War on Remnant
It had already been 3 years since the fall of Vale. The city is still infested with Grimm and the huntsmen and huntresses that had been clearing out the city were forced to pull out a year ago as the task at hand had proven to be impossible. Ruby, Nora, Ren and Jaune were currently at the outskirts of Vale when they saw Atlas troops pulling out of the city.
"That's the last of them." Ren noted sadly.
"Yeah, it has already been a year since the other Hunters left the city." Jaune mentioned.
"Are you sure you want to go? You do know we'll back you up." Ruby put her hand on Jaune's shoulder.
"Yes I am sure. I'm really sorry to put you guys through this."
"Hey don't mention it. The last few weeks have been boring. Now we get to smash some Grim heads together!" Nora encouraged Jaune.
They set out towards the city of Vale, towards the Beacon tower to pay their respects to their fallen friend, Pyrrha.
~3 years ago~
Pyrrha looked at Cinder knowing that this was it for her. However, she would not give the satisfaction of showing fear to Cinder so she only stared at the evil woman before her, being furious until she could feel a arrow pierce her chest.
She felt that her breathing slowed down significantly but something felt strange as Cinder touched her head and that was when everything went black in her eyes. All Pyrrha heard was Ruby shouting her name. As she started to regain her vision all of a sudden, all she could observe around her was a dust cloud.
It felt like an eternity for her until she saw nothing but darkness and a strange beeping sound coming from her right. This had been too much for Pyrrha, leading to her losing her consciousness.
~Somewhere in downtown Vale~
"Uncle!" Yelled a young girl with a black hood over her head.
She ran behind a pole and took in the view before her. Grimm ran throughout the city, tearing down buildings and feasting upon the citizen's while Hunters and Huntress' began to deal with the black soulless beings.
In a last attempt to call for her relative, the young girl yelled "Uncle, where are you?!" before running into an empty alleyway in hopes of escaping the white claws of the beasts. Her eyes darted around the area quickly, her instincts kicking in. She laid eyes on a dumpster and shot towards the back of it, she had hoped to clear her head and to think of where her uncle might be hiding, but as the screams of terror and the sickening sounds of flesh being ripped apart increased, the girl covered her ears in fear. Her eyes watered as agonizing noises continued.
Memories of that time overcame her like a flood, suffocating her. The young girl almost screamed as she felt a hand land on her shoulder. Her arm flew up and shoved the thing away, she then shot up and got in a fighting stance.
"What the hell!" A boy few years older than the girl yelled as he backed off.
The girls voice caught in throat, she was never the social type so any kind of human interaction was terrifying.
"W-why did you do that?" She managed to ask the boy.
" Wanting to see if you were alright. But this is what I get for doing so." He retorted
"You could have said something before touching me!"
"Judging from the way you reacted from me putting my hand on you, I'm sure you would have done more than pushing my hand away." He pointed out.
They both glared at each other, neither of them backing down. Finally the boy sighed, "Look, the longer we stay like this, more grimm will come here."
'He has a point.' The girl thought before releasing her stance.
"Fine." She muttered to herself as she crossed her arms over her chest. Huffing, the boy extended his hand towards the girl.
"The names Thrush," he began," And you are?"
The girl thought for a moment before she took his hand and said, "Desire. My name is Desire."
~Few days later, somewhere on Earth~
A girl with red hair laid on a bed unconscious. She had been sleeping for the past 5 days until she finally managed to wake up and open her eyes.
"Sir! She is awake!" The girl with red hair saw someone run away from the bed side that she found herself laying on.
"Whe-where.."
"Take it easy there" The red head girl saw a white talking wolf speaking to her. For some strange reason this freaked her out.
"Wh-what? Who? How? Where?"
"Take it easy, I am not here to harm you. My friends and I found you just outside this base. What can you remember? Do you remember where you came from?"
"I... My head hurts... I..."
"Take it easy, my name is Darkar. It seems to me that you are suffering from amnesia. Take your time. If you need me or anyone else, just call the nurse."
~A week later~
"So how are we feeling today?" The nurse came into the room to check on the red haired girls' condition.
