Into Darkness
He saw the green fields of his home and the smile his mother once made every time she saw him. She was like him, not all human like his father was. He remembered "the war" that changed everything. It was a bloody conflict between human and faunus. Countless died on both sides. Onyx was on the side that won. the side of the humans. He couldn't recall how he ended up helping them but all he knew is that the conflict was pointless.
He opened his eyes to the darkness of the hanger, save for the red pulsing light. He reached his hand to his neck and felt the patched metallic scales. 'This small difference among us caused so many people to die. Onyx thought silently to himself.'
The airship rumbled and shook, causing him to lose his footing, falling onto a nearby bench in the dark bay of the airship.
"Damn these pilots, probably ran right into a goddamn nevermore." Someone said under their breath. Next to onyx was a black suited figure. Filling a dust magazine with dangerous ammunition's. Onyx looked at the data-pad on his wrist that doubled as a watch.
He stood up, looking over the twenty three men loading up weapons and equipping black goggle sets with green lens. These were his men, his family, the Vanguard Unit. One of few special operations units the military had. Most if not all the men were ex-huntsman. Trained and molded by the Atlesian Huntsman academy. People called them 'Stalkers'. The skill of huntsman combined with military order and efficiency. They were the ace card that Ironwood had in his hand. Onyx being the commander, held the lives of his men on his own shoulders.
"we drop in ten minutes." he called out to the room of Altesian marines. Then followed by a series of 'yes sir's'. Having been on over two years worth of leading high risk missions Onyx was quite familiar with all the attitudes before entering a combat zone. Overlooking the unit of well trained men all preparing their various assortment of dust rifles and silenced sidearms Onyx began to prepare his own equipment. The Airship shook again, harder this time, causing the lights to flicker and sending dust ammunition all over the airship loading bay.
"what the hell," someone exclaimed followed by many other confused remarks. Most of the soldiers looking to Onyx for an explanation or orders.
"if you want a weapon when you get down there." He paused, the ship rumbling slightly again. "then I suggest you get back to it then." Onyx managed some crowd control then gave a tap to the electronic piece in his ear and ordered. "status report." After a few seconds a voice responded
"just some unscheduled weather conditions sir, the sectors past forever fall can be feisty at night, but it's nothing we can't fly through."
"stay on course, I want a smooth drop-in."
"hear you loud and clear sir." the pilot answered. This military airship was assigned to this mission for its enhanced stealth and VTOL capabilities. It was nicknamed ''Shadowed Fear' mainly due to the completely black exterior for nocturnal operations, such as this one. Onyx satisfied with the pilot's response, walked over to one of the many rows of lockers that lined the inside of the loading bay. Opening his locker, stripping off his officers uniform and replacing it with a sealed tight-fit black prototype dust resistant under layer. Then attaching the layers of black armor plates into place. The armor highly resembled the standard marine combat uniform but it had additional armor plates that were a bit more maneuverable making it less bulky and it was solid black. The other difference was the Vanguard logo stamped onto the shoulder plate of everyone's armor. The golden wings around the purple lightning bolt was their symbol of pride. He placed the helmet over his head equipped with a small 3in antenna sticking up out of the side. The helmet locked on into the neck latch with the suit completely sealing him and covering his face with a black visor. Inside the helmet a digital display came to life on his visor displaying various things. He then reached for a six foot black hard case at the foot of his armory locker. He placed the case on a nearby steel loading table. He unlatched the the case and opened it, revealing a long five foot purple and black schemed rifle, three fist sized boxes and a sidearm with a barrel attachment increasing its length.
He retrieved the five foot rifle and looked over it having the feeling of seeing a familiar friend. He placed 'Twilights Reach'' onto the steel table and extracted one of the squares from the foam molding of the hard case. The dust battery gave an intense glow as Onyx inserted and locked it into the ammo slot under the stock. Onyx then locked the other two purple radiant dust batteries onto his belt and pulled the dust handgun from the foam molding as well. The side arm was equipped with a six inch suppressor. one of which all the marines were equipped with. The goal of the mission being to catch the enemy by surprise. Onyx made sure the suppressor was screwed tight onto the barrel of the handgun then placed it into the holster attached to his right thigh. Onyx then realized he was forgetting something. He walked back over to his locker and pulled out a object wrapped in a piece of cloth. extracting the curved six inch deadly bladed metal piece. The knife fashioned a solid black handle with four finger holes and a fifth ring loop. A glowing red line of infused dust ran along the edge of the blade and handle. The karambit cut the air as he gave a few practice swings. He sheathed it into a curved holster above his left breast. After having tied the navy blue laces on his pair of steel toed, He was ready.
