Hey guys...OK so I know some of you might be expecting that other crossover I promised, but I need to brush up on lore and watch some episodes of the respective thingies before I can do that, rather silly I know, but when I had fall break last week my nephew came over and I kept watch over him most of the time, which is why i'm going to make this, you may be asking why, it's because we played GOW together and it gave me a crossover idea, so this will be a thing i'll do for a bit, y'all ok with that?
But yeah, you might find some of this similar to another GOWxRWBY called Remnants of a gold gear (AND if you have not read that go do it you guys, it's is a incredible story, oh and a warning if you read it, be braced for some of the most sarcastic and funny shit along with some serious things happening along with gratuitous violence.)
So yeah, this will be another story I know, but bear with me I needed a break from precise thought, here with GOW it's more fun n' games, but that don't mean stuff can't or won't get serious.
BUT. I'm hyped so it begins NOW!
His name was Goff "Lucky" Ognen, he was of course a gear, and he was fucked, everything had gone fine, his team along with two other teams were sent to a abandoned factory in so-called deserted territory to make sure it was abandoned, but they had found much more than they bargained for in the form of a very large collection of Locusts which mostly consisted of Theron Guards, his team of four now consisted of him and his friend, private Johnson "Joan" Rigger, he himself held the rank of corporal, which he held over Joan constantly like a joke, but jokes weren't on there minds, what was is the fact that the Theron's apparently had a small kind of reactor they were defending, and when they got wind there was a breech in their defense by the gears they set it to explode, while the other teams had made it out safely, they had been ambushed, and the other members of the team, sergeant Becker and lieutenant Cavor, were killed, Cavor died when he got shot in the side of the head with a Torque Bow which promptly caused his head to explode all over Goff's helmet and Johnson face and they had almost made it out of the rabbit hole with the sarge, but the Theron's shot their Torque Bows into the roof of the factory causing rubble to crush Becker, and as Johnson and Goff made it out and started running towards the King Ravens, one of the Theron's pulled out a Boltok and shot the pilot in the head, the two of them jumped into the King Raven as the other teams provided covering fire from their Raven's mini guns.
Goff Jumped into the cockpit, moving the pilots body out of the way while Johnson took control of their mini gun and fired at the Locusts, Goff took off his helmet and put on the pilots blood covered headset and made contact with the other King Ravens. "The pilots dead, how the hell do I fly this thing? I can't even get it to start."
He heard one of the pilots over the headset. "Ok gear head you're just gonna have to get it started and try to fly out of here, that reactors about to blow and we don't have time to give you the run by, just find the ignition, turn the damn thing on and fly out of here, but we have to get out of here now, were have to take off." Goff found the ignition and fumbled with it, managing to start up the chopper and started to get it off the ground, the other Ravens had already taken off so he was about 40 feet behind, and as he though they were in the clear the reactor exploded a ball of fire that was quickly overtaken by a large pulse like wave, the other Ravens were far enough away, but all the other teams heard Goff and Johnson scream as the pulse engulfed them before receding, the entire area looked scorched and as if the ground was tainted before it got out of sight range.
As the wave engulfed them they waited for the end, they spent a short amount of time being surrounded by nothingness, before they were almost knocked out by the G-force of popping out of whatever weird place they were in into a clear blue sky greeted by tall trees which was rather peaceful compared to the destroyed urban territory they were in a little bit ago, but the peace was shattered when they started to lose control as they lost altitude.
Goff and Johnson stared at each other for a second with blank faces before they hugged each other screaming at the closely approaching ground, they hit the ground and Goff saw Johnson get flung back as he got thrown out of the window and hit a tree and his world went black.
Ozpin was sitting at his desk in his office drinking his coffee as he usually did, it was 5 o' clock and only the faintest hints of light were showing, but he averted his eyes from the latest report from Qrow when he saw something on fire in the sky.
He nearly spat out his coffee as he saw the flaming object for what it was, a transport ship of sorts falling out of the sky due to massive structural damage, he watched as it's altitude dropped at an alarming rate before seeing it dissapear beneath the trees, he didn't hear an explosion so he immediately called Glynda.
