Author's Notes :
Hye there, firstly, I won't and will never abandon my first fic, The Infinite Universe, so why am I writing a new fic?...well for starters the combined universe of Mass Effect and Destiny is huge, and that's without counting the other source material I plan to include, Warhammer 40k fans, especially those of the Eldar, will be familiar with how my humanity in the story is going to be. The size and scope of this fic means I will be updating slowly, once every two weeks, at worst three weeks.
Now this fic which I have come up with both as a second control test and as a source of entertainment for you guys who follow/like and reviewed The Infinite Universe, is a Multi x-over with RWBY and is a cross between the Video Games Act of Aggression( a Command and Conquer derivative that brings back a lot of nostalgia and references to first gen C&C), Black Ops 3, arguably the darkest and most grim CoD game to date, XCOM Enemy Within and lastly RWBY AND "other" STUFF including elements from space opera's, why such a mix?...because why not?!...that and I was inspired by Ornstein the Dragon Slayers fic Red Crucible V2, check it out if you can, it's pretty good, and the writer can make even the most unlikely fics awesome.
On a side note, RWBY's Season 3, episodes 6 and 7 were a huge punch to the gut for me, especially since I'm a fan for Yang, RWBY fans will know, for those who don't know the show, check it out, it's awesome. At any rate, how they framed Yang is a mystery, all sources indicate Emerald, but there is no word-to-word confirmation of that as the coversations between the villains is ambiguous, Emerald stating that "one mind is okay, but two is a stretch" could refer to her tricking Yang, ALTERNATIVELY it could be that she's just complaining that altering the perception of two medics is straining for her. All that we do know is Mercury a.k.a Black Bastard is in on the plot and willingly allowed Yang to shoot himself in the robot legs of his, and secondly, the camera footage from Episode 6 doesn't match up with Yang and Black Bastard, basically when Yang won, she knocked quite a distance away from her, then when she hears say "it's over for you, we hear a "shooom" sound of a semblance activating at the same time tries to Kung Fu kick her, and Yang kneecaps him in self defence. Of course what the audience and camera's around the stadium see is Yang mysteriously walking past who is kneeling on the floor, the camera frame mysteriously jumps to standing like he was never on the ground to begin with, and then Yang kneecaps him. So what happened?...well all there is are theories, it could be Emerald, Neo or a combination between the two. But one thing I can say for sure is this, change is what you make of it, just as it can be bad, it can also be a golden opportunity to the bold. Imagine a badass Yang that still keeps her charms, namely her loving relationship with friends and family and her love for terrible puns, but yet becomes something like Master Assassin Ezio or Batman or Corvo from Dishonoured, someone who is forged from the fires of betrayal and loss to become the villains most terrible enemy. Now that's one HELL of an origin story.
But I digress, like Gray from RT said, just as there is light there is also shadow, and just as there is shadow, there is also light. So no point hanging over negative thoughts, and besides, if you something you don't like correct it fan fiction and express your ideals.
Now to the story!
P.s..I OWN NOTHING!...well except my OC(s), and special thanks to Ornstein and his fics for inspiring me to write.
System : Tau Ceti
Location : Kronos
Year : 2262
Date : May 19th
A young man, 17 years of age, with blonde hair, blue eyes and 3 whisker marks that were actually scars on each cheek, stands atop Hill 217 on the planet Kronos, all around were the corpses of his adversaries, aliens known as the Wotan. Three months ago, the aliens launched a system wide assault on Tau Ceti, intent on claiming all the colonies, planets and the valuable resources that came with them. The Wotan are a race of nomads that up until now, had no interest in settling down, however, like time itself, things changed. Now, the traitorous animals wanted the Tau Ceti for themselves.
Too bad for them though, the UEF Marines were deployed all around the system the moment Section 31, known to the public and their enemies as the Obsidian Order, caught wind of the invasion. Now all across the system war is raging…but for humanity, this was nothing new….our species, our very history, is bathed in blood. To that end, to understand what humanity is now, one must look to their past. This course, this path, all began in the year 1965, the year we were invaded by enemies from the stars. Aliens, at the time one would have thought it was a sad joke, a poor attempt by a radio host to spread terror, and many thought it was, until they same them first hand that is. They were called the Ethereals, a "coalition" of various alien species, led by the Elskani, the leadership caste of their coalition. All across the world, they struck without warning, entire cities were burnt to the ground. As cities and people across the world were being destroyed and killed, the people watched and waited for the military, for someone, to strike back.
That wait was futile. Three days later countries all around the world announced their surrender, the military forces that continued to fight on were slaughtered with contemptuous ease. It was then, that 20 years of oppression began, the aliens were very good and making us compliant offering us sweet promises, giving us technology that made ours look like a sad joke, but it was all a lie. In return, we lost our freedom, those that did not conform to them disappeared, with more being abducted en mass to be used as experiments, all so the aliens could awaken a power, that at the time was relegated to fiction.
