I do not own Sword Art Online or RWBY. All rights to their respective owners. Now on to some stuff that I feel to be important. I was almost done writing this first chapter when I somehow lost everything I had. So I've had to rewrite EVERYTHING.
Some important background info:
I took the time to recatalog all my weapons, items, armor, ect. The main character, Burudaku, will have completed three different self defense courses and two different survival courses. His main style of combat in GGO is On The Fly, allowing to come up with strategies as the situation demands. He has a bounty of 15.5 million credits over his head in game, leading to a lot of firefights with other players. His avatar is tall, lanky, with long dark blue hair that has light blue tips braided all the way down his back, with vivid red cat like eyes. He wears the Chaos Battlesuit, Medic Cap and Round Glasses, all of which are dyed white with light blue secondaries. His guns remain pitch black though.
(Death Gun Arena)
Itaski and Burudaku stood fifteen feet apart from each other, sidearms aimed in a standoff. Everyone gathered in the arena could only watch as two former friends stared each other down with killing intent. Kirito went to go after Itaski, but Burudaku stops him. "Kirito. Stay back, This is my fight. Alone." Hesitantly, Kirito steps back, unable to help. At some unseen signal, the two men fire their guns. 10mm and .45 collide in the briefest of sparks as the fire fight rages on, neither party able to gain the upper hand over the other. As the surrounding area falls apart, every one except the two dualist are logged out of the game.
"Itaski. Can you answer one question honestly for me?" Burudaku asks, avoiding the incoming gunfire. The only answer he receives is increased Prediction Lines.
Before the last twenty feet of arena disappear, the former friends land fatal shots on each other. "Even in the end, you prevail." Itaski says before they are logged out or killed by the system.
(Main character PoV)
Opening my eyes, I don't see my room ceiling. Instead I see a snow covered tree canopy above me. Confused, I get up and feel a couple things fall off my head and face. Bending down I see my assault rifle, hat, and glasses from GGO. Putting my hat and glasses on, I then pick up my gun and attach it to its holster points on my chest. Opening the menus, I scroll till I find the map and check my location. "Atlas, Schnee Manor Grounds? Either I'm in a development testing ground or Home is suddenly farther away." I say to myself as I go to check my inventory. Much to my surprise everything is there, alongside all the credits I had earned, curious I check to see if the logout button is there as well.
"Well, it looks like home really is farther away." I think out loud to myself, seeing that there is no logout button. Hearing rapid footsteps in the snow behind me, I turn around just in time to get tackled by someone. Lifting my head up to see who tackled me, a quest pops up in my vision
[White Fear, Black Death]
Quest Start
Objective: Defend the girl from the attacking black monsters. 00/14
Completion Rewards: Mythic Weapon
Welp time to get to work. Gently pushing the girl of my chest and to the left of me, I get up and scan for these 'black beast' that the quest mentioned. Hearing shuffling sounds from the right, I turn and see a large black lupine like beast with some sort of white mask lumber out from between the trees. "And just like that, this gets harder." I think to myself as I fire a burst into its head in a fountain of blood. Three more approach from the front and three from the left and right as well. Sparing a quick glance behind me confirms that there are three behind me as well. "Stay down." I say before, drawing my smg and dual wield the two automatic weapons, firing in a circle around me thanks to the high ammo capacity of the two guns. Scanning the bullet ridden corpses, I confirm my kill count to be a total of thirteen altogether. Holstering my smg, I proceed to reload assault rifle. "You ok?" I ask the girl. She gives me a shocked nod of the head yes. "Do you know where your family is?" this time a nod no.
"Want me to help you find them?", this time she responds properly with, "Yes please Mister.". As we go to set off, a roar has us turning back around to a large black bear thing with the same mask as the wolves. I immediately open up with my assault rifle but the bear seem to shrug off the bullets. "Run and don't look back." I say as the bear charges forward before I can reload. It smacks me into a tree, making me drop my gun and draining my hp bar around five percent. Standing back up, I throw three incendiary knives at the same time before rushing the now burning beast and landing a solid uppercut. It swings wildly at me in its fire induced rage, while I dodge and wait for the right moment to strike.
