Team ATMC: the Sons of Merlot
Chapter 1: Crimson Blade
(Note: I do not own RWBY, all rights to RWBY go to Rooster Teeth in honor of its creator, Monty Oum)
It's been some time since the fall of Beacon, it's almost a week since our visit with Yang at Patch. Today I'm on another solo mission in a abandoned village, completely destroyed, a majority of the people evacuated, a good portion of the people dead, but every other Huntsmen that tried coming to this have noticed that given the buildings condition they weren't destroyed by Grimm, but something more human. I got ahold of this info and decided to look for myself because if it's a person then maybe they know Cinder Fall. I walked through the village for about five minutes until I stopped at a statue of what I'm guessing was the towns founder, when I stopped at it I started reminiscing about the old Beacon days, the days when we were still with Teams RWBY and JNPR, when Pyrrha was still alive, and then I remembered Cinders speech...
Cinder: "This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians, but are, in reality, nothing more than men. Our Academies' Headmasters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both. They cling to this power in the name of peace, and yet, what do we have here? One nation's attempt at a synthetic army, mercilessly torn apart by another's star pupil. What need would Atlas have for a soldier disguised as an innocent little girl? I don't think the Grimm can tell the difference. And what, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First a dismemberment, now this? Huntsmen and Huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy, yet I have witnessed neither. Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the Tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets. Or perhaps this was his message to the tyrannical dictator that has occupied an unsuspecting kingdom with armed forces. Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue as to who is right and who is wrong. But I know the existence of peace is fragile, and the leaders of our kingdoms conduct their business with iron gloves. As someone who hails from Mistral, I can assure you the situation there is... equally undesirable. Our Kingdoms are on the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark. So I ask you: When the first shots are fired... who do you think you can trust?" Immediately when she says that my flash back cuts off when I hear a strange bell like noise and turnaround to look.
Aidan: "What's that sound?" I look away from the statue and then look towards the statue again and to my surprise I see a strange red flaming orb floating in the air and I burst into flame knocking me back some and when the flames cleared a human like figure stood there. It was some kind of robot painted black with some parts glowing red, including a capital M like symbol on its chest. It proceeded to draw its weapon: a set of light saber like daggers holding them back handed in the same way I do. Right there I'm just thinking 'This guy killed all these people!' "You Monster!!!" That's when I snap and draw my Twin Blades. I run towards him and swing my blade but he blocks, I her step back when we break, I then proceeded to continue a large barrage of attacks very quickly but he was clearly faster because he blocked every single one of my strikes, eventually when I put one final strike I step back and draw my Broadsword, I charge towards him and bring down my sword but he blocked with one blade after a while he used his other blade to hit me and knock me back far to where I was lying on my stomach. As I was getting up he was walking towards me, putting he blades away. "Darn! What the heck... what the heck are you!?" He just stood there and stared. "This guy killed these people! It's not over yet!!!" I then draw the Scythe and brought it down but he grabbed the handle mid swing and gripped it really tight to where the whole thing shattered in little, both blade and handle, he then grabbed me by the face a fire a blast of energy which knocked me back even more but I kept my footing. He then proceeded to extend out his right arm and then his wrist starts glowing green, blue, red and orange and then he fired an orange beam at me which hurt like a son of a gun and once it was over he's just standing there and eventually my Aura started glowing orange instead of its natural light green, my Aura then shatters off like glass, at that point I'm on my back and just before I pass out I see a human figure at the town entrance, it's kinda blurry but it's looks like... my old teacher from Signal, Masters von Shang, but he's supposed to be helping the other local Huntsmen with clearing Beacon. Well I guess I can take any help I can get right now... but what the heck was that all about? What was that robot? Who could've made something like that? And what about that strange beam he fired? I did notice that his wrist glowed four colors but only fired one, does each color do something different? If that's so, then what does orange do? Most likely something to do with my Aura as it did glow orange and shattered but what exactly happened to it? So many questions and so little time to rest with that thing out there bringing it chaos. But there is one other thing that concerns me but it doesn't feel concerning... that M symbol on its chest, who's symbol is that? Why does it keep nagging at me? I can't help but feel that symbol is our best way to find the answers we need.