Red Cube is Born: Success, Reaction, Aftermath.
Author's Note: Thank you for coming back, the Disclaimer is at the first chapter and so let us continue with the story. Now I will focus on what I want so enjoy the story.
- Blue POV -
It has been a few months since we rescued Scarlet and killed that Nathan bastard.
Still the police still don't know who killed him and his many men.
Red seems to have destroyed all recording devices in the building except for the one he left, and now authorities are looking for our fake personas Jumbo and Skinny.
The scary part about the whole thing is how calm Red was and me I was raised in the underworld, so seeing dead bodies was a normal deal for me.
After that whole incident we used the rescued slaves as employees and some we helped get back to their families.
They were so thankful that they helped us get more connections to people they knew and those people got us more cheap shipping deals.
Then once everything was prepared we left for Vacuo.
On the way there we had some Grimm problems as well as some baddies who thought they were all that, but Red, myself, and some people who could fight took care of each and every one of them.
When we arrived it was a mess, the place was lawless, poor, and chaotic, but thanks to some business tricks and a few deals we began making money.
Still Red being used to seeing this, I wonder what kind of life he lived before arriving to Remnant.
Many people bought from us seeing that we had both human and Faunus employees and we hired people who did their job and kept the ones that worked hard.
We made a point that our food was healthy, safe, and delicious, as well as most of it being long-lasting, easy prepare, and cheap to purchase.
We also treated our customers with kindness and politeness as well as equally which was the deal maker for us.
We had many customers and so people could recognize us, we created a logo and a company name.
We honored it after Red and called it Red Cube and are logo was a red cube surrounded by many white cubes to form a bigger cube.
It was to represent that we were different from other companies and we're proud of it.
We worked hard some places Red and me did the work ourselves separately.
We made plenty of money and Scarlet even said while we were at our inn," we're rich!"
In a happy joyful cheer as she hopped around in excitement.
Red then told her calm and uncaring of the conversation," no we're not, we're just merely wealthy."
Who was I to doubt him the experienced businessman ,but this means we still needed to make more money, which means more work to be done.
Like Red inferred one hundred million lien altogether is somehow definitely still not enough for some reason.
That's why we made deals with politicians, villages, other merchants, store owners and other important people.
We needed more money than what we have now.
- Red POV -
It has been a few months since we killed Nathan, and so far everything is going as planned.
Well except for the crooks and bandits, but we quickly took care of those losers.
Still serving in the military for a time to just become part of the GI Bill has gotten me used to seeing dead bodies, as well as third world countries.
That's why I was used to killing especially scum like Nathan and why I was calm after seeing Vacuo.
We started out not so great, but thanks to free samples, cooking presentations, and Scarlet performing to the crowd as well as smart advertising we got more customers than we could expect.
With all that, as well as great customer service, equal treatment to all customers and our food and drinks being great we now have loyal customers.
After we began making deals with some politicians, villages outside the city of Vacuo for all of them were small because of them being new and it was a desert.
We also made beneficial deals with other merchants, store owners, and many others.
Some didn't like our rise being so quick, so in response they sent assassins, criminals, and much more, but with my combat skill and with Blue by my side they were all thwarted.
Then we found out who sent them and had those people in line or taken cared of.
Still we continued making deals and our best ones was with Shade Academy and the Vacuo training schools as well as with the Vacuan council.
Those deals made us a lot of money, more than we needed or expected, soon people began talking about Red Cube and about Blue and myself as well as Scarlet who was having small concerts singing her original songs all over Vacuo which was funded by us of course.
With contacts and papers signed and double checked, we were finished with the first part.
That's why we soon began our next project, which was opening safe ocean and land routes from Vale to Vacuo and soon Menagerie.
We hired desert and ocean guides and map makers to make a map of all the routes and after we found all the possible and safe routes we created stops and trading posts in villages and parts of the desert near water and provided them to merchants and others on our land routes.
Too bad all the stops and posts sell only our products, and those we deal with.
On our water routes we created our own ports and guide lights to show our safe routes and then we let other people use them for a price.
We then began on the next phase building a base of operations, and looking at the map I know just the place.
I will need to make a few deals though, but our base will be perfect.
- Reaction -
- Vacuan Councilman POV -
A few months ago our kingdom was facing a collapse in our market and we were in a depression.
That's when they came, a company began to sell food at a cheaper price than the merchants here could.
