Hey everybody! Here's the first chapter of Watch Dogs:Remnant! Sorry it took a while, it was a long one since I had some important shit to do. Anyway, here's chapter 1 of Watch Dogs:Remnant!
SAN FRANCISCO, GARY'S GAMES & GLORY, DEDSEC HQ, 7:00AM
The gang had been drunk after the celebration of defeating Blume and now they don't remember anything about their activities. Sitara is lying on her front side with her face down, revealing her bare back, on the table, covered with spilt drinks and fallen beer bottles, Wrench is found faceplanted on his workbench with his mask, jacket, accompanied with his pants on the dusty ground. Josh is nowhere to be found but on the couch, upside down with his head facing the ground, holding in his right hand is a soda can. Nobody seems to be aware that Marcus left. Sitara was the first to wake up.
"Ow," Sitara groaned. "What happened? And how did I get here?"
Wrench was next. " Ahh," he murmured. "My ass hurts. Think I must've got fucked by a unicorn." His weary body slumped to the ground as he said it.
"What happened last night?" Sitara said. "Did we drink too much?" Sitara got off the table and onto the ground. Cups fell and bottles smashed as she got off.
Josh woke up." I had the weirdest dream," he started." I saw a guy tearing another guy's pants down and trying to grab his…" He couldn't finish the word as his voice was slurred.
Everybody nearly got to their senses, Wrench had trouble putting his pants on due to his sleepiness, Josh found his beanie under the smashed coffee table while having a poor eyesight and Sitara found her DedSec sweatshirt as she was topless.
"You boys better not look!" She said. The boys were already dizzy and faceplanted the ground.
After a minute of snapping themselves out by slapping each other, the gang looked around. Seems normal to them until they remember something. Marcus isn't here.
"Guys?" Josh was the first to realize. "Where's Marcus?"
Everybody stared at him for a while and changed their glare to each other. They began to get worried.
"Oh shit," Sitara said, panically.
Everybody began to panic, searching Marcus frantically. Wrench even thought that Marcus was in the 3D printer.
Josh walked up to where he last saw Marcus and through his weak eyesight, he found a sticker paper left on the ground, next to the steps. Josh called them in and they began to read.
"RAN OFF TO FIND EVIDENCE IN BLUME HQ. WILL BE BACK QUICK. MARCUS"
"He left while we were dead." Wrench said.
"Okay then, he'll be back by," Sitara finished, only to be cut by realization. "Hang on a sec. Marcus left this note an hour ago. He was supposed to be here by now." Sitara knew Marcus would finish a job in half an hour but this time he wasn't.
"Wait. Why would Marcus be at Blume's HQ? We already won." Josh said.
"No," Sitara cutted Josh off. "If he isn't back by now that might mean one thing."
"Oh no," she gasped. "Marcus is kidnapped!"
"DUN DUN DUUUUN!" Wrench imitated the meme while his mask made an exclamation mark.
"No, seriously," Sitara said. "Marcus is kidnapped and we don't know what happened or where he is. Only thing we know is he might be kidnapped by one of the surviving Blume employees, one of the gangs here in San Francisco-"
"Or the Tezcas. Just like how they did when they took Horatio." Wrench finished.
"But the Tezcas had lost their leader. There is no way they were able to retaliate against us." Sitara continued.
"You know what, fine," Sitara said, resigned. "We're going to have all our DedSec friends go on a search party. Tell them to start searching Marcus, every single part of San Francisco. No missed spots. Got it?"
Everybody nodded their heads and got to work. Sitara walked to the TV sections and watched the DedSec artwork she made, including the man screaming at his phone, shocked.
"Hope you're alright Marcus. Whatever the hell you're doing." Sitara said.
REMNANT, ?, 9:54PM
Marcus opened his eyes, timidly. He felt a aching pain in his skull and his upper and lower body. He stood up, only to grunt from his painful leg so he had to limp his way around. He looked around, he was on a building of a street filled with shops.
"I'm not in San Francisco, am I?" Marcus thought.
He looked to his left seeing a graffitied billboard, he had vandalized Blume and !nvite's billboards before but this is way more horrific than ever. The poster's corner had been torn off and black and blue coloured writings filled the gaps. There is even a painting of a human skull with horns that look like a bull.
TUKSON'S BOOKSHOP, HOME TO EVERY BOOK UNDER THE SUN
LIARS! CHEATS! GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
Marcus never seen this much hate for this store, never went to a shop in San Francisco that had much hate before. The one that made Marcus even shocked is the moon. It was literally had half of its bit shattered and it's still standing. Marcus walked up to the balcony and saw people and cars. How were they not freaked out about this? Marcus took another glimpse of the moon and thought to himself.
"Yep, definitely not in San Francisco."
