Author's Note: Been having a lot of fun writing this, it may be crappy, but hey I'm here to learn and you're here to read, so hopefully I can provide a good experience for you. Also, RWBY and Titanfall and Titanfall 2 belong to their respective owners Rooster Teeth and Respawn Entertainment. You should totally go support them after reading this, I wouldn't write something based on something bad now would I?
Chapter I
"Boom, got a job, this'll give us the big bucks. Northy! Warp us to the planet Remnant, we have to go hunt some good ol' space pirates," spoke a voice that could be identified as rough, yet with not a care in the galaxy for anything around it but it's next payday.
"Pilot, our reward for this job is not large male deer, it is approximately one point five million in bitcredits. And technically, we ourselves qualify as these 'space pirates' you speak of," said a flat, robotic female voice over a radio, it could even be said the voice sounded British slightly.
"Northy, how many times do I have to say that half the things I say are figures of speech?"
"Clearly not enough Pilot Revenant, perhaps my memory core is leaking again?"
"Nah, I'm sure you're fine," said the Pilot, Revenant, as he jumped out of the chair he was lounging in for the past hour. "Northy? Warp? Planet Remnant?"
"My apologies Pilot, I'll start the warp sequence immediately." There was a long pause of absolute silence. "...Pilot, I appear to have forgotten how to engage the warp systems, do you mind activating them manually?"
"Maybe I'll have you looked at after this job Northy, and sure, I'll get right on that, just try and download a guide or something."
"Pilot, connecting to the galaxy wide web would reveal our position to bounty hunters trying to kill us, therefor I must activate Protocol 3: Protect the Pilot."
"Didn't hurt to try, oh well." Revenant put his arms up into the air and yawned, then sat back down and swiveled his chair to face his dropship controls. "Let's start this journey, it's gonna take us roughly a week to make it to this Remnant, doesn't help that it's not on any known map, not to mention some pit stops for recovering from long term warp effects."
"Pilot, from the mention of this planet's absence from galactic maps, Remnant appears to have some mystery behind it. Odd energy signatures, radio waves, cover ups from the IMC, not to mention the half shattered moon that looks almost identical to the core system's Earth's moon, besides the shattered part," pointed out Northy, the Northstar class Titan.
"Makes it the perfect hideout for space pirates then, IMC isn't going to go near it and almost everybody else doesn't know it exists. 'Almost' being the keyword here, we can thank the dark net for that," commented Revenant.
"What do these 'space pirates' have for weapons and gear Pilot?" inquired Northy.
"Just some standard infantry dropships and weapons, no Titans or Pilots as far as our client knows. Maybe a few Spectres here and there, but mostly grunt level cannon fodder," replied Revenant.
"And what did they do to put such a high bounty on themselves?" inquired Northy again.
"Remember our no questions asked policy?"
"Of course Pilot, but surely our client said something, I'm rather intrigued by this."
"Well as far as I know they just pissed him off somehow, and that's all I care about, well that and the cash money we get at the end," that last part was said with a bit of excitement on Revenant's part.
"Fair enough Pilot, let us begin our journ- we appear to be in warp already, my apologies Pilot."
"Observant as ever Northy, observant as ever," replied Revenant, seriously wondering for a moment if his Titan seriously needed repairs, but then immediately forgot the next moment as he sighed as the colors of warp space made themselves apparent. "I'll never get tired of this sight."
Six days later.
"I never want to see the sight of warp again," said a very impatient Pilot, "How close are we Northy?"
"Accessing warp computer, we appear to be ahead of schedule and should arrive in three hours warp time."
"Yes! Finally! This ordeal will be over! My soul shall be spared! My boredom cured!"
"Pilot, are you alright? You seem to be showing an unnatural amount of happiness."
"I'm fine Northy, it's just that I've never warped that long before, awake anyways."
"I warned you what the consequences for drinking caffeinated substances would do to your body Pilot."
"Yeah yeah, laugh it up will ya," said Revenant crossing his arms and mock pouting.
"Ha ha ha ha, is that how you laugh Pilot?" replied Northy as the phrase, as usual, flew over her head.
"You know what, nevermind, let's just wait these three hours and get this job over with," said Revenant as he leaned backwards in his chair with his hands beneath his head.
"Of course Pilot, not like we had any other choice," replied Northy.
On the Planet Remnant, in the Kingdom of Vale.
"Sir, those UFOs, they're displaying more erratic movement, and it's difficult for us to track them, we need better detection equipment or we'll never get an accurate reading on these things," spoke an Atlas military officer clad in white to his superior, also in white, in front of him.
"I'm not sure your team needs that equipment, from the look of it these UFOs appear to be getting closer and closer to breaking through the atmosphere each day, at the rate they're going at, they should be within visible range, maybe even contact by tomorrow," said General Ironwood, one of the higher ups in the Kingdom of Atlas, "What I want you to do is to get your team ready for anything, and I mean anything, as much as this could change the history of Remnant we must be prepared for the worst, and if that means blowing whatever it is out of the sky then so be it. Keep your team on standby for now, be ready. You're dismissed."
With a salute and "Yes sir", the officer turned around and walked out of Ironwood's temporary office. With a sigh, Ironwood rested his head on his propped up arm and hand. "This is insane, and of course it has to be directly before the Vytal Festival. Not to mention everything else that's going on."