Seeing the right moment, I tackle the bear and pull a knife from my boot and start stabbing it in the neck repeatedly, coating my self in its blood. As it finally goes limp, I get off the corpse and almost fall over. Glancing at my hp bar, I see why, it's in the red and has the bleeding status active, which is slowly killing me. Opening my menu, I pull out a med kit and start fixing myself up. Finishing up, I can hear two sets of footsteps approaching me from the side. Looking up at the sources, I see that it's the girl and someone armed with a cavalry saber I assume is her mother wearing an expression of disbelief. The quest completion prompt that appears in my vision confirms it. I accept the prompt and the weapon spawns in my hands. Its a shotgun with a sword for a bayonet. Hefting it with my left hand, and open my menus with my right hand and store it for later. Reaching down I pick up my assault rifle and with a wave bye, I set off into the forest. I only get a few steps before I hear, "Stop, where are you going?"
Turning around to look, I see that the saber has been sheathed. "I'm headed for the closest town. After that? Only the winds know." She looks me up and down sternly before saying, "Your leaving with no reward after helping a Schnee?"
"Yep, why? Did I forget something?" I ask curiously. She looked at me exasperated saying, "That Schnees are one of the most powerful families on Remnant." With this new info, I see what she means. Shaking my head, I reply with, "That shotgun I got was reward enough. Now if you will excuse me, I'll be leaving. And don't try to stop me, what message would that leave for the one beside you?" and resume walking away while activating Meta-optical Camouflage.
(Fast Forward Seven Years Later)
The scene that played out before my scope was not one I wished to watched. With a gentle squeeze of the trigger, the AMR Tiamat MK2 lets out a loud bark and the head of the Boarbartusk disappears, coating the back side of the white haired, high heel wearing, .45/rapier user in its black blood. Cycling the bolt, I sight the the next Grimm, a Creep and fire. It vanishes from sight completely while I cycle the bolt once more. Three rounds, two creeps and another Boarbartusk later, the girl is safe from the Grimm and I jump from tree to tree to my next perch. Beacon Initiation day was the best paying day of the year, and the hardest day at the same time. Yeah sure I was the best shot they stumbled across accidently, but even I have limits to how fast I can cycle an anti material rifle bolt. Stopping just shy of the ruin clearing, I crawl farther up the tree and scan the skies for any unwanted guests that could show up. A gryffin rises from the forest a few miles from my perch, only to fall back into the forest missing part of its skull do to a well placed AP anti material round. After about fifteen minutes, of no activity, a black and yellow pair passes under my spot.
I watch them approach the ruins and select their relic. They miss the caw of a Nevermore, but I don't, shifting my rifle in the direction of the sound, I spot the thing. Sighting in its head, I see an extra patch of red on its back right next to a white spot. Zooming in, I realize that some how TWO of the initiatives managed to hitch a ride on its back by holding on for dear life. I have to time this just right otherwise I risk hitting them. Or I can face the racket going onto my left and find someone getting flung into a tree close to mine. Turning back to the Nevermore, I lead it by one-eighth of an inch and fire three times, punching through its thick bone mask. The two people on top of its corpse coast on its remaining momentum for half a mile before jumping off it as it goes over the clearing. The eight people in one spot, perfect. Now if they just stick together, this will go so much faster. Or a Death Stalker that sounds pissed can arrive, and I don't think they have heavy combat gear to kill it. With no other choice, I leap from my tree and hit the ground rolling, and break into a sprint while I change the rifle for the Meteor Fall rpg through the menus. Breaking into the clearing beside the initiates, I sight the thing and fire, yelling, "Get To The Cliff! Now"
Reloading, I charge the Grimm and fire again, its shell cracking from the two high yield missiles. Throwing the missile launcher away cause I don't have time to reload, I dive between the Death Stalker's claws, jump onto its back, and grab a hold of its tail so I don't get flung off. Slinging my Strum KZ4 forward, I shoot the base of the stinger until it falls off. The poison part removed, I focus my gun on the cracks in the exoskeleton. The 9mm AP rounds simply fail to penetrate the cracked shell. Time for the little guys, pulling two plasma grenades from my belt, I prime one and throw it at the weakened armor quickly followed by the other one, before I jump off the Grimm and try to get far away as possible. I only get a few feet before the grenades go off in a large ball of superheated Grimm, fire, green light, and a shockwave. Getting thrown by the explosion, I land painfully on the ground and let out a gasp of pain as my hp bar dips down into the yellow.
