Prologue
All of this… everything that has happened… it all started during the Vytal Festival, when a makeshift bomb was detonated resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people. Including General Ironwood, this bomb was built by the people I once called my brothers: The White Fang.
The events that followed were just as horrifying.
In response to the attack, the Schnee Dust Company pressed their newest product into service. The Giant Armors were programmed to relentlessly pursue and destroy the White Fang's members. Pulling criminal records from every source possible, the Giant's began to target Faunus and humans who dared to even associate with those that called themselves the White Fang.
The resulting slaughter drove a rift between the people of Remnant. Some believed it was for the greater good, The White Fang was a terrorist cell that had to be defeated. Anyone that associated themselves with them could be a potential threat and would be dealt with as such. This was the thought process of people like Cardin Winchester, Weiss Schnee and many others. The fact that the White Fang had to be stopped was indisputable, but some of us asked what the cost of victory would be. In the end, would the measures we had taken to stop our foes make us a despicable as they were? Could we justify destroying a building, a car, another living being based on what they might be doing?
People like Ruby Rose, Jaune Arc and myself asked this of the people we once called our friends. Others joined our cause, calling for a stop to the violence. Surely there was a better way to stop the White Fang without putting innocents in harm's way.
Soon the kingdom of Atlas was in a fury, vilifying us for 'defending' the White Fang. In the shadows Cinder Fall, who had uploaded a virus into Beacon's computer network on the night of our first dance, released a series of fake documents that led the people of Atlas to believe we were harboring White Fang insurgents. My name was mentioned several times. The next day, we were faced with an ultimatum.
Surrender the 'insurgents' to Atlas' military police or face the very real possibility of war.
We chose to go to war.
The fighting went on for a year with the kingdoms being forced to take sides. The battles we fought destroyed great cities and ended the lives of thousands. At the twilight of this conflict, the world came together and decided enough was enough. We reluctantly united against a common enemy, the machines who slaughtered countless innocents as we fought a war of ideology.
Our newest enemy was more powerful then we could have possibly imagined. Unforgiving, unyielding, and unstoppable. Nearly ten years have passed since that fateful day, and now the people of Remnant finds themselves peering into the abyss. Now, we come together for one last desperate attempt at saving ourselves from extinction.
If anyone ever hears this, please…this…all of this…don't let it happen again.
Don't make the same mistakes we did.
A.N- So I hope you are intrigued by this introduction, In case you didn't know Days of Future Past is the name of an X-Men storyline with a similar premise, but I thought it would be cool to RWBY-fy the story and see what I can do to make this thing different from the movie/comic plot. Cover art props to tumblr user xuunies. If the artist doesn't want their art as my cover or realizes I have gave props to the wrong person please let me know. Any who, thanks for reading and until next time…
Wolf out!