Sup. Yes, I'm back. With another chapter. Again. God damn, I really have to time these better, ya'll might start thinking that I can push out chapters as fast as a minigun shoots out bullets. The fact of the matter is, I wrote the first few chapters before I actually published the first chapter, so this is one of them. The next chapter will be the first one that I have to actively write, so expect a little bit longer of a delay to its release. Onto the next little portion of this authors note, the replying to the reviews!
HalFF: Well, that's what this chapter is for, revealing some other people in the story. Namely, Pyrrha's mom and team STNL. I've made the characters references to a few different things. The references are the graphic novel 'Amulet', the games 'Overwatch', 'KoToR' and 'Street Fighter', in tht order. And, as for the interactions between Li-Ming and Qrow... well, let's just say they will be... Electrifying... and somewhat firey.
Finally, it has come to my attention that I have not done the disclaimers that should be done at the beginning of the story. So, here it is. I don't own anything, all properties are owned by their respective companies, RT owns RWBY and Blizzard owns Diablo, blah blah blah blah ONTO THE STORY!
Cassia Nikos. She was a great leader, an Amazon warrior and most surprisingly of all, she was a mother. Being a mother was something she never thought she would be. She was an Amazon, a warrior woman. Back in the day, when she lived with her Amazon sisters, she never thought that she would ever even have to deal with having a child, never thought she would have to deal with the trouble of marriage.
Yet here she was. With a daughter and a husband.
It happened twenty years ago when she was first taken to this world. The first few days on Remnant were spent in Mistral and Cassia didn't know what to do in this new world. She saved a town from the Grimm and saved a huntsman named Marcus Nikos. After a few weeks, the two became like partners. They fought together and saved town after town. Over the next year, they grew closer, and eventually, they got married. It was a surprise for Cassia, being proposed to and all. After a year of being married together, around seventeen years and ten months ago, Marcus convinced her to bear a child. Cassia was once again hesitant. She heard the difficulties and pain that labor brought from other women she had become invested in. But she was an Amazon. She had endured being impaled by Duriel when they fought for god's sake! She could take a bit of pain in her pelvis! So, she and Marcus tried to conceive a child.
It was hell. And Cassia would know. She's been.
During the next nine or so months, Cassia experienced cramps, cravings, hormone imbalances, fits of extreme heat and cold, as well as her being exceptionally tired. Worst of all was the bulge her stomach had formed. She couldn't put on her armor, so she couldn't go out with her husband on missions. Of course, during that time Marcus was off on missions, she thought of names for their child. If it was a boy, she wanted to name him Phenic, because it sounds like Phoenix, and if it was a girl, she wanted to name her Pyrrha, which means Flame-Coloured in the language she was raised in.
Being an Amazon made her feel invincible, ready for anything that would come her way, no matter what it is or when it comes.
She wasn't ready for labor.
Even after the labor had finished and her newborn baby girl lay in her arms, wrapped tightly in blankets so that only her face was showing, she was still ravaged by pain. The baby girl, however, was beautiful, her pride and joy. She even had little red hairs growing from her head. Cassia felt immediately attached to her daughter like glue. All Cassia hoped was that her daughter was not like her. She hoped that she was not Nephalem.
Beacon, present day…Three days before the Breach
"Mom!" Pyrrha cried as she charged her mother. The older woman smiled as her daughter jumped up in her arms giving her a huge hug, nearly tackling the older woman to the ground.
Cassia looked at her daughter and kissed her cheek before letting her down and saying, "How are you, Pyrrha?"
Pyrrha suddenly went rigged as she faced her mother and said "Fine, thank you. Where's dad?"
"Oh, you know him. Off coaching some up and coming Minstrel Tournament Champion." Cassia said, as her daughter got a saddened look on her face, "He sends his love."
As Pyrrha looked up at her mother with pride filling her eyes, Cassia motioned to the group behind her, before asking "I assume those are your friends, correct?"
Pyrrha quickly responded with a "Yes mother. They are."
Then everyone went silent. After a few minutes of silence, Cassia looked a Pyrrha and said. "Well then. Pyrrha, are you not going to introduce me?"
"Oh, right. Sorry…" Pyrrha said, scratching her head in embarrassment.
She then turned to the assembled teams and said "Well, these are Teams JNPR and RWBY. Team STNL should be here soon."
The aforementioned teams that are present waved and Cassia then said, "I am assuming the team you are on is JNPR, correct?"
"Yes!" Pyrrha said excitedly, "This is my team leader and partner, Jaune Arc. Say hi, Jaune."
