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Chapter 1: Grimlock
Remnant, 50,000 Years Ago…
Ice-capped mountains seemed to poke through the atmosphere.
Below were the mountain ranges with some green to them.
Further below, the land was divided by a long stretch of river that created a deep enough canyon to make this area a valley pressed up against a wide, clear blue ocean.
Prehistoric jungles and savannas were what make up the landscape with the more temperate forests such as the coniferous and deciduous closer to the mountains. Different kinds of plants ranging from modern to ancient such as palm trees to huge cycads and ferns.
The river stretched all the way inland until it was joined with a huge deep lake. Beyond were cliffs and rocky outcroppings that surrounded more of the jungles.
Birds and pterosaurs dotted the skies while huge dragonflies and flying/gliding lizards stayed closer to the canopy.
Sauropods such as Brachiosaurs, Apatosaurs, Brontosaurs, Argentinosaurs, and other species could been with grazing through the treetops with their long necks or travelling across the land in huge herds like elephants.
Dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon, Styracosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus, Struthiomimus, Edmontosaurus, and Ankylosaurus were grazing peacefully in the grasslands filled with grasses, ferns, and the occasional shrubs.
However, the scenery of peace was abruptly interrupted when a tremendous clashing sounds of metal against steel clamored throughout the valley disturbing the dinosaurs. Confused and startled, the animals wondered what's causing them. Then seemingly out of nowhere, a huge, massive robot fell from the sky and crashed onto the savanna onto its back scaring and terrifying all of the dinosaurs away. The robot in question was a colossal being of purple metal. Everything about him made him look like a walking juggernaut. He had no face but instead a large, red cyclops eye in the center of his head. A face perfect for one who had no care for emotions. He had a powerful laser cannon as his right arm instead of a hand. Or was until it was savagely torn off from him with oil, sparks, and other lubricants leaking out from the severed joints.
Then another massive robot this time tore through the edge of the jungle causing birds and small pterosaurs to scatter as this one was clearly bigger and more menacing than the cyclops robot. These beings were made of metal and a substance called Energon. Energon is the fuel, ammunition, and lifeblood of a race called Cybertronians. While most of the race was destroyed in a civil war that erupted on the planet of Cybertron many million years ago, a few survived and scattered across the universe looking for a new home and a new future. Some, however, searched the worlds for less than noble purposes than the others.
The purple Cybertronian was one of the evil Cybertronians called the Decepticons, the very ones responsible for plunging their planet into civil war. Having launched a warhead containing refined energon into this planet called Remnant so that he could collect it at a later date as well start his own operations to mine and extract the planet of its own Energon, which seemed to be rich of deep within the core. For the only master he truly was devoted to was…pure, cold logic. However, fate had other plans as the emotionless cyclops faced opposition none other than the towering, gold and silver Cybertronian that sent him flying from the jungle and crashing onto the savanna on his back. His laser cannon ripped apart by the very same Cybertronian that now stomped menacingly towards him.
The other Cybertronian, in question, was a giant amongst his own race. Standing at 140 feet tall, he resembled a bestial knight with the face sides of T-rex on his shoulders and his helmet having a large spike on his head. His armor was very bestial and prehistoric with teeth-like and skeletal-like details with spikes and spurs. His right hand was a chained spiky mace while in his left hand, he wielded a long-poled, spiky club. His name was Grimlock, Supreme Commander of the Dinobots, an ancient faction of Legendary Knights belonging to the more benevolent and justice-serving Autobots that turned rogue and wild in the Civil War. Reckless, arrogant, egotistical, ruthless, overconfident, and headstrong. Grimlock was truly menacing in his mannerisms and savage in his battle prowess as he was in his appearance.
Grimlock harshly stomped on the purple cyclops thrice almost crushing his chest plate. He transformed his chain mace into his actual robotic hand. Then he abruptly swiped the cyclops from the ground and if any of them were to stand side-by-side, the cyclops would have barely reached up to about Grimlock's ankle. Grimlock brought him close to his face and began applying pressure from his hand into the robotic cyclops that groaned in pain because of it.
"Any last words before I tear you apart just like how your Predacons tore my friends apart, Shockwave," Grimlock's spoke in a deep gravelly, venomous tone that signaled his intent to scrap him.
