AU: The only thing I own here are the characters Kale Bomvu, and Obadia Corcra. Rooster Teeth or my friends own the rights to anything else in this story.
Chapter 1: Similar yet different Unknown location and timeA young woman appearing in her early 20's woke up in a field that she recognized but had no idea as too just how she had gotten there the last thing she remembered was being on a mission with her team and while being separated she was trying too drag her knocked out partner through too a safe area which was the right idea but now she was here and she had no idea how. But right now she had bigger problems then a change of scenery as she heard a familiar growl coming from behind her, within a second she was standing and had a strange weapon drawn and ready to strike.
Standing six foot two inches tall, this 150-pound woman looks thin but is surprisingly strong. Her shoulder-length, white hair is unkempt and flows just over her shoulders, with two furry white fox ears popping up just out of her hair. Her alabaster skin is contrasted by a red, tribal wolf tattoo on her left shoulder and a tattoo of a wolf with a shield wielding woman on its back, running up her left leg, she has a pair of deep set, crimson red eyes.
She wears a pair of custom-made red headphones and a strange silver necklace in she shape of a fox head with inlaid rubies for eyes. She wears a black and white striped jacket that is cut off just above her stomach with no sleeves and a red interior that covers a burn scar on her left shoulder. The only armor she wears is a pair of scuffed, red leather bracers with a slot for a small dust vial. Her white furred tail is sticking out of the back of a pair of black and white striped jeans. The left leg of her pants have the entire outer half of the fabric missing, with the occasional strap of fabric looping around her leg to connect to the fabric hugging her inner thigh. Standing out in stark contrast is a red bandanna tied around her left knee covering a tattoo of the white fang's iconic symbol.
Her waist is adorned with a silver sash, tied in an intricate knot with ten large pouches equally interspersed five of which are filled with different types of dust, grenades, flash bangs, one is even filled with varying types of crystals, and a scabbard where her sword hangs, and from her left hip. Her feet are adorned with a pair of custom make combat boots with boot knives carefully tucked inside.
All in all this woman looked like she was ready for a fight and it was just in time as a pack of three Ursa minors and one major charged out at her, she only smirked knowing this would be easy as her black three foot, blade with an unexplained crimson glow seemed to pulse with anticipation at the upcoming fight. Waiting until the first Ursa charged the woman simply spun out of the way slashing the back of the grimm wide open before plunging her blade into the things neck, needless to say it dropped dead and the woman's grin spread.
After the other minors met a similar fate the Ursa major let out a roar of rage that its pack had been so easily disposed of, and in response charged at her but swiping a huge paw at the woman before it was within range of a similar death, instead the woman folded her weapon back into a black, lever-action, sawed-off shotgun and unloaded three shots into the Ursa's scull breaking the bone plating and killing the beast.
With the fight over she knew where she needed to go but stopped when she heard something else coming towards her, expecting more grimm she got ready but instead of grimm it was an overly large fox which made the woman's eyes grow soft as she saw her lifetime friend and companion, she knelt down and hugged the fox in a voice that sounded like a mother talking to their child "Oh my sweet Aria I thought I lost you, hey you have any idea what happened?"
The fox seeming to understand the woman shook its head in confusion as she didn't even seem too know what had happened and also didn't seem to recognize some of the smells, after all everything did seem a little off.
RWBY&JNPR Emerald Forest, 30 seconds before
"Sooo what was our mission again?" Ruby asked as the two teams walked around the emerald forest in search of a recently discovered ruin that Oobleck would have searched himself if other matters hadn't pulled him away.
"You dunce we are searching those ruins for Oobleck, don't you pay attention?!" Weiss sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose in disappointment at her leader constantly doing stuff like this.
"Oh yea, but why?" the little red scythe wielder asked with no reaction to Weiss's frustration
This time Phyrra spoke up "To go search and possibly collect artifacts for study." Which prompted another oh from Ruby, before they continued they heard a roar followed by a few gunshots, they looked at each other and then ran towards the sound of a fight.
As soon as the group got too where they heard the fighting their eyes went wide at the sight a single faunus woman crouched in front of a fox hugging its neck and talking with it, but even stranger the fox seemed to understand the woman.
Back to the woman's perspective
As she stood up she looked around and observed the area until she saw someone poking their head around a tree so she called out "You can come out now." This made the figure jump a little before slowly coming out from behind the tree revealing it to be Ruby Rose.