Psionics, powers of the mind, there are no limits to it, there is no accurate benchmark on measuring psionic power, only later did resistance leaders around the world discover that the Ethereals had powerful psionics masters among them, during the opening phases of the subjugation, many important targets were mind controlled. It was also because of this that we were unable to engage them directly in open combat aside from their technological superiority, they had all the important people in their pockets. So for 20 years we waited and watched, learning their ways, their technology, understanding and improving them and learning all we could about Psionics. It turns out that we were the holy trinity that the Ethereals, and especially the Elskani were waiting for, a highly capable species with psionic potential coupled with a robust physical frame that is more adaptable to genetic manipulation. During those 20 years the resistance took it upon themselves to uncover the alien plot for we knew nothing about why they were interested in us. The breakthrough came when the resistance launched a raid on a secret Ethereal laboratory where they were conducting human experimentation and splicing of human and alien DNA, the results were…unexpected to say the least. The Elskani are a dying race, while they themselves are near immortal and possess powers that could have been mistaken as those of the ancient deities and pantheons of old, they are slowly dying out, they stopped reproducing a thousand standard years ago. The most important piece of information was data indicating Elskani numbers on Earth, there were only three dozen members of the Elskani on our planet, and they were the last of their race, desperate to uplift us, enslave us and use our DNA to save their race no matter the cost. With this is mind we planned and schemed, conducting hit and run attacks, insurgency and winning the hearts and minds of our people, who had lost faith in themselves and had believed that the aliens were their "gods" in mortal form, overtime, through the dedication of countless heroes we were slowly able to win back the hearts of our people and make the aliens bleed. They were giants, but with our knives we cut their godly flesh away.
But to their credit the aliens fought back hard, once they wised up unto our tactics they responded by locking down every city and town throughout the world and conducting terror missions on the human populace within, attempting to break down their morale, new alien types such as the shape shifting "Faceless" hybrids with human DNA were introduced to blend in with the population, sow terror and attack unsuspecting resistance members. Elskani Psi-Masters, who have rarely stepped foot outside of their administration centres now made frequent public appearances, often mind controlling random victims and have them cause mass panic before committing suicide, or simply using their powers to destroy things in an attempt to frighten the populace. However, by this time all of the human population had been made aware of the aliens activities towards them, and now they rose against them and soon minor brawls between alien and human forces turned into all out fire fights. All across the world, the blood and corpses of aliens and humans drowned the earth and so the opening phase of the war began. So began five years of maneuvering in the shadows and striking them while hidden to weaken them and tilt the odds to our favour. The greatest success we had was when an elite strike team known as "Vanguard Company" managed to assassinate eight Elskani Psi-Masters, capture two for interrogation and critically injure another five more. Despite heavy losses, with only 3 of the 15 members surviving, this act terrified the xenos filth, for all their powers, their bodies were frail and their resolve even more so. The remaining Elskani locked themselves inside their administration centres as their once organised troops fell into disarray.
After the five year "Phoney War" we struck, the Insurrection or Rebellion if you wish to argue about terminology lasted for another 7 years, 7 years of devastation against the aliens, we fought hard, using every bit of our guile and cunning, every bit of will and courage, the landscape of Earth changed, alien orbital bombardment, coupled with powerful psionic techniques that were being thrown around ensured that the Earth was forever scarred. Half the African continent was turned into glass, ruined by orbital bombardment and devoid of life by violent Psionic storms. A large chunk of North America was missing, what used to be Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand was now reduced into a biological hellscape where mutated creatures roam.
In the end the tide of war turned in our favour, we knew we couldn't meet the Ethereals Psionics masters in head on combat, so we engineered a virus that was tailor made to kill them, with knowledge obtained by the capture of those two Elskani prisoners all those years ago. We infected them and watch them die out, we would have done this sooner had the Ethereals lacked advanced medical knowledge or immunity granted by their nano-machines, but whatever, we managed to do it, meanwhile Vanguard Company along with 15 other strike teams had managed to infiltrate and destroy the Ethereal fleet and support structures in orbit. This coincided with the Elskani dying out, and we renewed our attacks with vigour and by July 12th 1992 we had managed to push the aliens back to New Providence, their capital city which also housed their mothership. The good news is that after weeks of harassing and whittling down their forces, they barely had enough soldiers to even defend their mothership much less the entire city.
Unfortunately though, they were sore losers. The last of the Ethereals attempted to detonate a device known as a World Engine in an attempt to destroy the whole planet. Once the resistance caught wind of the plan however, a strike group, callsign "Gothic", consisting of 3 teams led by Vanguard Company was deployed to eliminate the impromptu super weapon and wipe out any remaining alien forces, for two hours, strike group Gothic fought their way through alien resistance and eventually through the mothership itself, all the while supporting resistance forces were beating back feeble alien attempts to stop the strike group, alien blood ran unopposed through the streets.
