This takes elements from Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising, but is mostly a crossover between Unturned and RWBY
Hey, dudes! EnriksD8 here with another fanfic of mine. Today, I'll be trying my take on a zombie-related fic, so it could be bad or good depending on how you guys see it. So enough about me, let's get this fic on the desk!
Unturned-related stuff belongs to Nelson Sexton and/or the Steam Workshop
Left 4 Dead-related stuff belongs to Valve
Dead Rising-related stuff belongs to Capcom
RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum
Grimm of Remnant, Dead of the Earth
*Chapter 0: One Small Portal for Man… One Giant Jump from Earth to Remnant*
-Seattle, Washington, around midnight-
Currently there was fear running through a man's head as he ran through Seattle's abandoned streets, Atchisson shotgun at the ready. The man vaulted over a chain-link fence as multiple inhuman growls sounded off from nearby. The man ran some more before skidding to a halt. Turning around, he aimed his shotgun at the very thing that he was running from just minutes ago.
Zombies…
A whole group of them, packed with some Flankers, Burners, and Spitters. Close behind the horde of undead were five Mega Zombies, all massive and brutish.
Calming himself down and aiming the sights, the man opened fire at the oncoming horde, killing most of the regular zombies, and taking out a few of the special zombies in his wake. All the while, he started moving backwards, into an open road leading to a highway. "C'mon! C'mon!" he roared in fury as he gunned down more zombies within his field of vision. Dodging an oncoming piece of concrete, he quickly shot at the Mega that threw it, taking it down.
'One down, and a shitload to go.' Pulling out his Vulture handcannon and taking a pot shot, he quickly amputated a zombie of its arm and shoulder, killing it quickly.
Suddenly, a Flanker popped out of nowhere, taking the man by surprise. The man overcame his surprise with a well-placed slice to the neck with his machete, decapitating the undead freak. Rapidly, he spun and stabbed a Sprinter zombie straight through the cranium, destroying its brain completely.
'Shit, can't find some room to breathe. Gotta get to the other side of the bridge.' He thought before making a massive sprint, jumping over low lying pieces of debris and dodging multiple spits of acid from the Spitters.
Grabbing one by the head, the man slammed it down hard into a nearby car engine, smashing it to bits. He quickly slammed another before shooting it off the bridge that he and the undead horde chasing him are on.
Turning to the horde, he pulled out the Atchisson shotgun and started to shoot the Mega Zombies, taking one out of the four down, before switching his targets to the smaller undead creatures.
Shooting down another small group, he switches again to his machete to slice off any Flanker that got near to him. Grabbing his Vulture in his right and his machete in his left in a reverse-slash-tactical hold, the man shot at and slashed at the horde before rapidly dodging a thrown piece of debris.
Holding his breath, he rapidly aimed the handcannon at one Mega and fired, obliterating its head in a satisfying bloody manner. He smiled on the inside, before repeating the process with the other Mega Zombies that remained; each needing only one bullet between the eyes to kill it for good.
As the final Mega fell down, the man quickly turned on his heel and ran to the other end of the bridge, with the rest of the horde following suit. Although some of the undead had given up on the chase, as they merely stood still by some destroyed cars while the others continued the chase.
'Didn't get rid of all, but that's good enough!' The man thought as he vaulted over the side of the bridge and landing on his feet into the grass below, the blades of grass being crushed under his boots, followed by the rest of the man's clothes as he rolled a few feet from his landing point. Quickly getting up, the man saw the horde on top of the bridge trying to get over.
Aiming his Atchisson shotgun, he shot at them in quick semi-automatic fire. The zombies that jumped down after him were soon shredded by the buckshot hitting their bodies. As the last one fell, the man heard multiple fast shuffling of feet from nearby.
Sprinters. And a whole pack of them.
In pure instinct, the man quickly bolted for it, narrowly dodging one in his way and slicing another quickly.
-Minutes later-
After running through the town, called Everett before the events of the virus infection, the man ran with the entire Sprinter pack behind him. He was getting tired, his stamina slowly draining from all the running he's doing, with fatigue starting to show.
'Alright! This chase ends now.' Quickly turning despite his fatigue, the man shot all the remaining rounds of his Atchisson, each shotgun round destroying a zombie or two in their wake. He quickly and carefully moved back from the approaching horde, taking down two or more zombies with each blast of buckshot.
A few moments later, the man got rid of all of the Sprinters. Taking a few seconds to catch his breath, the man took notice of where he was now thanks to the distance the overall chase took.
Standing before him from a good distance was a huge concrete wall, with some cracks, large and small, decorating the stony wall. Multiple barbed wire fences stood erect atop the concrete structure, some either in good condition or in terrible condition.
But those didn't catch the man's eye as much as the symbol painted on the entrance.
