I am way into RWBY and KND right now. So this one is going to be a story based on another RWBY story called Remnant's reclaimer. Essentially, I'm using the same arc the author used except things are going a little different. Also there's a KND story coming up soon as well and yes Im going to be continuing The Wanderer soon I just haven't got the next few chapters flushed out.
This fight seemed familiar to Ruby, Roman was strong blocking her hits and throwing flares up to stop her but time and two wars had trained her and her team how to fight through it. Spinning around Crescent Rose bit into that infuriating cane the reinforced serration ripping into the softer metal before it bent and gave ripping the cane in half. Roman stumbled back faltering as his precious cane came into view before flourishing it to fire another flare.
Ruby wasn't stupid she could see that he wouldn't fire the flare though, he was reaching for a revolver strapped to his hip from years of fighting dirty and eventually needing to cut and run.
His hand touched the cool wood grip just as a bark echoed through the ruins and he felt a cold spot in his chest. A large stain now marred his jacket tattered and ruined as it was from weeks of running, the crimson creeped further as Roman fell to his knees.
A glint of crimson flashed in the upper stories of one of the buildings as another figure dropped to the ground a rifle clutched in their hands and a pistol on their hip. No hero landing instead they opted to land and roll with it coming up holding a long handled axe clearly a variant of their rifle. A series of wraps and masks covered their face, a skull face mask paired with a black scarf with red lensed goggles covering their eyes.
Ruby nodded at the figure of her current teammate. He was an ex leader from Haven, his team had all backed off when the war started or in the case of his partner had been killed and he'd instead taken work for Vale's military as an independent soldier. Designation code Delta four-eight-zero-zero, rank: Golf-Lima two situation: Mr. Skylight five years eight months five weeks, confirmation code: 'Check safe, Show clear.' Call sign: Red Devil.
Ruby and Red hadn't gotten along well early on in their pairing though. Red was nearly entirely mute and from what she knew of his designation code he had well over 1000 confirmed kills in both standard combat and assassination scenarios against human and grimm alike. She'd asked once why he shrouded his face and why he didn't speak after a particularly rough fight and for the first time got a response.
He pulled out his scroll and typed a message before passing it to her. The screen read. 'I do not speak because I have nothing to say that my actions cannot portray. I do not show my face because who I am under this mask is not who Red Devil is. He is another person, one who died along his partner long ago. This mask is my face and to remove it and use his face would be rude to his memory.' She'd read over it once more before passing it back and rolling into her sleeping bag even as he stayed seated finger the grip of his revolver waiting for something to approach. He posed her no threat or they wouldn't have assigned him to her but he still gave her an odd vibe and the answers to her questions had only given her more. Who was the man behind the mask beneath the persona of Red Devil, who was his team and why had he stayed to fight even as his partner and team fell away from him.
That had been a few months ago, and while he'd never answered any further questions she understood now at least why he hadn't spoken. Red had been a military sniper trained to murder without question or bias as the best of the best. He still could speak as she'd heard him use his confirmation code but he had been trained (tortured is a closer description) to never speak unless absolutely necessary or giving a code of confirmation.
His weapons were also a great play off of hers. While Crescent Rose was great its large serrated blade a cylinder of dust crystals for casting giving her an advantage as the years progressed she still struggled at close range where Red came in. Snipers' biggest weakness was close quarters and to solve this he carried a revolver with a mechashift barrel giving the advantage of a close quarters blade to combo with his long-range rifle and axe combination, he filled Weiss' position if only temporarily very well but she missed the banter the two had shared.
An automated voice droned in her ear as Red translated for himself with some handy tech that had been provided by Atlas thanks to Ruby. "Are you ok? You've been standing there staring at me for five minutes. We need to keep moving and meet up with Sun." Ah Sun, his team was fighting front lines while he was here helping her mostly because he felt guilty for what happened to Blake and Yang. He hadn't changed his weapons though except to get a much more powerful ammunition and to get himself an actual shirt instead of his button up that he wore openly displaying his chest during their time in school.
The time for reminiscing was over though and now she needed to be Ruby Rose the huntress known for killing Cinder's strongest subordinates. The stronghold was mostly ruins giving plenty of cover for Red but judging by his rifle's form he was ready for closer quarters which was a smart move. Sun had been waiting on them and even as they walked into the keep it was clear this wasn't going to be an easy fight.
Ruby smacked into a wall the flames having pushed her further back than she'd expected, Sun was unconscious in the corner having taken enough head trauma to drop pretty much anyone from collapsing rubble. Red had pulled his pistol and was alternating swinging his axe trying to snag Cinder's arms when she went to cast and shooting her trying to drop her aura, he was low on rounds though. He'd reloaded about four times and his ammo belts only held enough for six barrages and with one stored normally in the revolver's chamber he was already almost halfway through his stores.