"I'm still feeling a bit dizzy and I cannot remember anything other than what I already told you."
"Well do not push yourself too much. If you are feeling up to it later, Darkar would like to meet you with his friend, Eureka."
"Sure, I'll see him."
~Present day, Earth~
Darkar and the rest of the Sentinel Task Force called the red haired girl by the name 'Alexandra Aurora'. Her first name, 'Alexandra' meaning 'Protector of men' and last name 'Aurora', meaning 'Dawn'. On her way to breakfast, she saw five unknown people with their faces masked following Darkar out of the mess hall of the base. As she sat down next to Eureka and a few others, she noticed that Eureka was both annoyed and shaken while the rest in the mess hall were deeply shaken, like they'd seen death himself.
"Who were those people?" Alexandra asked Eureka.
"The Four... Fucking bastards, nothing good comes out of those guys." Hostility clear in her voice.
"What do you mean?"
"They are part of The Legacy, our allies. The 1st section and the guy walking in front of The Four is known as the Grim Reaper."
"Why is everybody on alert?"
"They use what ever means necessary to get their objective done... And I mean any means, even using some horrible weapons like viral, biological or something even worse."
As Eureka kept explaining why she and the others feared and hated The Four. Grim Reaper and his personal squad followed Darkar to the Admirals office.
"You told me you got new toys for us. What do you have this time?"
"EMP grenades."
In an old abandoned building somewhere on Remnant~
Thrush plopped down on a mattress, groaning from the pain in his muscles. The duo of Desire and Thrush expanded with an addition of two more people that they ran into, Gemini and Leon, just a couple of months after Desire and Thrush met three years ago.
"I'm running low on dust." Gemini said as she rummaged through her small pack. Leon looked up from tinkering with his weapon, a sniper rifle. He brought up his satchel and said,
"Same with me."
"I told you guys not to keep using dust." Desire scolded the two.
"That was a huge horde of grimm, we had no choice!" Gemini defended.
"I'm surprised after these three years that there's still dust!" Thrush exclaimed.
"Same." Leon agreed as he went back to his weapon.
"Well you guys are going to have to make do with what you have. We can't go back yet." Desire said while gently plucking her bow string. Gemini sighed as she unstrapped her belt from her waist.
The group settled down as the sun began to set and stars slowly trickled into the sky.
"Another day in Hell." Desire muttered to herself as she settled into her 'bed' while the others were getting ready to rest.
Desire took a moment to look at her teammates; Gemini with her long golden blonde hair and pink streaks; Thrush and his short messy brown and red hair; Leon's semi long, light gray hair. She tried to imprint the images into her brain. She didn't know if she would die the next day or the day after so she tried to savor these small moments with her friends.
'When will this horror end?'
~Several days later, Remnant, The island of Menagerie~
"Are we done?" A man with a patch showing that he wasn't clearly from Remnant.
"Yes sir! We are doing final checks. Afterwards we can start opening the gate. Are you sure these coordinates are correct?"
"Do you dare question the capability of my men?" A tall suited pale man with very dark unseen aura around him appeared out of nowhere. Looking at the chief scientist at the scene.
"Of course not Mr. Jersey. I... I just wanted to make sure that we have done everything right what was reques..."
"Commanded!" The tall pale man now identified as Jersey corrected.
"Uh... Yes... Commanded..."
"Chief! We are ready to open the gate and send the troops through."
"I see...Open the gate and send the troops through. If you see anyone on the other side, kill them all. Do not let them stop you from your mission."
~A few minutes before, somewhere on Earth in a secret world city ~
"Everything here is quiet so far. How are things on the battlefield?"
"Everything is fine here. Be on alert though. We found information that the Legion is planning to attack one of our cities through some type of gate."
"A gate? What kind of a gate?"
"Yes. Unfortunately, they managed to destroy the gate but we were able to rescue a few scientists who told us that they are residents of the world beyond the gate and that they were forced to work on the creation of it."
"Bring them in." Just then air sirens went off in the base
"Hold on...I gotta go. There is something happening here. General Grim Reaper of The Legacy, over and out!"
"Good hunting! General of the 3rd Section, over and out!"
