Hello everyone! Here's the second chapter of "A Remnant Echo"! I don't have much to say, but I hope you enjoy it!
I do not own RWBY or Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Though I wish I did. Not.
I got out of my bed and stretched. I put my armor on, grabbed my DC-15S blaster and went out of the room. I locked the door and went back to the front counter. I gave the lady at the front desk the key and went outside.
I had to squint to have my eyes adjust to the amount of light outside. I looked around and noticed there were people. I crossed what I'm sure is called a road and went to the place where Etheral had told me to meet him. I wandered the platform and saw Etheral (who was now wearing armor and a cape) with 3 other people; 1 boy and 2 girls. I went up to them and heard them talking.
"Yeah, I don't know ei- oh, Echo!" Etheral called.
"Hello." I said. "Er, who are these people?"
"Oh, this is my old team from Beacon." Etheral said. "This is Tredd-" He gestured to the other boy. "-who was basically the one who was really defensive. Not emotionally, but literally.
This is my partner, Recon-" He gestured to one of the girls who was wearing some kind of long sleeved shirt with a hood. "-who was basically our sharpshooter.
And last but not least, this is Leora-" He gestured to the last girl who was also wearing some kind of long sleeved shirt with a hood. "-who was basically the offensive type of person. Oh, and guys, this is Echo."
"Nice to meet you, Echo." The trio said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you too." I replied.
Oh, I haven't described their appearance.
The boy named Tredd also wore a long-sleeved-shirt-and-hood thing (they called them hoodies) that was colored like a forest, had a heavy amount of armor, black boots of some kind, pants that were also colored like a forest and had a helmet of some kind with him. It looked nothing like a Clone Trooper or ARC Trooper helmet either. He had light brown eyes and brown hair. And he also had some weird stun batons on his back.
The girl named Recon wore, like I said, a white hoodie which had a pointed hood that was striped with blue, black pants, black boots that had brown lines on it, a belt that held clips and armor (mostly on her right arm). She had hazel brown eyes and blonde hair that went down to her hips with small hints of purple. And strapped onto her back was a sniper rifle of some kind.
Finally, the last girl named Leora wore a hoodie that was white and had a gray hood, gray pants, completely black shoes and small amounts of armor. She also had turquoise eyes and brown hair that reached the middle of her torso which had small hints of dark blue. Her weapons were hard to see, but they were some kind of thing that covered the bottom part of her fingers. Well, all except her thumbs.
We made our way to one of the ships (that they called a Bullhead) and stepped inside (the way you entered really did remind me of our own gunships). I felt the Bullhead go up into the air and glide. We sat down on little bench like things installed into the walls.
"Anyways, Echo, how about you tell them about what happened?" Etheral suggested.
"Okay." I replied.
I told the trio what happened and how I arrived here. After I finished, they all nodded.
"It's really strange." Recon said. "Etheral and I have been studying these vortexes, but they never had brought living beings through."
We talked about whatever came to our minds. After a handful of minutes, the Bullhead rumbled.
"Ah! We're going down!" The pilot said.
"Get us down safely!" Etheral shouted.
We managed to land safely and Etheral went into the cockpit section. He came back after a minute or so later.
"The pilot said that the engine overheated, despite the fact that they never overheat anymore, and that he has to let it cool down." Etheral said. "As of now, guard the ship from any Grimm."
Tredd and Leora went outside, but Etheral and Recon stayed behind. Recon stayed back with her sniper.
"I'm guessing you don't know what Grimm are?" Etheral asked.
"No." I replied.
"Well, you'll see in a bit." Etheral said. "I just hope that gun of yours is tough enough to kill at least one. Now, come on."
He went outside and I followed.
We landed in a forest of some kind. I looked around and saw everyone with their weapons out. I took this as a sign and got my blaster ready.
"They're almost here!" Recon announced. "Beowolfs!"
Just as she said that, black wolf-like creatures jumped at us from the trees. I shot one of them purely out of reflex, which knocked it down. It got back up, so I shot it again. This time, it died and vaporized. I did the same with the second one that lunged at me. I looked around and saw them also fighting the creatures.
"Are these Grimm?!" I shouted.
"Yeah!" Etheral replied, slashing at another (what was called) Beowolf.
I kept shooting at the Beowolfs, picking them off one by one. Recon helped a few times, only because I was caught off guard. We kept fighting for a few minutes, until the pilot announced that the engine was fixed (wow engines cool down fast…). We ran into the Bullhead and took off. Recon and I picked off any other Beowolfs that lunged at the Bullhead in an attempt to bring it down. We finally got out of their grasp and continued our way to Atlas.
