"Oh my God, finally he updates this story, Jesus!" Right? Well I'm right there with you, there have been too many distractions in my life and that has made me an unhappy camper. Now some of my stories I've resigned to hold off until I have time, but I AM NOT gonna put my RWBY stories on hiatus. That would just make me too depressed, so I'm re-vamping this one to be stronger, faster, more literate! And also with like...20% more Fallout 3. And 100% less New Vegas. And 300% more pancakes! Sorry, I'm under contract by Nora to mention pancakes every chapter now, my hands are tied...literally. So without further ado, THE REMNANT OF RWBY RESUMES!

The Remnant of RWBY

Chapter 2: Mountain Glenn

Jaune emerged into the blinding sunlight with Velvet, Pyrrha, and the others to get a clear view of the charred and cracked wasteland that stretched before them, dead black trees lay scattered through the chalk white wastes the smell of decay and staleness drifted through the air and assaulted Jaune's nostrils. In the distance he could see a brilliant bright city; that must be the ruins of the old city of Vale. "It's so desolate out here."

"Well I wouldn't say it is dead, the wasteland has a life all it's own. Farmers, traders, and couriers all try to make a living as the larger powers fight over their ideals. The Brotherhood of Steel is trying to restore humanity by using old world Dust tech to make the Vale Wasteland inhabitable." She stopped the group and began to draw in the dirt with a stick to illustrate her point. "There are many different factions at war out here but the only two you need to worry about are the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave. The Brotherhood has bases in Vale and Vacuo where I grew up, but each group has their own ideals on how things should be run I just happened to like Vale's ideals more." She said with a smile as she wiped it away and started fresh. "The Enclave is the remnants of the old coalition of ruling families from Vytal and Ember and is divided between two factions led by James Ironwood and Carren Rhodes, the Preservers and the Reformers. I realize this is all a lot to take in, but it'll be easier if you see for yourself the state of the Wasteland and decide for yourself, and I'll keep you from being eaten by Grimm, Ghouls, or Super Mutants."

Jaune gulped but held firm his conviction that the wasteland was where they needed to be. "So what else is there in the world?"

Pyrrha thought about it for a while, "Well there's the war to the west of here between Vacuo and the Desert Tribes, but you don't need to worry about too much though, because the factions here in Vale are all you need to worry about."

"Good, I love worrying about who will try to kill me first." He said sarcastically.

She chuckled and pointed to a large structure in the distance, "That is Mountain Glenn, an old colony of Vale's that became a military outpost during the war. Due to Grimm advances the colony died out in weeks but once the war started the Brotherhood of Steel cleared it out and made it a base for the Vale military to fight against the invading forces. After the bombs fell most of the forces there became ghouls or were exposed to the FEV contained beneath the city and became Super Mutants." She saw him grimace, "B-but not to worry, it's been long cleared out of any monsters. In fact they've gone as far as to re-colonize the city and defend it."

It was a lot for him to take in, but as he looked at his Pip-Boy and saw the vast expanse of the Vale Wasteland he knew that Mountain Glenn would be a very safe place. "Well then let's head on to Mountain Glenn and see if we can't get some equipment for Velvet, her friends, and myself."

"Well there are some people in Mountain Glenn that I know well." Pyrrha said as she motioned them forward. They followed her down the ridge from the Vault and walked across the plains for an hour as they talked along the way.

"So what's Mountain Glenn like?" Velvet asked as she took notes on the radiation with her Pip-Boy.

"It's a ruin of old buildings that have been fortified with sheet metal, plywood, and cement with rebars. A lot of old Bullhead's and Airships crashed after the war so they built the walls and fortifications out of the pieces they could salvage and fortified it pretty well." Pyrrha described, "The people are rather friendly and the shops hold a good bit, if you're looking for work it's a good place to go."

"What kind of work can one even do out here?" Jaune asked looking across the barren landscape, seeing no real way anyone could make an honest living out here.

"Well you can work for a caravan, delivering goods from place to place and splitting the profits with your caravan partners. There are couriers who ferry letters and goods from place to place, and of course there are prospectors who go through old ruins to find goods to sell. It's probably the more dangerous profession but the most rewarding if you survive." She finished, "Then there are Hunters who…" She started her sentence as the ground beneath them began to shake and a large snake burst from the ground and Jaune screamed, and that was before he saw it's second head.

Pyrrha drew her weapon, "A King Taijitu!" She cried as she prepared to fight it, "Everyone get back!"

As it's white head reared back and opened it's mouth, it was immediately filled with explosions, as the head turned into nothing more than a stump. "Kraaa! Kraaa!" A girl called from the boulder behind them. She wore a pink pre-war spring dress, with a black vest, and a derby cap. In her hands was a rapid fire grenade launcher that quickly shifted into a large hammer as she jumped up and smashed it on the other head. She walked away from the large carcass calmly and approached them, "Welcome to the Ren-Valkyrie Hunting Lodge, bringing discount Ursa Rugs and Beowolf Coats to you!" She said jabbing a finger at Jaune, "What are you a small, maybe a medium?" She said as she busted out the tape measurer and began to get his measurements, "Oh it doesn't matter, you'll look like a million caps when we're done with you!" She turned around, "Ren we've been over this, the sloth call signals we have customers~!" She said in a sing-song voice.

