An unknown group of people rest atop a hill eyes peering into binoculars. "There it is." One of the men announce. Through the specs, they spot a shipping container with the "Schnee Dust Company" logo on it. Securely riding on a train. "Let's move." another one of the men says.

Meanwhile on the train, someone waits in the passenger section. He checks his watch, "Almost to vale." He thinks to himself. He was around 17 years of age, with silver hair, blue eyes. He sported a black Carbon fibre mesh bodysuit, underneath some polished metal chestplate and gauntlets. He clutched a helmet reminiscent to that of a fighter pilot's with a large, tinted visor and an oxygen mask. His lower half consists of grey cargo pants with black knee pads. His breastplate is a lot bigger in the back, with a design similar to some kind of concealed backpack. A circular blue light is present near the middle of his spine. His chest has glowing blue letters that read "PROJECT - ICARUS" A series of loud bangs is heard, catching his attention. He peers through the window, spotting a group of men surrounding a dust container. A group of guards rush to stop them, but are quickly apprehended. The teenager grins. "Finally, something interesting." he says as he puts on his helmet, a heads up display fills his view.

A female voice breaks the silence after the guards are dropped. "Get the crate detached immediately, the chopper is on it's way! You, search the passengers for weapons!" The supposed leader of the group, who is concealed in a cloak, yells to her henchmen. The men quickly start cutting chains that are tying the crate down. One runs into the passenger car, but is then thrown into the crate seconds later. The men quickly turn to see the teenager step out of the car with a grin on his face.

"Hey guys, how's your health plan?" He says as his gauntlets flip out control sticks. The woman, still concealed. Points at him with a pink and white umbrella, "What are you all waiting for, kill him!"

The men drop their cutters and pull out katanas, they rush the teen, who laughs. A tri-barreled machine gun pops out from his left shoulder blade and positions itself over his shoulder.

"APPARENTLY IT'S GREAT!" The teen shouts as his gauntlet turns on a laser sight, he positions it on the closest enemy and pulls the trigger on his left control stick. The gatling gun opens fire, tearing through the enemy's aura. The baddie collapses, but the three others manage to get close to him. He jumps back quickly, as his lack of a melee weapon puts him at a disadvantage in close quarters. However, he's more than capable of creating distance. He leaps upwards and downs the second baddie. The third swings his katana, the teenager blocks it with his gauntlet, the katana shatters, leading to a swift kick off of the train. The Teenager looks to the woman, who scoffs. "Pathetic, those damn faunus never send good men." She looks to him, her eyes are discolored, one pink, the other a dark brown. "Tell me, Atlas boy, who are you?"

The teenager smirks. "Chrom Blackstar, not that you'll remember that. And you are?" The Woman throws off her cloak, she wears an outfit with large amounts of white and pink with dark brown sprinkled in as a tertiary color. Her hair matches the color pallete. "Hmm...people simply call me...Neo."

Chrom opens fire on Neo, but she shatters like glass. In fact everything in front of him shatters. He's able to spot a plane speeding away, but Chrom grins.

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Neo smiles as she heads into the cargo hold of the plane, seeing the large crate she had just stolen. "That kid put up a bit of a fight, but in the end, he was nothing but a foolish kid fro-" She is interrupted by a volley of gatling gun fire hitting the hull of the plane. "What?! That's impossible! There's no way he could possibly have enough range to hit us at this distance." She yelled out loud. Neo angrily opened the back of the cargo hold, only to freeze "What the fuck?" she mutters as she sees Chrom behind them, his backpack this whole time was some kind of armed, jetpack wingsuit! Neo wasn't going to stand for this. She pointed her umbrella at the pursuer, "Nice job catching up to us, flyboy, but how's your maneuverability!?" She shouted before pulling the trigger on her umbrella. A 50. Caliber round is fired out of it. Time almost seems to slow to a crawl for Chrom, he smiles. "Better than you, Ice cream girl." he chuckles, before flying into the back of the plane and behind Neo. Chrom can quickly feel his aura draining, so time speeds up to normal, he dives behind the crate, readying his second weapon. "Wha-what the hell?!" Neo exclaims after noticing her missing pursuer. Chrom opens the crate before standing back up

"Hey Ice cream bitch!" he shouts, a second weapon pops out from his opposite shoulder, aimed at the open crate. Neo's eyes widen, "Think fast!" Chrom shouts as he pulls the trigger, a missile launches out of his shoulder, exploding and knocking the crate into Neo, knocking her out of the plane with the explosion detonating all of the dust. The plane starts to descend rapidly. Chrom dashes out the cargo bay. Touching his wrists together causes his hexagonal pattern wings to unfold. Chrom pushes the button on the top of the stick and 3 thrusters fire on his back, propelling him to supersonic speeds. He passes over Neo, who's using her umbrella to float down to the ground, she glares menacingly at him.

"That fucking brat."

RWBY: CELESTE

A Fan-Made Prequel to RWBY.

Author's Note

I've entertained the Idea of 'what if there was a character in RWBY who fought from the air rather than the ground?' for a long time, this is a concept for a story I've been thinking of making, seeing as I've gotten back into RWBY, what with Volume 6 giving me a ship to care about (HERE COME THE BEEEEEEES!)

Anyway back to CLST, I should be doing 'lapis lazuli blue teaser,' 'scarlet red teaser' and 'titanium yellow teaser' at some point soon before I draft the main story, so stay tuned.

I also never do this, but I recently read the fic 'Forlorn' by JayEmEl and lemme tell ya, probably the best fic I've ever read. It's a bumbleby fic, but the writing and story is SO well done. I highly recommend you check it out.

Over and out.

...by the way, props to any of you who got the TeamFourStar reference I threw in there.