A/N:

Hey everyone. So I am a new author and I have always been a huge fan of both RWBY and Destiny since both of them started and I noticed from the beginning the similarities between the two and thought that they would make a good crossover story. I've read a few of the stories others posted on this site and I noticed that the majority of them have their main Destiny characters played by either hunters or warlocks, so I decided to try my hand at this with a titan.

My only request for readers is to keep in mind that this is my first time trying to write anything other than a paper or letter and I'm not an English major so grammar errors are going to happen. I'll do my best to find and correct them, but they're going to happen. Also I would appreciate any and all questions, comments, ideas, and constructive criticism on the story as it progresses. Criticism for the sake of criticism will be ignored. I'm writing this to have fun and hopefully provide an enjoyable read for any that are interested. I welcome and will try to respond as quickly as I can to anyone that offers something that they believe will benefit the story. All that said, let's get on with the story.

For those familiar with the timelines, this story will start post Rise of Iron in Destiny and roughly a few weeks or so before the start of Volume 1 in RWBY.

DISCLAIMER:

I do not own RWBY or Destiny. They are owned by Rooster Teeth and Bungie respectively.

Chapter 1:

Well today could have gone better. It had been a very routine patrol for Max. It had started as a simple extermination mission, the bread and butter of any titan. Hunters made great scouts and assassins, warlocks were scholars by nature but still knew their way around a weapon and could unleash devastating magics when necessary, but when the fighting got serious; send in the titans. The Cabal had been taking a special interest in the Clovis Bray research facility on Mars and in an unexpected move, the Cabal had made a large push for the facility and pushed the Tower's forces out. Now they had begun to dig in inside one the more remote research sites for some reason. The Vanguard, which served as the operational nerve center for all Guardian operations, had sent hunters in to investigate why the Cabal had pushed so hard for this territory in particular and they had not been able to come up with any reason other than they wanted it for the defensive position that it offered for when they decided to continue their advance in the seemingly endless three-way war that waged between the Vex, the Cabal, and the Guardians. The hunters had been excited for the chance to explore previously ignored territory. The warlocks for their part were itching for a chance to uncover more pre-Collapse secrets from the ancient research center, but first needed the place cleared for their study. Ikora Rey had practically been drooling at the prospect of learning more from the Clovis Bray facilities. Zavala had been livid when he learned of the Cabal's advance. In response he had sent his protégé, Max with his Ghost Spark. If anyone had the courage to challenge the legendary titan commander in his rage, they might have pointed out that Max was likely overkill as a response to the Cabal. It was likely better suited for a less experienced team that needed more missions under their belt. Zavala apparently wanted to send a message to the Cabal that they would not soon forget, so it was decided that Max would be the one to spearhead the effort to reclaim the Clovis Bray facility.

[No kidding. I know you've always been prone to weird things, but how you landed us here is still beyond me. And I've already run through the events a few dozen times. Best I can say is we have the worst luck.] Max's Ghost, Spark said in his head. "Hey it's not my fault that Cayde's scouts missed this Vex vault here on Mars." Max said in his defense while ducking back behind a wall to avoid the fire from the group of goblins that had marched up to take the place of the four that had just fallen to Max's Shadow Price. Reloading, Max poked his head out again and grinned inside of his helmet as he noticed that the Vex had grouped close together as they tended to. While the intent was to make suppressive fire easier when they lacked the benefit of cover, to Max it was a wordless request for a grenade. The center goblin soon had its wish granted in the form of a magnetic grenade beeping at an increasingly higher frequency and pitch on its chest. A brief moment and two purple, void explosions later there was no evidence that the five goblins that had just blocked the hall ever existed. Max walked deeper into the vault leaving behind the remains of the fight that he had with the Cabal that had been pulled into the vault with him and its Vex defenders.

