Outside Isabela City, 2 Km from city centre.
"Green light, mission is a go." The radio crackled in her ear giving her everything she needed to know.
Her sister Yang who was driving one of the two RHIB boat gave her a thumbs up and trying to speak over the storm.
"Good luck out their sis."
Ruby only said back softly into her mic, "Don't be late."
With that Ruby put a re-breather into her mouth and fell backwards into the water and started her long swim up the river to get into the city.
So what's going on then?
Ruby Rose was born in the United Kingdom until the age of seven when her mother died while fighting in a foreign country on behalf of the UK government. After her mother died her uncle who lived in the United States had with his daughter and he took Ruby in.
Ruby and Yang who was a few years older then her joined the US army before her and when she grew of age she returned home to the UK for a year to go to University early to study engineering with the idea to go into weapon development, but only stayed a year because she joined the UK armed forces, the Parachute Regiment.
After that she spent three years with the Para's where she learned how to use a number of different weapons and found she had a talent for snipers which was a bonus for Ruby but it always surprised the men when she used a heavy .5 inch sniper rifle due to her small size but she didn't mind that.
After three years with them she applied for the SAS and after a hard selection year she was able to join them in full, by this time she had fallen out of contact of her remaining family and it wouldn't be for a few more years until she had contact with them.
Ruby spent another two years with the SAS where she quickly rose up as a very good operator and was quickly doing a number of Tier One joint operations with the Americans mostly.
That's where she was at the moment currently with a Tier One unit who had requested her to be assigned to the unit to help them out with a number of missions, and when she joined this unit she found her sister was apart of the unit which led to some awkward conversations and catching up at first.
Currently the mission Ruby was on was to help the local forces in a hostage situation, the US embassy in the city had been taken over and then a hurricane had hit the city causing mass flooding of the area's around which didn't help the situation because it meant the whole city was empty giving the terrorists the chance to take over the city with their own forces.
This is only one of the reasons Ruby was going in the second was, at the US embassy was a high value target, a CIA field agent who apparently had high value information which meant Ruby had to help the local armed forces rescue the hostages and make sure the spook is secure.
Ruby remembered the briefing from a day ago where she was told of the mission and who the spook was.
Ruby was given a picture of a young beautiful woman who had brown hair and to brown eyes, looking up to her commander she waited for him to continue.
The commander took a sip of his coffee and spoke calmly, "This is CIA field agent Neo, she has naturally pink hair but has dyed it and she also has pale blue eyes but has used colored contacts to make her not stand out, she is currently being held hostage in the US embassy in Isabela City, you are to help the local armed forces secure the hostages but you are to make sure the agent makes it out."
The commander took another sip of his coffee before carrying on, "You are to deploy up the river on your own to meet up with the locals and help them but you are to focus on getting out assert out alive. Extraction will be through two RHIB'S which will help get everyone out of their and they will meet outside the building as the flooding has worked to our advantage, any questions?"
Thinking over every detail that was said, Ruby asked, "How many hostiles are we talking about?"
The commander didn't bother to look up the details as he had already knew all the details, "Around 200-300 in the city itself and we are estimating about 50 inside the target building."
Ruby nodded and once she was dismissed went about getting her equipment ready.
This was how Ruby found herself only a few hours later, at 0100 she had been given the green light and within the next hour she was on land again and had met up with the local armed forces.
While wearing a wetsuit for the swim up she had two waterproof bags, one had her clothes and webbing plus her pistol and the other bag held her sniper, an L96 sniper rifle not her favored weapon but it was quieter then her normal 50cal sniper.
Ruby got changed, stripping out of her wetsuit and put on black combat trousers and a black t-shirt and put her body armor over the top, strapping her suppressed 1911 pistol onto her thigh and her sniper onto her back she brought out her MP5SD to use as they moved through the final area of the city.
Ruby saw some of the men giving her weird looks but didn't mind them and the commander seemed to be in the right frame of mind and quickly got everyone moving.
While the locals moved along ground level quietly taking out any hostiles in the way, as they came close to the target building Ruby moved away from the locals and went up to the rooftops in order to get eyes onto the building and the hostages.
Once up on the roof she laid down and brought her sniper off of her back and put the bipod out and looked through the scope.
Keying her com piece, "Overlord, I have eyes on the hostages, I have five of them, and I have eyes on HVT she looks hurt but no idea how badly, how copy?"
"Panther one you are to move in with the locals to secure hostages inform Whiplash when you are moving so they can extract, how copy?"
"Solid copy Overlord, wait someone else is entering the building."
Ruby quickly took note of the new person entering the room and easily identified who it was, "Overlord I have eyes on Roman Torchwick, I repeat Roman Torchwick is here and I have a shot."
Roman Torchwick was a known terrorist and was high on the most wanted list for every agency out there and most Special Forces units as well he was also expected to be working with Cinder Fall another known terrorist who was the top of that list.
"Panther one, do not engage I repeat do not engage, local forces are taking the lead."
Ruby was about to say something back when she was cut off by a gunshot, looking into the building she saw someone fall down and all the hostages duck as well.