Before moving on, Marcus took out his backpack and searched through it. He still has his 2EZ Stun gun, his P-9MM, Thunderball, his RCs and his very own hacking phone. Prepared to him, Marcus ran up to the balcony, even though his leg hurts but does it anyway, parkours from the building to another one and repeat. He jumps to the last building and went down the stairs before vaulting over the railing and landing on a dumpster. He got off the dumpster and went out of the alley. He looked both ways and decided to roam and see what this new world offers him.
5 MINUTES LATER…
Marcus walked to a public car park, he needed a ride to continue. He looked around, the lot didn't have much decent style since they mostly look like cheap ones he saw in San Francisco. Suddenly something caught his eye. A sports car with a convertible roof, that's something Marcus likes. He ran to the car and opened the door which made a sound and started it up. He drove the sports car out of the parking lot and roamed.
He drove past a stadium next to a park, crossed a bridge that led him to another side of the area and went to a new district. He drifted past the traffic light and continued. Everything was fine until something crashed his car.
All of a sudden he was losing control, spinning until crashing into a light post. Marcus got to his senses and got out of the car, investigating whatever happened. He saw a teenage girl, probably in her 16s, wearing a black blouse with a red cape around her neck. What she was holding was in awe. She was holding a big red scythe, modified. He looked to where she came from and saw 8 men,
Author's note: There were originally 5 in the original series but pretend that there is 8 of them including the leader.
The leader is wearing a grey suit and a bowler hat, holding a cane while his accomplices wore black suits and red ties with a fedora and glasses. The leader, smoking a cigar pointed at the two.
"Well well," The leader spoke up. "Look what we got here! Kill them."
The 7 men ran up to them and readied the weapons, carrying SMGs, pistols and katanas look-alike. The girl in red pulled out her scythe, Marcus stared at that view, only to return to his senses when he hears shouts. 3 men surrounded him while the other 4 did the same to the girl. Marcus had done this before, he knew what to do.
"Alright Marcus, let's see what you got." Marcus thought to himself.
He took out his Thunderball hanging from his backpack and faced the sword-wielding henchman. The henchman ran up to him, swung his sword at Marcus but missed. That gave Marcus an advantage as he swung his Thunderball at his leg, fracturing it. Next, he swung the Thunderball to the right as it flew straight to his face, stunning him. Leaving him in pain, he finished him off with a uppercut swing, sending him flying and dropping to the ground. He checked on the girl in red, defending herself. Shockingly, she was able to take out a henchman with a scythe, but what made him even impressed and shocked is she disappeared into petals of roses before teleporting back, knocking out a henchman.
Marcus' view was interrupted as a henchman, armed with an SMG, fired at Marcus. While Marcus was able to roll to dodge the bullets, he still need to disarm him. He ran up to him and swung his Thunderball at his SMG, knocking it away from point and wrapping the Thunderball chain around the back of his neck, pushing him to the ground. Before he was able to react, Marcus shot an uppercut swing at his face, knocking him out.
He looked up and sees another sword-wielding henchman. Marcus immediately took out his P-9MM and fired 3 shots at his chest then his head, killing him. Marcus looked around and saw the girl in red, with the remaining henchmen on the ground. She caught his glimpse but didn't show a reaction. Suddenly the last henchman got up to his feet and pointed his pistol at her. Marcus wasted no time and grabbed his 2EZ Stun Gun and shot him with a long range upgrade. The henchman made electrified grunts before dropping to the ground, unconscious.
She looked behind and saw the unconscious man and smiled back at Marcus. Their brief moment of silence was cutted off when the leader spoke.
"Well, my friends," He started. " I think we could all say it's been an eventful evening." The leader dropped the cigar and crushed it with his cane.
"And as much I'd love to stick around," He continued, pointing his cane which opens the bottom and revealing a hole and a crossfire. Marcus stared at it in shock. He had never seen anything like this before. He still wants to know what the hell is going on.
"I'm afraid this is where we part ways."
After finishing that sentence, Marcus ran up to the girl, tackling her as the leader shot his cane. Coming out of it was a red blast, which exploded on impact. After looking up, he found out that the leader had ran off to a ladder on the other side of the street.
"Shit!" He thought.
He looked at "Red" and asked if she's okay.
"You okay there?" Marcus asked.
"I'm fine, thanks." She replied
"Red" asks the shopkeeper to go after him, he nods. She eventually jumps over the building where the leader was,using her scythe which turns out to be a rifle too. Marcus followed her, climbing on the ladder too.
He got to the top, in time to see the leader escaping while "Red" is confronting him. Marcus ran to "Red" and tries to get a identity of these two people, using his phone, only to discover "Facial Recognition Error" with a blur on their IDs. Marcus puts back his phone and got out his pistol and starts shooting. There wasn't a point shooting him since he already on a VTOL, he eventually throws a red crystal at them which creates a red, puffy smoke as it touches the ground with a smash. The only thing they can hear was the leader's laugh.
The leader looks back to check on what happened to the girl and her new partner, only to find out somebody had joined the fight.