Eventually strike group Gothic reached the central chamber that held the World Engine, however with the weapon armed and ready to detonate in under two minute and with no way to disarm it, Gothic's leader, Colonel Rafael Schaeffer a distinguished soldier and one of the many heroes of humanity, decided to use the entirety of his psychic might to create a gigantic rift that would absorb the blast of the World Engine at the cost of his own life. The World Engine detonated with enough force to crack the planet in two, but thanks to Schaeffer's sacrifice, the blast was absorbed by the rift technique he created. It was said that as he faded from existence, his team mates managed to see him smile for one last time and had asked them to safeguard humanity. Whatever the message however, the important fact was that we won the war, but we had paid a very heavy price doing so.
While we didn't suffer much…..casualties under alien occupation since they strived to keep their lab experiments, namely us, alive for as long as possible to get the best results, it was still extensive nonetheless, at least 1.5 billion dead. But the real damage was done on a genetic scale, the constant experimentation on every human being in such an inhuman and meticulous manner made the experimentations conducted by the Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany look like a kindergarten display of lab work, each and every human had been made far stronger , smarter and faster than ever before as well as possessing new powers, the aliens left a huge amount of technology that we could reverse engineer to augment and improve our own work. By all accounts, the thinking observer would have come to the conclusion that humanity would have banded together, that we would be united.
They were wrong.
The unity that allowed us to stand up against the aliens disintegrated due to the lack of a common enemy, the lack of a common goal and the lack of true understanding between us drove us apart. So for the next 78 years we rebuilt ourselves, advanced our technology to the next level while keeping old ones up to date, and even colonised our neighbours, Mercury, Venus, Mars and of course our moon, Luna. But the gears of war were turning, and we once again turned on each other. Battle lines were drawn, the North American Union and South American Coalition were now staring down each other across Mexico. The European Union looked warily across the east as the Soviet Union and her allies cast their gaze towards Europe, Africa had turned on itself, various warlords now fight for supremacy over the African Continent, the Middle East and Asian were no better, India looks outward as a conqueror, China and Japan now square of once again, with the former screaming for vengeance.
Nobody knew who fired the first shot. Not that it mattered, for the world was at war, for 30 years, known now as the "Age of Strife", we drowned our home, Earth, in our blood. There was no clear right or wrong, there was only blood and war. During these 30 years, psionic abilities, science and technology as a whole advanced once again by leaps and bounds, humans, now possessing arcane and eldritch powers and having enhanced physical capabilities were augmented further by cybernetics, weapons technology in particular was being developed with no moral consequence. The colonies too, weren't spared from the war, but on these distant worlds rational thoughts prevailed, having suffered together on a colony world trying to make it habitable would do that to anyone. But on Earth the people suffered, many now prayed for deliverance and for salvation.
That was when HE came, born in the fires of war, no one knew of his name, but all knew of the power he wielded. They called him the "Sage", with his psionic powers, he opened the minds of every human being, allowing them to connect with one another while retaining their individuality, to feel and understand each other without losing themselves in what would be known as the "Path of Awakening", the first among the many different paths that we walk on in life. But I digress, the Sage brought us the Glory of Awakening, and our every emotion and every though, became as one. Through that path, we found unity, no longer will we be referred to as humans, but as Terrans instead, and we rose from our failings and made our home, now named Terra, into a glorious, gleaming symbol of unity and pride. Under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations and it's military arm, the "Chimera", we were now united and our bonds with each other repaired we focused on being the best we can be, for the next 130 years we perfected the philosophy of our "Paths" our science and technology and our psionic capabilities, by the 2200AD we had managed to colonise 5 star systems, Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, Sirius, Procyon and Epsilon Eridani. Like how we made Sol into a shining beacon, we turned those star systems into haven for humanity. Despite this, we never let our guard down from external and internal threats, our mistakes and tragedies and horrors that we brought upon ourselves are as clear as day due to our link with each other or in more appropriate terms, our collective consciousness.
However, as ever the more things change, the more they stay the same, war found us once again, this time at the hands of another alien species, a race of bipedal reptilians simply known as the "Race" attempted to invade the Procyon system, with an army of 5 billion strong, arriving on slow, primitive sail powered ships, needless to say, when they arrived over Eden Prime, the core world of Procyon, they were helpfully greeted by G.O.D Orbital Defence Platforms and the 7th fleet, less than an hour later the fleet was nothing more than a navigational hazard.
This incident was the first among many "First Contact" scenarios encountered by the UN, from the violent and lawless tract of space inhabited by pirates and criminals of all types known as the Terminus Cluster to the Quarians on Rannoch, just as there is danger in every corner there is also golden opportunity for those who would take it.
As for the whiskered blonde himself, he was an enigma to the Terrans, four years ago he mysteriously appeared on the planet Elysium in Tau Volantis, which at the time was a warzone for control against the pirate empire of the House of Skolas. He was discovered by a squad of Chimeran Rangers on patrol. He was hysterical, constantly calling for what they deduced to be his girlfriend or lover, and he kept muttering desperately about a place called Remnant and Atlas. Admittedly since the Ranger were war veterans, they had had disregarded his statements and attributed it to severe PTSD and shock. However once he demonstrated his powers, namely his wind manipulation and a mysterious, visible energy field that for all extents and purposes acted very much like a psionic shield matrix, stopping projectiles and other blows from hitting his body as well as giving him advanced healing and great physical capabilities, even when they factored in their own psionic prowess his powers were still remarkable. He was also remarkable swordsman and hand to hand combatant.