Grim Reaper took his weapons and rushed outside to already see strange robots and men with strange battle armors killing civilians.
"Get the civilians to safety and return fire!" General Alexei 'Grim Reaper' Sterlikov commanded just as some BTR-90s arrived to assist. Alexei didn't even need to command them to not aim at the gate, as he wanted to go through it.
"General! Do we call them back?" One of Alexei's many subordinates came to him shaking from fear.
"No, not yet. Instead call the new trainee squad that is fresh out of boot camp. No better way to break them in for their first battle."
"Yest! ['Sir, Yes Sir!']"
The soldier ran off without even saluting his General but Alexei didn't mind. After all even if he was commanding a whole army of trained special soldiers he never cared for full military discipline. He used a paramilitary style on his men. Whenever a situation called for it, his men learned to read Alexei's mind while additionally being loyal to him.
At the gate, more and more troops continued to arrive. The army tried to over run defensive positions around this strange gate system that had appeared out of nowhere. Though soon the attention to those who were coming from the gate redirected to the skies above them, as strange flying machines appeared.
Alexei just watched and noticed a familiar insignia on the side of the helicopter as it opened one of its side doors.
"You need any help pal?" Alexei heard over the radio.
"Yeah. I heard you were bringing in new toys. If you would be so kind and drop a few on those robots, that would be excellent. Oh and try not to drop them on the gate." Alexei waved to the person on the Black Hawk helicopter. Belonging to The Sentinel Task Forces or STF for short.
"It's not ours so shoot it down!" One of the hostile officers shouted realizing that there had been words exchanged between the person in the helicopter and the man standing on top of a strange looking land vehicle.
"Oy! No you won't!" Alexei shouted making the enemy commander turn his head towards him as he threw a ball like object to the commander.
"Huh?!" The commander looked at the ball confused, then at Alexei who pointed to the ball and then to the thing on his left hand, a pin.
"Oh sh-" The enemy commander tried to throw the highly delayed grenade away but it was already too late.
"Hahahahaha, did you guys see that?" Alexei dropped on his back laughing like a maniac on top of the BTR tank he was standing on. Soon afterwards, the trainee squad arrived on the scene.
"Sir! Streltsy 4 reporting for duty!" The current squad commander of four soldiers saluted Alexei who was now just laying on his back, firing a few quick bursts at the enemies arriving through the gate.
"At ease, at ease. I assume you know what to do when facing an enemy."
"Yest!" The whole team replied and started moving closer to the front of the defensive lines.
"Damn, they're enthusiastic all right. But they have a lot to learn. Seems like I gotta teach them something I really don't like to do myself" Alexei sighed.
"Yo, we're here. What do you want us to do?" A female soldier appeared next to Alexei, offering him a smoke.
"Hmm, you and Reaper 4 can go to that place Section 3's General told us about over the radio. Reaper 3 and 5, you guys go on ahead through the gate... Hmm, it's about time..."
Alexei and the members of his Reapers Squad watched as their uninvited guests started falling back through the gate. Going back where they came from and without a word as Alexei lighted the cigarette handed over to him.
"Get ready to move your asses through the gate! Get 10 Tagil 2 tanks ready, 15 BTRs, BMD-4s, ATOMs and Armata 15s. NOW! The rest of you guys will follow after we are through." Alexei stepped off of his tank. Letting his men prepare for the assault through the gate.
"Oh and order the trainee squad to come to Hangar-19"
~On the other side of the gate on Remnant~
"Get the wounded treated and command the Atlesian Knights to return."
"Sir, the Atlesian Knights are not responding."
"Damn it! Who are we dealing with here?!"
"Sir! A call from General Ironwood."
"Put him through." A man dressed in a Atlesian Lieutenant uniform went to a communication panel and saw the General waiting on the screen.
"General Ironwood. Section-23 reporting. We're still not able to get the new Paladins to work. The software is faulty."
"I see...How about the gate?"
"Uh... Yes, the gate...Well, we did send some Atlesian Knights through...But they didn't return."
"...Keep me updated. I will send over the person who designed the program to look through the problem with the Paladins."
"Yes sir! Over and out!" The man waited until the connection was cut of before kicking a trash bin to the corner of the room.