Turning her radio back to the locals she heard the commander who was shouting at someone called Tiger 12 who had apparently taken a shot, and now the commander was telling everyone to go and they would talk to the terrorist.
Interrupting the commander of the locals, "This is panther one change frequency to Alpha two."
Changing her own com she waited to hear the ground commander's voice, "I'm taking ground command, whoever the overall commander is doesn't matter we can't talk to them after killing one."
"Copy that Panther one we will follow your lead."
Smiling Ruby quickly moved off the roof and got to ground level, the militants had started to shoot at the locals and with the combined firepower they quickly beat them back and reached the target building.
As they got to the embassy building their was a large amount of hostiles outside coming from the building, some of the local armed forces were killed in the fight but a lot survived, Ruby herself was starting to run low on ammo for her main gun with only one clip left.
Moving up to the main doors of the embassy Ruby spotted three soldiers move to open the doors.
Calling out, "Wait." Ruby was too late and as the doors opened an explosion tore the door and the three soldiers apart and knocking Ruby to the ground.
Shouting to the other soldiers Ruby said, "Go! Get in there now!"
Ruby and a few other soldiers entered the building where they found more militants set up in the building firing down onto them.
As Ruby ducked down she spoke to her sister, "Whiplash entering target building."
"Copy Panther one, moving now, 5 mikes out."
Nodding to herself, one militant came close trying to kill the soldiers quickly and as one came close to her cover, Ruby reached out and grabbed the gun pulling the guy over the wall and onto the floor where Ruby pulled her knife out stabbing him in the heart and killing him.
Taking the gun Ruby quickly checked the magazine and then picked up a couple more off the dead body as she used the stolen gun to shoot at more militants.
They managed to get through the building quickly and once they reached the final door leading to where the hostages were being held.
Pulling out a flash bang Ruby nodded to the soldier opposite her who kicked open the door and Ruby threw the flash bang into the room.
Once it went off Ruby raised her MP5SD and entered the room, quickly shooting the three militants in the chest killing the three of them and while the rest of the soldiers entered the room to get the hostages Ruby went up to a small brown haired girl who had blood running from her nose, and her eye was heavily swollen.
"Neo?" Ruby spoke quickly.
The girl looked up at Ruby in response to her name, "Yes?"
Ruby then went through the next part, "Authenticate."
"Whiskey Echo Zero One Eight."
"Conformed, I'm Red and I'm here to get you out of here, can you walk?"
Neo nodded her head slowly as she stood up, "I'm alright."
Ruby didn't believe her but if she could walk it would help a lot, "Alright, put your hand on my left shoulder and stay behind me."
Neo did as she was told and put her hand onto her hand onto the taller woman's shoulder as she was led through the building.
Ruby led everyone out to a walkway on the outside of the building which had water up to the edge due to the river and the heavy flooding, as they got out their someone was shot causing everyone to duck down and return fire to the militants.
As this was happening Ruby shouted into her com as she returned fire, "WHIPLASH, HOT EXTRACT, HOT EXTRACT."
"Copy that Panther one, 30 seconds out."
True to her word two RHIB's boats arrived alongside them and the Mark 19 grenade launchers on the front were quickly at work firing at the militants.
Ruby quickly started getting the hostages onto the boats and when Neo tried to get on she stopped her and directed her to another one, Ruby helped her climb on and when she jumped on Yang fired up the engines again and started racing down the river.
"Ruby get on the gun!" Ruby quickly made sure Neo was safe and secure before racing to the front of the boat.
Ruby quickly moved to the front and pulled the bolt back on the Mark 19 and started to fire spinning around to hit targets on both side as they raced through the flooded.
They were arriving near the edge where there was an overpass when they heard the distinctive sound of Chinook helicopters, Ruby looked up and spotted the two helicopters with hooks underneath ready to pick them up.
Before they could however an RPG landed in the water right in front of the boat knocking Ruby back, landing solidly against the bottom of the boat.
Yang had quickly raced forward to shoot the gun at the wave of hostiles as Ruby sat up.
The two gunners in the two Chinooks had started to fire the mini-guns as well with bullet casings raining down onto the boat.
Yang had yelled out to Ruby to drive the boat while she fired and so Ruby quickly drove the boat dodging and weaving to avoid the gunfire and rockets being fired at them.
After driving through the city they managed to get to a slightly open area with no buildings around and the two Chinooks were able to hover above them as they hooked the boats up so they could be returned to the ship.
As they were headed towards the ship Ruby went over and checked over Neo and started to check her for any injuries.
One hour later.
Ruby was moving through the ship with an air of thunder around her which caused any sailor to walk pass her to run away and stay away from her.
They'd all seen her when she was annoyed before but today it seemed to be worse than normal.
Ruby headed towards the ships gym hoping to work out her anger through exercise.
Why was she pissed off? One word, Yang had said something to Ruby which made her pissed off which caused this.
30 minutes ago.
Ruby had just been debriefed and she had gone to the med-bay to check on the CIA agent she had rescued to make sure she was all right, it wasn't because she interested Ruby at all.
Once there she had found the agent getting dressed after her medical examination when Ruby had walked in.