Eventually, the young man decided to fight on and not give in to despair, long story short his skill set was good enough for him to join the Zhukov Academy of Military Science. His instructors were pleased with his performance, and the whiskered blond gained new skills as he worked hard in the Academy, whether it was various types of firearms ranging from heavy weapons to well balanced assault rifles to sleek and accurate sniper rifles, from hand to hand combat and knife fighting and everything he needed to survive and thrive in this hostile world where humanity is surrounded by things far worse than the Grimm.
Needless to say he was a natural soldier, and after one-and-a-half years worth of training, he was assigned to a scout squad whose members would become his greatest friends. During his first mission he earned his callsign "Centurion" for his ability to command effectively when his Veteran Sargeant had fallen in battle.
Deep in his heart Centurion longs for home, and he always will, but for now in this grim, dark universe, he will fight so that humanity here will prosper and thrive.
World of Remnant
Location : Highever Cemetery, Atlas
A beautiful young girl approached a gravestone with a bouquet of flowers in her hand, her face streaked with tears of sorrow and longing. Those tears marred her otherwise delicate face, her pale white skin, akin to snow, and her long white coloured hair tied in a high off-centre ponytail at the base of which contains a tiara. Her ice blue eyes held only negative emotions as she stared forlornly at the gravestone. She quickly composed herself, she wanted to make sure her beloved could see that she was strong.
After a few moments she places the flowers in front of the gravestone.
"Naruto…I'm back to see you again my love, just like always".
She always felt at peace talking to her lovers gravestone, like he was always there listening to her. It was one of only two times where she would drop her façade of a cold heated Schnee and let her true emotions out.
"There have been bumps on the road during my time in Beacon, but things have been going great nonetheless. I've made new friends!" she spoke as the wind blew across the cemetery and kicked up a lot of leaves, somehow making the entire area more nostalgic and saddening." Firstly there's Ruby, the youngest of the group, I admit I didn't like her at first because she was always smiling, she was smiling while I couldn't, and she's also very childish, but her childishness and innocence is also the reason why I became friends with, there isn't a day that goes by that her antic won't amuse me. Her sister Yang is a pervert and deviant who consistently spouts terrible puns, but she's a good friend nonetheless who cares very much about her team mates. The there is Blake," Weiss took a breath before continuing, "she is a faunus, I had trouble getting….getting along with her even before she revealed herself, when she did, I wanted to hate her, but then…I remembered you, you never discriminated against anyone, you were so strong, kind, gentle, humane, and you never flaunted your position or power." she paused for a moment as her feelings of hurt welled up again.
"Why Oum….why did you take him away from me?"
Flashback
12 years ago
Namikaze manor
Mr. Schnee, the current CEO of the Schnee Dust Company (SDC) is visiting his long time friend Minato Namikaze of the Namikaze Arms Corporation. He had also been invited to have dinner with the Namikaze family. The SDC has recently been embroiled in a scandal regarding faunus, a scandal that would tear their family apart in the future.
"I'm glad you could make it old friend, how long has it been since we last had dinner with each other, 5, years?" Minato Namikaze said as he shook hands with his old friend, a smile on his face.
"Indeed it has Minato," Mr Schnee with a rueful smile on his face. "Meet my daughters, Winter and Weiss."
"He-h-hello ," Weiss curtsied shyly.
Winter on the other hand was calm. "Pleased to meet you "
"Such polite daughters you have!" said Kushina, who had arrived a few minutes ago and was now standing beside her husband." I wish Lucy was able to see them."
"My wife will be missed, and my daughter miss her especially." Mr. Schnee noted the sad looks o hi daughters faces. " But she is in a better place now."
"Hi there!"
Weiss squeaked and hid behind her father when a young blonde haired boy with what seemed to be whisker marks on his cheeks had seeming appeared out of nowhere and materialised in front of her.
Mr. Schnee nearly laughed at the sight of his daughter behaving so timidly, she was very cute, and the young boy, Naruto was his name, would grow up into a handsome young man.
"My name is Naruto!, what's yours?"
"W-W-Weiss Schnee, ple-pleased to meet you."
"Let's go have some fun Weiss!" the energetic young boy had gently and firmly grabbed one of Weiss's hands and was now leading her up the stairs. " I've got plenty of cool games and toys!, and if you are a quiet person I got plenty of books that we can read too!"
"W-wait!, can we please slow down?"
The parents of both children smiled at the interaction. Mr. Schnee in particular was happy that he brought Weiss here, it was….difficult for her to have friends due to her heritage as part of the Schnee family, then again to be fair, all children from wealthy and famous families had that problem as they were looked upon either with awe, or with jealousy and envy, or perhaps both. The recent scandal with the faunus however, had damaged their family reputation, and Weiss was now ostracised even more because of it.