The woman smiled sweetly at Ruby only being a few years older then her making her think back to her first year at Beacon, but she was jarred out of her thoughts when she saw seven more people come out the same direction as Ruby, and they where now lined up save for Blake who as soon as she saw the overgrown fox bolted up a tree and was now sitting up there.
The woman looked at Blake but made no comment as she looked at the eight students in front of her with a smile she was hoping they where not going to attack her, although she could take a few of them they would quickly overwhelm her in sheer numbers.
She felt like running but stood her ground and finally broke the silence "So are you all students at Beacon?" she got a nod from everyone
"Yea, I'm Ruby leader of team RWBY and we are all first years." Ruby piped up trying to get the conversation started and it worked everyone started naming themselves off one by one.
After getting their names the woman bowed with a grace that would put Weiss to shame saying "Nice to meet you all, my name is Kale Bomvu third year student at Beacon academy." That got a bunch of confused looks from the others, they had never heard of her.
After seeing their looks Kale scratched her chin and asked "So how is headmaster Alban running things without me?" that got her more confused looks and a few "who?"s from the others making her ask "What's his name then? Along with the headmistress's name."
Weiss looked at Kale with suspicion as Blake spoke "Headmaster Professor Ozpin, and assistant headmistress Professor Glynda Goodwitch." Kale stood there for a second before realizing something, 'I'm not home anymore' and she collapsed at realizing what she desperately didn't want to even though her entire body told her it was true.
Before anyone could move though Kale's fox Aria bolted to her and whimpered licking Kale's face trying to figure out what happened to her, when everyone else came out of the shock that a supposed third year had just fainted at hearing the name of the headmaster they moved over too her worried about what had happened only for the fox to try and defend her masters body by growling them off.
It took them a few minutes to calm the fox down to the point where they could pick up the woman and bring her back to Beacon with Aria following them the whole way.
Beacon Academy Infirmary, Noon
It was a few hour but eventually Kale woke up with Aria laying at her feet on a hospital bed, instead of her normal cloths she was in a medical gown which made her freak out a bit not knowing who saw what until the nurse came in with a smile saying "Well you look like you've seen better days Miss Bomvu." This caused her to chuckle.
"You can say that again." Kale said in a week voice not really knowing what to think at the moment before the nurse pointed to a bathroom saying "Well I left your clothes in there you can get dressed and go meet with Ozpin when you're ready, and don't worry I was the only one in here when I got you undressed." That caused Kale to sigh a bit more relieved that none of the others saw her.
After getting dressed Kale started to walk out of the nurses office before realizing that Aria was still asleep on the bed so she woke the fox then continued on her way, she hoped to have no issues getting there and thankfully there was none until she reached the elevator doors opening to reveal a pissed off looking Glynda who's only words where "Come on, Ozpin is waiting."
After a uncomfortable silence in the elevator the doors opened up to reveal Ozpin's office which reminded Kale of her own headmasters office, she walked up to the desk and silently took a seat as the professor watched her from behind a coffee mug that he was currently drinking from.
"So miss Bomvu from what the others told me you are a third year at this school yet my records have no nothing about you… at all, and what I mean by that is that there is nothing on you or your family name. So could you please explain to me how this could be? Because I'm sure you could shed some light on this." Kale sat there for a minute silently with Aria sitting next to her.
"Before I begin I would like to make one request." Prompting an eyebrow to raise from Ozpin "I would love a cup of coffee." She stated causing the headmaster to chuckle and nod as Glynda brought a mug that Kale took and thanked her, and then she started her tale of past events as she had known them.
Flashback to the previous day
Kale sat on a bullhead with the rest of her team heading to clear out and collect artifacts from a newly discovered ruin site, she was cleaning her glowing blade with an oiled rag it was her pastime and also a nervous tick that she had since before she could remember.
A woman about the same age as Kale with black hair and blue eyes looked at her team and said "So we start from the south and go in two teams one taking the east half while the other take the west, is everyone good with that?" getting a nod from the other two she looked at Kale and said "You ok Kale?"
Kale looked up at her and said, "No I'm not Alexis, and this whole thing just gives me a gut feeling that something is going to happen." The now identified Alexis nodded at what her partner had said.
"Well if it makes you feel any better you and I are taking the east, while Obadia and Krasí take the west." It made Kale feel a little better but she still felt like something was going to happen and soon.
