RWBY: TAINTED BLOOD.

" An inefficient virus kills it's host, a clever virus stays with it."- James Lovelock.

Prologue: Providence

Silverbrand towers, Vale

Room 77

9:00 am

A young man gets up out of his bed where a young woman with short cut blonde hair with black streaks running through it had lain. He opened the balcony doors, in which he went out and stood at the metal railing, looking out into the city. The rising sun started to reflect off his dark brown hair, and he had a muscular build, though his torso was covered with a series of scars from past exploits that he had been a part of. Inside the room was a box that had contained a series of medals, each from different conflicts, and a few purple hearts. A WHITECROSS uniform sat on a bench near the bathroom, which the uniform's colors (White and a moderate shade of green) signified he had a high ranking position in WHITECROSS's Mobile Contagion Control Division, a group that was considered the military arm of the organization. His name was Dante Perez, and he was a Field Marshall for WHITECROSS, while the girl on the bed was his girlfriend Alexis Lucario, an overseer for WHITECROSS's Medical Tech Manufacturing Department. She woke up and walked over to him, and placed her hand on his shoulder...

" Couldn't sleep?" Alexis asked.

" Yeah." Dante responded.

" Well, I'll be damned." Alexis said jokingly.

" Huh?" Dante said.

" I never thought there'd be a human under that uniform." Alexis said.

" Oh, there's a man under that uniform." Dante responded.

They had a fair laugh and then went back inside and got dressed. They went downstairs to the restaurant and ordered themselves some breakfast, and while down there, a News Report played over the television describing a strange illness that had been reported in several kingdoms. Dante's scroll vibrated with his ringtone blaring, he then pulled it out and answered it...

" Dante." Brooks, the man on the other end said.

" Brooks, what's up?" Dante asked.

" Xavier is calling everyone in, Andromeda protocol has gone into effect." Brooks explained.

" Andromeda?" Dante said.

" Yeah, there is actually some kind of outbreak going on." Brooks said.

" You mean that stuff on the news is actually serious?" Dante said with a shocked tone.

" Yeah, its some kind of virus that's causing people to become violent like the Grimm." Brooks stated.

" I'll be there in about 56 minutes." Dante said.

" Okay." Brooks said before hanging up.

" What's going on?" Alexis asked.

" Andromeda's kicked on, Xavier's calling in everybody." Dante explained.

" Is it something serious?" Alexis asked.

" Yeah, remember what was just on the news a moment ago?" Dante said.

" Yeah?" Alexis responded.

" That's actually serious." Dante said.

" Oh." Alexis said.

He got up, kissed her on the lips, and proceeded back to the room and quickly changed into his uniform. He went down to the lobby, and hopped into his truck and drove to the WHITECROSS headquarters outside the city, a large installation located on the hillside outside the city protected by a large wall on one side to keep the Grimm out. Dante was greeted by one of his associates and right hand man, Field Commander Zach Sackett, whose brother worked as a Chief Virologist for the Viral Research Division.

WHITECROSS Vale Headquarters

Briefing Room

9:50 am

Dante and Zach sat on this elevated platform while the hundreds of troops sat down below in the rows of chairs that had been set up down below. A young man approached the platform, wearing a long, black leather jack with gold clips to hold it shut. He walked with a cane, his cybernetic leg reflecting the lights off it's titanium exterior, and he wore glasses that were black and red, and had a look in his eyes that meant he had seen things that would break the minds of most men. Dante knew who this was, this was his closest friend and boss, Xavier Moore.

" Ladies and gentlemen, we are now being faced with a threat that is turning people into animals." Xavier started.

Xavier explained to the troops the situation, The Grimm Rage Virus, or GRV, was turning people wild and savage much the beasts that the huntsman and huntresses train to combat every day of their lives. The briefing had continued for 30 minutes until troops were instructed to report to their commanding officers, and Dante was pulled off to the side.

" Hey Dante." Xavier said.

" How are you doing man?" Dante asked.

" Doing good, leg can still be a pain in the ass." Xavier responded.

" Anyway, what's up?" Dante inquired.

" You and Task Force Osiris are going to Providence, a mining town owned by the FDC." Xavier explained.

" The Finch Dust Corporation?" Dante said.

" A civilian contacted my office earlier this morning, explaining to me that nearly half a dozen cases of GRV have been reported among the workforce and Finch hasn't lifted a finger to do something about it." Xavier explained.

" I see." Dante said.

" Her name is Katherine, she has agreed to be the town's civilian liaison once we have control." Xavier explained.

" Understood." Dante said, concluding their conversation.

Dante proceeded to the ready room, quickly throwing on his field operations gear and proceeded to board one of the " Goliath" heavy trucks which immediately took off towards Providence, a mining town in the mountains just south of Vale.

Mining town of Providence, South of main city

10:01 am

Providence was once peaceful, peaceful enough that a miner could go to work on gathering dust from the mines without having a maniac drive a pickaxe through their face or not even worry about getting any serious case of "red lung", an illness common among fire dust miners. But now, the town was in chaos, miners struggled to survive other ones who were infected by the "Grimm Rage Virus", which had turned them wild and blood drunk. Katherine was a mountain ram Faunus trying to have a normal life after the dark past she had lived through...

" Where are you?" Katherine thought, referring to the WHITECROSS forces.

Suddenly, Talon Airships flew over head, deploying suppression teams to open the way for WHITECROSS forces to arrive in the town. Hundreds of trucks began to arrive, and soldiers and medical engineers had begun to pour out of them, followed by Dante, Zach, and Blaze.

" I want you to get roadblocks set up at every road exit out of this town." Dante ordered Zach.

" Got it." Zach said before leaving to order the troops around.

" Blaze." Dante said.

" Yeah?" Blaze asked.

" Get the townspeople together, have your scientists start doing blood tests on the civilians to see if any one else is infected." Dante ordered.

" Understood." Blaze said before moving to gather the medical staff.

(Narration by Dante)

WHITECROSS has a reputation for being the most efficient fighting force on the frontlines in the war against disease. Guns and bullets didn't matter in this fight as much as Science and Medicine did because brute force didn't do anything to stop a pathogen. History is not written by those who carry the biggest stick in an argument, but the one who knows how fight with the right materials with the one enemy that no could fight with normal means. This time, we are going to be the ones who topple a new spark before it even catches fire.

WHITECROSS has just been deployed to contain the virus known as GRV, or Grimm Rage Virus, which earned its name due to the fact those infected with it immediately became wild and savage like the Grimm themselves. The way you would know that a person was infected, is that there would be a dark red line around their irises and their skin would be pale. This is a RWBY story, and it is my own version of an AU that I crossed paths with a while back by Kumafromtaiwan.

ENJOY.