Remnant's Freelancers:
Ruby stood at the grave, tending to the weeds that had grown on and around it. The roses she had planted a few days ago had started to grow, the bulbs slightly sticking out of the snow.
"Hey, did you know? Me and Yang are Huntresses now, and we're on the same team. But we really miss you, and Dad's been opening up more." She spoke to grave, smiling weakly while doing so. Her hair and cloak blew in the wind, rose petal appearing and floating away in the wind. A deep bark rumbled through the woodland, making Ruby step back from the grave. "I've got to go now. Goodbye." She told her grave sadly. As she headed away she unfolded Crescent Rose, a smile creeping onto her face. There was only one type of Grimm in the woodland, and it was a different variant than the usual. They were Beowolves, but they were unarmored due to little-to-no human contact of the years. This just made it even easier for her 'sweetheart' to cut them down. She could hear the Beowolves getting closer and closer with every passing second. She readied her overly-large sniper-scythe, setting the blade into the ground with one precise swing. Suddenly, the Beowolves erupted from the forest, a few hundred of them. A large grin swept it's way onto her face as she fired at the Grimm, killing or injuring most of them, delaying their inevitable charge. The remainders of the group let out a large shriek, charging faster to her. She then swept Crescent Rose at the charging Beowolves, killing the remaining few. She grinned at her easy kills, but the smile faded when she realised she had received a large gash in her leg. Her hand rushed to stop the bleeding, but she then remembered that her Aura could take care of the wound. "It'll heal Ruby. Slowly, but it will heal." She reassured herself, and limped of into the forest.
York readied his M90, facing the way the petal had come from. He soon heard a low growl coming from the general direction. He pumped the shotgun, ready to fire at anything that came from that direction. Suddenly, many more growls erupted through the area. "Oh crap!" York shouted as he turned to run, only to hit a mound of black fur. "What the?" He exclaimed as he got up and he straightened his helmet. But he then shrunk back when he saw what the fur was. A huge, wolf-like creature with blood red, razor-sharp teeth. He gulped as he jumped back, just being missed by a swinging paw.
"York! York! This is Carolina, where are you? York!" Carolina worriedly spoke over the comms. "North says we're almost at your position. Hang on" York looked at his attacker, pointing his M90 at the beast and fired. It hit it square in the chest, and it fell to ground. It body began to dissolve, creating a horrid stench.
"Ugh. What was that D?" York asked Delta, walking back to where the other Freelancers were. His AI appeared, blinking in and out of his holographic existence. He blinked once more before speaking up
"I do not know what that was, Agent York. This is a very strange place, everything here is different from my files." Delta replied as they walked back, as emotionlessly as ever. "Oh, there they are." Delta spoke again, pointing out that they had found the other agents.
"York!" Carolina exclaimed, running to him. The rest of the Freelancer Agents walked over to him. "What happened?" She asked him and stared. He looked back the way he had came
"There was... How should I put this, a monster." York said, causing the rest of the Freelancers to look at him strangely. "What? I'm not crazy, I'm completely serious." He told them, while they still gave him looks of curiosity. " Oh OK, you want proof. How 'bout I show." York stated, walking away. "Oh and by the way. Even Delta had no idea what the thing was. So yeah."
Ruby looked at the strange people, she'd been walking through the forest when she had heard a woman's voice shout 'York!'. When she had seen where the voice had come from, she was surprised at what she saw. There was five people in unique armors, completely different to anything she had ever seen. Two were in purple with green trims, one was in aqua, another in tan with silver-white trims and the final in black with yellow trims. They wore full body armor and helmets with golden visors. They had strange fighting styles, the one in tan already taking down a Beowolf with his weapon.
"Why didn't he change into melee form?" She asked herself, pondering over the thought. The aqua one then told them to move out, and they headed away from her. 'They're going to find her grave!' Ruby screamed in her head. She ran after them, using her speed semblance to go even faster. 'No no no! They can't find it.' She thought to herself. She emerged from the forest, waiting for them to reach the edge as well. Her hand slowly crept to Crescent Rose instinctively, but she held back.
"Oh! I see the edge of the forest! Come on!" She heard one of them shout, and then the one in black exited the woodland. She stood still, a good fifteen metres in front of him. "Uh... Guys! We have... Company?" He said, looking back at where he came from.
"Who is it Wash... Oh hey there." The aqua colored one spoke to her soothingly. "Do... Do you know who we are?" She asks Ruby, calmly walking closer to her. Ruby jumped back, and drew Crescent Rose in gun form. This then caused the aqua woman to draw her weapon, a pistol, and point it at Ruby.
"Hey girl look, we outnumber you, so give it up" The one in lighter purple, another female, spoke to Ruby threateningly, causing the one in darker purple armor to stare at her.
"South, there's no need to be rude. I'm sorry about her, she's a little... Unkind, when we meet new people" The other purple spoke up. He placed his weapon of the ground, signalling he wouldn't do anything to hurt her. Ruby resheathed Crescent Rose. "See, we won't hurt you. Come on guys, put 'em on the floor." He told his friends, and they then put away their weapons as well. "What's your name? I'm North." North informed her.
"Ruby..." She said quietly and looked down, poking her fingers together.
"Do you know who we are?" The aqua one demanded from Ruby. Ruby then shook her head vigorously. "Well then, I'm Carolina. That's Wash." She pointed to the black one. "That, is York." She then pointed to the tan soldier. "And finally, that one is South" She told her, and pointed at the light purple-armor wearing soldier.
"So, why are you here?" Wash questioned her, walking closer to Ruby. He took of his helmet, revealing a man with blonde hair.
"Uh... N-n-no reason." She stammered, trying to hide the grave a few feet behind her. Unexpectedly, a green hologram appeared next to York's head.
"Agent Washington, I have analysed that she is lying and covering up the truth." The voice of the hologram told Wash as he walked away with the others.
"Yeah yeah, thanks D. I'm sure she doesn't want to talk about it." York told the hologram. "Log off, OK."
"Logging off." The hologram complied, disappearing as quickly as it had appeared. York walked over to Ruby, putting a armored hand on her shoulder.
"Look, I'm sure you don't want to talk about it. So don't." He spoke to Ruby, as the other agents headed off. "Hey guys, wait up!" He called out to them. Ruby just stared at the soldiers, who were walking back into the forest.
"Uh... Hey, do... Do you know where we are?" Wash said as he faced her once again.
That's another chapter done. Wow it takes some time. Anyways, review or PM to tell me what you want to happen, and maybe it will, you never know till it does.
