A.N. Any words in bold are the monsters 'language' which is a collection of roars, grunts and hand gestures.
"So. This is it?" Cabot asks his robot companion Bucket as they look at the holo-map of Sheer.
It had been a week since the last evac shuttle had left the planet and the hunters had stayed behind to keep hunting the monsters that plague this world. Much to their surprise, the monsters seem to have disappeared the day after. No sightings, no further destruction, nothing. That was, until today when they got a distress call.
An Ebon Star scientist had just sent a message after sighting not one, but four monsters roaming around the area. The scientist detailed that they were working on some teleportation technology from the data they obtained from the captured Wraith and how destroying the reactor could cause a tear in the time-space continuum, causing a galaxy wide catastrophe.
Whether this was true or not, Cabot didn't care. All he wanted to do was finish these four off and get off this barren rock, as well as the other hunters on the ship.
"Considering our planet scans had shown no other sightings in a week, I believe these may be the last monsters on Sheer." Bucket commented as he pilots the ship to the location, marked by a red dot on the map in front of them.
"I hope your right." Cabot walks over to the railing and looks at his team (minus Kala and Lazarus) as they wait patiently for their leader to speak.
"So, what's the good word boss man?" Abe asks when Cabot comes into view.
"The good news is this might just be our final hunt. Then we can all leave this rock, get paid, and go our separate ways."
"And the bad news?" Griffon asks.
"Were not hunting just one, but four monsters this time." The leader replied. Everyone had a look of surprise on them. Four monsters? This was certainly a drastic change in their tactics. "But this time there not getting only four of us. This time there getting all of us. Were all going to drop from this ship, make our stand at the reactor, and finally rid this planet of these abominations. So, get ready, we drop in five."
The hunters nod and make their way to the cargo hold where their weapons are hold.
Hyde is busy attaching his flamethrower to his arm when he talks to Caira, "You know, I think I'm gonna miss these beasts when there gone."
"You are?" The medic asks, stopping from loading her grenade launcher to hear what the pyromaniac has to say.
"Yeah, the noises they made while I melt their faces always brought a tear to my eye." He says while wiping away a fake tear.
"Well I'm not." Caira finishes loading her weapon before continuing, "I have tried, day and night to try and find out what makes these things tick. And all I got was sleep deprivation and the migraine of the century. I say good riddance."
Abe is loading his shot gun when Cabot walks by, "So, when we kill these things, then the only 'monster' around will be Kala?"
"I beg your pardon?" The team looks to the entrance to see the half-breed herself limping in with Lazarus keeping her standing.
"Kala, what happened?" Cabot asks about her mysterious coma.
The same day the monsters suddenly disappeared, Kala, without warning, had fallen unconscious. Lazarus had volunteered to look after her during her comatose while trying to find a cause. And what he found was surprising. Somehow, every monster cell in her body, including the few that were in her brain, had suddenly shut down and were rapidly destroying themselves. It took some desperate measures and a bit of luck but the thanatologist manage to stop the cellular destruction and save her life.
"I-I don't know. I was just minding my own business when I just… shut down." The monster woman said while rubbing her head, still weak from her week-long nap.
Cabot turns his head to Lazarus for answers, "The monster cells that had a hold of some of her brain had shut down before they started to kill themselves off one by one at an alarming rate. I believe I have also found out what happened to the monsters."
"Well don't keep us in suspense Laz. What happened?" Parnell asks before the medic continues.
"Caira." He calls out to the biologist, "You said you believed these things might be manmade, correct?"
"Y-yeah. Why?" She answers nervously. Hoping she wasn't right about that.
"Apparently, whoever designed these monstrosities put in a kill switch. And one week ago, they flipped it."
"Wait what?" Jack calls out, "You saying some mad scientist actually made these things?"
Laz shakes his head, "I do not believe that it was just one man that did this. But many men. Perhaps men with a lot of power and resources to pull off such a feat."
"But if all of the monsters are supposed to be dead, then why are these four alive?" Torvald asks as he loads his mortar cannons.
"Cabot." Bucket announces when he walks in in his chassis, "We will be arriving in under one minute."
"We'll continue this later. Right now, there is a man in distress and a possible catastrophe that needs to be stopped. So, get your game faces on."
"TO GLORY!" "AHHHHHHHHH" Markov and Demon Emet cry out, both ready for battle.
The ground shakes with their every step, the creatures flee in terror at the mere sight of them, the level three Goliath, Wraith, Kraken, and Behemoth charge through the forest with no hindrance. They do not know why they need to, but their instincts scream at them to destroy the round metal object. That is all they truly know, to hunt, to grow, to evolve, and to destroy.
The Wraith warps ahead to scout the area. Creating a decoy and making it stand its ground as she uses the invisibility to stay undetected. She sniffs the air to find not only the scent of their target, but the scents of multiple humans that stand in their way.
