This is an idea that keeps spinning in my head and I don't want it to stay inside there as it is rather annoying. It will be a short story inspired by the backstory of Lordgenome and only be a few rather short chapters long.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gurren Lagann or RWBY. All rights belong to their respective owners.
Chapter 1: Initial Assault
Life was a fascinating thing. Wherever one looked on the planet, life was always there in all kinds of forms and sizes, filling even the most harsh and unforgiving environments with lifeforms that thrived in order to survive. They absorbed foreign substances to fuel their metabolism, hunted down creatures of another or even their own kind and reproduced, passing down their genetic material to their offspring in slight varations of itself. Over generations it would become more and more diverse. While some branches of the original branch would go extinct through natural selection, some of them would overcome the odds and become in the end an own species, thus fueling an almost unstoppable force called evolution.
One could say that it was in the genes of all living creatures to thrive forward and adapt in order to survive and evolve even further in a never ending spiral. This statement was even more true than most kinds of sentient beings even realised. And one of them, one that realised the meaning of this phrase, knew what consequences it had. Consequences that needed to be prevented.
The endless void of space was something that had always made humans and faunus alike feel small in comparison to the far away stars whenever they looked up from the surface of Remnant. While they waged their wars and conflicts the stars just kept shining far away from them while slowly burning out as it seemed that they were forever out of reach for the people of Remnant. And yet they kept stargazing.
This night was no different. People in the kingdom of Vacuo usually didn't spent their nights in the barren environment that mankind had left on the planet. The entire kingdom was basically an empty husk of what the other three kingdoms had leeched dry. Well now it were only two others since Vale had fallen months ago. Still people tried to remain calm about it to not attract the creatures of Grimm to them, still many were furious beyind bonds at this.
And that was something that made people try to distract themselves with something else. They simply didn't wished to see ugly truth and instead bothered themselves with other things. The conditions in Vacuo were anything but as good as in the other kingdoms, but it was still home to many hundreds of people. The only real authority in the kingdom had the huntsmen academy Shade Academy as the underground of the kingdom was ruled by crime lords and other scum among man- and faunuskind(?). Basically everyone had other things to do in order to survive than bothering about the loss of Vale. For example fighting off the increased population of Grimm in the area, because of the increased feelings of despair and dread as well as anger, hatred and sadness.
In the midst of the low houses at the edge of the kingdom a pair of children, a boy and a girl, rushed out the building as they were running towards the outskirts of the town. Both were dressed in simple clothes that were dirty and slightly torn, but still able to work as normal clothes.
"Come on." Said the boy to his friend as they ran laughing towards the exit. The people in the streets gave them various directions. Some smiled at the innocence that these two still possessed as they didn't knew what kind of cold and unforgiving world this was. Others shook their heads frowning and turned away as they only saw childish arrogance in their actions. Both children would get killed for sure at a young age. That was what the most of them would bet on.
The pair had already reached the edge of the town as a larger person made them stop in their tracks. Wearing beige pants and a white shirt a teenager of about 16-17 years stood in front of them with his arms crossed and eyes narrowed. Brown hair sat on top of his head and a rifle was strapped on his back, while a brown vest covered his body along with the light grey pants. A thin mouse tail sprout out the waist and twitched slightly as the man looked down at the two children.
"What do you think you're doing?" He asked both children in a stern voice. "You know you aren't allowed to go outside without an adult. Especially after what had happened at Beacon."
"Oh come on! We just wanted to watch the stars." The boy said. The girl nodded at this as the young man was only looking down on them. After looking at one another without breaking eye contact for long the teen gave in and sighed.
"Fine-" He said as both children smiled. "but I'm coming with you." Both children ran up to him and grabbed his hands.
"Thanks mister." The boy said as the teen tried his best to not curse his luck loudin front of these two. It were still virgin ears after all.
"Alright. Let's get going." He said as the three of them were walking out of Vacuo.
