I do not own Armored Core or RWBY. If I did, I wouldn't be making fanfics now would I?

EDIT: Alright, chapter is rewritten. Old one was just filled with...filler.

From the ashes of destruction emerges a society where corporations hold sway. Disputes among those vying for power are a regular occurrence. All that is needed is a catalyst...and the machines of war are set in motion...unleashed to secure dominance.


East Ruga Canyon
3:00PM

A Mirage search team consisting of MTs was deployed to investigate a nearby Navis base. The reason for this?

Report: Mirage Insistent/OAE Meeting Stalls

Recently, representatives from the major corporations, Mirage, Crest, Kisaragi and Navis attended a meeting hosted by the Organization for Administration of Enterprise (OAE), to discuss Navis' new resource discovery. During this meeting, Mirage urged Navis to discontinue its monopolistic hold on the new resource and begin sharing the find with the others. Navis flatly refused, stating that since they are in control of the region, it is not an issue which involves the other corporations. Mirage responded by promising an aggressive investigation. The conflict between long established Mirage, and newcomer Navis, has reached a point where open aggression between the two is inevitable.

And here they were now, in the middle of a canyon. The search team's MTs were eleven meters tall with reverse-jointed legs and a bullet shaped torso. They were armed with a rifle on the top of the torso, and missile launchers on the sides. These iconic machines were the cannon fodder of any more advanced model of MT.

"This is the search team, we're approaching the base now." The commander of the four-man squad transmitted to the nearest Mirage base. It was important to keep tabs on the activity of all MTs to see if help was needed, if the objective was complete etc.

"Four, go up ahead through the crevice and relay info back to us." The commander ordered the foremost pilot. Everyone in the region, no, world was advised against using their real names. 'All it took was one look at a database and the home of a soldier was burnt to the ground', was the excuse for this. There was no proof it had happened, but it seemed pretty accurate.

"We're under attack!" 'Four' shouted out as he shot his missiles at the enemy. One of the missiles were shot down by an anti-missile laser, but the other one made contact. 'Four' was quickly shot down with a few rifle shots, killing the pilot inside.

"Search team here, we've encountered resistance. This must be Navis' doing." The commander reported, worried about what took down 'Four' so quickly.

"It's a Raven!" Another pilot shouted. Ah... that's what it was. The search team didn't stand a chance. A missile shot out from the crevice, hitting the closest MT, which then got gunned down by more rifle shots, smoke pouring from the MT covering the entrance. A slightly shorter, bipedal figure emerged from the smoke. It was the Raven, piloting the Armored Core, AC for short, that all new Ravens piloted, made from the cheapest AC parts money could buy.

The AC lunged at the commander, using its boosters to propel it, and then proceeded to swing its left arm around to its right shoulder. The AC proceeded to ignite a laser blade on its forearm, and swung the left arm back around to slash at the MT, instantly destroying it. All within the span of one second.

The last remaining MT pilot fired at the Raven with his rifle and missile launchers, but to no avail. Most of the shots were dodged due to the boosters of the AC, and the shots that did connect dealt little damage. The Raven returned fire with their own rifle, quickly dispatching the last MT with a few shots.

"No energy sources detected. Area secured." The computer of the AC spoke. "Mission objective achieved. System switched to normal mode." The AC then lowered its weapons. The Raven piloting the AC made some mental notes. Mainly that the boosters had almost already overheated the AC, and, for an initiation mission, there was a strangely low amount of casualties. With those notes, the Raven returned to their home, the Raven's Ark.


East Ruga Canyon
Navis Research Outpost
9:00PM

"The hell just happened?" The lead scientist asked. They were performing experiments with a new resource, one that wasn't ancient technology. It was some sort of element that Navis' mining teams had discovered, a strange kind of crystal. The research team had also noted that they came in various colors, and each had a different effect.

Their current experiment with these crystals before the whole incident? Testing if the crystals could do teleportation. Hey, these were essentially magic crystals, why not test the limits? Maybe because it almost looked like a glowing ball of death surrounded the region.

"It appears that..." Another scientist was about to answer, attempting to access the satellites Navis had. Unfortunately there was no response."Alright, I think we need to send another satellite up. I've lost contact with our current network."

"Alright, launching satellite."

"That quick?"

"For all we knew we were gonna teleport the whole planet into a new solar system. I figured we'd need a lot of backup protocols." The lead scientist replied. To be honest, they were really scared. Teleportation is a frightening thing. You could get Earth right next to a black hole. Or inside a star.

"Launching in 3," The automated computer voice came online. "2," The engine of the rocket carrying the satellite payload roared to life. "1...0" The sound of thunder boomed throughout the whole region.

Other satellites were being placed in orbit as well, Mirage, Crest, Kisaragi, even the Raven's Ark deployed a satellite network. It became evident that everyone else was trying to grasp the situation as well.

"Satellite deployed." As the base's AI spoke, the new world slowly revealed itself as everyone tried to get a good look at the situation.

"Dear god... the hell happened to the Moon? It looks like someone nuked a side of it!" A reconnaissance team reported. Everyone took a nice good look at the Moon, and half of it was fragmented. Just as things seemed like they couldn't get any worse, the men and women looking at the images being displayed by the satellite revealed something else.