"And it's definitely not my fault that whatever the Cabal were after here woke up all these Vex. Or that the hydra mind that had been running this place decided to overload the time-gate and pull all of us through into this place rather than just send its soldiers out to our end." Max chuckled and grinned again. "Emphasis on had been." [Speaking of that hydra, I get that we were in a tight spot at the time, but I really hope that using the Fist of Havoc on that thing's head was worth it. You shattered its mind core and now we may be stuck wherever or whenever we are.] "Look, I get that it's bad Spark, but we have been through crazy stuff like this before and we haven't explored this whole place yet. In fact, we just got here and this place looks pretty big. Let's make sure we can't find a way out before we start getting pessimistic." Max replied in a more serious tone. "Plus you were transmitting everything to the Tower after we found the Cabal messing with that gate so worst case scenario there should already be a fireteam on its way to activate it again right?" [Well yes I was transmitting to the Tower, but all of the Vex gates are connected to each other. Meaning anything that passes through one of their gates passes through all of the gates. Which means that even though they know which gate we went in, they won't have any way of knowing which gate we came out of because technically there is now a timeline for every gate that we could have come out of.] Max frowned and slowed his pace a bit. "So we're on our own here then. Fine we can handle this. We work best on our own anyway. This just means that we can't rely on anyone breaking us out of here and we need to find our own way out." Max said in his all-business tone. [I don't understand how you manage to remain so positive.] "One of us has to." Max replied dryly as he continued deeper into the vault and encountered a few other small patrols of goblins that were all quickly dealt with. About an hour of exploring later, Max came through a high archway out into a huge, cylindrical room with the largest time gate that he had ever seen before at the center. Like all of the other gates the surface of the portal had an almost fluid like surface that appeared to be as flat as lake that had not experienced a breeze across its surface in ages.

"Woah, this thing could send Vex anywhere dozens at a time. And they just let us get here with almost no resistance? Can't help but wonder why they would do that. I would have thought they'd try to keep us from it, rather than practically invite us here." Max questioned. As soon as Max finished his question, dark lightning clouds appeared all around the large cylindrical room that housed the hundred-meter tall gate. At the same time a massive door that Max had not noticed in the archway he had passed through slammed shut. [You had to say it.] Spark deadpanned. The maelstrom around the room grew more and more violent as the Vex began to appear out of them. Over a dozen minotaurs teleported into the room, each with five goblins, three hobgoblins, and eight harpies around them.

[They let us get here with no resistance he says!] Spark shouted in Max's head. [It could send dozens of Vex anywhere he says! You'd think they'd guard it he says! If we make it out of this alive, I might kill you myself for jinxing us like this.] "Yeah well get in line apparently." Max said worriedly as the Vex began turning slowly and menacingly arming their weapons. "Any ideas on getting us out of here?" [Just one, and you won't like it.] "Don't say it." Max pleaded while chambering the first round in his Shadow Price auto rifle and a minotaur issued a challenging screech and pointed at Max. The other Vex in the room issued the same screech in answer and all hell broke loose as the Vex collectively began firing at Max. [Get me near the gate! We might be able to use this thing to get out of here.] "You said it." Max said dejectedly as he began dodging Vex fire as best he could and returning fire with his rifle and throwing grenades where he could.

Max knew from experience that the goblins' rapid fire slap rifles presented only a minor threat to his heavy armor, but the harpies' wielding three of them at once would melt through fairly quickly if they were able to focus on one specific part of his armor. The minotaurs and hobgoblins on the other hand were much more dangerous. The hobgoblins' charging line rifles would pierce Max's armor in two shots or if he was lucky three, and the minotaurs' heavy void cannons would tear his armor apart in short order on a direct hit.

Max's attention was focused on avoiding the fire of the minotaur cannons and at least making the hobgoblins' shots glancing blows as he proved that any titan worth their weight in spit was deceptively agile and could move just as fast in their armor as they could out of it. As Max charged towards the massive time gate, he suddenly cut to his left towards a goblin that unknowingly got too close and sent his right fist through its chest. Spinning on his heel and completing his counter-clockwise turn to send him back on track after the gate, Max's Light Barrier recharged from the energy Max drained from the goblin as it disintegrated into nothing around his forearm. Max had mastered all three paths of the titans but it was times like these that he really appreciated the robust protection that the Defender's void arsenal provided.