"What is it Ozpin, it's 5 in the morning." He heard his tired assistant groggily speak from the other side of his scroll.
"Glynda, we have a problem." The seriousness in his voice shook her out of her stupor. "What is it headmaster?" Worry evident in her voice.
I've just seen a transport craft fall into the emerald forest while on fire, I need you at the docks, I'll make sure a bullhead is ready." He ended the call before she could respond, he immediately called one of his best pilots and told them to be at the docks and be ready.
Whoever they are I hope they survived the crash, and that they are friendly as well, we don't need anymore trouble than we already have.
Goff woke with a start, frantically turning his head from left to right before his eyes settled on the crashed King Raven, he got up as fast as he could as he rushed towards the wreckage with a knot in his stomach, he yelled for Johnson and was met with a weak yell back, he climbed into the wreckage only for his whole body to go cold when his eyes fell on Johnson.
First he thought he was seeing things, but there was Johnson,helmet gone and a massive piece of metal through his chest.
"OH SHIT JOHNSON, HOLD ON BUDDY!" Goff threw chunks of burning metal to the side before getting to his knees frantically looking at the wound.
"D-don't worry John, i'll get you out of here, you'll be fine j-just you wait, I can get you out of this, we've been through worse scrapes. Haven't we?" He was talking more to ease his own panic more than anything as he scanned the wreckage, finding a med kit and looking for a spot to grab the metal to pull it out of John's chest, he was about to try before his arm was grabbed, Goff stared down at his friend conflicted.
"G-Goff, stop it's...over for me, and we b-both know it." Johnson tried to breathe but broke into a coughing fit, spraying blood all over the front of Goff's helmet.
He tried to protest. "No way John, i'm getting you out of here."
"Maybe, but not alive." Johnson reached up and grabbed his old friend by the shoulder, staring into Goff's helmet before reaching up and removing his COG tags putting them into Goff's hand. "Please, Goff, try to survive alright, you're the last member of Final Echo, get someplace safe." He smirked. "And don't even think about leaving me here, i'll be waiting for ya with Sarge and the LT" His eyes slowly started to close as he pulled Goff in and gave the man who was his friend longer than either can remember one final embrace before he fell back a smile on his face as he stopped breathing and his features became still.
Goff couldn't remember the last time he cried, he just couldn't, he took off his helmet, he broke, and he cried and cried over the corpse of his friend, he didn't know how long he was there and he didn't really care he just sat their until he hear the sound of rotors in the distance, he wiped his face, put his helmet back on and picked his weapons up, he had what he considered a strange weapon for a Gear, it was a machete, no chainsaw-like blade or anything, just a normal machete along with a snub pistol, he would rather have a lancer or gnasher, he looked at Johnson's still form and grabbed his Boltok before finding a place to hold up until whoever was coming for him.
But he got out of the King Raven when he heard loud growling, and readied his weapons, he was a gear after all, he wasn't scared, and he sure as hell had no one left to stay alive for.
"I'm not sure if I'll survive the night Joan, do you think I can do it." He sat there in silence, waiting for an answer, he was answered by growls coming from the bushes around him as he readied his weapons.
As the Bullhead landed, Ozpin was inwardly worried even though he didn't show it, they couldn't land in the exact spot where the crash was because of the dense tress, but they exactly where to go thanks to the smoke coming from the crash, he and Glynda got off, he told the pilot to stay put and wait for them, they had been making good pace to the crash site before they heard gunshots coming from it's direction and started running to the crash site, and when they arrived they saw an armored man standing with his back to the flaming wreck of the transport, in front of him were many creatures of Grimm, in particular Beowolfs, which he was firing at with a pistol of strange design while hacking at them with a machete, they recovered from the surprising look of the man when they heard him yell at the creatures in a voice that was a mixture of anger and sadness.