No one saw the two outsiders hiding in the shadows who slid a radio through the gate to the other side.
"Sir, Reaper-3 here. We have secured a group of scientists here. Some of them seem to be working willingly with the soldiers here. They are lightly armed and have a few robots in their possession, all presumably offline... Are these battle suits? Damn, they are huge."
"Grim Reaper is currently stacking up. We'll put forward the information, he will be there in 15 minutes. Stand by, over."
"Acknowledged, standing by. Over!"
As the two members of Alexei's personal squad waited, they sat in the shadows and listened to their new enemy.
"Sir, what are we going to do? Shouldn't we close the gates?" One of the people near the control terminals for the gate spoke up.
"Hell no. The people on the other side may have a good defensive position but we'll get our Paladins online in the next 30 minutes! We can then cut through them like the Grim who cut through Vale 3 years ago."
"Lieutenant! I just received a word that our friends from The Legion lost connection to the gate so they destroyed it." The Chief scientist comes to the commander's area.
"Damn, well they got lucky. That place wasn't heavily defended compared to us. Make sure we get Paladins on the move."
"But Lieutenant...They freed some of the captured scientists from this side of the gate that were working in their world."
"Damn it...Make sure the same people over here do not find out about it. Now get back to work!"
"Yes, right away!"
~15 minutes later on Earth~
"We are ready to move out! Davay! Davay suki! Move your asses so that we can kick some ass!" Alexei roared his command when he heard someone shout.
"Hold on you lunatic! I brought a present for you." Darkar ran towards Alexei and the trainee Squad who waited for him.
"EMP Grenades? Where did you get these?" One of Alexei's new squad mates asked.
"Oh...Something that was found in a raid to an illegal black market. Shall we move on?" Darkar said.
"NASTOOLPLENIE! [Advance] " Alexei shouted his command and started to advance towards the gate. His first wave shouted their response.
"URAAA!"
~Same time on the other side of the gate~
"Sir! 'Something' is coming through the gate!"
"What do you mean, 'something'?"
"This is payback for what you did, you scum!" Two of Alexei's personal squad members stood up from the shadows and shot the commanding officer on the scene as Alexei walked through the gate.
"Ataka! [Attack!]"
Alexei gave out his order as his men spread out shooting at any threat and subduing any resistance they came across in this new world. Quickly taking over the industrial hall they arrived in. It was large enough for Alexei to call in his tanks through.
As the tanks started rolling through, Alexei noticed some movement from the corner of his eye.
"Yo mutt! You got one of those toys? We have targets to practice with." Alexei pointed at the huge battle suits that were being boarded by their pilots.
"Don't call me a 'mutt'! And yes, I do have one." Darkar took a grenade and threw it to the feet of the paladins. But as the pilots were looking in fear waiting for an explosion, they were soon relieved to notice that they didn't explode.
"Haha, better luck next time!...Hey wait, why the hell isn't this thing moving? What the hell is going on here?"
"Step out of the machine!" Alexei's troops surrounded the pilots and kept shouting in a very aggressive tone. Making the pilots raise their hands and jump down from the Paladins.
"Well, that was easier than I thought. Alright, start to gather all the non-combatants here and the POWs to the areas over there." Alexei commanded, before turning to face Darkar. Talking about the next step in his plans with his long time brother in arms.
~During the same time~
Between Menagerie and Mistral, on a small island Blake was with Jubi. Her assistant who she had met and saved two years ago. The two were on their way to the Dragon shaped Island that presumably was the location of the White Fang's main base. On their way, Blake could hear loud noises in the sky. The two look up to see unidentifiable aircrafts flying around. At that moment, Blake receives a call from Yang.
"Hello, Yang?" Blake answers.
"Blake! You finally answered!" Yang yells.
"What's happening Yang? I can see aircrafts from here!"
"Where are you right now Blake?"
"Here are my locations, I'll send them to your scroll"
"Hey! I'm close by! Wait RIGHT THERE! I'll meet up with you guys!" –beep- Yang yells as she ends the call.
"Well then…..Jubi?"
"Yes Blake?" Jubi answers.