Trusting his Barrier, Max stopped trying to confuse the Vex's targeting systems and poured all of the energy that he had into sprinting to the side of the gate so Spark could work whatever plan he had. Max's Barrier failed right as he came skidding to a halt next to the gate and felt Spark leave his mind. "Spark get to work. I won't be able to hold them off for very long." Max ordered as he sprayed rounds from is rifle over a pair of hobgoblins to force them into their protective stasis fields. As soon as they entered stasis, Max hurled another magnetic grenade onto the closest minotaur roughly 10 meters away. "I'm already on it. I just need to find somewhere safe and mess with gate so the Vex can't follow us through." Spark called out. The minotaur ignored the grenade, trusting its void shield to protect it from the blast and continued to fire at Max who barely managed to duck under the blast in time. The first blast of the grenade stripped the minotaur of its shield and it screeched angrily at the titan as a pair of harpies quickly flew in front of the minotaur and expanded their triangular bodies to effectively shield it from further harm. Fortunately, Max had been hoping for exactly that as the void energy that had exploded form the grenade came back into the sphere shape of the grenade and detonated again, blasting the minotaur's chest open and throwing it back onto a, goblin crushing it. The harpies that had tried to protect the minotaur were consumed by the blast before they could begin to open fire.

Max brought his rifle fire back across the first two hobgoblins as they exited their protective fields, killing them before they could bring their weapons to bear again. Max turned back to face the way that he had come from only to immediately take a heavy void blast from a minotaur to the chest. Max was nearly knocked clean off of his feet from the blast and based off of the intense burning on his chest, his armor had barely saved him from the blast and another would definitely prove fatal. Acting on instinct, Max threw himself to his right and crashed his shoulder into the wall of the gate to get out of the way of the virtual wall of death the Vex had collectively fired upon seeing him stagger. Max could barely make out the sound of Spark cursing to himself and Max knew he needed to buy his Ghost more time. Channeling all of the void energy that he could through his body, Max set his feet shoulder width a part and bent his knees into an athletic stance while at the same time spreading his arms out to his greatest wingspan and summoned his Ward of Dawn. Max gave a loud, defiant yell as his Ward went up around him and Spark. Max continued to pour his void Light into the Ward until he was certain that the Vex would not be able to break through anytime soon. Max sighed tiredly and stood up to allow himself a short reprieve from battle and his Light time to repair the damage to his armor and body.

"Spark, hurry up. This Ward can only last for so long." Max said in a calmer but still worried voice. "I'm working as fast as I can but it's like the gate itself is fighting my commands and there is also the matter of preventing the Vex from following us through the gate." Spark replied more annoyed at the complications than Max rushing him. "Just buy me five minutes." Spark said focusing on the giant time gate again. "You've got three." Max replied as he reloaded his Shadow Price mag locking it to his back and focused his Light into summoning his heavy machine gun, Thunderlord. "Hello old friend. Ready to go to work?" Max said with a half-smile to the weapon as he felt his Light finish healing him. Outside the Ward, the Vex had surrounded the Guardian and Ghost in a semicircle and laid siege to the Ward as they slowly marched toward the duo. After nearly a minute of sustained fire it was clear that despite the all of the firepower they could bring to bear, Max's Ward stood resolute. The Vex stopped firing upon seeing that their weapons were having no effect and one goblin stepped up and put a hand on the Ward in an attempt to walk through it only to quickly recoil in pain. Unlike most other titans' Ward of Dawn, Max could focus his Light to allow only those that were attuned to his Light to pass through. With renewed rage the Vex once again began firing at Max's Ward, this time focusing all of their fire at the point the goblin's hand had touched the Ward.