"COME ON YOU BASTARDS, GIVE ME A FIGHT WORTH DYING FOR!" He charged into the middle of the Grimm pistol barrel blazing and machete swinging as the sudden shift from defense to offense took the Grimm by surprise as a few were killed by bullets and others cut down by the blade, slicing throats, blowing brains out, and gutting them where they stood, as they tried to get the edge on the wild soldier as he chopped and shot his way through them recklessly.
Glynda quickly acted, using her powers to throw the Grimm that were about to kill him away as he cleaved through them with a mad glee, soon nothing was left standing except the soldier, Glynda, and Ozpin.
Goff charged into the group of giant black wolves, normally he wouldn't do something so stupid and reckless, but he wasn't in his right mind, he was overcome by grief. but he noticed that he should have died multiple times in his wild shots and swinging, but they kept getting flung away from him, and hadn't noticed the two people just a few feet away until he had slaughtered the last one of those wolf things by stomping it's head into mush, he gave the newcomers a hard glare as he raised his pistol and aimed it at the old looking man in front of him, but switched to the blonde lady as she stepped forward pointed a...riding crop at him.
"Stay back or you're getting one placed right between the eyes lady." he kept his gun trained on her as the older looking man stepped forward.
"I assure you that there is no need for violence, we came here to see if there were any survivors from the crash." His voice was calm and serene despite the situation, but Goff wouldn't let his guard down.
"what makes you think I'll trust you when I don't know you?" he stared the man down. "I'm not just go with you, give me a reason."
"Food, clean water, a warm dry bed, and a shower." Goff stared at him for a second before slowly lowering his pistol.
The older gentleman stuck out his hand. "I am Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy." He motioned to the blonde woman to his right. "And this is Glynda Goodwitch, my assistant."
Goff stood still for a moment before holstering his snub and machete before reaching out to the man and giving Ozpin's hand a slightly crushing shake.
"Corporal Goff Ognen."
Ozpin moved his fingers around after they were out of the crushing grip. He looked slightly surprised, and so did Glynda when he said he was "Corporal". "Then you'll come with us to the academy, the days about to begin and you should be able to sleep in relative peace."
"I'm not going anywhere, not without him." They watched as he turned on a dime before they could say anything and walked into the wreckage before coming out a minute later with the body of a young man who had a large hole in his chest. Glynda covered her mouth with one hand and Ozpin had a saddened expression on his face.
"Let's go." he sounded like he didn't care, but you could feel it, you could feel he was on the edge of breaking down, so neither of them pressed him as they walked back to the bullhead.
30 minutes later, Beacon Academy docks.
They ride back had been tense and depressing, Ozpin and Glynda sat on one side while Goff and the body of his friend who he said was a fellow soldier by the name Johnson Rigger, Goff was staring at the body, they thought he was probably trying to control himself as they saw him shudder every once-in-a-while, but as they got off the bullhead a school doctor came out with a few assistants carrying a gurney, and Goff didn't object, he simply hefted Johnson's body onto the stretcher, he was too tired and it was visible as he swayed on his feet and almost fell over for a second. before he turned towards Ozpin. "Where can I get some sleep?" Ozpin noticed how it was around the time the students would have left for their first class of the day, early as it was, he had an idea of not only a decent room, but one occupied by a kind hearted group that could help this broken boy.
"I will put you in the dorm room of a team in our school called team RWBY they will surely not mind, I will have questions for you after you get some rest, for now Glynda will guide you to the dorm.
The trip to the room was uneventful and the mood was hung by a heavy silence, by the time they had made it to the dorms Goff could hardly stand, and when Glynda opened the dorm door he stumbled in before he found the nearest corner, slumped down and passed out, and as Glynda closed the door and Goff drifted into dreamland, he saw Becker, Johnson, and Cavar giving him wide, mirthful smiles as he slept soundly for the first time in years.
Jeez, I hope I did gud here, not entirely sure, but I 'spose i'll find out from you guys won't I?
But for now guys I need sleep i'll see you all soon, don't any of you dare go hollow.
I have an idea of a pairing already :D
DarkWraith out PEACE.