Kushina's voice broke him out of his thoughts. "Looks like the children are on their way to be fast friends!" she said with a smile on her face. " I apologise for my son's over enthusiasm though"
"Its fine, Weiss need friends, she has been quite lonely."
As dinner was being set up, Winter was spending her time chatting up with Mito, Naruto's elder sister about boys, school life and being huntresses. The adults were talking about work related issues as well as the life of their children.
Meanwhile in Naruto's room, Weiss was silent analysing the boy in front of her as he went about showing off his belongings, though not in an arrogant manner. She was confused, why would this boy talk to her, after all, she wasn't anything special, in school she was always left alone, and sometimes even bullied, she didn't want her father to know about it, she wanted to prove herself.
"Hey Weiss, are you okay?"
Weiss's thoughts were interrupted when Naruto talked to her. It…was a strange feeling.
"Why?"
"Why what?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Why do you…talk to me?...I-I mean, I don't sound to be rude, but I'm nothing special, no one w-w-would talk to me when I'm in school" Weiss said dejectedly.
"That's just dumb."
"What?!"
"That's right!" said Naruto, a big goofy grin on his face, "everyone Is special in their own way Weiss, people just need to understand each other!. Besides, you're special to me!"
Weiss was stupified, here was a complete unknown who didn't shun her like the others, but was talking to and treating her normally. She felt a sudden warmth in her heart.
"Besides," Naruto continued, " aren't we already friends?, so that means we should play with each other!" he finished off with an even more dazzling smile.
"F-f-f-friends?"
"She couldn't believe it….she finally had a friend, for the first time in a long time, she had a friend. A bright smile adorned her face.
"Okay..let's play..Naruto."
Present Time
"You only saw me for me, you were my only friend back then, and the one I held to my heart." Weiss said as she sat down in front of the gravestone. "I still remember, how you saved me from those bullies."
7 Years Ago
"Awwwww, is the poor widdle snow princess all alone."
Weiss had been enjoying her lunch on the rooftop of her school when she found herself cornered by four older students, she had tried to get up and leave but they quickly pushed her down and threw her lunch box to the corner, all the while pushing, slapping and making fun of her.
"Pl-pl-please stop, I didn't do anything." Weiss whimpered
"Of course you did, you white haired freak" said the biggest of the boys as he pushed her to the ground once again. "You Schnee's think you're so great don't you, well why don't you use your "ooohh so magical Dust knowledge!" he sneered at her.
Before he could continue however, a fist impacted his face, more specifically, his eye, and sent him rolling backwards.
Weiss looked up, and was stunned, standing there was Naruto, and he looked furious, she had never see him like that before. With a low feral growl, Naruto launched himself at the four bullies, punching and kicking them as hard as he could, he is a good fighter, having been trained to fight since he was six by Jiraiya, who surprisingly enough, was just as good in the military field as he was writing smut.
After a few minutes of brutal brawling, the four bullies decide to cut their losses and ran, however Naruto was not looking too good himself, he had numerous scratches and bruises, his eye was swollen and his cloths were torn up. He dropped to the ground and groaned before looking at Weiss.
"Hey Weiss you okay?' he said before smiling.
Weiss snapped out of her stupor and rushed to him and hugged him gently.
"What were you thinking idiot?!" she shouted at him, before bonking him on the head.
"Owww dammit Weiss why-" Naruto started before stopping when he saw Weiss tearing up. "What's wrong?" he asked, concerned for his friend.
"Y-y-you got hurt because of m-m-me" Weiss sobbed.
Naruto just turned around and hugged her, startling her. "Weiss it doesn't matter if I get hurt, I will not let any of my friends get hurt, and that goes double for you" he said with his trademark grin.
The white haired girl was stunned, and very happy when she heard that, she merely snuggled back into his arms and enjoyed the hug.
Present Time
"I will never forget that day, when you protected me when no one else would, it was because of that I choose to be strong, you helped realise that Naruto." Weiss smiled as she brought her knees to her chest.
4 Years Ago
Weiss stood outside the great doors of the Namikaze manor, having arrived here a few minutes ago. Every time she finished her lessons (she is now home tutored ever since the bullying incident) she would come here to play with Naruto, she did everything with him, playing games, watching movies having dinner. Naruto had become her special person.
The door opened up and Kushina came into view, smiling at the heiress. "Weiss do come in, what a pleasant surprise dattebane!."
"Hello Miss Kushina, Naruto invited me here, we would be going out soon." Weiss greeted the red head. She considered the Namikaze manor her second home, everyone knew about the drastic change in her father's attitude over the years, every time she would come home, there would only be arguments and in some cases, she would be hit. Fights between Winter and her father would often…escalate as well.
"Oh not at all my dear, though I do hope you two would hurry it up….and seal the deal so to speak." Kushina replied fondly, saying the last sentence with a smirk and was rewarded with Weiss' glowing red face, she enjoyed having Weiss come to her home, having accepted her into the family when Weiss's fell apart, that and she knew her son and Weiss had feelings for each other, it was only a matter of time.
