the magnitude of his power is a show case about his aura reserve. We estimate he got aura more than an elite huntsman by at least 20 folds. The worst part, he is not alone. Earlier he mention that a guy with the name Centos would have plundered the base instead of him. Centos is Mesa's brother, in term of strength he is equal to Mesa with semblances that by no mean weaker than Mesa's. I believe Centos's semblance is more offensive than Mesa's. I dread the idea of fighting 2 monsters at the same time. I doubt our army could lasted against them "

By now, Winter was completely numb. She couldn't believe such individual exist in the world. The strength of Mesa alone was something she would relate to god let alone the existence of two of them.

Ironwood gave her the last bomb " It doesn't end there!! There is a third brother who assumably is more dangerous than the two combined. Now, do you understand why you want receive a punishment ? "

Winter didn't respond, she was still trying to wrap her mind about all of this. Ironwood gave her some time to think to herself. Then he continued " I expect you to give him an apology"

Hearing this, winter tried to object " Sir this ..."

Ironwood didn't allow her and continued " Listen to the end. You said he made fun of you, but from what you and him said, you misunderstood the situation. He didn't make fun of you but tried to be honest with you, he tried to be sincere towards you but ended with the opposite results "

Winter retorted " He might be lying "

Ironwood shook head " I don't know him that well. But from my little interaction with him and the words of Glynda and Ozpin, Mesa wouldn't bother to lie. He says what he feels without care about other opinions. He doesn't care how other view him or react to him. He always do what he likes. With that kind of personality, he won't bother to lie. He didn't flinch or hesitate while saying ' I'm the thief ' "

Winter didn't comment, but she thought about it. If what the general said about his personality is true and from what she saw. He is way too brazen to bother lying.

Ironwood continued " I want you to apologize and mend your relationship with him. stay close to him and make him trust you. You are his wife after all "

" WHAT?! " Winter screamed, she never imagined her general to give her such an order

Ironwood reasoned " What done is done. Maybe you were drunk but that is not an excuse. You did the deed with him and even forced him to marry you. It might be unusual for minor to marry but is not against the law so it is legal no matter what you say. In addition, he was sincere toward you, a little bit irresponsible, but considering his age it is not a big deal. Beside you attacked him and nothing really happened to you. You should know he is not the merciful type. In the initiation, Glynda got angry at him and attacked him, her attacks were no where close to the intensity of yours or did want to kill him like you did. The result was Mesa nearly killing her, he even fought with Ozpin. Ozpin told me, if not for his little adoptive sister Ruby Rose, Mesa would have killed him and Glynda "

Winter got more shocked the more the general spoke. The general continued " He didn't attempt to kill you or harm you. He even ran around dodging you. He had never done something like this before nor did he ever show mercy to anyone. From his behaviour, I can tell he got a soft spot toward you "

" I-I ….." Winter wanted to say something but Ironwood didn't listen to her as he continued " You have a chance to fix your mistake and change the one night stand to a proper relationship. You can wash your shame, and if whoever want to insult you, will have to think a hundred time before angering Mesa. Even if you don't want to do it for yourself, then think of the good of Atlas. If a day come and his brothers decide to attack Atlas, we will have no way to defend against them. Among the three, Mesa is the only friendly one. Think about it carefully "

Ironwood left her alone after he finished speaking.