"It is prematurely illogical of you to assume victory when you haven't secured it yet," Shockwave spoke in his cold, calculating, emotionless voice that matched his computer-like appearance and personality. He pressed the button on the remote hidden in his hand.
Up above the stratosphere, Shockwave's vessel was in orbit. Upon receiving the signal, the ship fired its main maser cannon and a devastating purple Energon laser plummeted through the sky. It vaporized unfortunate pterosaurs and its destination was a massive crater-type of volcano along with a chain of smaller volcanos that occupy the eastern part of the land beyond the valley. Upon impact, the laser absolutely annihilated the volcano setting off a violent chain reaction. All of the smaller volcanoes erupted as lava gushed out like broken faucets. The land was in total chaos as earthquakes ripped the earth and the water from the ancient deep lake 10 miles away from Grimlock and Shockwave formed into a tsunami. Screaming panicked roars and screeches of all of the prehistoric animals, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs clamored throughout the valley when they were all desperately escaping from their destruction.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Grimlock roared in infuriated disbelief at the Decepticon mad scientist.
"If I can't have this planet's resources and Energon just like the Energon cache back on Cybertron, then neither any of you will inherit this world, Grimlock!" Shockwave pulled out his cybernetic sword surprising Grimlock by plunging it right into his throat!
"Why you…GGRRRAAAAGGGHHH!" Grimlock roared in gurgled shouts that quickly became unintelligible grunts and roars with his vocal processors damaged. Energon foamed at his mouth as he dropped Shockwave and clutched onto his damaged throat.
Shockwave could barely stand with his armor bent and crushing into the circuitry in his legs and with the joints hardly functional from the tight squeeze Grimlock applied onto him. Shockwave tried to amble or crawl away from Grimlock as fast he could, but he wasn't fast enough when Grimlock dislodged the sword from his neck and then plunged the sword piercing into Shockwave's torso immobilizing him.
"It's logical that even with my backup plan, there is less probability for me to escape," Shockwave sputtered weakly.
Grimlock snarled as he readied his hammer with both of his hands.
"But if it's to benefit the cause of the Decepticons by riding of these obsolete brutes that Optimus thought he could understand and tame their ferocity, then I have won." Shockwave said his last when Grimlock slammed the hammer onto his chest and head smashing his circuitry, killing him.
Grimlock reveled in his victory, but it was short-lived as the lava came racing towards him engulfing and burning the entire jungle away and destroying savannas killing countless of animals and plants. That included the Predacons and Grimlock's fellow Dinobots.
"N-NO-O-O….GRRAAOOOAARRGH!" Grimlock snarled and growled defiantly to the very end when he was finally swept underneath the lava. Shockwave's body was carried into the sea. The land burned and the sea steamed while chunks of the valley were torn asunder with rifts and canyons now littering the land with millions of dinosaurs and other wildlife dead.
Dark clouds of ash dominated the skies with thunder clapping.
The land was deathly silenced.
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Present day Vale… Sewers…
"Why of all the missions that Ozpin sent us to do it would have to be in the stinking sewers?!" Ruby complained as Team RWBY walked through the dark foreboding tunnels, "Ugh…it literally stinks down here!"
"You think we don't smell it here? We all do, but you complaining it's certainly not going to make it go away." Weiss scolded their team leader.
"Weiss is right, there's not much we can do, but plug our noses and find what we came here for." Yang said.
"And get the hell out of here! Seriously, I don't know how much more I can take with the rot and decay around here because I swear I just smelled someone's rotten pizza mixed with badly cooked eggs," Blake was having it worse due to Faunus having sharper senses so her nose's more sensitive, which was now working against her in this environment.
"Um…yeah, let's not say about such nasty stuff because I am about to lose my lunch," Ruby said feeling queasy.
"I agree. The sooner we find the disturbance, the sooner we can leave this dump and head back to the academy where warm showers await us." Yang concurred as she too was uncomfortable with being down here for long.
They took a left into another tunnel that was away from the murky, brackish river and further deeper into the system underneath the city.