A few minutes later outside of Vacuo
The regions in the direct vicinity of Vacuo were normally not inhabited by Grimm so it was quite save to go to close locations around the city, but since the fall of Beacon their acitivity had increased quite a lot since before. That's was also a reason why the teen came with the children. The last thing he needed was to tell parents, that their children had died because the guards hadn't done their job right. It would reflect bad on the academy and the security of the entire kingdom, which in return would only increase the bad feelings, that the Grimm felt so drawn towards to.
The three young people had arrived not far from Vacuo where the lights of the kingdom were not shining over the light of the stars. The three of them sat down on the sand as they looked up to the clear nightsky,watching the stars above them.
"It's so pretty." The girl said.
"Yeah yeah they are." The teen said not as excited than the children. Because dust lost it's powers outside of Remnant's atmosphere it never had been possible to create anything like a spaceship or even a satelitte to transmit data, which was why the CCT was so essential to the 4 kingdoms. Just as the teen thought about this the young boy he had brought here called out.
"Hey mister I saw a shooting star!" He said.
"What? Not fair! I wanna wish something as well!" The girl pouted as the boy only gave her a cheeky grin. The teen said nothing at this as he watched the two children bicker.
"Hey there is another one!" Now the girl said loud. The huntsman suddenly felt his skin starting to crawl as he felt something. His tail tensed up as well while his entire body felt numb from the goosebumbs that appeared on it. All alarm bells in his head began to blur into one at this point. Something bad was going to happen. Something really bad.
In that moment a comet seemed to fly down on Vacou before it blew up in a massive explosion. The panicked screams of the citizen were drowned in the loud sound of the explosion as a massive dome of light consume the kingdom of Vacuo. The children and the teen could only look back in shock before their vision went White and the thundering sound of the explosion and the shaking of the earth beneath their feet made drowned all other noises.
And it wasn't just Vacuo. From space one could see several of these massive dome-shaped explosions shaking the continent of Sanus and the dragon-shaped continent in the north of it. Each explosion drove the clouds around them away and their diameters were large enough to cover giant landscales beneath them. More and more projectiles hit the planet's surface and it's inhabitants from the orbit of the planet as the strikes now fell down Solitas, Anima and even Menagerie.
This was however no natural catastrophe. From the orbit of the planet, towering even over Remnant's broken satelitte, loomed a gigantic structure which looked like many human faces on a pupa-like body. The stoic expressionless human faces would have made everyone's skin crawl as the giant thing was accompanied by many smaller constructs, taking shape of hands and feet with the same faces on them as well as other grotesque designed constructs.
No continent was spared from the attack and no creature, be it man, faunus or Grimm (and whatever Salem is), had predicted this global catastrophe. There was no warning, no omen to be seen and nothing they could have done in order to prevent this.
Suddenly multiple odd shaped constructs without any faces appeared in the orbit of the planet through what appeared to be rifts within the void of space. The new constructs looked more like pieces of abstract art than the abominations of the other bigger constructs as a ring circled around each of their main bodies. Slowly the new constructs descended upon Remnant and entered it's atmosphere.
A bit later in Atlas
Just minutes after the attack laid the kingdom of Atlas in shables. People screamed for help everywhere. The once high society of Remnant found itself in the flames and debris of their homes, unable to Register what had just happened, trapping them in a state of shock. The once airborne ships had crashed down into the city and exploded like they had been filled with dynamite.
Even the Schnee Manor that had towered over the city had seen much better days. Furniture had been thrown around, statues had crumbled to dust and an entire wing of the building had collapsed when the explosions hit Atlas. Fires burned here and there, while servants of the family laid either dead on the ground or were injured and supported themselves on the walls or one another.
Klein was no exception. The old butler of the Schnee family had a bleeding wound on his head and his arm got pierced by a piece of broken glass. He coughed as he walked through the smoke and tried to find his masters Jacques and Whitley...if they were still alive that was. The oldest child of the family Winter was still at the military base when the explosions happened and Weiss had fled with his aid. Not that he was ashamed of that. No he was glad that he had been able to help a friend he knew from the day that her cries had echoed through this house. The memory made him smile. Jus a few minutes later he found someone.
