RWBY Origins: WHITECROSS

by Whitethorn23

In a World of Remnant style story, the backstory and structure of the main active organization in the story RWBY Tainted Blood is explained. This is the prelude to the release of the remastered edition of RWBY Tainted Blood, which will have never before seen scenes, characters, and details that its predecessor lacked.

1. Chapter 1

RWBY ORIGIN: WHITECROSS

Chapter 1: Founding

(Narration by Xavier, the current director of WHITECROSS)

In the world of Remnant, there are two kinds of war that are fought. There's the "Seen War" where a soldier could see what they were fighting in front of them, which is the overall majority of conflicts in the world. But there is a second type of war that nobody is prepared for, that is the " Unseen War". It's fought against the one enemy that no one is prepared for: disease.

During the first days that the first-ever outbreaks of disease, the world would turn to the Lowell Institute of Biomedical Studies for answers to these issues. The institute would develop genetic research into countering viral outbreaks of disease in order to appease the public. They distributed cures for all kinds of disease to the public, in which it brought them a lot of public appreciation for their actions. The leader and founder of the institute, Julius Lowell, claimed that the cause was loyal to aiding the public during times of great crisis. They eventually even developed their own private paramilitary security forces to protect their research from rival competitors who wanted in on their advanced research projects. But the public was unaware of Julius's true intentions, as he was secretly using viruses to try and unlock enhanced evolution of all the races.

He had everyone hoodwinked for a long time, but with every attempt to unlock enhanced evolution of the humans and Faunus, there was always an outbreak caused. During the chaos of the outbreak of Zenthril, a nasty parasitic worm that did a lot of damage to your kidneys, a group of 13 geneticists, virologists, security officers, and biochemists from the institute blew the whistle on them by exposing their experiments with the worm itself. The 13 were given federal protection by the Kingdom of Vale, while the rest of the world turned on them and their headquarters was raided by Huntsmen from all kingdoms. But in a twist, the institute main headquarters was found deserted with all components and staff gone, so the governments ordered the building sealed off.

Upon interrogation, each member of the 13 whistlerblowers revealed the reason why they defected from the Lowell Institute: they began to realize that Julius was keeping them all in the dark about the institute's true intentions. They conducted their own private investigation into the institute, eventually uncovering research that the institute was conducting on the viruses that were spreading like it was a bioweapons test. Because of this, they were horrifed by the kind of people that they were working for.

Upon release from federal custody, the 13 were faced with a choice as the threat of biological outbreaks was now prevalent in the minds of every citizen of Remnant. That's when they decided to fight against the the fear of viral outbreaks. They approached a group of wealthy individuals who searched for options to deal with the issue themselves, but they had no idea how. This lead to the formation of the WHITECROSS biomedical corporation, until it evolved into WHITECROSS Intercontinental, a biomedical superpower with an independent paramilitary division at its command.