They know of these humans, they know what they are capable of, and have learned how to deal with them. But things have changed. There are not only four but twenty hunters guarding their prey.
The Wraith quickly warps back to her comrades before her invisibility ends, "The hunters have arrived." She screeches to her brothers.
The Goliath growls, "Which ones?"
"All of them" This brings some worry to their leader. They had expected them to bring only four like they usually would so their numbers would overwhelm them. But apparently had found them out and increased their numbers as well.
"This will be a problem." He comments as he begins to think of a new strategy.
"I wish Gorgon was still alive." The Behemoth mourns for his fallen sister who was killed by a tyrant while they were evolving.
"Do not mourn for our fallen sister. Now, she is with us until we pass." The Kraken says to calm his large brother.
"I know. But is it bad if she tasted really good?" The rock monster asks.
"Quiet I'm thinking." The Goliath growls to silence his brothers for ruining his train of thought.
The hunters wait patiently in front of the building holding the reactor for their opponents to arrive. "What the fuck is taking them so long!?" Well, most of them anyway.
"I do not know master." Kind Emet says before changing personalities, "I'M SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING! LET'S GET IN THEIR AND FUCK 'EM UP!"
"Calm down you two." Cabot commands the kid and his insane robot, "We can't afford to abandon this set up just to charge blindly in there." The hunters had arrived a couple of minutes before the monsters came nearby and had set up defenses all around. Buckets drones, and Emet's healing buoys, Maggie's harpoon traps, and Markov's mines were scattered around the area in front of them. The assault classes were in the front lines with their long range weapons pointed at the forest in front of them, the support and trappers were right behind them, ready to give the assault classes buffs and the monsters de-buffs when the fighting starts, while the medics are in the back to keep everyone healed from a distance and to keep them away from the monsters, except for Slim, he has be near the assault classes so he can hit the monsters with his leech gun.
"Still can't shake the feeling that their planning something." Val voices her concerns over the comms.
"I just wish they show up already. I'm itchin' for a fight right now." Hide also says over the comms.
"Maybe that's because you haven't showered in a few days." Sunny says, grossing out all the human hunters.
"That's what that smell is!? Man, you reek!" Jack shouts out in disgust.
"No kid, that's the sewer grate your standing on top of." Slim corrects Jack who in turn moves away from the manhole underneath him.
"Wait." Cabot calls out on the comms. "How big are those sewer pipes?"
"Pretty big." Caira answers, "The experiments they perform here are so big they need to build its own power plant to keep up with the energy demand, and they need a big sewer to get rid of all of the hot water, why… oh."
As soon as she realizes what he meant the ground started to rumble.
Cabot cries out, "Everyone scatter!" too late as the monsters burst from the ground with a cacophonous of roars after successfully catching the hunters off guard.
The battle commences. The Kraken flies into the air and starts hurling lightning and banshee mines everywhere while the Goliath charges right through the medics to take them out first. The behemoth then throws up a rock wall to separate the healers from the rest of the team before joining his brother in the slaughter.
"SUCK ON THIS MONSTER. IT'S MY DICK, AND I'M GONNA-" Demon Emet's battle cry was interrupted after the Behemoth pounces on the robot and starts laying into it with its massive rocky fists.
"Emet's down!" Val calls out over the comms before narrowly avoiding the Goliath's swings.
The rock wall finally crumbles and some of the hunters focus their fire from the Kraken to the Behemoth, causing the monster to get off of the badly damaged drone. The rock monster then curls himself into a ball and begins to roll towards them to try and crush them but was stopped by Jacks repulsor gloves.
Griffon scans the battlefield and notices something, "Hey, where's the bloody Wraith!?"
An alarm sounds, signaling that the reactor was under attack. They realize that these three were just a distraction while the Wraith slips past and attacks the power relay.
"We gotta get past these three and stop that Wraith." Cabot calls out to his team.
Caira tries to use her speed boost to get past them and into the building but the Kraken lands right in front of her and pushes her away with a vortex. The Behemoth then slams on the ground again and puts up another rock wall in their way.
Inside the facility, the Wraith was going to town on the reactor that was connected to some kind of large ring-shaped structure with wires and pipes running through it. She was about to give the finishing blow when someone started firing at her. She stopped her rampage and sensed that Lazarus had managed to sneak in as well and started attacking her.
"Stupid human." She screeches before activating her super nova and warping to the thanatologist.
The medic activated his personal cloaking device and quickly shot himself away from that spot with his jetpack. The Wraith landed and dug her scythes into the spot were the doctor was. She then starts to sniff around to find him, so he doesn't attack her again while she's destroying her target. After a few good sniffs she finds his tracks and warp blasts right in front of it.
Lazarus's cloak fails for just long enough for the stealthy monster to pounce on him.