Max smirked having anticipated the Vex's decision to focus their fire, he had previously reinforced that area with his void Light. "Come on Spark!" Max shouted straining his Light against the Vex. "Almost done. I think I found Earth now I just need to prevent them from following us." Spark replied. Suddenly Max felt the Vex stop attacking his Ward and heard a sound that made his heart sink. Apparently they had decided to cut their losses by destroying the gate and wait out Max's Ward of Dawn. The metal structure was not meant to withstand any kind of attack. And the frame groaned as support struts began to melt and snap from the Vex fire. "Spark tell me you have a destination locked 'cause we need to go now!" Max yelled as the almost liquid looking surface of the portal made by the time gate began to ripple with each impact on the gate's frame. "I think but I just need a few more seconds to make I sure narrow down the coordinates." Spark said not noticing that Max had dropped his Ward in an attempt to draw the Vex's attention back to himself instead of the gate. "You don't have them." Max forced out as he focused all of his energy into sprinting towards the entrance of the gate. Max roughly grabbed Spark out of the air, not even giving him a chance to meld back into Max's Light, with his left hand as he passed and held him close to his chest to protect the Ghost from any stray Vex shots. Half of the Vex refocused their attention on the titan once again as he attempted to make his escape. The remaining Vex continued to shoot the gate in an attempt to cut off the duo's escape.

The gate's frame cracked and the surface of the portal began to shrink toward the center of the circle. Max tucked Spark, who had started screaming from the surprise of being grabbed out the air, into the crook of his left arm like a football and leapt as high as he could and used his Lift to continue his upward movement. "Wait, wait, wait!" Spark yelled to deaf ears. The surface of the portal continued to rapidly shrink and Max had to tuck himself into a ball around Spark to ensure that he could fit through. Just as Max began to make it through the portal a minotaur cannon round slammed into the back of his head and sent him into an uncontrolled forward tumble through the portal.

As they left the Vex trap behind onto whatever world Spark had found Max's dazed mind was only able to notice the shades of green and blue that flew by nauseatingly fast. Oh Traveler, I'm going to puke! The blues and greens began to blend together as they whipped past his vision and Max was barely able to realize that his vision had shifted from mostly blue with a bit of green to mostly green with a bit of blue. Had he not been so dazed from the minotaur's blast he might have realized that he was about to hit the ground in an armored ball at almost terminal velocity. He might have been able to use his Lift to regain control of his flight but it was already a miracle that he was conscious enough to notice he was no longer in the vault. Max felt a bone-jarring impact that was his back hitting the ground. The only thing that Max could think do was tuck himself further into a ball as tightly as he could and pray that he didn't have to find out if his battered armor was stronger than one these tree trunks. As Max bounced and rolled across the ground he thought that he saw a flash of black amongst the colors of the forest going by. Was that a bird? Is this a forest? Max thought as he left a furrow in the ground a meter and a half wide and almost forty meters long.

Max ended up on his back barely clinging to consciousness and finally allowed Spark to break free of his grip. "Oh crap." Spark said out loud to no one in particular as Max finally lost consciousness. He is going to be so pissed when he wakes up. Spark thought to himself as he realized that the coordinates that he had entered into the gate had not been Earth. In his defense the Vex's method of sorting data and coordinates was really strange and based mainly off of images and what he had seen looked very much like Earth. Spark looked out at the surrounding forest and had pretty good idea of Max's first few questions when he awoke. Earth was too ravaged by war to have any forest like this still standing and almost all animal life had been lost in the war. So either this forest and the bird circling overhead were way out of place or they were.

A/N:

Well there we go guys, our heroes (plural because what's a Guardian without Ghost?) find themselves battered and lost on some unknown planet and the wildlife has already been agitated by their arrival. A big thank you to all that took the time to read this. Again any and all comments, questions, thoughts, suggestions, and constructive criticisms are welcomed and I will try to reply to them as best I can. Hopefully I will be able to write a new chapter every few days but life happens so the only promise that I can make is that the update rate that I am aiming for. I do have a question for you guys, I want to get a feel for good chapter lengths. Was this a good length, longer, shorter? I'd appreciate you letting me know. Anyways I hope to have another chapter up in a few days. Until then, peace.

-Stalkorc