In some tunnels, there was only tidbits of light shining through that showcases more of the filth and trash that had been littered all over with rats being seen eating them. They could even hear some of the cars passing above them.
"Dimly lit tunnels with minimum lighting, dank conditions, and rats… I can only imagine how much the people working down here wanted to be out in the light." Yang commented.
"Yeah, and then there are those who are without fortune. Some of the poorest citizens were even forced to live down here when they can't shelter or anywhere else that can house them." Blake sadly remarked.
"In this hellhole? And what do they have to eat around here?" Weiss questioned.
"When survival is your only priority, anything else is a luxury, especially down here." Blake explained.
"Isn't that unsanitary and detrimental to their survival?" Weiss asked feeling disgusted at the thought while saddened by it.
"With no money, scraps are all they can contend with unless they resort to stealing, which they become pickpockets, but otherwise… it's pretty much survival on the edge and many of them become hit with severe malnutrition."
"Oh Oum…" Weiss paled.
"Pretty sure that's something else the rick folks back home don't tell you about the little people beneath them," Yang said to Weiss.
"I know about the mistreatment and abuse of the Faunus workers under the management of my father, but this is something else." Weiss admitted, "And it's just unbelievably tragic."
"Every day we all learn something new like how much I now appreciate the good life above the streets better than I have before," Yang said as they continued to tread through the sewer tunnels carefully with Ruby holding the flashlight and the map that had spot of the reported disturbance marked with an 'X'.
"According to the map given to us by the City of Vale Department, we should be reaching the site of the disappearances…" Ruby stopped causing Yang to almost bump into her younger half-sister. Weiss noticed her leader stopped walking while Blake looked in the direction of where's she was looking.
"What's up, sis? Why are we stopping?" Yang asked.
"Because…" Ruby shined her flashlight onto a group of Beowolves that were feasting on the bodies of the sewage maintenance guys along with some Snapper Grimm resembling the Kaprosuchus or Boar-Tusked Crocodiles that were about the length of SUV's as they feasted on some of the human and Faunus victims while guarding the entrance to a cavern that wasn't in the map at all, "it's right in front of us."
The Beowolves and the Snappers glared and roared and hissed at the Huntresses.
"Alright, time to get to work! It's better than walking through these creepy stink-ass tunnels all day," Yang said as she equipped Ember Celica. Weiss took out her Myrtenaster, Blake loaded her Gambol Shroud, and Ruby unleashed her Crescent Rose.
"Go!" Ruby yelled with a grin.
The Beowolves ran over and tried to overwhelm Team RWBY, but they easily moved around them as Ruby bisected one by the torso. Yang threw several punches at the Beowolf before she launched a mighty one that sent the monster spiraling into the wall. Blake shot at several them pelting them with Dust bullets damaging them before she sliced through four of them with her katana. She jumped over a Snapper that tried to sneak upon with its jaws. It was then held in place by a glyph courtesy of Weiss. That allowed Yang to get up close to the Grimm and let it have it with her punches and shotgun shells up close damaging its armor and then with one punch to the white, red skull shattering it, the Snapper died.
Ruby backflipped from a Beowolf swiping her before she used her Semblance to cut through it and aimed her gun at another and shot it in the face. Weiss froze several other Beowolves with her glyphs and shot them with hails of icicles.
One of the last Beowolves tried to tackle Ruby from behind. However, Ruby saw the beast coming and she turned and lopped its head off before it fell dead to the dirty tunnel floor headless.
That left Team RWBY with the 5 other remaining Snapper left with the fifth one being a larger alpha with bigger spikes and more tusk-like teeth.
"Remember about these guys being cold-blooded?" Ruby asked her team.
"Sort of!" Yang answered.
"I do," Weiss replied as she knew Ruby's strategy.
"Okay, Weiss! Ice Flower!" Ruby commanded.
"Got it!" Weiss used her glyphs as she encased Ruby's bullets in ice as she sniped every five of the Snapper into frozen ice.
"Blake! Ladybug!"
Using their speeds, Blake and Ruby attacked Crocodilian Grimm from opposite sides in alternate sliding maneuvers eliminating the smaller and less armored ones leaving only the bigger and heavier Alpha standing.