Adorning the metal doors was a large black scorpion in a tribal tattoo art style. A huge number seven in white was on the arachnid's back.
The man frowned, agitated. "Motherfucking Scorpion-Seven…" he narrowed his eyes as he scanned the walls a bit more. "To think I'd go back to this place... to the same fucks that started this whole mess." Seeing a man-sized crack in the wall nearby, the edges of his mouth curled into a slight grin.
He heard the sounds of feet running coming from behind him. Reacting, he quickly turned around and aimed…
Right at a teenage boy, roughly eighteen years of age by his looks. He narrowed his eyes at the teen, before softening them upon seeing the insignia on his left shoulder pad. Letting out a breath or relief, the man lowered his gun.
"Jesus, kid," the man started, "don't scare me like that. You gonna give me a heart attack one o' these days." The blond teen chuckled in response.
"Sorry 'bout that, old man. *shrugs* Just heard gunfire in the neighborhood, so I decided to snoop around." Sharing a chuckle with the youth, the man held out his free hand, in which the teen took for a shake.
After the teen caught up to speed with the man's current predicament, he couldn't help but smile as he walked beside the adult as they walked through the destroyed compound.
"Y'know, old man? Someday, this shit's gonna end up with you dead."
"Heh, tell that to the other Founding Fathers of the group."
"Well, I'm talking 'bout you, not the other Founders."
"It matter?"
"Where I come from? Hell yes."
The man chuckled before taking another MRE down the drain. He just can't win arguments with this kid, he took note but he ain't complaining either. As the two stopped by the central building's front doors, the man turned his head to the teen.
"You ready?" His reply was the sound of two katana blades rapidly coming out their sheaths.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that, old man?" the teen retorted playfully as he spun his blades a couple of times before setting them to his sides.
The man grunted before opening the doors, letting the two in.
"Let's go, Jaune Arc."
-Inside the building, seconds later-
Currently, Jaune and the man were currently moving through the desolate halls of the central building quickly and silently.
The blond teen checked whatever corner he saw, while the man behind him checked their rears. As they moved through the halls, they found what the man was looking for.
Walking past the non-working sliding doors, he quickly searched the drawers for anything that might peak his interest.
Eventually, after nearly an hour or so of finding, he did. In the form of a dirty dossier with a big red CLASSIFIED stamped on the front.
'Sheesh, what's with the government mooks with big red letters?' Shrugging inwardly, the man quickly settled it down on a clearer table for him and his young compatriot to read. "Hey kid! Found something!"
As Jaune sat down on a stool, the two began to read whatever was in the dossier.
About an hour later, the two placed the document down, eyes widened at what they had just read.
"Woah," Jaune spoke in a whisper, turning his head to the man. "That's some freaky shit, old man." The man in question merely nodded in response as he gazed at the picture encircled in red.
It showed a large archway of sorts, with various Greek writings on the metallic structure. Various bulbs of different sizes were on the thing as well, giving it a retro-futuristic look to the overall design.
"So this is Project Portal… not a menacing name, but self-explanatory if you ask me, kid." The teen merely nodded in response, as he had left the stool he was sitting on, brandishing his katanas. The man followed suit, leaving the room, taking the document with him as he walked down the hall leading to an elevator. 'Hope this place still has some juice for the lift.'
Reaching the nearest elevator they can find, Jaune punched in one of the buttons. The two smiled as they heard the elevator working.
Rather loudly, I might add. Jaune frowned at this. Loud sounds tend to attract bad attention.
"I heard something. Got a bad feeling about this…" Narrowing his eyes and looking where Jaune was facing, the man heard various mixed shuffles of feet, widening his eyes in the process.
He knew who those sounds belonged to. Many unfortunate survivors lost their lives to those things.
Hunters. And by the amount of sound being produced, the man deduced at least 4, possibly 8 of those things.
Quickly grabbing his Atchisson, the man urged Jaune to do the same. The blond quickly pulled out his Peacemaker carbine and flicked on the tactical laser sight mounted on it.
The two aimed their guns at the direction they heard the shuffling come from. They didn't have to wait too long as a Hunter came out lunging.
Holding down the trigger, Jaune gunned it down, sending the undead leaper down to the ground dead once more. The sound of his carbine alerted the other Hunters of the pack.
As two more came out, the man and Jaune quickly killed them off just as five more came out from both sides. They fell just as their allies did as their prey had killed them off with nary a scratch.
Until one pounced on the man's back.
"ARGH! GET THIS FUCK OFF ME!" The Hunter clawed at the man's back, the vest just barely saving the man. Luckily, his teenage friend slashed the undead creature off of him with his katana blades. The Hunter in question landed on the ground with two big slash marks on its chest and head.
With the undead creature off his back, the man stood up slowly. "Thanks for the assist, kiddo." The man patted Jaune's head and ruffled said teen's hair.
