Hello there, this is my first time writing so I may be a bit... meh.
But enjoy- all created misc teams and the Remnant Frontier Patrol teams belong to me.
All credit goes to RT
*Due to some complications I removed the summary and team list*
The northern part of Atlas was colder than anyone can imagine. Snow fell by the meter within minutes, the wind bites at you like a invisible monster. If you are not fast enough to seek shelter when the last ray of the sun sets, you will be dead before dawn rises. If you do survive the night, you may not make it past the arctic grimm that calls the arctic tundra their home.
That is if you are only human or faunus.
If you are a hunter or hunter-in-training, faunus or not, you have a greater chance of making through a night here than regulars.
CTDK has a reputation of being the guardian of the borders- as that is where they are mostly deployed be it Forever Falls, the impossible frozen tundras, subterranean lands- anywhere normal militia or teams would shrink away when it came to divided lands. Know for their all-round statused team, they can quickly divide and conquer or stay close and provide cover as needed. If they were not busy with their missions or classes, the team of four can be found in the countryside, helping faunus settlements and visiting orphanages. Of course adding taking down criminals or ambushes.
Except now, they have two tasks at hand instead of one. A Tunneler grimm was roused by the grimm activity on the surface and is already coming to life in the valley a mile away of the camp. Tunneler grimms are like giant armored centipedes that can bit a man in two with it's jaws. They have sharper vision than most grimm, making it a challenge to even wise hunters, let alone a team of in-trainings.
"Well this is just perfect," Cindy groaned as she and her team made it up to the ridge of the mountain that hid the valley and the tossed snow of the Tunneler below them. Diane already ahead by minutes to do her formal scouting and report. She looked down to see the zig zags of overturned snow and dirt them before the rest of her team caught up, a bit breathless. "I hope we get a week off after this."
Kelly and Jay were next to climb over the ridge, looking down at where Cindy was pointing at, their attention to the rumbling ground and exploding snow. Diane already neatly hidden behind boulders on the higher outcropping, staring down at the valley with her sharp eyes. The scientist outpost was just a bit further from the said grimm.
"It's popping out at two minute intervals," Cindy turned her attention to Diane's voice as the hooded girl removed Falling Dusk from her lower back harness. "Just give me the signal to fire."
The green-eyed leader watched as the gladius shifted into its signature burst fire, long barrel rifle. The marksman of the group inserted a special ammunition into her rifle and pulled the lever back, her eyes trained to the moving grimm below unassisted by a telescope.
"Fire as you wish when the time's right," Cindy gives her partner the shoulder pat of approval. "We'll go on your first fire."
Cindy paused for a moment before turning to Kelly and give a small nod as if the tall girl understood her- which they did. Years of partnership made subtle signals seem more than a motion- but like a telepathic order. Kelly walked to the rock platform not too far from them, their gauntlet, Ripple Corruption began shifting into it's autogun form, using protruding rock as the stand, they inserted a rather large drum magazine before pulling the safety off.
"Ready for fire." The girl says through her mask.
Cindy nods to Jay, who unsheathes Falling Sky, the blade splitting down the middle and folds to one side as the gun muzzle extends outward, covering her weapon in electricity. Cindy pulls Mourning Dawn from her back, already in its shotgun from. She pulls her scarf over her nose before looking at Diane for the signal.
Diane moves her rifle for a minute or two until lifting a finger and pulled the trigger. Cindy and Jay immediately sprung off the cliff at the short signal. The gun gives a thundering crack as two bullets exploded from the muzzle, slicing the air like a blade as it exploded against the thick hide of the grimm. Kelly's earth-rocking cannon fire explodes against the giant creature, uprooting it from the ground, onto solid earth. Tunnelers cannot dig solid, frozen soil, unless given time.
And time is not what is has.
"Jay, take left!" CIndy shouted as she fired a slug at the insect grimm, the impact creating craters the size of dinner plates on the armor. The girl gave a nod before sliding past the multiple spasming legs and disappearing into the snow cloud.
Cindy jumped from lunge of the said worm, the mandibles snapping at where she was seconds ago. Pushing herself off the head of the massive grimm as it jerked back, screeching like a nevermore as electricity coursed throughout it's body, nearly striking her as well. She can see Jay with her gunblade stabbed deep in the chinks of the plates on its back as she flipped over. Switching her shotgun from "Semi-auto" to "Full-auto" she twisted around to empty her magazine along its back.
"Heads up!" Cindy and Jay looked up to see the Kelly and Diane above them, Kelly's fist cocked way back. Diane fired two shots before her falling behind the grimm, waiting. That was their cue as Kelly drops down.