The Alpha Snapper gave out an angry guttural roar as it swung its spiky tail at the Blake. Yang pushed Blake out of the way before she clubbed by the tail and crashed into the wall of the tunnel.
"Yang!" Blake shouted to her partner.
"Ruby, watch out!" Weiss yelled warning Ruby to stay sharp because the Snapper Grimm sprinted towards her with its jaws wide open.
"Whoa!" Ruby barely had time to react before the Grimm bit onto the blunt end of the Crescent Rose's blade. Ruby struggled to dislodge it from its huge teeth, but the Snapper's strong neck muscles lifted Ruby along with her weapon. The monster shook her like a dog with a chew toy before it slammed her right into another wall.
Weiss fired more icicles, but they couldn't penetrate deep enough into the beast's tough scaly pitch-black hide. The Schnee Huntress was forced to back off when it slammed its tail down onto her. Then the Snapper charged at Ruby hoping to engulf her, but Yang got in front of her sister just in time after recovering and quickly fired into the Snapper's mouth forcing the creature to back off as it roared in pain.
"Thanks, Yang." Ruby thanked her.
"No prob, Rubes," Yang said, "But how are going to deal with big boy here as he's pretty tanky alright."
"Maybe, but there's only one way to find out." Ruby then called out to the Snapper provoking it on purpose.
"Hey!" That got the Grimm beast's attention, "You want to have a second go at me?!"
"Ruby?! What are you doing? I just saved you from being lizard food for this guy!" Yang was astounded.
"No! I got this!" Ruby told her sister off.
The Alpha Snapper lunged, but at the last minute, Ruby used her Semblance to speed herself out of harm's way and the Snapper's jaws snapped only air harmlessly.
"Now, Blake! Wrap your string around its jaws to close it!" Ruby directed.
Knowing there wasn't much time to question, Blake did exactly as she was told and when the string enclosed around the mouth, the crocodilian Grimm had trouble opening its jaws.
"Weiss freeze the tail!" Ruby yelled.
Weiss quickly placed the glyph underneath the tail and ice froze it before the Snapper even moved it.
"Okay, your show, Yang!"
Yang slammed her fists as she unleashed her Semblance with waves of energy abruptly emanating from her with her eyes turned red and hair on fire. Blake and Ruby let their hands down and Yang got on top of them before they pushed her up. She let out a war cry and punched the Snapper to the ground, killing it. There were no more Grimm.
"Well, that was okay," Yang said, dusting herself off.
"There could have been more, but that Alpha Snapper was unexpected," Weiss remarked.
"I never seen something like that in the sewer or within the city before," Blake said as she never recalled seeing anything like that in her time in the White Fang.
Team RWBY looked down into the hole that led into an ancient looking cavern tunnel that led into the unknown.
"I don't see what's so special about this tunnel that's attracting this number of Grimm here," Weiss wondered.
"Dunno. I am no archaeologist so a lot of things could have happened in there," Yang confessed scratching her hand.
"That's what we're here for. Check out for anything suspicious or something of interest to us like this one." Ruby concluded pointing her flashlight towards the darkened cave.
"I don't know if it is safe for us to traverse in there without a professor or so," Weiss pointed it out.
"There might be treasure or some kind of cool relic down there. Where's your sense of adventure, Weiss?" Ruby remarked.
"Don't be childish, this is not a treasure chest game. It is a potentially dangerous situation that if not handled properly could endanger all of us. That's why I said what I said," Weiss answered to Ruby's words.
"That'll be too long and by the time that happens the Grimm might come back here again and we'll have to start over again. Besides I am up for more adventure!" Yang was the first to rush into the cave.
"Hey, Yang, wait up!" Ruby came next turning her flashlight on as she trailed after her.
"Ruby! Yang!" Blake ran after them leaving Weiss alone flabbergasted.
"Why the nerve of…(sigh)…I'll have to go against my better judgment," Weiss shrugged her shoulders in defeat while sighing in exasperation as afterwards, she ran after her teammates into the darkness of the cave, "Wait up, you dunces! How could you leave me up there alone?!"
10 minutes later…
As the team of young Huntresses-in-training trekked further and further into the cave with everyone having to pull out their own flashlights, they saw more and more of what was once life etched onto the cave walls and columns.