Rolling onto my back, I end up looking into two pools of silver, full of concern. After a second I realize that it's one of the initiates. Getting off the ground I put on my angry face, "I'm going to ask once. Why didn't you guys run?" The only one to speak up was silver eyes, "What if you needed help?" That was the most innocent answer I've heard in the three years I've been working for Beacon. I drop the angry face and chuckle, before checking the mini map on my hud. "Do any of you carry heavy weapons?" I ask as I change weapons for the HMG Bravefire 2 and a Valkyrie MK 3. A collection of nopes and one yes is my answer, I just give a heavy sigh before pulling out a scroll and punching in the number. "Hey, I got the remaining eight with me."
"Are any of them hurt?" the voice on the other end asks me.
"No. No one's hurt, but I do have a problem." I respond.
"A problem?" they question.
"There's a lot of Grimm in bound and only one of them has heavy firepower." I say, casting a quick glance to my minimap to see how long we had till the grimm arrived.
"I'll send a bull head immediately." they say, more than likely getting the bullhead moving.
"One last thing, they all did good." I say before the line clicks, indicating that the call was over. Turning back to my charges, "As you just heard, a lot of grimm in bound to our location. Beacon is sending a bullhead to extract us, but they won't get here before the grimm. So, what we have the great pleasure of doing is fighting for our lives until Evac arrives. Any questions?" The initiate in white is the only one that speaks up, "And I suppose that you have a plan to fight them?" she asks with some snark. I grin and pull out the HMG Bravefire and say, "Why I'm glad you asked cupcake. The nasty black beast get here in five minutes. And when they do." I pull a frag from my belt, "Kaboom. Anything that survives." I then gesture with my heavy machine gun. "Now group up in the center of the ruins and form a circle of guns while I lay down some 'presents' for our new friends." Everyone of them except the scraggly blond guy who asks, "Ummm...what if we don't have a gun?"
With a sigh, I put my grenade away, open my menu, and pull out one of my four Draque L Harmattans and hand it to him along with ten spare mags. "That gun is simple to use. Hold with both hands, stock to shoulder, point at grimm, pull trigger till empty, then reload and repeat." I quickly show him how to reload then hurry to the forest edge and start laying all sorts of landmines and grenade traps. Hearing the first explosion and the following howls of pain, I plant the last mine and rush to the ruins where the initiates are. Getting there, I order, "If your a marksman fire at will, the rest of you, wait till you see their eyes then open fire. You, ginger with the grenade launcher. When the grimm are half way here, start shooting and thin their numbers further." I barely finish before the sound of a .50 cal rifle and a .308 reach my ears. Crimson and red are my marksmen then, that means everyone else is geared for close range. Except the blonde with the gauntlets. "Hey, what shotgun gauge do you use?" I ask her.
It takes her a second to realize what I asked but she then says, "Oh I use 20 gauge. Why?" I don't answer, instead opening my menu again and pulling out a spare Valkyrie MK 3 and toss it to her. "Use that, it has better range and is 20 gauge. I want it back after this is all over."
Author's Note
First: I know that there is a large time skip already in this first chapter, and I hopefully made it a reasonable size.
Second: Burudaku WORKS for Ozpin, he's not a student. he and Ozpin have a mutual understanding of scratch my back, I scratch yours.
Third: Yes, I ended the chapter before a very large fight. That fight is going to kick off the second chapter of the story.