"MISS KUSHINA!" said Weiss, shocked.
"Mom, stop teasing Weiss." Naruto had arrived wearing an orange jacket with a hoodie, a black shirt underneath and wearing dark brown trousers.
Weiss heart skipped several beats when she saw him and she felt her cheeks het up, he always a good looker, but now at the age of thirteen he seemed to have blossomed into a handsome young man, his face had very little baby fat to them and now possessed a certain handsome, boyish look that complemented his lean build.
Kushina noticed Weiss staring at Naruto and decided to tease her " So when can I expect grandchildren?" she asked innocently.
Weiss's head snapped to Kushina so fast that it looked as though it was in danger of snapping of. Naruto was reduced to a spluttering wreck. Both of them looked like red light bulbs with how they were blushing.
"M-MOM/MISS KUSHINA!" both of them shouted in unison.
"I didn't hear a no…" sang Kushina, much to the dismay of the two youngsters.
"Well let's get going Weiss" Naruto said with s smile. "Bye mom!"
"Bye Miss Kushina" said Weiss.
"Bye you two and have fun!"
Few hours later
Town of Neauport
"So where do want to go Weiss?" Naruto asked sure he had been in a lot of da-excursions with Weiss, so it was now her turn to choose.
"Let's go around town and through the nearby carnival, I'll have you know that I want a present!" Weiss said playfully.
Naruto chuckled, "Sure why not Snow Angel." and he grabbed Weiss hand and held it gently. Weiss herself blushed up a storm once more, she enjoyed the nick-name she had been given.
For the next 2 hours, she and Naruto went around town enjoying themselves. Naruto won Weiss a beautiful snow rabbit plushie that she greatly liked. All in all they had a wonderful time.
After going through the last part of the carnival, they decided to make their way to one of the stands that were set up for the fireworks display. As soon as they reached there, Naruto turned around and took both of Weiss's hands in his.
"Weiss I just wanted to say…that….that" Naruto stuttered, unable to complete his sentence.
"Hmm?", inwardly Weiss's heart was jumping around in her chest, was this it?...will he confess to me?!, will he!."
"Weiss, I just wanted to say that I-i-I love you…you will never ever be alone, ever again, I'll always be there with you, every step of the way. I promise.
With that, he hugged her and held her close, for Weiss it's as though time stopped in her own perfect world. Deciding to do something daring, she looked up at Naruto who was taller than her, and gently cupped his cheek with her left hand, while her right hand gripped the back of his neck. Their faces drew closer until finally, their lips met, it was quick, chaste and sweet kiss full of love, and both of them enjoyed it as they held each other in their arms.
"I love you so much Naruto."
Present Time
Weiss was now hugging her knees tightly to her chest, tears of anguish and sadness flowed freely from her eyes again.
"It was supposed to last forever, but they came and took it away, and tore you away from me….those monsters…."
Four Years Ago- Same night
After spending their time together witnessing the fireworks display, they decided to walk back home through the town and subsequent carnival. The happy smiles on their faces confirmed that this young couple had a very good time and had shared a very special moment together.
Then, Weiss and Naruto heard panicked screaming coming nearby. As they reached the source of the commotion, they could see masked men and women clad in black and white uniforms causing havoc in the area, the sound of screaming men, women and children echoed throughout the area. The White Fang had come.
While Weiss looked panicked, Naruto was completely calm as he surveyed and analysed the threat the White Fang possessed, the once peaceful organisation had now turned to violence and terrorism to get their point across.
"Weiss, calm down and alert the police, and ready yourself, we have to stop them before they hurt anyone else." Naruto all but ordered. His training with Jiraiya had hardened him, while he was still very much a good guy, the things he had seen while he been training with Jiraiya made him a bit jaded which isn't a bad thing in it's own right.
Weiss took deep breaths and calmed down, she trusted Naruto when it came to situations like this. " "I already alerted the police," she said as she tucked her Scroll away and drew Myrtenaster. "What's the plan Naruto?"
" The people take priority, if the White Fang try to stop you, disable them" Naruto said as Weiss nodded. Both of them rushed in to the fight, while quickly directing rescued civilians to safety. Naruto was a living whirlwind, his katana gunblade Wrath was biting and tearing into the flesh of any White Fang member stupid enough to come close, disabling many of them and killng some, one of the leaders, frustrated that his underlings couldn't even touch that whisker-faced human fuck, decided to challenge the human himself, rushing into the fray while conveniently forgetting that the "human" had basically moped the floor with his entire contingent, yelling his war cry, the White Fang leader rushed to attack Naruto, who merely spun on the balls of his feet, evaded the clumsy sword thrust and used Wrath to slice through his throat, killing him instantly.
Weiss on the other hand wasn't killing the White Fang members, they maybe terrorists, but she couldn't bring herself to kill them, so she settled for incapacitating them, unlike Naruto who had military training, Weiss's skills with the rapier were for only self defence, still she endeavoured to neutralise all her enemies. Making full use of her Glyphs, she casually swatted and froze many of the grunts, when she knocked out the last one. She turned around to face Naruto, "So what now?" she asks.