He took an observation of the loading bay seeing that most of the men were now in similar helmeted black armored suits concealing their identities and weapons fully loaded. A few of the soldiers were writing the unit's motto onto the sides of their helmets in red paint, "Lest we Forget" Onyx grabbed Twilight's Reach off the table and attached it to his back. looking over his men again and realizing the loading bay had become very quiet, nothing but the sound of the airship's engine's steady hum. Onyx knew the men were mentally preparing themselves for what was next, himself being the leader, he felt obligated to give some sort of encouragement or pep talk but before he could, the pilot's voice filled the air through the ship's intercom.
"two minutes to drop, I repeat, two minutes to drop, we are entering hostile territory. Good luck boys." The intercom turned off with a crack.
Then the hum of the engines almost faded completely as the ship lowered the power to the thrusters, to conceal the flare from anyone on the ground. All of the exterior lights turned off on the 'Shadowed Fear' making the massive airship nearly impossible to see in the dark of night. Not that any enemy would see the massive black airship 40,000 feet in the air. But they took these precautions and risked nothing. Onyx then waved his marines into position behind the massive steel ramp at the back of the ship. The soldiers lining up in their squads of five. The men having practiced this procedure many times knew the importance of timing everything exactly. There were now four columns of five black suited soldiers waiting their cue. Then the lights to the loading bay shut off, putting the room into complete darkness.
"activate night vision." Onyx spoke with a finger to his helmet activating his own green hazed vision in the dark. giving his a clear view of the lined row of men in front of him also giving a tap to their own helmets. Of course Onyx didn't need the night vision overlay because being a faunus he has a natural ability to see in the dark. The only problem was it took a minute or two for his eyes to adjust to the dark environment. Using the overlay was faster and more efficient. Moments passed then the forward momentum of the airship came to a stop. The tension rose in the air as the silence grew in the loading bay. Suddenly a loudly audible hiss could be heard as the massive ramp was beginning to lower, a gust of wind pushing on them as the air pressure equalized in the loading bay. The ramp finished lowering ending into a void of pitch below. The night was dark without stars as a layer of pitch clouds concealed the nightly features
Normally a green light would indicate the specified time to jump but because they wanted nothing to give away their presence, Onyx called the drops himself.
"Vanguard begin drop." He said into his helmet. The first five marines at the front, in unison walked up to the end of the ramp and with a dive were absorbed into the darkness. Automatically each squad one after the other dived out of the 'Shadowed Fear' leaving nothing but 40,000 feet of air between them and Remnant. It took less than forty seconds for the twenty soldiers to dive out of the cargo bay, he and his personal squad of four men being the only ones left standing in the open hatchway. He looked at the four suited figures next to him and gave a friendly punch to the shoulder of the one closest. Then with a running start Onyx dived into darkness.
THANK YOU ALL FOR READING! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE FIRST TASTE OF THE STORY ARC! I AM SO EXCITED TO SHARE MY ADDITIONS TO THE RWBY UNIVERSE! I WILL GO AHEAD AND SAY THAT I WILL KEEP MY STORY AS ALIGNED TO THE ROOSTER TEETH STORY AS POSSIBLE. BUT OF COURSE I WILL TRY NOT TO DISTORT IT IN ANYWAY, JUST TO BUILD AND EXPAND FROM IT. I AM LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOU ALL TO MEET THE CHARACTERS AHEAD WHICH I HAVE BUILD FROM SCRATCH AND TO GET TO KNOW THEIR STORY. YOU HAVE ALREADY MET ONYX. (WHO IS MY FAVORITE) AND THERE ARE MANY MORE TO COME. I ENCOURAGE ANY TYPE OF FEED BACK YOU GUYS CAN PROVIDE. I LOOK TO GATHER NEW IDEAS AND IMPROVE MY WRITING IN ANY WAY. THANKS AGAIN FOR READING