"Help!" The medic calls out into his comms, hoping someone comes along in time to save him.
"No one's here to save you know human." She screams as she slashes the medic all over his body. But then a siren missile hits the monster right in the face, making her warp backwards.
Kala had managed to sneak past the other monsters and has brought along a surprise of her own. She throws down one of her teleport pads and as soon as the portal opens, half of hunters from outside started to flood in and fire at the Wraith.
The monster quickly deploys a decoy that rushes in to attack the hunters. The sheer firepower takes the clone out in a second, but that was long enough for the Wraith to get over and deal the final blow to the reactor.
She screeches in victory at the destruction of the reactor. But suddenly she grips her head and screams in pain followed by Kala. The machine then suddenly turns on and a dark blue vortex opens up inside of it before it starts sucking the wraith in.
Kala was about to fly into it too if Lennox hadn't grabbed her and secured her suit to the ground. The other hunters who went through the portal as well were also holding onto her suit for dear life as the suction became stronger. The rock wall finally collapsed letting the three other monsters from outside to rush inside but only for them to be sucked into the vortex like there sister. The machine began sparking and pipes started to fly off before the whole machine imploded in on itself.
"Is everyone alright?" Cabot shouts. A collection of groans was his answer.
"You alright Kala?" Caira asks the half-breed after witnessing her mental breakdown a moment ago.
"I'll be fine." She replies while rubbing her head, "I guess the portal messed up me and the Wraiths connection with the time-space continuum for a bit."
"I guess now we can finally call Sheer monster free?" Maggie states now that probably the last four monsters are gone.
"Not yet. We'll do a few more sweeps of the planet, then we can say that all of them are gone." Cabot ordered.
"And what about the manmade monster theory?" Parnell asks.
"Don't worry. I gotta plan for that."
Darkness. It was all that surrounded the unconscious monsters. Nothing but a silent empty void as they float aimlessly through it.
"So, these are the monsters that nearly destroyed an entire planet?" A mysterious voice says.
"Four of them, yes." Another voice replies.
"So, what are we going to do to them?" Voice 1 asks.
"Hm… Let's let them continue their voyage to Remnant." Voice 2 replies.
"You sure? I'm pretty sure that planet has plenty of monsters on it already."
"Yes, but what if they help protect it instead?"
"Say what now?"
"We both know of the great catastrophe that will be taking place at the Vytal festival correct?"
"Uh, yeah. Were gods, we know everything."
"So how about we get them to intervene and potentially stop the massacre from even starting in the first place."
"And what's stopping them from going ape shit and making the massacre even worse? You've seen what their kind did to that Sheer place. What's preventing them from doing the same to our humans?"
"We both know that wasn't entirely their fault. And I think I know just how to rid them of that violent behavior. Or at least make it so they don't kill people on sight."
"And that is?"
"We turn them into faunus and make them guardians."
"… Come again?"
"We turn them into faunus versions of themselves and give them the desire to protect a certain individual. In return this person will show their monstrous companion compassion and teach them right from wrong."
"… That has to be the most insane and half-cocked idea I have ever heard… Count me in."
The two godly brothers position themselves so that they are facing each other, and the monsters are in between them.
"Now for the Kraken and the Wraith-" "Wait!" The white brother begins only to be interrupted by the black one.
"Why do you get to pick first?" He says while pointing a finger at his twin.
"Because I already know you were going to pick the Goliath and the Behemoth."
"Touché." The white brother sighs before resuming.
"As I was saying, the Kraken shall go to Blake Belladonna, and the Wraith shall be paired with Ruby Rose."
"We're pairing them up with the future team RWBY?" The black brother asks.
"Ruby Rose and her teammates have the most influence on the outcome of this fight. It is only logical that they are the ones to receive and guide the monsters turned faunus."
"Fair enough." The brother thinks for a moment before coming to a conclusion, "The Behemoth will go to Weiss, and the Goliath will go to Yang."
"Excellent." The white brother exclaims, "Now we must send a vision to team RWBY and Ozpin to let them know their coming."
"I get the kids, but why that deadbeat Ozpin?"
"There's no doubt the monsters will need to attend Beacon Academy along with their companions. It is only fair that Ozpin learns of what were planning. But don't tell him about the Vytal tournament. I'm still mad at him for not taking out Salem."
"So am I."
The two brothers lock hands and bow their heads as they transmit visions to the now sleeping headmaster and teens. They stay like this for a moment until the visions are complete and let go of their hands.
There spectral eyes lock once again, "And know we must sculpt their bodies into their new forms." The white one says as a white energy builds up in his hands.
The other brother also has a black energy building in his hands, "Just like old times."
"Just like old times." The white brother repeated before they both release their energies. The beams meeting in the middle were the monsters are as they begin to change their forms.
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