We couldn't understand how they could do that, we lived in a desert most food was from trade and had to go through many hands or rich companies shipping it thanks to Grimm and other factors such as pirates, bandits, and weather.
That's when we learned they brought it here themselves and didn't care about the obstacles to get here, that's when they earned all of our respect.
Still that was much later, at first people thought what they sold were cheap and unhealthy foods as well as short lasting, bad tasting, gross ,and unfamiliar.
That's when they began doing free samples, and we learned how tasty the food was, and doing cooking presentations to show how you could cook their products, their products potential, and possibilities.
Then the ads to and live explanations and info cards giving us information on their products.
It attracted customers, then Scarlet Scarlatina's performances that people enjoyed and with less negativity less Grimm.
It was an informative and brilliant campaign to sell their products, now people knew that their products were healthy, delicious, long-lasting, and much more.
With this information people not only bought the food and water, they also ordered seeds for their own crops after finding out about food that could grow in even the desert such as this.
Now people are inventing new recipes, foods, and there are people inspired to make art from said food and Scarlet's music.
They dubbed it, ' The Vacuo Renaissance ' and with all the art and discoveries they also began leading to science and other subjects making it a true renaissance.
Now that same company made deals and soon they were a company people trusted, and they became Red Cube named after their leader Red Anderson.
People now had a choice and they most likely choose Red Cube products and stores thanks to their fair prices, great service, and equal treatment of all people.
They even hire anyone and they do it equally, but they usually choose people with education over those that don't and those without criminal records to those that don't.
Plus they had employee benefits, safety procedures and rules, and fair treatment to all customers and staff which are all heavily enforced.
Now with people wanting to work for them, crime lessened by 80 percent, and education rose by 90 percent.
Than thanks to their deals with other merchants, stores, villages, and other people the market began to work and sell again.
With their arrival and them hiring people equally people can now buy stuff, and with them buying stuff the economy made a huge recovery and order was being brought.
That's why with less damage being fixed we used the money to straighten up our police force and military as well as our schools.
We still needed food for our schools and military, so we went to the best company, Red Cube.
After the contracts were signed, the schools, the military began to become better places to go for people.
Then their next move shocked us they mapped out routes on land and sea in between Vale, Vacuo and Menagerie.
They wrote down all the routes and marked as well as explained why you do not want to go certain routes.
Then they sold the maps to other people from Merchants, travelers, scholars, and even to us.
Then they built route stops and trading posts that used our deal for iron and wood they bought to build long pipes and necessary buildings.
Which then gave rise to villages and towns that they were in and those that are outside of towns soon had towns around them, creating what we call Route Towns.
Which had walls and aqueducts built for protection and resource as well as gave hunters from Vacuo more jobs and our military more to do to protect the people from crime, and Grimm.
They established lawmen and police in those towns and now we're building roads to those towns using the routes.
The routes also attracted other merchants and businesses which is why now Vacuo is in a boom we never saw coming.
Even our military, police, hunters, and other agents use these maps.
At sea more fishermen, transport ships, and boaters use these routes as well, it has been a wild ride these last few months.
Now using these routes people got to Scarlet's concerts which brought down negativity by a lot and she is now a household name here.
Then a new name was put in our history books forever a man named Red Anderson.
Now thanks to him businesses our coming to us and above them all fittingly was the company that brought Vacuo back, and gave us hope Red Cube.
Now excuse me it seems I have a meeting with a legend in the making.
- Atlas -
- Ironwood POV -
During the last few months news are saying Vacuo has been booming in their economy and politics lately, and we sent people to see why.
Now I'm at a meeting with the Atlasian Council, other atlas military leaders and even the Schnee Dust Company to discuss what has happened with the weakest of all the kingdoms.
We all waited and soon the head Councilman arrived and stood in front of us all.
Now let us begin, at the last few months Vacuo has somehow fixed their economy which has been in shambles since we invaded them and has brought order by improving their police force and military.
Everyone in the room including myself were speechless, because we all knew of Vacuo's situation.
With other kingdoms like ourselves taking away their dust reserves a long time ago and them being in a desert, how could they have the funds and the resources to do this?
Then one Councilman asked what I just asked myself in my head.
The Head Councilman told us," we have sent some people there and they have just reported back from their mission and I shall now tell you their findings."
Everyone began listening as the Head Councilman began talking, he then said," Our men have discovered that this progress by them is the result of a company coming to Vacuo and succeeding immensely."
