This is pretty much inspired by any game that has big machines that are controlled by people, like Titanfall and Steel Battalion. But the main inspiration for this was actually a Team Fortress 2 animation made with SFM (Source Film Maker) called: 'A Wrench in The Gears'. You should go and check it out! :D
It includes my OC Team CBSE, and Chen, my main OC character Chen is Yang's twin brother, and obviously Ruby's older brother. It might help if you read my other fic that has more on my OC team, but you don't have to.
(You'll probably only want to watch it if you're into TF2, or you're at least familiar with it).
Oh! And by the way, the title is also a reference to TF2. If you get it, I love you. If you don't get it, I will still love you, don't worry xD.
Ruby looked around at the scene of devastation in front of her. Dead bodies were strewn everywhere. Buildings were on fire.
They had lost contact with the town of Atlas several hours earlier, and sent a scout team to investigate. Soon enough, contact with them had also been lost. Now Ruby had found them.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
Ruby spoke into the radio. "Well guys, I found the missing Scout team…" Her voice was subdued, the stench of death everywhere obviously affecting her.
"It has to be a Beta-Grimm attack," came the voice of her usually bubbly older sister Yang. "Either that or a crapload of normal Grimm."
A new type of Grimm had emerged. These Grimm were twice as tough, large, and deadly than the normal type. They were Ursa-like creatures, except ten times more scary. At first, they had run rampant, destroying everything in their path. Even the most accomplished hunters couldn't stop them. And many of them had perished. It was why Ruby and her twin siblings Yang and Chen, along with many other of their friends from Beacon, were fighting these monsters two years before their graduation.
Only, technology had advanced, and soon, a solution was found on how to combat this new threat. Big robots, controlled by people. They were roughly the same size as Beta-Grimm, depending on the class. They called these machines 'Titans'. There were quite a few classes of Titans, each of then good for different jobs.
There was the regular Titan, called the Commando. At first, they came equipped with standard issue twin machine guns attached to the arm; however, you were allowed to customise them however you wished, if you wanted to.
There was a close-quarters variant of the Titan, called the Brawler, which instead of machine guns, had two giant sized fists, and could easily smash through most things. (No prizes for guessing who uses this one).
Then, there was the Goliath. These machines were very heavily armoured. It could take several hits from a Beta-Grimm and not even get damaged. They were also heavily armed, but required four people to man it. They needed one person to manage to comms, another to control the movement and to fire the weapons. It could fire HEAT rounds, and could also fire a machine gun. Then, they needed one person to reload the HEAT rounds, and another to reload the machine gun. Despite the heavy firepower, the machine wasn't very maneuverable, and normally stayed at the back to provide suppressing fire to the other Titans.
Then, there was the Assassin. It was quicker than a Commando, but it wasn't as heavily armed, nor was it as powerful, as the only weapon and Assassin had was twin blades. It was still capable of doing fair amounts of damage, and they were good for sneaking up on the enemy, as they had an inbuilt cloaking device.
The Scout wasn't quite classed as a Titan, but they were good for distracting the enemy or darting in and out to assess the enemy before they even knew they were there. However, it only came armed with two light machine guns on either arm, so it wasn't really good for proper combat.
These Scouts were obviously very unlucky, very bad, or both.
"Do you see the Grimm anywhere Ruby?" asked her older brother Chen through the radio.
"Uh, Chen," said Ruby, managing a grin. "It's Echo leader, jeez."
"Okay, Echo leader, do you see the Grimm anywhere?" asked Chen with a smirk.
"Nope. It's like they all just came here and killed everyone, then left."
"Strange, the Scout team came wayyy after we lost contact, so they must have been sticking around and... they am… bush… ed… them…"
Ruby heard Chen curse through the radio. "Regroup back at the main square you two. Now."
