Green Like Tiberium

When two civilizations meet it is normally an earth shaking even for those involved. Empires can fall, morality can be called into question, and the path is opened for the cruelest and most brutal aspects of human xenophobia to take room.

But such events need not end in bloodshed, human kindness can shine through in even the darkest of nights and most brutal of wars.

This is a tale of two civilizations both born to doomed worlds. One beset upon by an onslaught of black beasts while the other struggles in vain to fight back a crystal plague.

Alone it is very likely that the two civilizations would eventually fall, crumbling to dust before the forces that sought to bring them to their knees.

If they were brought together however….who could know what would happen.

Beacon Academy

It was a peaceful day when the event happened and Ruby was enjoying a peaceful walk around the Academy. She'd just been assigned as the leader of team RWBY the other day, an intimidating prospect if the young girl had ever seen one before, but she felt like she was up the task.

Mostly.

She still did get butterflies in her stomach every now and then.

But other than that she was as happy as a bee in a flower shop!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

"Whoa!" A massive fluctuation in the air knocked her off her feet and onto her bum. "What was that?!"

A quick look out the window revealed to her a strange sight.

It was a large portal of some sort, the massive hole in reality being visible being large enough to fit several buildings within it as a strange blue energy cackled along its edges.

On the other side was a walled city of some. Large watchtowers where visible along the wall with some strange contraptions that she could only guess where weapons and large cannon turrets guarding the outer portions. Some more guns pointed upwards into the sky where visible both near the walls and further into the city. The buildings themselves where a mixture of recognizable skyscrapers and weird hexagonal structures.

If she hadn't been in such shock Ruby probably would have admired the building planners for their dedication to weaponry, but at the moment she had another thought on her mind.

"I need to go tell the others." She muttered to herself before rushing back inside.

Whatever this was, it was going to be big.

She could feel it.

Washington Blue Zone/Pentagon Post Third Tiberium War

General Jack Granger was not having a good day. It had only been a month or so since the Scrin had been driven off the planet and he'd received word about Nod muddling around some old Second World War military facilities.

Naturally he sent forces in to stop whatever they were planning. Nod was nothing if not crafty, and he had no intention of repeating the mistake that lead to the entire Third Tiberium War in the first place.

Unfortunately it seemed that the forces he sent to stop Nod where unsuccessful, at least if the current situation was Nod's fault anyway.

And now there's a portal to god knows where sitting right outside one of the few blue zones left on the planet after the Scrin assault, and from the reports he'd been receiving similar portals had been opening up outside some of the other remaining blue zones as well.

"General" His aid Sarah Telfair said from her position at one of the many monitors at the headquarters. "Our men at the barriers of the blue zones are reporting people exiting the portals, they don't seem to be hostile but from what we can tell that aren't from any faction that we've encountered."

"Order the troops not to fire unless fired upon." In a case like this some mild discomfort was far better than another shooting war is Grangers eyes "And get the highest ranking negotiator on the line, I don't care who as long as they're more competent than Boyle and can get here on time."

Unknown Location

"My Lord" An armored Black Hand officer bowed before his prophet in a red lit room "Our forces sent to retrieve the Chronosphere have failed, it seems that GDI had caught wind of our efforts. We fought them back, but the Chronoshpere was heavily damaged in the fight, portals have already been opening up near blue zones around the world."

For his part Kane maintained a stoic expression. The early creation of the portals was not a part of the plan, but it was not an insurmountable obstacle either. Still he'd need to act fast if he wanted accomplish his objectives in time.

"Rem." Kane addressed the the newly named Black Hand officer "Go tell the technicians working on LEGION that I'm sending them a specialist to speed up the work, they are to follow her orders to the letter."

"Will that by all my lord?" The Red asked as he stood up.

"It will." With prophets final command given Rem left the room.

The Brotherhood was on the move, and heaven help whomever would seek to stop them.

Washington Portal Outskirts 2 Hours after the Shift

Teal Pastor was having a rather strange day all things considered.

She had been one of the first hunters sent to observe the strange portal that had opened up just outside of Vale, and the even stranger city that lurked on the other side. It was nothing like anything that she had seen on Remnant, although strangely enough the inhabitants spoke, or at least wrote in the same language as the people of Vale if the signs she could see where any indication.

It was pretty clear that the inhabitants of the city where just as aware of the portal as those of Vale if the military forces parked right outside the city itself and facing where a sign.

'Man' Teal thought to herself as she looked at the assembled forces. 'Those buildings on treads look like they could turn a Death Stalker into roadkill never mind the guns on em.'

Their where also several smaller versions of the buildings on treads, although these ones seemed far less intimidating overall and only seemed to possess one barrel as opposed to the two on the larger vehicles.

She could also recognized several car like vehicles roving around alongside some soldiers on patrol.

It was a good thing she had an invisibility semblance, because she was less then eager to find out how hostile these guys where, especially not with all of the firepower they were packing.

Still one of those cars with the rocket launchers mounted on the back seemed to be getting a bit too close for comfort.

Deciding it would be better to avoid detection so as to not start a shooting war Teal moved back to her side of the portal.

At the very least the inhabitants of this world did not seem overtly bloodthirsty even if they were well armed. Hopefully they'd be amendable to peaceful contact with the kingdoms of Remnant.

Things where hard enough on Remnant without a major conflict to rile the Grimm up, that much was certain.