We All Lift Together|A RWBY story

A normal day

Cold the air and water flowing. Hard the we call our home.Push to the dark from coming.Feel the weight of what We Owe.
This the song of son's and daughters.hide the Heart of who We are. Making peace to  Build our future. Strong united working till we Fall
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*Ring**Ring**Ring*

The bell both a curse and a blessing depending on when you get your brake. Closing a white leather book with a broken gear and hammer on it
A young man wearing winter working gear getting up from a oil drum he'd grab his hammer and head to his work station.

What was his work station? Nailing wither it was a nail in the ground or a or a heated rivet in a wall he'd hit it to a certain rhythm.This song the life blood of his people.A song of hope that the hard labor they do today will build a better future for the next generation. His hammer was his great grandfathers but his grandfather made it the families by reinforcing it and carving the clan symbol in it

Now it weighted alot more than the standard it required augmentations to use effectively. Finally getting to his station on the massive pipe that keeped the work site from flooding back to a cold ruin filled swamp
Today's job was simple replace the rivets with new reinforced ones while someone else removed the old ones.

It was a simple one two punch place the rivet than swing,place the rivet than swing the pipe was mostly wide not really tall so the only common hazard was either braking your back or foot with a wrong swing,sparks blowing back in your face because you forgot your helmet or getting the bones in your hand turned to dust because some idiot was blind he knew that from personal experience

Coming to the start of the pipe (Y/N) saw a familiar face belonging to his best friend and working partner Ivan kalashnikov. He's been friends with the polar bear faunus since he could hold a hammer. Funny thing is The Kalashnikov family are free people. They lived in the region for as long as anyone could remember they just showed up one day looking for work and no one really mind they where honestly shocked that they willing asked to work.

Ivan:"so (y/n) what is today's work"
(Y/n):" just some standard stuff today"

The pair would walk onto the pipe placing on their helmets and coming to the first connection point it would play out normal Ivan would remove one of the bolts and (y/n) would bang in a new one they've done it enough that if you blinded them they could do it only stepping on a foot or hitting a hand a few times so they could safely talk and work.

Ivan:"so...(y/n) when are you going to get a girlfriend huh
(Y/n):" Hah grimm have a better chance of having a love-life than me getting a girlfriend"

Ivan:"I don't know man you hang out with Sabina alot"
(Y/n):"Sabina?,na it's more of a brother sister relationship more than anything"

Completing the first section They'd walk down the pipe to the next one while (y/n) would prepare the nails Ivan would have trouble removing the old one.

Ivan:(struggling)"i know this section rusted faster than the others but by ohm this one is stuck.
(Y/n):" ya I know did you try the crowbar"
Ivan:"no I did not"

Taking out the crowbar Ivan would try and remove it only to slip and roll off the pipe

(Y/n):" they really need to put a wet pipe sign here
Ivan:"yaa now help me up you metal armed bastard"
(Y/n):"ya ya whatever you say polar express"

Laying down (y/n) would out stretch his hand to help pull Ivan back onto the pipe carefully as not to slide off himself

(Y/n):" Good ohm man how do you smell like vodka you don't even drink it"
Ivan:"Its my natural smell,Now do you have any fire dust?"
(Y/n):"ya,why do you ask?"
Ivan:"you see My cybernetic comrade Bolt can't be stuck if its liquid da"
(Y/n):" true I guess you strange strange Russian bear"

Taking out a small crystal of fire dust he'd sit it on the Bolt standing up (y/n) would prepare to swing his hammer he'd get interrupted by Ivan

Ivan:"hold up comrade you remember that bet that every time you swing that hammer you shout URAA or I taze you"
(Y/n):"ya ya I know I know"

Swinging down his hammer shouting URAAAA he'd hit the dust causing it to explode melting the Bolt head and knocking the rest down into the large pipe  Only slightly blackening ivans small white fluffy tail

[Timeskip brought to you by chibi Ivan and (Y/n) Swinging plastic hammers at normal Sabina's ankles]

Making it back to the barracks (y/n) would find his bunk and retire for the night to restart the daily loop

(Ivan)

(Being a free worker Ivan can come and go when his job is done so he is overall safe having no visible augmentations)
(Sabina)

(Working in the smelter workshop Sabina is exposed to more dangerous conditions and as such received more extensive augmentations)