"This happens way too often." Etheral said, sighing.
"I'm guessing that's what you fight?" I asked, leaning against the wall.
"Yep..." Tredd replied.
"I don't think I can be able to take on a whole bunch." I said. "My blaster may be able to kill them, but I'm going to run out of ammo. But that won't happen for a while."
"Let's hope not..." Recon said, replacing her clip with a different one.
We all sat down and sighed. We talked about things we used to do. Eventually, we landed and the doors opened. We stepped out and I looked around. It looked pretty normal. Sort of.
There were lots of huge buildings, but there was one that stood out the most. It was a giant white building with billions of windows. We were making our way to some place, but I still stared at the building.
"I see you're looking at the Schnee Dust Company headquarters." Etheral said. "They provide Dust. I used to be friends with the current owner. I still am, but we never talk. Mainly because I'm a Faunus."
"What are Faunus?" I asked.
"Faunus are like humans, but we have a certain animal feature, with the abilities." Etheral explained. "For example, I'm a wolf Faunus, but I only have the ears. So does Recon, but she's a cat Faunus."
I nodded and studied the building more.
It also had a giant white strange star thing on it (they called it a snowflake). Then I realized something. The group's clothing all had a snowflake on it.
"Wait a minute..." I said. "All of your clothing… They have..."
"A snowflake?" Etheral asked. "We know. The SDC, despite half of us being Faunus, provided us with modified clothing. We're able to withstand most of any Dust's effects. But it can only do so much. It will still damage us."
We continued to make our way to some place and we stopped at a car of some kind. It was long and mostly white. 2 of the doors opened and everyone stepped inside. They also gestured me to go inside, so I went inside. We sat down while a female dressed mostly in white joined us. The doors closed and the car started to move.
"Hello there." The female said. "It's been a while."
"It has, Winter." Etheral said.
"It's good to see you again." The female, Winter said. "How's the armor holding up?"
"Pretty good so far." Etheral said. "How's Weiss doing?"
"She said she's fine." Winter said. "Though she said she has been lonely at times."
"Mhm..." Etheral hummed while nodding. "Oh, Echo, this is Winter. She leads Special Operatives unit, which she used to be part of. Winter, this is the person who came out of the vortex, Echo. He is a clone of someone who fights a war."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Echo." Winter said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you too." I said.
"She was one of the people who studied your armor." Etheral said. "She's also going to help us repair it." He added.
Oh my, I have a really bad habit in not telling what someone's appearance is.
Winter had pale skin, white hair that was tied up into a bun type of thing at the back and some was brushed off to her right side of her face, and light blue eyes. I wish I could describe her outfit, but I just can't explain it that well, so I'll just say that it's mostly white with some gray here and there.
"So tell me, Echo." Winter said. "How many soldiers do you have? Or are you one?"
"Well," I began. "I'm an ARC Trooper, an Advanced Recon Commando, but I don't lead. I follow under command of a Captain. There are thousands or millions of soldiers. They're all equipped with armor like me, except they have helmets. We're sometimes equipped with these," I held up my blaster. "-but sometimes, some of us are equipped with different rifles and pistols.
We're all known as Clone Troopers, because we're clones of a certain person. They never told us who our original was. We all also have ID's. Mine is CT-1409. It used to be CT-21-0408.
There is a lot of Legions, and I was part of the 501st Legion. We are told apart from our blue markings. There are bunches of others such as the 212th Attack Battalion, which are told apart by their orange markings, and the Wolfpack, which used to be told apart by maroon, but now dark blue markings."
I continued to tell her about how I wound up in this world and what happened before I did. We eventually arrived at a base of some kind. We all stepped out and went into the base.
"First of all, we're going to our weapon nventory. We need to get you an effective weapon." Winter said, putting her hands behind her back.
We stepped into one of the buildings of the base. And there was a LOT of things.
The left wall contained melee weapons. From knifes to swords, you name it, it was there (Etheral had to help me on those weapons. Let's be honest here, I didn't even see some of these things before). On the right, pistols and rifles were aligned on the walls. On the bottom, there was ammo. We went up to the melee weapons first.
"What do you think will suit you?" Winter asked. "You can't always be able to use that blaster of yours in close combat."
I had a look at the knifes first. I chose one with a hole on the handle and a blade shaped in a crescent.
"I can see you chose the karambit." A voice said.
We turned around and saw a girl in black and red.
"Hey, sis." Etheral said. "It's been a while."
"Hey hun." Leora said, kissing the girl on the cheek.
