IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY - RWBY AU

by alantao1

The end of the Great War in Europe came to a close, and with it came peace. Except for the 40 odd thousand British Tommies, who found themselves waking up on a strange foreign land where the moon was shattered, and monsters lurk around every corner. Watch them affect the history of Remnant.

1. PROLOGUE

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PROLOGUE

The guns stopped firing.

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns of both side of the Western front fell silent.

The silence was eerie and yet, so beautiful, nobody dared to be the first to break the silence. Never before has the phrase "the silence is deafening" been more apt.

If one was to take a look out to No-Man's land, one would see the beautiful sight of fields of red poppies growing out of the muddy pockmarked French countryside.

A collective mental sigh of relief went through the many minds for surviving the meat grinder that was the Great War, yet was accompanied by a sadness for those who did not make it to see the end.

It was finally ov-

A great bright light which outshone the sun in the sky suddenly appeared all across the Western Front and became visible all over Europe. Sounds of startled cries and orders to recieve enemy attack broke the silence of the Western Front.

The light disappeared just as sudden as it appeared, leaving many to wonder what just happened.

Runners on both sides carried messages back and fro to senior officers and command centres demanding explanations to what just happened and with orders to not to break the ceasefire.

A few men on both sides were disciplined for opening fire when the bright light appeared for risking breaking the peace, although miraculously no one was killed or injured during the short period of chaos.

It took hours later amid the chaos and confusion before anyone noticed that there were soldiers mysteriously missing from along the British sides of the Western front.

Ammunitions, weapons, fuel and food rations from British supply stores were later reported missing. The missing supplies were however later claimed by military officials to be the fault of clerical errors and were not that uncommon at all.

British military Top Brass hushed up the anomalies, uncharacteristically dismissed concerns over the missing soldiers by simply adding them to the list of the dead and sent letters to their next of kin of their passing.

Many years later, many people are still arguing about the Great Light Event. Scientists believed it to be a rare phenomenon called St Elmo's fire on a massive unprecedented scale.

Religious institutions all over the world claimed the Light was a sign of God sending his approval for mankind ending the War to End All Wars.

Whatever the reason, the Event would continue to linger in public consciousness for years to come.

Men and women who last saw the missing persons were all interviewed in secret and they all told the same story. In all cases the soldiers were there one second and gone the next, apparently all happening at the same time as the Great Light event, leading to some uncomfortable conclusions made by the British Top Brass. Any documents written during the investigation were afterwards promptly locked away in some corner of some dusty government archives or shredded to pieces.

Those that were interviewed were afterwards convinced that it was in their best interest for their "continued well-being" to stay quiet on the matter when they were released back home, and any letter written back home about the missing soldiers were already picked up and destroyed.

To this day the case remains unsolved and hidden from public eyes.