Ruby realised what was happening, just as she managed to avoid getting hit by a Beta-Grimm's claw. She yelped and ran back towards the meeting point, as fast as her Titan could go, but always keeping aware of her surroundings. She arrived at the meeting point, and found Yang and Chen already there.
"Command, this is Echo leader, Grimm are still in the city, we might need some reinforcements," said Ruby through the radio.
"Copy that Echo Leader, sending in Delta team to assist."
"Understood, Echo leader out."
"You must really love being the leader Ruby," said Chen with a smirk, eyeing up the Grimm that were fast approaching their position.
"That's Echo leader to you, Echo three," said Ruby cheekily.
"Guys," said Yang firmly. "I'm all for a bit of banter, but right now, there's a horde of angry Grimm approaching that would love to tear us and our Titans to pieces, so we need to focus."
"Alright, let's do this," said Chen, who started spinning the blades attached to his Titan's arms.
Yang pounded her two fists together in the Brawler, before adopting a fighting stance, while Ruby readied her rifle arm, and unfolded her scythe from the other arm.
The first Beta-Grimm that charged into the square had its head sliced cleanly off by Ruby's scythe in a quick double swipe, the first swipe cutting the Grimm's throat, the second one delivering the blow that would end its life.
Several Beowolves charged at Chen, only for each of them to be impaled on Chen's rotating blades. Then Chen blocked a swipe from a Beta-Grimm with one of his arms, before plunging his right arm deep inside the monster's chest, and the Grimm gave a roar of defeat as Chen pulled the blades out of it, before slumping to the floor, dead. Chen was suddenly knocked sideways as he failed to spot another Beta-Grimm. Warnings flashed inside his Titan as his damage report showed he was down to 59% before the machine became unstable.
Chen narrowed his eyes and charged at the Grimm. The creature lifted up its arm to swipe at him, but at the last moment, Chen ground to a halt, causing the beast's claws to slam into concrete. Chen took a deep breath and jumped over the Grimm, but he left his arms down, causing his blades to slice its back. The creature howled and fell to the ground, as Chen's blades had reached its intended target. The spine.
Chen looked around to see Ruby, shooting off and slicing some Ursa heads, and Yang battling two Ursi Majors.
She smashed the first Ursa three times. She did one to the chest, another to the stomach to smash it upwards slightly, and the final one to the head, sending the unfortunate Ursa into the ground. Literally, into the ground. The second one suffered a similar fate, although this one was smashed into a building instead, the impact cracking the spine of the Grimm into two pieces.
Then, several more Beta-Grimm appeared from behind buildings, and the three siblings stood back to back. Well, their machines did.
"Ready guys?" asked Chen with a grin.
"Baby, I was born ready," said Yang with a grin.
"Not now Yang, please," said Ruby with a sigh.
"Ah-ah Echo leader, that's Echo two to you."
"Can we just shut up and kill them already?" asked Chen rolling his eyes.
"Good plan," said Ruby.
And with that, the three of them charged at the incoming Grimm.
The first Beta-Grimm lunged, but was knocked off balance by several shots from Ruby, then Chen shoulder barged into it, knocking it further off balance, before Yang stepped in with a powerful punch and sent the beast flying into another one of its companions. Two remained, but before the three Titans could do anything else, gunfire sounded from behind them, and they looked up to see several gunships rain down fire on the two Beta-Grimm. They were annihilated in seconds. (I know they could do this to all of the Grimm in the first place, but there are Nevermores, so… yeah) The three gunships landed and dropped off Delta team, which consisted of Blanc Neige, Edward Azul and Sapphire Moon.
Blanc was in an Assassin, Ed was in a regular Commando, and Sapphire was in a Brawler.
"Nice of you guys to join us, but we've already taken all the Grimm out for ya," said Yang with a grin.
"With a little help from the gunships," added Chen, and Yang mock scowled.
"Shush you."
"The gunships have done a sweep of the town. No more Grimm here," said Ruby cheerfully.