Petrified ancient trees, plant species long gone, fossilized skeletons of prehistoric animals long extinct with some being mummified, and giant bone fragments and skulls of dinosaurs.
"Wow! It's like we're in a treasure chest," Ruby remarked as she was blown away at the multitude of life that was entrapped in here.
"Yeah…filled with dead things," Weiss finished almost killing the mood.
"Don't spoil it, Weiss," Ruby face palmed at Weiss's bluntness.
"Yeah, take a chill pill and Weissen up a bit," Yang responded with her terrible pun that left everyone groaning.
"Thanks a lot~" Weiss said sarcastically.
"Please stop, Yang," Ruby pleaded, but Yang didn't hear her plea or just ignored it.
"But seriously, Weiss, you need to lighten up. We're not walking into a morgue filled with gross stuff you know," Yang said.
"I know what a morgue is, but this whole cavern with these skeletons of dead animals is still creeping me out," Weiss held her shoulders tightly as she was uncomfortable with the atmosphere of the place.
"This cave… it seems ancient and very old." Blake remarked as she took note of the petrified trees and fossils.
"You think this was before the Great War?" Yang asked.
"Probably. Maybe during when human and Faunus civilizations got started," Blake guessed.
"The only thing that doesn't make any lick of sense are the lack of human skeletons in the cave. I mean, if this was supposed to be during when we started taking up Dust against the Grimm, I would have expected to see some human and Faunus skeletons and some primitive weapons. Yet we're seeing none of that." Yang observed with her arms wide around.
"But there's never been history recorded before mankind first went into conflict with Grimm, and to think this would suggest such is…" Weiss went wide-eyed at the implications that the cave's secrets held for Remnant's history.
"Looks like whatever we found down here is certainly going to rewrite history and change it as well." Yang remarked as she too was now just starting to realize how life-changing this was.
Ruby kept walking until she came across something extraordinary and unusual.
"Yang! Weiss! Blake! Come here, I found something much better than cool! You've got to see this!" Ruby shouted with her voice echoing throughout the cave.
Yang, Blake, and Weiss ran over to their leader's side, but as soon as they saw what Ruby was seeing their pupils shrunk and their jaws dropped to the floor.
"What the?" Yang asked clearly admonished.
In front of them was a metallic clawed hand that was clearly huge and slightly bigger than an Alpha Ursa. It and a cybernetic skeletal arm was sticking out from the cave wall frozen in plain sight. More astonishing was that the arm and hand seemed to belong to a gigantic knight of some sort that looked bestial and savage with its right shoulder seemingly to have a ferocious skull of representing an unknown creature of sort. Most of its body was buried underneath the cavern wall leaving only its upper body partially exposed and the head that seemed to have a huge spike on its head. Then the giant knight-like being or whatever it was clearly wasn't made out of the same material as the skeletons in the cave were.
"In the name of all that is good, what is this?" a shocked Weiss asked as she shined her flashlight onto the partially-exposed being of unknown origin.
"I have no clue. I have never seen anything like this," Blake shook her head in disbelief.
"Well, one thing's for sure. We've made a discovery! Do you realize what this means?! We're going to be remembered as the first people to have discovered something out of this world as this one!" Ruby slapped her hand onto the metallic finger only for the finger to spark and shine with a strange blue light and make a stranger sound of something whirring.
"Whoa! Ruby, what did you do?" Weiss asked her.
"I only just slapped it," Ruby said confused.
Before Yang could say her words, the team then heard whirring noises and garbled whispers and voices seemingly coming from the immobilized titan.
"What's going on?!" Yang asked.
Then in a shocking, nightmarish moment that would haunt the girls forever. The titan's head slowly turned to face Ruby and in one sudden move, the optics suddenly blared open with menacing red light and its mouth let out a terrifying roar. Its eyes shined brightly onto Ruby's own before it went 'dead' again and thus…
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
She screamed painfully as not only was she blinded, but saw a brief horrific flash of a beast opening its enormous maw of terrifying teeth that sent her clutching her face and falling onto the floor.
"RUBY!" Yang, Weiss, Blake all screamed in panic.
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TBC
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