The teen frowned, not at the ruffling or the appraisal, Heaven's no, but at how tall the man was compared to him. Jaune stood at a height of six feet and an inch tall, while the man stood at a gargantuan height of seven feet and four inches, enabling him to go toe to toe with Mega Zombies with some difficulty.
*DING!*
The two swerved their heads as the elevator doors opened up, prompting the two to quickly get in. The moment Jaune stepped in, the man punched the button labeled 'PP-057'. The doors closed, and the elevator took them down.
-20 Minutes Later-
As the doors opened, the two males gazed upon the room. Safe to say, it was massive, with many computers, either broken or off, all over the place.
The two also saw two large saucer-like objects on the far sides of the room, with multiple monitors and CPUs attached to them.
But as their eyes landed on the center of the entire room, they saw the portal device on the dossier/document/file. Here, they saw it far more clearly compared to the blurry image on the dossier. The entire structure seemed to be on a metal platform similar to a helipad on most corporate buildings before this whole mess started. The platform itself was supported by various metal legs similar to radio towers.
Overall, the whole thing looked and is important.
As they observed the arch-like structure, they noticed a sole computer nearest to the structure with its screen glowing in a dull blue color. "Hmph," the man grunted, "looks like the place hasn't been used in a while." Jaune nodded, before taking a step forward, with the man following suit. They walked up the metal steps and reached the monitor in good time.
As they stood in front of the main computer, they saw a few words on the screen.
-Error: Coordinates Unknown-
-Subject may experience complete destruction of their atomic structure-
-Do you wish to continue?-
The two looked at one another confused.
"The hell does that mean?"
"I don't know! Do I look like a nerd to you?"
"Kinda do with them glasses you're wearing."
Jaune grumbled at the man before placing a hand on something. And that something just happened to be the controls for the main computer itself, with one of his fingers just happening to accidentally press down Y.
That just happened to start up the machine. What luck…
The structure in front of the two started to shine, with the writings on it and the various bulbs flickering on and off multiple times. In the center, that's where the real thing begins.
A big blue vortex appeared in the middle of the structure, with rather high gravitational force as many items were sucked into it suddenly. Luckily, Jaune and the man held their ground, but they were slowly getting pulled into the vortex as well.
"Shit!" The man looked at the main computer and then to his machete, an idea forming in his mind.
"I got an idea, kid! But you're not gonna like it!"
"Whatever it is, old man, just do it!"
Nodding at the teen, the man held the machete over his head before throwing it at the main computer, the blade stabbing straight through the screen and the controls.
What the man had hoped to happen did not come. Instead, it made the vortex even larger.
"You fucking kidding me?"
"Oh geez, we're dead!"
"I can see that, Captain Obvious!"
Before the two could argue any further, the vortex's gravitational pull became much stronger than it first was. The two saw the saucer-like objects from before light up before powering down in an instant.
'That's never a good sign…' Jaune thought quietly in his head. That's when he took a step back.
A fatal mistake, as the moment Jaune's foot left ground, the vortex's pull dragged him in quicker. Jaune screamed as the man grabbed onto his arm. The two's movements caused more disturbances within the pull, and caused the vortex to pull at them and only them.
"Oh to hell with this!" pulling out a makeshift sticky grenade, the teen pulled the pin with his teeth before chucking it at one side of the structure.
*BOOM!*
It was a success, as the grenade blew up that part completely. That's good news. The bad news? The structure's latest damage taken caused the portal to grow in both size and power, which made it hard for the two people in that room to hold on any longer.
"Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit!" Jaune tried to find any other explosive in his person but came up dry. What's worse is that the metal bar his friend was holding on to was slowly getting strained by the pull of the vortex. With each second, the bar bent further into the vortex's pull, and…
*SPANG!*
No more bar keeping them from the portal. As the only thing the two could only muster at this point was close their eyes and prepare for their imminent demise.
First went in Jaune, followed by the man before the vortex swallowed them both whole. As the vortex got bigger, it suddenly shrank down in an instant.
*End of Chapter 0*
So was it any good? Lemme know in the reviews. Leave a fav or even a follow if you like. Until the next chapter, bye for now.
Before I go, here are the mods from Unturned that will make an appearance at some point or another:
*XtremelyEvil Vanilla Weapons Mod by XtremelyEvilJuiceBox, Lettgallian, Sujak, and KikET
*MO Weapons by Lettgallian
*United Weapon Box by Harron' and Lettgallian
*More Military Clothes, Standalone Ghillies, and RWK CLOTHING Shrinker v2 by Dr Richtofen
Really big shout out to them amaze-balls guys that made the mods mentioned here. For those who play Unturned, yes, you can download these in the Steam Workshop if you haven't already.