Naruto was about to answer, when he heard the distinctive whine of aircraft engines, looking up, he saw a quartet of Bullheads with the White Fang symbol etched on them heading towards the industrial part of town. "There's our destination Weiss. and where is the police again?" Naruto asked.
Weiss took a look at her Scroll before answering, "They'll be here in a few minutes, I'm worried about those Bullheads, the White Fang have never come with those numbers before." she said, worry evident on her delicate face.
Naruto took her hand gently," Don't worry I'm here," he said smiling, "now as much as I would want you to go home while I take care of things here, you would never agree to that."
Weiss responded by holding tightening the grip on his hands. "You know I will never leave you, you have a tendency to something stupid." she whispered, ignoring the indignant "hey" from the blonde. She gave him a quick kiss before continuing, " Now let's go stop them already while the police and hunters arrive."
Naruto nodded in agreement and the two of them quickly rushed to the site where the bullheads landed, the White Fang were pillaging Dust from all the shops and warehouses in the area and loading as much as they could on the Bullheads, the rest were being loaded onto trucks, but one of those trucks near the central warehouse caught his eye, it was carrying what appeared to be an Arch of some sort, etched on it's surface were weird runes. He had of archaeologists discovering weird Arch's in some parts of Remnant, almost all of them were destroyed beyond repair, but this is one apparently was intact, of he had to guess why they had them, the White Fang most probably stole it and would probably sell it in the black market to fund their escapades.
Weiss noticed it too "Looks like the White Fang intend to expand their operations."
"Indeed, let's wait here and take note of ever-." Naruto stopped immediately as his facial expression morphed into one of shock when he noticed two White Fang members carrying a large cylindrical device and placed it near the central warehouse.
"Naruto what's wrong?" Weiss asked, when she traced his line of sight and saw the cylindrical device, she covered her mouth in shock. "I-i-is that a bomb?"
"Yeah it is, and if it blows up Weiss it'll destroy most of the town, and judging by the timer, it's set to blow in 30 seconds." Naruto gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, " we need to stop them now." he concluded, Weiss nodding in agreement, her fear replaced with determination.
Meanwhile the White Fang commander was hurrying his men to complete their tasks. "Hurry up!, grab all of the Dust and deploy the bomb, we'll level this filthy human settlement" he grinned darkly.
Suddenly a giant tornado appeared amongst them, throwing multiple White Fang members in all directions, as soon as the tornado stops two blurs, one white and one orange, rushed out towards the dazed White Fang members, Naruto, using his wind semblance augmented the cutting power of his blade, inflicting terrible wounds on the White Fang members that were standing in his way. Weiss used her Glyphs and took out large numbers of grunts in one go. But there were still too many, as they reached the bomb, Naruto discovered it hadn't been armed yet to his relief, unfortunately, Weiss and him were now surrounded.
The White Fang commander was now laughing out loud in glee, "Well well, the son of the Yellow Flash and Red Death, and the Schnee heiress, GET THEM!." with that, everyone reacted.
"Weiss flashbang!"
"On it!"
Weiss created a Glyph near Naruto, who charged his wind semblance on his hand and then crashed his fist down on the Glyph, creating a massive flash of light and wind that blinded and blew everyone away from the immediate vicinity. The White Fang still on their immediately started firing without discretion.
A fatal mistake.
A round from one of the grunts impacted the bomb, which activated the timer and inadvertently set the bomb to detonate in five seconds.
"YOU FOOL!" the White Fang commander roared at his subordinate as they attempted to take cover.
The young couple, tired from fighting, realised they only had a split second to react. However before Weiss could do anything, Naruto focused the last drops of his aura and pushed Weiss far away from the blast zone while he collapsed, exhausted. Weiss could only look on in mounting horror as she realised what her lover had done. The bomb detonated, creating an inferno and caused a huge chain reaction that activated the Arch, amid the fire, a vortex of energy formed , pulling everything, including a barely alive Naruto through it, before the vortex closed and the Arch simply fell apart.
Weiss however, didn't notice this, all she saw was her beloved engulfed in a massive inferno. She got to her feet and attempted to head towards the flames and wreckage. But before she could take a few steps forward, someone grabbed her and prevented her from moving, The police were here.
"Ma'am you can't go there!"
"NOOO, UNHAND ME!, MY NARUTO IS IN THERE HE IS STILL ALIVE, PLEASE PLEASE I HAVE TO GET HIM OUT!" Weiss screamed, tears flowing freely from her eyes as she struggled against the policeman's grip.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but no one could have survived that." the policeman said sadly.
"NononoononoonnoNOOOOOOO, NARUTO HE CAN'T BE DEAD! NARUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Despair and sadness overwhelmed her as she sank to her knees.
The White Fang had taken her beloved away from her.
5 Days Later
We are gathered here today…..to lay the soul of Naruto Namikaze to rest.