Several more gunships came in and dropped off soldiers from the Remnant Marine Corps, before the gunships lifted up the six Titans and began to carry them back to the base near Beacon.
Chen sighed contentedly as he walked out of the shower and into the quarters that he, Jaune Arc, Lie Ren and Ed shared. Jaune piloted a regular Titan, while Ren had replaced the blades on his Assassin with sub machine guns.
"You enjoy yourself out there Chen?" asked Ren with a smirk.
"Apart from all the dead people?" said Chen. "Yeah, I really enjoyed myself there."
"You're meant to leave the sarcasm to me Chen."
"Screw you," said Chen good-naturedly as he lay down on his bed.
"We're not meant to go back to sleep Chen, we've only just woke up," said Ren, doing his best to annoy Chen, who seemed to be in a good mood.
"Seriously Ren, stop trying to annoy me before I punch you."
"Looks like I already succeeded," said Ren with a triumphant smirk.
Chen sighed and got up off the bed before storming out.
Chen wasn't really angry at Ren. It was just typical him. The feeling was mutual anyway, both of them taking jabs at each other. It was all friendly though. He walked into the main hangar and saw his Titan Vengeance and walked over to it. He had washed off the blood from the previous battle off his blades. He saw Ruby, who was still polishing the scythe of her Titan Crescent Rose. Chen wandered over to her.
"How you doing Echo Leader?" asked Chen with a smirk.
Ruby pouted. "Don't make fun of me Chen! That's only when we're kicking ass and fighting Grimm."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
Ruby shook her head with a smile. "Whatever."
Yang suddenly burst in, and even people not looking in her direction knew she was present, her fiery aura could be felt from miles away. (Not literally).
"Guys! Big news, I passed Commander Ozpin on the way here, he says that there's a major Grimm attack outside the city of Reach (Halo :D), in Vacuo!"
As she said this, an announcement rung out over the hangar.
"All Titan squads must immediately suit up. You will get more instructions on your way to the destination."
Immediately, the hangar came alive with activity. People were rushing left and right, either getting to their Titans, or in Nora Valkyrie's case, to rush back to the canteen to quickly eat the rest of the pancakes.
Chen jumped in Vengeance, and started it up, the systems coming online. When the Titan was ready, Chen moved out of the hangar and into the courtyard, where gunships were preparing to take off with the Titans.
Soon enough, everyone was efficiently assembled, and there were final checks as Chen was hoisted into the air by a gunship, as many other Titans were too. Suddenly, Ozpin's voice came over the comm.
"Twelve minutes ago, the city of Reach, situated in Vacuo, sent out a distress signal. We believe there to be a mass horde of Beta-Grimm heading straight towards the city. Hopefully, you will arrive there before too many Grimm enter the city, and you will guard the city, preventing the Grimm from entering inhabited areas, while the Remnant Marine Corps will evacuate all civilians in immediate danger. I trust that you will all get this done." He paused. "Once you are dropped off, make sure you listen to your radios, and do not hesitate to help anyone. Whether that be your team mate, a fellow Titan Pilot, Marine, or civilian. Good luck. Ozpin out."
After Ozpin's speech, Chen was all psyched up. He couldn't wait to go and kick some ass.
Soon, the gunships had reached Reach (Hehe) and were flying over the city to wherever they needed to be deployed.
"Alright guys," came Ruby's voice. "Our mission is to defend the eastern section of the city, along with Teams Bravo, Charlie, and Foxtrot, while marines evacuate the civilians there. If you've got it, say aye!"
"Simple enough," said Yang with a confident smirk.
"Let's do it!" said Chen. He looked down at the city, and watched the marines fighting small amounts of Grimm, and evacuating the city.
"None of you said aye..." muttered Ruby quietly.
And there you go! Hope you guys enjoyed it, I would love to see what you think about this one! As you can tell, it's not specifically from anyone's point of view. Until next time, so long people! :D (There will be quite a lot of OCs)