"WHAT!?" All of us yelled out, especially Jacques Schnee.
Every single one of us were shocked, how could one company trigger such a huge change?
Jacques then asked," Head Councilman please explain, how one company coming to Vacuo could cause such change, it's impossible?"
Everyone else nodded in agreement, especially myself, how could one company cause such huge change?
Then the Head Councilman sighed and told us," don't be foolish.
Remember we're in Remnant in my 67 years of life I have learned this is a world where impossible things can pop out of nowhere at any instance, and impossible things are accomplished by men and women in different walks of life all the goddamn time!
Now why can't something like this happen?"
We were silent what he spoke of was nothing but true, so I spoke up saying," I agree with that, and so I sincerely ask Head Councilman, how did this company coming to Vacuo begin this change?"
The Head Councilman explained," thank you for asking properly as I stated nothing is impossible, so I suggest you listen well, because this will be hard to believe.
Now it began when a small company which didn't have a name yet at the time came to Vacuo, the owner of it is, Red Anderson a man we believe to be from the outer villages because there is not a single record of him since he arrived a year and a half ago in an inn in Vale called The Green House.
He arrived with his business partner Blue Thomas, a powerful mercenary that has done jobs all around Remnant, but who also suddenly came out of nowhere a few years ago.
They brought with them a rare sight a company with employees that are mixed with both human and Faunus.
They came by sea to sell food and water, but ten times cheaper than their competitors."
That's when everyone gasped, and when Jacques asked," how did they make money?"
The Head Councilman told us, "let me finish then you can ask questions.
The food they sold were new and unfamiliar, so at first they didn't sell well, that's when they started a campaign to gain customers that ultimately succeeded.
If you are wondering what they did, they had free sample give sways, they had cooking presentation that explained how to cook their products and why they should buy it, and handed info cards and used ads to explain why there's a better choice and informed their food is healthier, longer lasting, more delicious, cheaper, and better then their competition.
Which we have found out are true.
This lead to people coming to them, but their main attraction is a singer that sung her own songs, which made people happy and lessened Grimm attacks.
Which inspired to do art and craft things, and then which led to other subjects creating what they call the Vacuo Renaissance.
Now thanks to them treating people fairly and equally as well as giving great service people began to come to them.
Then after success and a few business deals with stores their company grew and became known as Red Cube.
They spread out and with fair employee treatment and benefits enforced many people wanted to work for them, and they did not discriminate in gender, race, or ethnicity.
Still they hired people with clean records, who could read, write, and do math, also fourteen and older and paid them poorly.
They also only fired the lazy and bad ones, so people worked hard and they progressed.
Now with people wanting to work for them crime plummeted by 80 percent and education by 90 percent.
With less damage they saved money and used it to improve the police force, military, and other government agencies.
Which led to more order, and more to fight the Grimm, but they needed to feed those men, so the government and the academies who also needed to feed students and staff for them to stay made a deal with Red Cube.
At the time Red Cube made deals with other merchants, companies, stores, markets, villages, and many more, and made money through them.
The Vacuan council made a huge deal of coal, dust, metals, and oil for food and holdings in Red Cube.
Now why would Red Cube want those things that aren't worth anything except the dust, they used the materials like we have never thought possible.
Why I mentioned this, this is what led to the next phase of their growth.
Red Cube mapped out all the routes by hiring guides, hunters, and map makers, and did it both land and sea.
They created maps that showed all the safe routes and the dangerous ones and sold them to anyone, right after they used the metal they got to build pipes to transfer oil and water through the desert and to their desert stops and trading posts.
These places attracted many Merchants and the routes were used by everyone soon people and businesses gathered around these stops and trading posts and the villages they were in.
Which turned the villages into towns, which built walls, and aqueducts as well as dams, built by companies using Red Cube's metals, and powered by electricity powered by dust, nature, oil, and coal sent to the companies by Red Cube.
Red Cube even used their routes to fund the singer that I mentioned earlier as she now has concerts that make a ton of money all around Vacuo and she has now many fans that jump started a new culture in Vacuo.
Now these Routes used even by their military became used by everyone going in and out of Vacuo on land the stops became known as Route Towns, and at sea guide lights, and docks were provided by Red Cube as well and now Vacuo is not only restored, but now also rising in power.
They are building roads, having more companies coming to them, and above them all is the company that utterly owns the kingdom Red Cube."