Both Kushina and Minato were distraught, the former is weeping on her husband's shoulder, the latter is hollow inside, both their hearts torn apart. Everyone who came for the funeral were wearing black as a sign of mourning. The police had concluded that Naruto had died in the fire. All they recovered was a the charred hilt of his gunblade.
Weiss felt as though a large part of her died that day. Her tears had run out by now, but her sorrow and pain is eternal.
The sun is blotted out and the sky darkens.
Present Day
She knew that she was soaking wet in the rain, she knew she had spent several hours in front of her beloved's gravestone. But it didn't matter, none of those things mattered.
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I DESPISE THE WHITE FANG? IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE A BUNCH OF LIARS, THEIVES AND MURDERERS!.
The fight between her and Blake echoed in her head like it was yesterday. Weiss knew it was unfair of her to judge Blake and the rest of the faunus that weren't White Fang. But a large part of her didn't care, they took away the one thing that mattered to her the most. Ironically it was after the fight with Blake that made Weiss realise what she was doing was wrong. Naruto would have been ashamed to see her act like this. That's why she spent quite a bit of time making up with Blake after the fight.
She was so preoccupied with her thoughts that she failed to hear someone approach her.
"Oh dear!" a voice rang out and the Schnee heiress turned around to find Kushina looking at her sadly.
"Hi Kushina.."
Kushina rushed over and hovered the umbrella over Weiss's head. "You shouldn't be out in the open like this, my son wouldn't want to see you like this." she said softly, her face contorted in sadness.
Weiss felt burning hot tears come to her eyes once again, these tears, this pain why won't it go away?...why?
"I-i-it was our anniversary today…so I wan-wanted to." Weiss stuttered as her emotional walls tumbled away and she began to cry uncontrollably. Kushina let go of the umbrella and hugged the white haired girl, her own tears pouring out. She looked at the gravestone forlornly. "Musume."
Kronos
2262
Four years, he had been here for four years, he had an idea on how he got here, but as for going back?...he had no chance in hell. All around him were the bodies of dead aliens, some were shot dead by him, some he killed with his collapsible long sword and some were even beaten to death with his own two hands. In this universe, humanity is drowned in war, but it is because of soldiers like him that they have managed to prosper. He looked down at his cybernetic arms, he had lost them when fighting an alien species known as the Xenomorps seven months ago, there were some things that made the Grimm look like a sad joke in comparison. He had come a long way here, once he found that he could never go back, he volunteered and joined CHIMERA, the United Nations body responsible for the defence of Terra and all her colonies and people, he joined as a UN Marine, and for two years he slogged through the fight. After those two years he was "mentioned in dispatches" and was given an opportunity to become a Kommando, CHIMERA's finest and most advanced soldiers in they have to offer. The "veteran" eight month training had pushed him beyond his limits but he persevered and never gave up, he had fought many enemies, both alien and in once recent case, human, where he had paid his pound in flesh.
"Sir!" Naruto was interrupted of his reverie by his squad. Naruto is the leader of Scout Squad Romulus, unlike other squads which typically had eight to twelve members, Scout Squads had only four, his subordinates and closest companions, Lucas Kellan, Viktor Krevschenko, and Nathan Hale awaited his orders.
"So what's the word Kellan?" Naruto asked curtly slipping into his commanding persona.
"We've got another mission in sector 7, we need to clear out Wotan presence in a nearby village there and then scout out the main base."
Naruto nodded," We leave in two minutes, pack up on ammo and rations dismissed"
"Sir!" all three of them shouted and saluted before leaving to get what they needed.
Naruto took the time to pull out a picture from his pocket, a picture of a girl with beautiful white hair, pale skin and light blue eyes.
"If there is a God out there, please let me be with her again."
Author's Note
So as you guys can see this story is a "successor" of Ornstein the Dragon Slayers Red Crucible V2, in fact I based this story of mine of his.
Edit : I watched volume 3 chapter 8 of RWBY and while the overall episode is excellent there were two problems for me.
1) Qrow and Yang's discussion about Raven was a disappointment, in volume 2 episode 12, there was a post credit scene where Yang meets Raven, in episode however we got this instead:
Yang : I was in trouble, got knocked out, and when I woke up….i saw her.
Really RT?...that's it?...it's as though that post credit scene NEVER existed.
2) Mercury's sudden appearance was bullshit to say the least, for no rhyme or reason, he was just there in front of Ruby. Cinder clearly stated to him that he IS supposed to be laying low while Cinder and Emerald rig the next match. So why the fuck is Mercury there, they clearly transported Mercury out of the stadium and into their hideout on the ground, unless they decided to fly Mercury out on the pretense of sending him to the hospital, and then fly him back in?...it makes no sense, why risk everything by revealing Mercury to Ruby?..IMHO I think the Merc Ruby is seeing is an illusion, far fetched you say?...but in the world of RWBY, one must look at the underneath beneath the underneath, which sadly to say Ozpin and co are failing miserably in. At this point, Cinder has basically won, unless the good guys pull a miracle or two out of their asses, they are SCREWED.