She sees a blur before a massive explosion of energy sends the Tunneler and them both reeling back into the snow. The massive grimm is laying in a moderate sized crater, the snow around it melted and ground charred. Cindy is always fascinated with her teammates semblances, each one never failing to amuse her in combat or training. Especially Kelly, a reptilian faunas whose semblance is still unknown at this point, but they can spit out poisonous fires and their bite is venomous as well- which is awesome.
As the dust cleared, she can see Kelly standing on the ridge, steam steadily escaping the rebreather as Ripple Corruptions glowed slowly subsided as her eyes returned to a soft silver-gold glow. She can tell the taller girl's chest is puffed out proudly and a smirk of triumph is under the mask as the grimm began dissolving into black whisps.
"Kelly, wipe that grin off your face this instant." Cindy ordered, hands on hips and barely suppressing a laugh. She can see a slight blush on Jay's face.
"Yes, mam." Kelly jumped down the creator to meet with the rest of their team. The girl landed with a heavy thud in front of her.
Cindy cleared her throat before taking a glance at the outpost in the distance, searchlights swinging wildly as a sea of moving black can be seen a bit further away. She turned back to her team and pulls them together.
"Alright, Kelly and I will go inside and evac the scientists as well as call a ship," She says slowly, motioning to Kelly on her side. "Jay and Diane, mount yourself on the towers, give us five and we regroup in the main building…"
Cindy pointed to the tallest building that looked like an airport control tower.
"There, that's where we regroup." She stood up and brushed off her pants. "Clear?"
The three heads nodded.
"Let's get the show on the road."
The outpost is solid concrete and steel, the walls possibly twenty feet tall of solid steel and dust laced concrete. Two watchtowers sat behind the walls on either side, empty except the searchlights. There were numerous scoring on the thick walls as well as parts of the automated soldiers strewn apart.
They scaled the steel walls with ease, making it over on a few seconds. Diane and Jay already moved into position, the two watchtowers on the side claimed by them as they set up their weapons as quick as they can climb.
The camp was silent for the most part, every dweller possibly in the main building by now. There is the distant rumbling of the grimm migration, but nothing matched the silence of the outpost has to offer.
It was too silent for their liking.
Kelly punched the steel double doors out of its hinges with one hit, their gauntlet still glowing, providing some light for the dim interiors. There is no time to explore and take in surroundings as the timer is counting until the grimms arrive. In the back of the spacious room, there were the group of scientists and automated guards. And moments later, there were several guns pressed to their faces, not surprisingly.
"We're sent by Beacon to extract you guys from here." Kelly said in a calm voice, the glowing of her gauntlet and eyes ceased. "We ran into a slight delay, sorry about that."
"That's alright, now since you guys are here," One of the people in the white lab coat said, while another motioned the robots to lower the guns. "Is is safe to go out?"
"We have our other two teammates in the sentry towers to keep watch for now," Cindy assured them as she takes out her scroll and tapped away, eyes flickering on multiple open windows. "ETA fifteen minutes."
Kelly's scroll rang on her hip, the girl immediately picking it up, the caller none other than Diane.
"Guys, we have a slight issue!" Diane shouted across the line, there is gunfire in the background and some roaring. "Grimms diverting path. We have the White Fang coming. They 'have several bullheads with 'em!"
Cindy paled with the scientist, thinking a way out. She walked over and snatched the scroll out of Kelly's armored hand. There are too many risks to take to ensure their safety.
"Pull back to us, Kelly and Diane go up to the control tower and set up," Cindy ordered. "Jay, the robots and I will cover ground level."
CIndy tosses the scroll back to Kelly, who nods before running up the staircase. Her attention then turns back to the scientists and the group of eight or so robots.
"Scientists, I need you and three Atlesian Knights take cover in a room, the rest will hold here," She instructs before pulling out her scroll and dial up a contact.
"Headmaster, we may need a backup team," She speaks urgently, watching as DIane and Jay blunder through, pulling the security doors down behind them to cover the ones Kelly knocked down earlier. "Can you get in contact with VRDN?"
Cindy and her small group barricaded the front of the room, their guns ready to take down whoever burst through the doors. The silence is agonizing, knowing that any second can change the situation- they can be overrun or they can be killed at a moment. Jay seemed fidgety, shifting constantly from her kneeling position to a squat to comfort herself and take a comfortable firing position or spot. The tension is high in the room, the two feels like the room is closing on them soon. They've been in situations like this before, and made it out without fatal injuries, but heck, this is different- they have to ensure safety of a group and expect to make it out alive.