Everyone was speechless at what they heated, and once we got our senses back, the Head Councilman told us," you may now ask questions, and here to answer is the man who we sent there to gather information, agent Jack Frost."
I knew him, we worked together sometimes, he was covered all over by a black cloak, which to hide his identity to other spies, and so the questions began.
Many people asked the state of Vacuo's military and other stuff, and he answered them all honestly.
That's when Jacques asked," how did Red Cube get this successful by just selling foods?"
Jack answers him," the foods were all great when known how to cook, as well as discussed before are healthy, long-lasting, delicious, cheap, and with the place being trustworthy people if they had a choice would buy from them then other companies.
Then they sold, clean, healthy, and purified water which were a lot of times, kept cold.
They also did things with the routes which in counting, built twenty-five towns, that can one day grow to be cities, and they also sold seeds of their vegetables to farmers."
The farmer comment got the attention of everyone and a Councilman asked," why did they sell the vegetables and how would those farmers grow it, it's a desert?"
Jack then told them," fertilizer and dirt are now being sold by other companies and the vegetables and seeds they sold such as potatoes, and carrots can grow in harsh climates like the desert and with the aqueducts and pipes water is distributed evenly."
We were all speechless and so I broke the silent and asked," does that mean we can grow those vegetables here in Atlas?"
Jack smiled," yes, during my mission I sent samples to our scientists and those vegetables and much more like them can grow even in our home in the tundra."
Everything was silent, and in a few seconds loud cheering and applause came at the news.
They all talked cheerfully for a few moments before Jacques interrupted it and asked," why did Red Anderson choose Vacuo?"
Jack told them," it's not really a secret, because Red Anderson explained it to everyone himself, Vacuo was perfect, food there is handed to many hands before it gets to the Vacuo market, and which are sold at high prices, but Red and company removed the middlemen, and brought the food there themselves and had great and amazing foods which was sold at a cheaper price.
Now with everyone treated equally and working hard they had many customers that loved and trusted them.
They saw an untapped market and took it, and became rich, and soon as I suspect they will go to an even greater untapped market, which I found they made routes to, Menagerie.
Why the ways there are dangerous and racism makes prices high, so Red Cube treating everyone equally will soon take that market."
Everyone was speechless and realized how brilliant Red Anderson was.
Then I asked," how much money did they make?"
Jack smiled and told us," the company all together made an estimate of 9.7 million Lien in Vacuo alone, and Red Anderson will own 2.5 million himself after payments, taxes, and equal separation is made."
"What!" Everyone screamed in shock.
- 3rd Person POV -
The news was spread all over the world, and shocked Councils, and once the news announced this, with Red Cube's permission the world was speechless.
At Vale a certain drunk huntsman sitting in an office just got sober and screamed," holy shit Red I knew you were planning something but this is insane!"
That's when a certain headmaster asked," Qrow do you know Red Anderson?"
Qrow answered," yeah Ozpin I met him at the Green House inn and bar.
When he worked there he was going to the library and he always seemed to be planning something big, and I knew the guy wasn't going to be stuck there at all, and now I find out this was what he was planning."
Everyone nodded, knowing Qrow wasn't lying after years of training.
Now across Remnant everyone was commenting and talking after hearing the news and the true story.
Even small villages heard about it, and it inspired many people and gave them all, hope.
- A few months later -
- Red POV -
It has been two years since I arrived in Remnant and we are finally headed to Menagerie and during that time we bought the southern islands of Vacuo and Vale.
( the islands just beneath Vacuo and Vale. )
They all thought we were crazy, because the place was surrounded by Pirates, Grimm, and dangerous animals.
We used the steel we got from a deal with Vacuo and bought some wood to build boats and ships to get there.
I then sent Blue with some huntsmen and mercenaries to take care of the problem, but it wasn't needed, when Blue wiped the Grimm and Bandits out by himself.
Then the construction companies and engineers came to build to my specifications on the first and biggest island, which is now called,' Red Island.'
Now during the construction time we made a deal and an alliance with chief Belladonna about our presence there.
We now sold a lot there, since our reputation as a fair and clean company was famous all around the world.
There we doubled our sales, and even had Scarlet perform there.
During that time we began Blue told me things about his past, not even my powers told me, and to show how thankful I was of him, we began selling our products to the Underworld.