"Hello Agent Neo, I take it you are all ok then?" Speaking calmly Ruby walked towards the smaller woman while nodding to the doctor on the ship.
"Oh hello, you are the soldier who rescued me correct? Uh Miss…" She stumbled over her words at the end unsure on the name.
"I'm Red." Using her name for operations.
"Well then miss Red thank you for rescuing me." Neo said politely smiling at the tall girl.
"You're very welcome, do you know where you are going on the ship?" Returning the smile.
Neo looked sheepishly at Ruby, "Ah no it's my first time onboard a US Navy ship so I don't know my way around."
Smiling again, Ruby spoke with a carefree attitude, "Well then let me give you a tour of the ship then and tell you where everything is."
"Thank you very much."
Smiling Ruby took Neo around the ship showing her where everything was and other important information that she might need to know while on board the ship, once the tour had finished Ruby asked.
"So where on board are you staying?"
Neo looked sheepishly as she spoke, "Ah they said I had to stay in the med-bay because they didn't have any room for me anywhere."
Ruby thought for a minute and then said, "Why don't you stay in my room?"
Blushing as she realized what she said Ruby quickly said again, "I mean I can stay in my friends room, my rooms private so you can better rest then being in the medical bay."
Neo blushed slightly as well but then understood what Red had meant, "Thank you that's very kind of you."
Smiling awkwardly Ruby just nodded her head and led Neo to her room.
After making sure Neo was settled and was all right Ruby had gone to find her sister to talk to her and ask about staying with her for a couple days.
Needless to say Yang knew her sister very well and knew her sisters type when it came to dating which also meant that when Ruby told Yang about the woman and where she was Ruby didn't hear the end of it.
This is why 30 minutes later Ruby had stormed out of her sister's room and went to the ships gym to work out her anger out on a treadmill.
Ruby by this point had been awake for over 24 hours and had a mission during this time as well so she was tired but before she could go to sleep for a couple hours the ships intercom came alive.
'Red report to CIC, Red to CIC.'
Sighing Ruby stopped the treadmill and wiped her sweat off with a towel and started to head up to the CIC.
Ruby entered the CIC and quickly saw her Commander standing in front of a table with different information littered around on the desk.
Ruby just walked up and waited for him to speak.
"Ah Red I have a new mission for you." Handing over a folder the commander took a sip of his coffee as he waited for Ruby's reaction.
Ruby eyed the man suspiciously as she opened the folder and skimmed over the information for her mission and saw one main detail.
'Protection.'
Ruby looked up at the commander and with a deathly calm, "You do understand that I am not here to provide protection to US operatives correct?"
"I know but that is your mission." The commander replied calmly, ignoring Ruby's annoyed look.
Ruby however wasn't happy at all, "You do understand that I am here as part of the joint US-UK task force and as such I shouldn't be used to protect US operatives."
Ruby was trying to find a way out of the mission, but the commander knew what Ruby was doing and just said.
"That is not strictly true Miss Red, you are under my command and you have been requested to work with Agent Neo to help find information on Roman Torchwick and in that process if you can uncover any links to Cinder Fall."
Ruby knowing she lost sighed out, and nodded her head in response, "Yes sir."
"You have a briefing with Agent Neo in 1 hour in briefing room 2 I would suggest you get packed up as I'm sure you will be going to the States to carry on."
Nodding Ruby left the room and headed back to her room to get showered and ready for her new mission.
A/N
Ok so three things:
Firstly sorry if conversation is awkward I'm working on it and I'm not completely happy with this but it is what it is.
Secondly this is a new story from inspiration from Medal of Honor: Warfighter and yeah decided to have some fun and the title is horrible I know but couldn't think of anything better.
Thirdly I am thinking of doing a Pacific Rim, RWBY AU again Ruby x Neo and I have some rough ideas of characters and stuff but I want to know if people would first like to see this and also if people want me to follow the movie or have my own Jaegers and storyline with it loosely based on the movie?
Oh and the members of Task Force Beacon and call-signs plus what they specialize in and they are:
Ruby Rose-
Call sign: Red
Specialism: Sniper and all weapons.
Yang Xiao Long-
Call sign: Gold
Specialism: Support weapons
Weiss Schnee-
Call sign: White
Specialism: Sniper
Blake Belladonna-
Call sign: Black
Specialism: CQB
Jaune Arc
Call sign: Kid
Specialism: Assaulter
Pyrrha Nikos
Call sign: (No idea yet, idea's are welcome.)
Specialism: Assaulter
Nora Valkyrie
Call sign: Sloth
Specialism: Explosives/Demolitions
Lie Red
Call sign: Lotus
Specialism: CQB
Velvet Scarlatina
Call sign: Rabbit
Specialism: Sniper
Coco
Call sign: Mother
Specialism: Support weapons
I'll flush out more about them next chapter but for the moment it should just give you some basics, oh and when I say assaulter that means they can use a variety of weapons and not just a specialist in one type.
And I know some call signs are silly but my mind isn't very good at names.
PM or review with any suggestions and thank you very much for reading and for reviewing if you do. (Please do.)