The thundering crack of Diane's rifle and the earth-shattering rounds from Kelly's arm gun is the alarm they needed as the steel backup doors began denting from repeated blows. THe sound of explosions served as a countdown until the gate began buckling.
"Get ready." Cindy looked over to Jay as she raised her gunblade to her face, ready to aim at the dents.
The gates broke in with a loud bang, the three marked Atlesian Paladin barged right in with several White Fang members. The ships can be seen being taken down outside by a barrage of larger rounds.
Cindy switched the safety off her shotgun and pulled the trigger, the force of her special rounds sent several White Fangs into one another. With the cover of the group of Atlesian Knights, she effectively decapitated her opponent while cutting another one down. She sidestepped a downward smash of a metal fist and jumped up onto it's back, stabbing Mourning Dawn into the thick metal for balance and pulled the trigger, the force sending her backward into a pillar as she possibly struck the fuel canister of the Paladin. A rookie mistake. Her vision blurred the moment she hit the pillar, her head throbbed and her vision swam as if she just got out of the centrifuge.
Jay flipped over several foot soldiers as if she were dancing on stage, Falling Sky accurately striking vital points to incapacitate them. Her gunblade dug into the back of a soldier before lifting her over her head and tossing the masked villain into one another. She ducked a sword swipe and fired a electric charged round at the attacker, launching him into a Paladin who shared their scream as the electric current affected them both. She looked in time to see Cindy being launched into a pillar, flinching, she turned the revolver to the red canister and fired into the neverending charge of White Fang foot soldiers. The explosion of fire ignited the gas canisters beside it, creating a wall of fire as she takes the precious time to get her dazed leader from the fray and behind cover.
Not to mention the moment Kelly and Diane jumping off the six story stairs meant they were utterly screwed.
Cindy's vision cleared the moment Kelly and Diane landed on the concrete floor, their clothing a bit burnt and torn, meaning they lost the covering fire. Kelly's cannon is firing into the wave, creating holes in the ground to slow the progressive soldiers. Diane proving suppressing fire from her perch in the I-beams above. Jay is covering their retreat behind cover, dragging her behind a concrete.
The final Atlesian Paladin broke through, clashing arms (literally) with Kelly, a challenge of machine to man strength. Kelly pulled her dust revolver from their thigh holster and fired a round at the chest cavity of the Paladin, staggering the machine back enough for them to send a devastating punch to the damaged area, instantly causing the dreadnought to explode into smithereens. Cindy always wondered who can actually match her strength beside artificial muscle. That is until a rather missle sized round knocked Kelly and Diane into the wall behind them with a impressive dent.
Cindy was about to shout something when a row of spiked ice erupted from the ground and a pillar of fire rose from the ground, scorching the unfortunate in its path.
"Sorry we're a bit late, Cindy," A singsong voice piped from behind them. "We got caught in a storm."
"Said storm was Vik causing a tornado in a blizzard." Said a rather muscular viking-themed male, no doubt the leader of the team. He walked behind the smaller double-headed battle axe wielding girl.
"Don't worry about it, Gordon," CIndy rubbed the back of her bruised head, stinging from where she slammed into the steel pillar head-first. "You can clear the rest out to make a landing for the bullhead."
The two nodded at her before motioning to the rest of their team. The viking themed team let out a loud battle cry before charging head-first into the fray, dust infused weapons swinging left and right, laughing at the carnage they are causing. Heck, Tina decided to let loose all the rounds in her multi-launch missile launcher, causing the entire area to be blinded by snow- literally.
The whole clearing of the landing area took less than an hour to complete with the help of the berserker team and them butchering of everything in their way and shrugging off bullet wounds and gashes as if they are papercuts. Cindy huffed as she leaned back on a broken cement slab, catching her breath like the rest of her team, who are nursing bullet wounds and removing shrapnel from their body.
Taking in her teammates injuries and her own, nothing serious and they certainly have seen worse. Kelly is lounging in the sun due to her being a reptile faunus, her left arm covered in bandages from blocking a sneaky Paladin's fist with her unarmored arm. Jay looks a bit better, just multiple cuts along her arms and legs, though some white can be seen under the cuts in her clothes. Diane is busy removing shrapnel from her body with the help of Tina, who accidentally blasted her down from her perch in the tiny girls missile rampage.
Cindy cracked her back and neck, sighing at the relieved pressure- and the soreness that will follow from hitting a pillar after shooting a fuel tank of a Paladin. Not to mention the headache that will persist for a while.
"Hey, Cindy!" Her partner called out to her from the bullhead, breaking the leader from her daydream. "Come on, we're heading back."