"I must agree, it is rather troubling," said a clearly older, smoother male voice.
"Ozpin, what are you doing here?" asked Ironwood to the now identified figure known as Ozpin, headmaster to Beacon Academy in Vale.
"Don't think you're the only one who's watching the skies General," replied Ozpin, "I'm just as concerned as you, we can't afford an interruption of this scale at this time, we need to keep this low."
"We agree on something for once, that's surprising."
"We can't afford to disagree on the possibility of being contacted by extraterrestrials now can we?"
"I'm more concerned if they're here for more, hostile reasons," said Ironwood with clear concern in his voice.
"And that concern is completely warranted I assure you, but we need to focus on the Vytal Festival right now, it's too important to take our view away and thrust it up into the heavens for now," replied Ozpin.
"But we can't sit back and do nothing, we need to take some kind of action, I've already got one team ready for contact at any moment now, no more no less."
"That's fine, I'm only here to remind you what our main goal here is even if we disagree on it's execution. Just make sure to stay focused, we can't let the true enemy gain the upper hand."
"I'll take care of it Ozpin, now if you don't mind, can you please leave my office? We usually schedule these things."
"Of course James, I'll be on my way," and with that Ozpin turned around and left Ironwood to figure out how to handle contact with possibly hostile aliens.
Three hours later, outside the atmosphere of Remnant.
In a large flash of light and energy, the dropship of Revenant and his Northstar Titan warped into orbit of Remnant, giving them a view of the planet and the shattered moon behind it.
"Damn, that's something else, not quite the level of destruction at Typhon, but it's up there," commented Revenant as he looked out the front window of the dropship at the shattered moon.
"Pilot, I've already detected our targets, they aren't trying very hard at being subtle with themselves, but it appears our warp signature has them scared, they're descending to the planet's surface, we won't be able to catch them before they land," informed Northy to Revenant through his helmet radio, "I advise you 'suit up' as you say."
"Hey, you're learning, good job Northy," replied Revenant as he put on his suit and jumpkit, his helmet already being on since a few days ago during the warp.
Revenant exited the cockpit after setting the dropship for a course to right above the atmosphere above the predicted landing zone of their targets. "Alright Northy, we're gonna go in hard and fast, we'll drop on them, disable the ships with a virus, then clean them all up once they're out of their ships. If we need to I'll disembark and wipe out the ones that'll inevitably hide out of your reach with my signature black Kraber and P2016 pistol, I don't think I'll need it but I'll take with a Thunderbolt just in case things go south. You got all that?" asked Revenant to Northy as he entered the space of the dropship that housed his Titan.
"Indeed Pilot, embark so we can be ready to drop in at the exact moment we need to," replied Northy as her singular ocular sensor at the center of her chassis turned to look at Revenant, the light in the "eye" pulsing with each word she spoke.
"Alright, open up," said Revenant as he knocked on her chassis, opening the front up to reveal a seat and many controls inside the Titan. He hopped inside and took his seat, closing the hatch behind him as he did. Only for a moment was it dark inside the cockpit of the Titan, then panels in front of Revenant lit up and revealed the railing that was in front of him.
"Ocular sensors online, time to drop is approximately thirty point zero five minutes," said Northy before they both together said the catchphrase of pilots all around the galaxy.
"Prepare for Titanfall."
Back on Remnant now, don't worry these location skips won't be so common soon.
"Sir! The UFOs! They're descending at a rapid rate after there was a huge energy spike further above the atmosphere! We believe that it's another UFO!"
"Calm down officer, tell me slowly, what's going on," said a very irritated Ironwood sitting at his desk, slowly gripping the pen he had in his hand tightly due to building stress.
"Well sir, the UFOs, or should we say ships, now that we can see them, are rapidly descending, and there are a lot of them, about the size of our fleet sir," said the officer a bit slower this time.
"Where are they headed?" asked Ironwood, still irritated that he didn't even get half a day before this problem decided to show up ahead of schedule.
"We believe they're going to hide in the forests of Forever Fall north of here sir," replied the officer.
"Damn, that's too close, no way we're gonna be able to hide them, but we can stall. I'll call a conference, send your team to the landing zone as fast as possible, I'm calling in Specialist Schnee to assist you in this, we can't afford losses if they're hostile and she has the training to handle that situation," ordered the General.
"Yes sir! Right away sir," replied the officer as he hurriedly left Ironwoods office.
"Time to make a call," said Ironwood as he took out his Scroll device and selected his desired contact, "Schnee, this is General Ironwood, I don't have the time to talk, I'm sending you an information packet to your Scroll that will give you details on a very important operation I need you on right now, head to the rendezvous point with the team I've sent there that you need to assist in the case of hostile contact, Ironwood out," he then immediately hung up, not giving the Specialist time to reply or ask questions. With a long sigh, Ironwood laid back in his chair to relax during the calm before the storm.
End of Chapter I.
Author's Note: The stage has been set, next chapter will begin with some (hopefully) epic action, also one thing I'd like to note, if you want an idea of the fighting style of Revenant, go ahead and check out a short story I did just for some practice that features him and Northy during the events of the Titanfall 2 campaign. Of course it's not at all necessary to read it, you don't have to at all to totally understand what I'm going to do with this story. Also that totally wasn't a shameless self plug at all. Anyways have a nice day/night and always feel free to leave a review saying what you liked and what you didn't like. Peace.