While the others got ready for the mission Kale looked over the team first was Obadia Corcra an Atlas transfer student that from his appearance had seen some shit in his time. He stood 5'5" and wore dark clothing including a black top hat with three purple pocket watches in pouches, a brown leather face mask equipped with all kinds of gadgets, black skin tight shirt and pants, and a purple trench coat under the coat is a backpack with a ammo belt sticking out leading too his weapon that was holstered under his pack.
Sitting next to him was a robot named A.C.D.C that Obadia had designed when he was young, standing 5'9" the robot was equipped with an AI core, it had a few weapons first being two desert eagles holstered on its thighs, second was a broadsword that could replace the left hand that was holstered on his back.
The third member of their team was Krasí Kómma otherwise known as Ko. He was built like a brick house standing 6'4" and weighing in at 250 lbs, he wears a white tank top with purple accents, and he is easy to tell apart by his spiked up red hair same colored stubble, and a large jug on his back, he also wears sweatpants and sneakers.
The last person and leader of this team Alexis Résister, standing six foot tall and looking to be about 150 lbs, she wears a green vest, pants, and tie with a white dress shirt. A pair of glasses holds her neck length black hair back a bit, while her face is normally stuck in a hard cover book that she always carries with her.
She trusted her team as she had for years but something still felt wrong about this mission, something she couldn't put her finger on but it was there nonetheless. She kept cleaning her blade while she thought about the different things she thought they might encounter but nothing would prepare any of them for what was too come.
As they approached the LZ Kale looked out at the ruins still wondering why she felt this way but shook it off for the time being, as soon as they landed the team got off and walked too the entrance and splitting off Obadia and Ko heading off to the west while Kale and Alexis went off to the east, none of their weapons where drawn as they saw no need at the moment.
After minutes of walking around they saw nothing but ruins of buildings and a few pieces of furniture sitting in the rubble, Kale felt like they where being followed but every time she looked there was nothing to see, that is until a shotgun went off nailing Alexis in the back knocking her out instantly after she slammed into what was left of a wall. Turning around with her weapon Kale look surprised as the only thing she saw was herself standing there with her leaver action smoking as it had taken a shot.
Her eyes went wide as she saw this and the other simply grinned before going in for the attack Kale blocking every attack, it was almost like she was fighting herself that is until the other slipped up and Kale slashed it across the stomach causing it to dissipate in a cloud of smoke. She immediately went to Alexis and when she picked her leader up four more of those copy things came around with weapons at the ready and aimed at the two, Kale ran in the other direction looking for anything to use as cover while they shot round after round this went on for a few seconds then nothing.
Kale peaked around a wall of a building that was in surprisingly good condition only too see that all four had disappeared with no trace that they where even there in the first place, that confused her to no end but she let it be, as she turned around she was met with a shotgun butt to the face and the words "Four more for the sacrifice." And then she blacked out.
Ozpin's office
Throughout the whole story Ozpin never said a word as he sat there with his hands folded listening and occasionally sipping from his mug, once she was finished he thought for a second before asking, "Where were the ruins in your story?"
"North west quadrant of the forest about twenty miles from the edge why do you ask?" Ozpin smiled before saying, "That's where the ruins we recently found is located and it was only a few miles from where the teams found you."
Kale was shocked and Aria even tilted her head almost as if she understood what the headmaster was saying, which caused the headmaster to just now notice the overly large fox sitting next to her "Umm you know there is a fox sitting next to you right?"
Kale nearly fell over laughing at the headmaster's words until he asked, "What's so funny Miss Bomvu?" it took her a couple minutes before she could talk properly "Nothing honestly, its just that was the exact same question that Alban asked me when I first came to Beacon. Her name is Aria and she has been with me since I was ten years old."
"And how did that come to pass?" Glynda asked only for Kale to wave her off saying "That is a story for a different time as I am sure there are more pressing matters you would like to discuss." Causing Ozpin to nod and they continued talking about recent events before the topic of what to do next causing them all to think hard.
Kale perked up from her thinking and said, "What if we say that I was part of a third year team that went missing for a while and where presumed KIA, and the two teams that found me are to help me search the area for the rest of my team, cause if you ask me my team is probably out there right now and have no idea what the hell is going on." Ozpin nodded agreeing to the idea and Glynda made the preparations for the upcoming mission.