"Hey, Leora." The girl said. "It's nice to see you too, Etheral. How has Yang been doing?"
"She's fine." Tredd said. "She acts up sometimes, but she's fine."
I've got to stop this habit.
The girl was wearing a white shirt of some kind that covered her neck, a black and red skirt, a belt that held some bullets and a pouch and some kind of red rectangle at the back, a red cape with a hood that was slightly torn and black leggings of some kind which had a flower of some kind on it. She had black hair that faded into red at the tips and had silver eyes, just like Etheral's eyes. And she also looked no older than 21.
"Echo, this is one of the weapons managers, Ruby Rose. Ruby, this is Echo. He's the person Etheral found." Winter said.
"Nice to meet you." The girl, Ruby said. "Now, the knife."
I gave her the karambit (as she called it) and she studied it.
"I can see you chose this karambit. It has a partly wooden handle with some Grimm leather." Ruby said. "A stainless steel with titanium blade that's laced with fire Dust. You want this?"
"I might as well get it." I said.
"Alright." Ruby said, grabbing something that covered the blade. "Here you go!"
I took the sheath and karambit and put it away.
"Hey, Echo? Can I see your blaster for a moment?" Ruby asked.
"Try something silly and you'll regret it." I said, handing it over.
"Believe me, she won't." Etheral said.
Ruby studied the blaster. She had a confused look on her face and handed it back to me.
"What kind of blaster is that?" Ruby asked.
"This is what is called a DC-15S Blaster." I said. "It doesn't use bullets, but instead rays of energy."
"Wow." Ruby said with awe. "None of our weapons use energy, but Dust or bullets."
"That's one of the reasons I'm called unique apparently." I said.
"Everyone," Winter said. "Remember the armor?"
"Oh!" Ruby said. "Follow me."
We made our way further and further into the building until we reached where some of the armor was located.
"First, I need to look at your armor." Ruby said.
I took my armor off and handed it to Ruby, plate by plate. She put it down on a desk and studied it. She nodded a few tines and grabbed a few other armor plates. She took a container with a little fire on top of it (a blowtorch apparently) and melted some of the armor plates she grabbed. She made a few chunks then put them in the holes. She then melted the metal to fit the holes in the armor.
"We're gonna have to leave the armor to cool down. We're gonna have to work on your glove too..." Ruby said. "Etheral, try getting him some clothing."
"Follow me, Echo." Etheral said.
We went out of the armory and went over to another room. He opened the door with a card of some kind and went inside. He came back with a shirt and black pants and some kind of shorts.
"Try these on." Etheral said. "And put the boxers on first, then the pants."
I went inside and took the body glove off. I changed into the clothing and came out. I gave him the body glove and he went inside the armory and came out again.
"Ruby said she would work on it. As of now, Winter and I will show you around. You're going to be here for a while." Etheral said.
We waited for a bit. Eventually, Winter came out with the body glove and armor plates. All of them had been repaired and cleaned. I went inside the clothing room changed into my armor and glove. I came out and saw the two talking.
"Alright," Etheral said. "Let's go now."
We followed Winter around the whole base. And by whole, I do mean whole. We went from where the soldiers slept, to where they trained, and to where they tested their weapons.
We finally arrived where I was supposed to stay. I went inside the room and... well… It wasn't THAT bad. It was a moderately small space with a bed, a desk and a lamp. There was even a place to put my armor and a place to store my clothing. I was about to get settled in, until an alarm went off.
I ran out of my room and saw that there were red flashing lights.
"What's happening?!" I shouted.
"White Fang!" Etheral shouted. "They just won't give up!"
"They've breached the outer wall!" Winter announced. "Etheral, get the snipers! Echo, follow me!"
Etheral ran off and I followed Winter.
"What are the White Fang?" I asked.
"I'll explain later." Winter replied.
We went up to a room with a lock. She put a card into the slot and opened the door.
"General Ironwood," Winter said. "The Whi-"
"I know, Winter." The person, apparently called General Ironwood said. "You lead them for now. I'll be out soon."
"Yes sir." Winter said, walking out.
I followed behind and we went outside. Outside, there were soldiers nearby the walls and behind some crates and barrels. They had their guns raised and aimed at the wall.
There were cracks in the wall that were getting bigger and larger. Then the cracks made holes, and something went through. But that wasn't all. Coming from the holes were red rays of energy.
"Wait a minute..." I said, looking closely at the figures. "Those look like… Droids?!"
And there it is! Sorry if I'm ending this on sort of a cliffhanger. I really hate cliffhangers, yet I end on one. Well… Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you all in the next one!
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