Heat flashed in Red's vision his lenses nearly blinding him as Cinder's hand came inches from ripping them from his face. He had to do this though, for James and the rest of his team; they deserved her death if for no other reason than to bring their deaths justice. She'd slaughtered all of them in the fall of Vale without a second thought only missing him either by chance or to cause more misery but he'd take everything from her now. She grabbed his pistol though as he raised it to fire once more and even as she melted the barrel closed he squeezed. The explosion was violent and painful as the mechashift had triggered unintentionally from the explosion shoving her and the subsequent exploding fire dust round away from him and as the barrel segments and reinforced steel blew apart flying like bits of shrapnel at him and her both he re-holstered the pistol on his belt, if he survived this he would need to rebuild it and it wasn't entirely useless.
Switching to his axe he brought the heavy blade down on her right arm cleaving it at the joint in a font of blood before redirecting to strike again only to be struck with the tip of his own pistol in the gut the sharp blade sinking into his chest. Ruby though is probably the only thing that saved him as she buried Crescent Rose into Cinder's chest. And as Red's vision darkened and flickered and he fell to his knees he still managed to grab the scarf covering his head and pull it off but the mask still remained. Grasping weakly he watched as Cinder glared at him he managed to snag the Velcro, ripping it with his limp limb the mask dropped from his face.
Staring Cinder in the face was the one person she regretted not killing. Green eyes or rather eye and heavy burns marred his face but it was still him, Edward Cobe of team CCRJ. She'd slaughtered his team in front of him yet here he was, but not for much longer as her eyes lit up like glowing embers in a fire. Red recognized this though and even though his mind screamed at him not to he did the one thing he could. He yelled at Ruby.
His voice was rough and horse like someone who'd been smoking their entire life but his words were clear. "Ruby RUN!" and run she did. Red would be fine he could use teleportation to any location so she'd run to safety and he'd teleport to her.
The explosion made her stagger though, a large flash of light behind her and rushing too fast on her. Forcing herself even faster Ruby pushed faster rushing faster than she'd ever gone as the flames ate the petals scoured behind her. And then everything was gone, the heat the ruined citadel. A twisting feeling in her gut she recognized as Red's teleportation magic engulfed her as she ran, he'd clearly teleported out of urgency and was pushing them both to safety or so they both thought as the feeling of the teleportation shifted.
Suddenly they were no longer twisting and turning like the teleportation usually felt, now they were drifting in the darkness, still moving but this was more like they were falling rather than being crammed through a tube.
Rose opened her eyes, she hadn't realized she closed them. Her first response was to notice the form laying on top of her back not moving, her second response was to notice the room. Two desks, a set of shoddily assembled bunk beds and four sleeping forms who'd yet to notice them. Shifting her gaze from the room she noticed a hand wrapped in a set of very familiar gloves worn and bloody. Rolling out from under the form revealed it to in fact be a bleeding unconscious Red who was in pretty bad shape.
There was a whole in his chest and they were somehow back in her old dorm room with her entire team sleeping around them, the last thing she needed was an injured teammate being denied medical attention. She quietly slipped into the bathroom dragging him with her leaving their weapons laying on the floor Crescent Rose in its scarred and charred glory in its rifle form and Red's rifle still in its axe form the blade stained dark almost black from dried blood and the dust storage portholes lightly tinted pink from long exposure to fire dust but now empty.
Bandages and gauze were in the medicine cabinet and were easy to apply to prevent him from bleeding out but they needed to get him to the hospital wing which meant trekking through the school which wouldn't end well. Ruby and Red were fresh from war covered in blood, soot and scars and even if Red was unknown to pretty much everyone here mask or not (he apparently hadn't had time to grab his wrap or mask only his goggles rested atop his head) but Ruby was and she hadn't changed much over the years other than to start wearing the orange scarf around her waist still stained from that day and to get some pants and to get heavier clothing for colder climates.
Ruby roes from her slumber yawning and stretching like a cat, she hated mornings but for some reason here she was the first one up. It was probably cause she had to pee. Stumbling from the bed cursing under her breath at the height her bed was at she stumbled to the bathroom ignoring the weapons laying on the floor, it was just Crescent Rose and Neptune's trident that she'd offered to work on. Stumbling over the weapons promising her baby to pick it up in a minute she stumbled to the door only to find it… locked?
Turning around Weiss, Yang and Blake were all still in bed and no one had locked the bathroom last night she didn't think. Wait a minute, that wasn't Neptune's trident or Crescent Rose, well it was but last she checked Crescent Rose wasn't scratched, tarnished and covered in scorch marks and definitely have a revolver cylinder but that was a cool idea for it. No something was going on here meaning someone else was in the room.
Backing away from the door Ruby woke Yang, Weiss and Blake in that order quietly hoping to catch the culprit in the act. The four approached the door Ruby hanging back to have room to unfold her scythe. Since it was too loud to open stealthily. Yang cocked her fist and with one strike the wooden door cracked and splintered inward as cursing was heard as well as shuffling and sliding but even as Blake and Weiss readied themselves to fight Yang and Ruby both nearly dropped their weapons. "M-Mom?"
Cliffhanger, I can't reveal anything else but I hope you all continue reading. And yes my OC is going to be more of a focus than RWBY because this story idea isn't totally mine and I want a different take on it.