I soon learned the Underworld was more horrid then the Criminal Underground, and far worse than anything I could imagine, so me and Blue got hooked up with his old buddies who we could trust, and soon business boomed.
After hiring proper people and giving them a way to contact us and the ability to check on them, we left to do business on the surface.
We had set up new guide lights on the seas and after Blue and a few of his Underworld friends who came to visit destroyed the Grimm in the Menagerie desert section which was uninhabitable before was now where civilizations were being built.
After being established there I made a few deals in Vale, and soon my base will be over and the next step of my plan will start soon.
- Chief Belladonna POV -
Red Anderson was a man famous for being fair to all customers from all ethnicities, creeds, and race.
When I heard a rumor that Red Anderson might be coming here because he sees us as an untapped market, me and the other Faunus leaders agreed to welcome them, and they agreed because of the results in Vacuo.
When Red Cube arrived the work began.
Soon we learned new foods and recipes to feed our families, and with such cheap prices.
The great part was that the food was delicious, healthy, long-lasting, and useful to our situation.
It gave us joy and soon hope.
We even began farming thanks to the seeds they sold to us that resulted in success.
Still we needed more land, so we made a deal with Red Anderson, who excepted a deal of food, supplies and company holdings for, dust, money and materials they think is valuable.
They even offered men to help us clear our island desert of Grimm if we allow them to explore.
We agreed, but when he sent only five men we were skeptical, thinking they screwed us over, but then Blue Thomson the right hand of Red Anderson unleashed his power and we fell to our knees.
How can someone be that powerful?
Then the other men as well and we could hardly breathe, it was like ants looking above gods, how could we compare?
Then those five wiped out every existing Grimm on the island, and their power could be felt all over the island and beyond.
After I realized when I saw them how much we underestimated the weapons Red Anderson had, but is willing to use to help others.
After that event we began cultivating the land there and we began to fix our lands.
That's when the highly talked about Scarlet came, she was famous all over Vacuo, and her music sold by Red Cube spreading to Vale.
She made he début here and it was amazing, when she sang our spirits rose and our hopes shined.
Most of the show she wore a hat, and at the end of it all, she removed it, and she showed that she was one of us, a Faunus that escaped her chains of oppression and rose to fame and gained fortune to free and reunite with her family.
She gave us all hope, and determination, she was a symbol of what we wanted to be, a figure treated in respect and treated equally by humans, she was our symbol, and our goal to surpass one day.
Many even began to work for Red Cube and loved and trusted the company.
Still I knew they weren't done yet, they will become even greater.
- Aftermath -
- 3rd Person POV -
Everyone felt the power all over the world, from Humans to Faunus to Grimm.
They all felt the four Underworlders unleash their power, from warriors to defenseless newborns.
All those who had their auras unlocked felt it the worst.
In Beacon
" Headmaster what is power!?" Glynda Goodwitch asked her boss in awe.
Ozpin responded saying," I don't know, but I can feel four of them."
Then Qrow in the room as well told them," I can tell you this, I don't know the other three, but the strongest one I recognize that presence."
Then Ooblek asked," really, who is it?"
Qrow told them," Blue Thomson."
This was happening to all the other schools as well, as many huntsmen recognized Blue Thomson's presence as they know the man.
Still they were all speechless to this.
A few days later
That day a new broadcast was shown as Red Anderson gave information to the media they were excited to reveal.
The news reporter announced," today Red Anderson has told us that Red Cube has officially made 10 Billion Lien from adding Menagerie, and another location called the Underworld along with Vacuo.
Speaking of Red Anderson he has bought all the southern islands and has cleared of all Pirates, Grimm, and dangerous animals.
He earned money by taking all the pirates bounties, Grimm's elimination mission cash, and selling the animals to zoos, wild life preserves and others.
Adding another 5 million to his pockets, as well as building his main base and other facilities on those islands.
They have also had Scarlet Scarlatina perform at Menagerie with huge success, and her first album soon to be released."
It kept talking about Red Cube and it was a shock of what they found.
Some were excited as they learned that Red Cube is hiring, others were not.
Jacques Schnee was one as he was enraged at someone else gaining more success than him.
Qrow Branwen was speechless as he learned this, and remembered his old friend always talking about a plan as he studied and read books from the library.
Still this was never expected, as other forces want to know one thing, who is Red Anderson?
A.N: Thank you for reading I will reveal to you now, that next chapter will be juicy and the plot truly spices up. Now see you next time.