"We placed the whole region onto another planet?" The footage being shown had a whole different kind of geography. There was nothing they recognized here. The region was placed close to another landmass, very close.

A temporary truce was placed between all the corporations until everyone could figure out what just happened.


Beacon Academy
9:00AM
1 Day After Arrival

The Cross-Continental Transmit System, or CCTS for short, managed to access the network of this new island due to its proximity to the kingdoms, then displayed the data on screen. It was honestly really strange. A white ball of death just appeared in the ocean between Vale, Atlas and Mistral, and when it died down a new island stood in its place. That was not the main concern however.

Beacon Academy, a school for aspiring huntsmen and huntresses to train and defend humanity from the soulless creatures of Grimm. The students had all gathered into the CCT around each accessible display to see what had just been picked up. It was really crowded, everyone was murmuring about wanting to know when the broadcast was about to start. The broadcast in question? The Raven's Ark civilian television series named, "Raven Arena". Nothing more, nothing less. It was relatively new, no one expected teleportation. The name could've been more creative though.

"Great, we came here to watch birds fight in a new island! How exciting." A certain blonde huntress in training spoke out. The broadcast started suddenly, and the show started as the students went silent.


Karuba Mountains
Navis Warehouse

Raven's Ark's pilots still needed to be sharp as the truce was only temporary. The area in front of Navis Warehouse was being used to set up a match between two Ravens.

Ammo, the Rank 29 Raven was getting his beige and black AC, named Birth Bomb ready for the arena match against the newcomer. Birth Bomb was a middleweight, biped, Crest AC equipped with an unguided, double-barreled rocket launcher connected to the right arm and a laser blade bolted to the left. The lack of Fire Control System compatible weapons was a huge disadvantage, as he had to aim manually against a target that went at high-speed. However, he was confident that he would win.

NR, the ever silent Rank 30 Raven, and the one who destroyed the Mirage search team as his first mission, was piloting his AC in the training area. He only had the basic starting AC, a very inefficient, slow, energy consuming, middleweight biped that deals scratch damage with the guided missile launcher, a rifle, and a radar. The only advantage was that he could use his FCS with those weapons. And the laser blade was good compared to the rest of his arsenal. But that wasn't saying much. At least he painted it.

"Cameras are rolling in 3 seconds." The hosts spoke out. There were representatives from each of the major corporations sent to observe the Ravens, to make sure their elite mercenaries were still effective. NR was be demonstrating the combat capabilities of even the lowest rank Ravens hadn't been disoriented by the situation, and Ammo was showing the condition of the ACs hadn't degraded due to the teleportation.

Then there would be the duel between them. "2," It was odd, to say the least. Using machines of war for what amounted to a game show. "1," Whatever. None of it mattered right now. They were getting paid to put on a show right now. Not exactly how a Raven expects to use their ACs, but there have been stranger uses. "0. Ravens, do your best, and don't disappoint the people at home alright?"


Raven's Ark Media Studio

There were two presenters, one in a white suit, the other in black, surrounding a table, think your everyday news network... but in the future.

"Hello, I'm James." The presenter in white stated, with a noticeable British accent.

"And I'm David." The presenter in black followed up, with the most American accent one could imagine. As in, having every individual accent of fifty states fit into one voice.

"And we'll be the hosts of this new show. Now, first, lets get the questions out of the way first, like; 'What just happened to the region? Are we dead and are all currently living in a purgatory of sorts?' The answer is, that we are not dead, and it appears that either we all got transported onto a new planet, or we terraformed the rest of the Earth."

"Or maybe we are dead."

"Either way, it is confirmed that civilization exists here, and the OAE will be attempting to make contact. The major corporations have also agreed to a temporary truce. So, anyway. Back to the reason we have..." James looked at the viewer counter, and could tell something was off immediately. There was no way the only people watching the program were those of the region. "a few hundred thousand viewers."

"I guess we got some first impressions to make." David added rather quietly. James then grabbed the microphone to make an announcement.

"Ravens, get to the Arena please."

"So, while we wait for them to get there, how about telling the people at home why we don't use our full names?"


Navis Warehouse Arena

The ACs were walking towards the Arena, which was just outside of the warehouse, and positioned themselves opposite of each other, Ammo's beige and black colored AC being on the north side and NR's orange and white AC being on the south side. Both pilots stood on the sand, awaiting the hosts to give off the signal. Ammo took the chance to do a little trash-talking.

"You don't stand a chance in that AC."

NR wasn't sure that Ammo was entirely wrong. The speakers came on.

"Ready?" Both combatants raised their AC's right arm, pointing the guns at their opponent.

"Go!"


Edit: Yeah, so added and removed some things. Changed the summary.

Alright, I'm just gonna say, I was really scared about doing this and still am. The part that scares me is getting the personalities of the characters of RWBY right. I mean, honestly I can see why people use OCs now. So much easier to use a blank slate, like every AC character. Gimme your feedback. Help me out here. By the way, NR is just supposed to be an abbreviation of Nexus Raven. Kinda wanna keep him like that. Don't wanna give him a name. Keeping him like the blank slate he is. Also, any name recommendations for the Raven's AC?