The man stepped out from behind the snake and wobbled unsteadily as he dusted himself off. He wore a green button down shirt and a black vest with pink lining as well as some white pants and black dusty shoes as he also wore a derby cap. "Nora, we've been over this as well, I'm positive a sloth doesn't sound like that, and you should stop scaring customers." He turned to them, "Hello again Pyrrha, I see you've brought some friends with you this time, although we're both a little far from Mountain Glenn."

She chuckled, "Hello Ren, Nora. These are my friends that I found in a Vault not too far from here, they're looking for a few parts to repair their door and replace the water chip in their Vault. Jaune these are Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie, and they are Hunters." Ren eyed them up and down as he saw the symbol on Jaune's jumpsuit.

"Vault 73 huh?" He said, "you know my great-grandfather was from there. He left to become an adventurer and that's how he met my great-grandmother and built a Hunting business with Nora's great-grandfather. It's been in our family for generations." He said as he took stock of them, "But I could spare you some gear since you look like you're new to the wasteland scene, of course we'll have to actually get back to our shop in Mountain Glenn first. But you'll have to wait for us to finish our hunt first, there's only so long before a Grimm fades so we need to work fast." He and Nora went to work rapidly with paper and charcoal as they removed fangs, scales, and bones surgically and did charcoal rubbings of them before they turned to ash in their hands. "Sorry, Grimm fashion is in this season and since not many people know that Grimm disappear when killed, we take sketches of our kills and replicate the style with manageable materials. So we do our best with snakeskin, Radscorpion claws and tails, and Deathclaw bones if we're lucky enough to kill one."

All these terms flew over Jaune's head, but Pyrrha motioned to him that she'd explain later and once Ren and Nora were done they stood and looked at their new charges. "Well I guess we'd better get them to the city, oh they can try pancakes with us!" Nora screamed as she picked up Jaune and swung him around, "Oh we're gonna have so much fun!" She said as she set him down and marched off with Ren and Pyrrha in tow. Jaune looked at Velvet and the others who simply shrugged and followed as he rushed to catch up with them and keep up. They began their trek up onto the large mesa that overlooked the hunting lodge, as Jaune followed behind Ren and Nora as they led his party to Mountain Glenn. Jaune stepped closer to Pyrrha.

"So uh, all those things she listed?" Jaune asked Pyrrha.

"Monsters out here in the Wasteland, Radscorpions are like those RadWasps you fought earlier and I'm guessing you've seen a RadRoach before." She said waving her hand as he visualized a giant scorpion and became woozy, "But Deathclaws are what you want to avoid, not much is known about them from the Brotherhood's Records but we know they started showing up in bulk after the Master was defeated along with his Super Mutant Army." She added as she noted the fear in his eyes over Super Mutants, "I realize I didn't explain them before, but Super Mutants are humans who've undergone forced evolution by the Forced Evolutionary Virus. And so they lose the ability to use aura, but become stronger than Grimm, the creatures of legend which humanity fought before the war; that King Taijitu was one of them." She said as they continued to walk across mesa, nearing their destination. "I realize this is a lot of information, but trust me, it'll be easier if you explore the Wasteland and see what I'm talking about. This can only help you so much, without experiencing it for yourself."

She finished as they continued to walk in silence from then on; the sun beating down on the cracked grey soil beneath them as they neared the edge and he understood what she meant about see it for himself. Before them was a vast expanse from the edge of the mesa, from which he could see far into the distance of the Wastes. He saw radio towers and ruined buildings, charred black trees expanding for miles in what his Pip boy identified as the forests of Forever Fall and the Emerald Forest, and finally the city of Vale itself which looked like a warzone even from here. It was just a myriad of collapsed concrete and steel, with broken highways expanding from it all across the Wasteland like dried out veins, from a dead heart. This was a great dead beast, the ruins of a once great civilization lay all around him, filled to the brim with parasites and evil; it was disgusting. But in the ashes of this civilization, he saw hope. Mountain Glenn was his first taste of it, as despite the sad cruelty it stood tall and glittering before him in the basin like a beacon of hope. It's walls constructed from the wings of many airships and the town within was a shanty town of wood, tin roofing, and steel fixtures. But it was a civilization none-the-less and it was a thriving one at that. He looked down at it and decided his adventure would start here, with his entry into this place and from there he'd try to save his home and the Wasteland from the horrors out here.

Short I know, but hey it's gonna get longer and more in depth as we move on as I construct the universe of RWBY and Fallout as ONE! Also as you saw in the YOU ARE S.P.E.C.I.A.L. I am accepting OC applications for our 3rd Merc faction to be seen later. Our lovely resident TheLegend415 and his OC Robin are the head of this faction, called Night Arrows. There are currently 5 open positions, so send me what you got and I'll see about incorporating them in.