"We're going to meet with one of my friends. Her name is Yang Xiao Long. You should know her name, correct?"
"Ah, yes. I remember the video you've shown me. It is the girl who uses Hand to Hand combat and wears a gauntlet as her weapon?"
"Correct. She'll be coming here soon. I actually need to check on something real quick. Could I ask you to wait here and tell her I'll be back soon?"
"Sure Blake. Will you take long?"
"I'll be back as soon as I can" As Blake turns to leave, she pats Jubi's backpack and says her goodbyes.
A few minutes later, Jubi hears gunshots coming closer and closer. She gets in her defensive stance until she spots golden hair far away. Jubi realizes that it is Yang flying in with her gauntlets. She releases her stance and simply waits for Yang to arrive.
"Nailed it!" Yang lands a few meters away from Jubi.
"Hello Miss Xiao Long" Jubi stiffens up and stands straight.
"Calm down kid. Just call me Yang. No need for the formalities. I'm allergic to formal things"
"I see….then please allow me to call you 'Yang'"
"You're Blake's assistant alright. Speaking of Blake, where is she?"
"She said that she would be back soon…" Jubi turns around to see if she could sight Blake anywhere.
"Uh….Kiddo, you got something on your backpack." Yang picks the note stuck to Jubi.
"Wait, what?" Jubi shocked to see the note in Yang's hand.
"Let's see:
Dear Yang,
By the time you're reading this, I'm probably long gone.
I'm entrusting Jubi to you for now. I came across reliable information concerning the White Fang's main base. If you want to know more ask Jubi for the details since she has been collecting them with me on our journey. I'm sorry that I may sound selfish right now but I really want to knock some sense into the White Fang. They are not what they used to be and I think it's due to something happening at the main base. I'm not sure how long I'll be away for but I'll contact you if I'm in trouble. I don't want to get another lecture from you about relying on my comrades more, one lecture was enough. So please let me fulfill this selfish mission of mine. I'll come back as soon as I deal with this.
Blake
P.S. Don't you dare, I repeat, don't you dare teach Jubi any of your weird puns. I don't want two punsters around."
"What does it say Yang?"
"...Uh, let's sit down and talk about what's gonna happen from now on."Yang says with a forced laugh.
Author's Comments
Jun: A very interesting combination of two different types of animes, being based on the Japanese anime GATE and the American animation RWBY as well as the combination of the games, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, Escape from Tarkov and others that will be referenced to later in the story. This combination of different areas of culture allowed for the creation of this work and allowed for us authors who are interested in different areas to work together and create this story. There is more to come and I hope to continue with this story to its end, as a fan of anime and RWBY, I wish to see the end of this work and hope that the ones reading this will enjoy it as much as us, the authors enjoyed creating it!
Character: Jubi (Pronounced Juu-bi)
Wolf: Characters Darkar, Sasha, Eureka, Admirals of STF
Wonderland Tea Party: Characters: Desire, Gemini, Thrush, Leon. Will later form team DGTL (Digital) has a profile here on FFN.
Psihopatul: Finally after over one year of gathering ideas doing research and lot of other things for the story we were able to get the first chapter ready. I am not sure how to mark this story as so for now I will mark it only as a RWBY fan fiction story but if you do have ideas how to mark this story, then please let us know.
As Jun said we have taken inspiration from several different series. I would also like to add that the inspiration from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is from all of the games, Shadow of Chernobyl (SoC), Clear Sky (CS) and Call of Pripyat (CoP).
I personally started this story planning over a year ago around the time when 3rd Volume of RWBY started, but now the story is the work of all of us, in the next chapter we'll introduce one more of our authors who joined us later on.
I would also like to thank all of the people helping me I might not remember all of you but there has been several people helping out.
RWBY Nation's admins from Facebook,
Claudio Oyarzo he has awesome youtube channel so please check him out,
Several of my friends from Project S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and White Wolf a dear friend of mine.
I will be mentioning people as I remember them and who ever in the future help us out with the story.
Thank you everyone who have helped us and continue to help us with the story.
!Constructive critique is always welcome!
Characters: Alexei, The Four Squad and Unit, Eureka.