Whitley, the youngest child of the Schnee family, laid there unconscious. Klein might had no high opinion of the boy's quite cocky attitude, however he didn't despite him so much that he would leave him here in the flames. Klein picked the boy up and started to walk towards the closest exit to not sufficate in the he saw the clear day light, hope welled up in the old butler's chest as he gained new strength. But all hope was shattered when he got out the manor. Atlas was no longer the same. buildings had toppled over, fires burnt everywhere and in the middle was a massive crater, most likely several kilometers in the diameter and a half in the depth.
In that moment Whitley shook violently as he coughed. Klein immediately put the boy against a nearby wall. Soon the boy opened his eyes and looked at the butler.
"Master Whitley. It's good that you are well." Klein said. Whitley's face turned sour as he tried to stand up.
"Well is not quite the word I'd choose for my current condition-HGN!" He suddenly groaned as he found his leg hurting like hell. Klein quickly helped the boy to sit down again.
"You must rest master Whitley. Your injuries are too heavy to walk around like you have before." Klein said as he looked around for something to help the boy. Now Whitley looked around as well. His face morphed into a mask of shock. his mouth open and his eyes wide open he looked at the burning kingdom.
"What...happened..." He asked.
"I'm afraid I don't know it for sure myself. I've heard a loud explosion before I became unconscious as well. When I woke up I looked for you and your father. When I found you I brought you here." Klein replied.
"Where is father?" Whitley said.
"I don't know..." Klein said.
"THEN GO AND FIN-GAH!" Whitley said as he tried to stand again, but there was still the injury on his leg.
"Master Whitley?!" Klein said in a more stern voice, making the boy look at him bewildered. Never before had he spoken like this to the boy, not even when he was younger. "We need to get your wound treated first and bring you to safety first. We can then look for your father then." Klein said as he grabbed the boy and let him spport himself on his shoulder. "We need to go and find a doctor immediately." Klein said.
"But we have a doctor here..." Whitley said, before seeing the collapsed wing of the building.
"I've been there. No one has survived. Now come." Klein said as he and Whitley walked down to the burning city. The boy couldn't expect that anyone would come to their help right now as the people were too busy to save themselves and whatever of their belongings they deemed as valuable enough and didn't burnt down yet. Here and there smaller explosions occured as whatever was in some buildings caught fire as well. Above the heads of Klein and Whitley the bullheads tried their best to keep the flames under control, but it was a lost battle.
Just in that moment another much larger explosion occured and the screams of panicking people reached the two men's ears. They turned around as they saw something that made the blood in their veins run cold. A giant, weird looking, blue glowing construct floated in the air as it towered above the burning city. It was bigger than the airships Atlas used in times of war and it even over shadowed some of the skyscrapers with it's sheer size. The top of it's body glowed as it shot lasers into the city, destroying everything in it's path.
"Come! We must go!" Klein urged the white-haired boy as they ran through the streets of Atlas along many other scared people. A group of bullheads flew towards the alien looking thing and unleashed dozens of dust rounds. The foreign attacker however was not impressed as it was protected with a translucent shield. The rounds simply impacted on the shield that was a perfect sphere around the flying construct and didn't even made a hole in it. It unleashed another of it's deadly beams and caused a bullhead to explode into flames in mid air. It turned to the otehrs and repeated it's bloody work in the same mechanic manner as with the first one.
People screamed at this as they ran through the streets, trying to find shelter. Just as their hopes had been crushed more of the strange things descended from above and helped it's comrade to kill more people, while laying waste on the once proud kingdom of Atlas.
"Master Whitley!" Klein's voice tore the terrified boy out of his thoughts as the butler lead them to one of the cars. The boy leaned on the car as Klein smashed in the window and opened the door from within. He then held up his scroll and began tapping on it. At this point one of the attackers seemed to turn their way and came closer.
"Klein hurry!" Whitley screamed mortified. Klein just finished hacking the car as he put the boy inside and got behind the wheel. Immediately he put down his foot on the gas and zoomed through the streets as the flying attacker shot at the car.