A middle-aged woman, wearing a black and white blouse, with a cape and glasses and wielding a crop swings her crop which creates a purple magic of shrapnel before using it on the helicopter/plane, which causes the VTOL to be attacked with shrapnel. Marcus tries to use his phone to hack the VTOL, which succeeds as the VTOL wobbles around. Meanwhile, the leader and a mysterious figure tries controlling the helicopter/plane while the leader calls out.
"We got a huntress!"
The figure got off and left the leader to take her place. The figure unleashes a burst of fire, which almost scared the shit out of Marcus as he rolled out of it's way. The woman next to "Red", showed no fear and continued unleashing her magic until the VTOL flies away. Marcus runs up to the VTOL and tries shooting it.
"Stop." The woman with the crop said. Marcus turned around to face her, the face she made had Marcus convinced to stand down and lowered his weapon, looking at the dark sky.
"You're a huntress!" "Red" said. Marcus turned back, even the woman with the crop too.
"A what?" Marcus thought. What was a huntress?
"Can I have your autograph?" She said, awestruck. Just as she said it, Marcus' face changes to disbelief as he types something from his phone.
REMNANT, ?, INTERROGATION ROOM, 10:40PM
"I hope you realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly young lady." The woman said in a stern manner.
Marcus and the girl in red were taken in for interrogation after the robbery, the girl in red was the first to be questioned while Marcus waited outside the room, watching the conversation by using the phone. There were cameras in the room so Marcus decided to hack into one of the cameras and used it to watch them.
"You put yourself and others in great danger." She continued
"They started it!" She replied back, defending herself.
"Kinda true there lady." Marcus said outside the room.
"If it were up to me, you'd be sent home," She stated. "With a pat on the back…"
She notices the girl's smile, even Marcus can see it from the cameras.
"...and a slap on the wrist."
Saying that after, she demonstrates the action by whipping the crop on the desk, with a "whap", scaring the girl.
"Damn, that might've hurt." Marcus commented.
"But, there is someone here who would like to meet you." She finished, in a calm tone.
She then walked off. Behind her was a man with gray hair wearing a black and green suit. He was also carrying a coffee mug and a plate of cookies. Marcus changed cams to get a clear shot of him.
"Ruby Rose." The man said.
"So that's her name huh?" Marcus thought. "Sounds strange to me."
The man leaned towards her, looking at her. "You...have silver eyes."
Ruby does not know what to say from this.
The man continued. "So," He started. "Where did you learn to do this?"
The woman next to him held a touch screen tablet, showing a footage of Ruby fighting the henchmen earlier.
"S-Signal Academy." Ruby replied.
"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" The man said.
"Well, one teacher particular." She replied.
"I see…"
The man placed the plate near her, Ruby ate one of them before wolfing through the rest.
"Damn, she likes her cookies a lot huh?" Marcus commented.
"It's just I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before. A dusty old crow…" The man remarked that one time.
Ruby replied, still with food in her mouth. "Oh! That's my uncle!"
Embarrassed, she swallows her fill and wipes her mouth. "Sorry, that's my uncle Qrow! I was complete garbage until he took me under his wing. And now I'm all like," She then starts making karate sounds and continues on.
"So I've noticed." The man said.
He then rests his mug on the table and sits down with her.
"And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school to train warriors?" He said.
"Well," Ruby started. "I want to be a huntress."
"You want to slay monsters?" The man implied.
"Yeah!" She replied. "I only have two more years left in training and then I'm going to apply to Beacon!"
She continued on. "You see my sister's starting there this year and she's trying to become a huntress and I'm trying to become a huntress 'cause I want to help people." Her speech became faster and faster as she explains even further.
"My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought: "Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" I mean the police are alright but huntsman and huntresses are just so romantic and exciting and really, gosh! You know?" She finished.
Marcus did not catch the entire thing she said since she spoke fast.
"Uhh...What?"
"Do you know who I am?" The man said, breaking the silence.
"You're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster of Beacon."
"Professor Ozpin huh?" Marcus said.
Ozpin smiled. "Hello."
"Nice to meet you." Ruby said.
"You want to come to my school?" He said.
"More than anything."
Ozpin exchanged glances with the woman, she gave out a disapproving"hmph".
"Well okay." He said, in agreement.
Ruby grin became bigger then fangirled.
"Ohmygodthankyousomuchigottagobye!" She said in a fast tone and sped of, leaving out rose petals.
Marcus just looked up, hearing a zoom. A line of petals scattered on the ground. Ozpin came out of the room.
"Good evening sir," Ozpin greeted. "Please come in."
Marcus looked at him."Oh? Umm sure!"
Marcus got off the couch and followed him. As he walked to the room, he hacked the lights to flicker and dim before the room turns dark.
END OF CHAPTER 1: ROSE
OH MY GOD, this took so long! Anyway, that's all for chapter one. I was so tired I need to take a break right now. Anyway, this is an introduction from Marcus and Ruby. And yes Aiden Pearce will be in this story, just be patient. Oh! And thanks for reading and have a lovely day/night! Peace!