The butler however was a professional when it came to navigating through thick masses of traffic or people alike as the Schnee family always had held up events with a lot of guests. Klein basically threw the car in sharps turns to avoid being vaporized within a second.
"We need to get through the tunnel. From there we get to the military base and hopefully to your sister." Klein said.
"But father-" Whitley said.
"Your father wouldn't approve it if I'd leave one of his children to die here." Klein said. They headed further down the street and took a sharp right turn as they could already see the tunnel leading to the military bases. The post was closed of course, but that mattered little for the butler. What was more important was another giant floating machine that descended right in front of them. "HOLD ON TIGHT!" Klein shouted as he pushed down the gas pedal to the floor, making the car accelearate far above the speed limit. The machine fired beams at the small car and with each meter the car came closer the floating machine got better chances to hit them.
"KLEIN!" Whitely screamed as Klein only let out an outcry as he rushed beneath the machine and entered the tunnel. The beams of the floating enemy hit the tunnel's entrance and made it collapse, trapping the ones that had escaped underground from one side. It then returned to it's initial purpose that was wiping out all life that it found within this settlement
Jacques Schnee woke up at this point as he pushed his body up from beneath a fallen bookshelf. His body ached in pain and the dust and ashes in his eyes prevented him to see anything. Coughing he stood up and tried to adjust to the unusual bright light in the room.
However once he regained his senses he noticed why it was so bright in this room. The wall had a giant hole just behind his desk as he took in the picture of the burning skyline of Atlas. Strange looking machines floated over the city and destroyed everything. Jacques couldn't even comprehend as he watched all that the Schnee Dust Company...no what HE had built was burnt to ashes. Everything he had worked so hard for was ruined. All the effords and sacrifises he had made like grooming Arthur's daughter to get his hands on the Schnee family name, increasing the number of dust mines despite the warnings of scientists for the health of the workers and using faunus as cheap workers were just a few of the things he had done and he didn't feel shame or regret for it. After all, if he was well then so was the name Schnee.
"This is a dream. A nightmare. Yes...It can't be real." He said in disbelief as he started laughing like a maniac. In that moment another of the floating machines appeared right in front of him as he kept laughing and fired at him. In that moment the entire Schnee Manor exploded like a firecracker, leaving only another pile of debris in it's wake.
In the orbit of Remnant
On top of the buddha like ship with the many human-like faces stood a being that the most people would describe as a silhouette. It was a being with a humanoid body, however save from that it showed no other charateristic traits. It's 'skin' looked like a static screen of a tv as it was always changing. Two white circles appeared to be it's eyes which looked like someone had drawn them on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The mouth seemed to be slight frowning as the lower jaw was slightly split in the middle, giving the mouth a slight T-shape.
It gazed down the broken world that was Remnant. It was well aware what it's minions were doing on the surface. It was after all the being that had given them the order to do so. It also received the pictures of the constructs point of view like a live feed.
"Foolish spiral lifeforms. Continue to struggle as much as you want, but you cannot run or hide from the truth. You, that have not realized the spiral's power yet, shall never use it. For the sake of the universe we will stop you, before a soul manages to leave this world. Drown in absolute despair." It said in a deep masculine voice, before it turned it's gaze to another much more darker part of Remnant. They had to make sure after all that there was someone to take care of uprising and rebelling spirals once they would leave this planet. And the dark entity had already someone in mind, who would qualify for that job.
And that was the beginning for the Anti-Spiral has arrived.
You may now think that this is a bit far fetched since the people of Remnant have no spiral power, however it is stated that all creatures with the power to evolve have it and given the fact that there are by far more than a million people on Remnant the planet is on the best way to help triggering the Spiral Nemesis. Sure Salem regulates their population with her Grimm, but that is simply not enough to stop the destruction of the universe.
And well who knows? Nothing brings people more together than a common enemy. Maybe that's the reason the spiral races had ganged up on them in the first place instead of attacking one another. So perhaps humans and faunus could team up as well. But will that be enough?
Well we'll see and I'll hopefully see you next time again. See ya!