"Hi." Said Jaune. Cassia rolled her eyes and smiled. She got the message about the crush Pyrrha had on Jaune Arc… by the gods, did Pyrrha have her work cut out for her if she was going to whip him into shape.
"These are Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren." Pyrrha said, gesturing to the two other members of team JNPR.
"Hello, Pyrrha's mom." Nora said in a surprisingly calm tone. Cassia deduced that she was the bruiser of the group, simply because of the weapon she carried. Also, from the amount that she was fidgeting, Cassia could tell that she had some form of ADHD.
"Hello, Mrs. Nikos." Ren said. From his posture, Cassia could tell that he was by far the most level headed of the group. In fact, he barely displayed any emotion at all. Which she was quite surprised by. Ren, to her, seemed like an adult in a child's body with the way he held himself.
"Then this is Team RWBY." Pyrrha said, pointing at the other present team. "Their leader is Ruby Rose, her partner is Weiss Schnee, then there is Blake Belladonna, and finally, Ruby's older sister Yang Xiao Long."
"It's a pleasure." Weiss said, as she curtsied.
"Hello." Blake said,looking quite happy.
"Well, at least Pyrrha got something from her mother." Yang said, before muttering "Does this mean Pyrrha will have bigger tits than me? That must never come to pass. I will get implants if I must."
Ruby said nothing, rather she was drooling over the weapons on Cassia's back. Quickly, she leapt forward and said "Ohmygoshthoseweaponsaresocoolwhataretheirnames," she took a breath "Whatdotheydoohmygoshohmygosh."
"Pardon?" Cassia said surprised as the young Rose rushes around her at Mach two.
Yang chuckled before pulling her sister back and saying "Yeah, sorry about her… she's a bit of a weapons nut. You shoulda seen her with her boyfriend's juicy guns."
With that, Ruby turned as red as a strawberry and said "Yang! He's not my boyfriend and his weapons aren't juicy!"
Everyone stayed silent before bursting out laughing, Cassia smirked and rolled her eyes as the young Rose continued to blush like mad. It was interesting to see young people going through the labors of love, seeing them do the things that she once did. But now, it was slightly less professional, what with...
"Ahem."
Interrupting Cassia's train of thought, team STNL made themselves known to the group.
Standing at the head of the group was Silas Charon, the team's leader. He stood at six feet tall with light blond hair and blue eyes. He had a scar going down the left side of his face, barely missing his eyes. He wore jeans and a red shirt with a fancy blue colored amulet around his neck and a large single edged sword that glowed blue on his back called Ghost. His semblance allowed him to create objects by channeling his aura into the amulet which made him very versatile in a fight.
Standing on his left was Tyrion McCree. He stood at five feet eleven inches, with a mess of brown hair on his head and the starting of a beard on his chin. He had hazel eyes and lightly tanned skin. He wore a brown trench-coat with a cowboy hat, that had a belt of bullets and a mini shield thing on its front. He wielded a weapon called Deadeye, which was a revolver/short sword hybrid. His semblance slowed time for everyone but him for a short amount of time, which allowed him to pull off some cheeky stunts in a fight.
Next to Tyrion stood Nihilus Avern. He was around six feet two inches and with black hair and pale skin and his eyes were yellow. He was an all-black cloak that was draped around his back and along with his arms. He had a katana strapped to his waist, with a four-chambered revolver thing at its hilt with lightning dust in it, called Sabre. His semblance allowed him to absorb dust to grant him different powers, like fire dust would allow him to throw fire, ice to freeze things, etc.
Finally, next to Silas on his right, stood Lewis Ryu at exactly six foot three inches tall. He had blue eyes, short brown hair and brown skin. He had a muscle shirt, which outlined his six pack and his muscular arms. On his arms were his Smg gauntlets, Fire and Fury, that reached up to his elbows. His semblance granted him extreme geo-kinesis, or the ability to control earth and stone.
"Hello there, Rose." Said Tyrion. Ruby blushed at him saying that. This confirmed to Cassia that, indeed Ruby did have a crush on Tyrion.
"Tyrion," Silas said, "We aren't here to flirt. We are here to meet Pyrrha's mother."
"Right…" Tyrion said, gesturing to Weiss' blushing face, "If the look on Weiss' face will ever give me any reason to think that."
Silas rolled his eyes before he turned to Cassia and said "Greetings, Ms. Nikos."
Cassia nodded and replied, "Please, just call me Cassia."
"Howdy." Tyrion said, tipping his hat.
"Hello, ma'am." Nihilus said while bowing.
"Greetings," Lewis said while standing casually with his arms crossed.
Cassia smiled, looking over the teams present. She smiled because her daughter had friends. Real friends, for the first time in her life. During her life, Pyrrha never had actual friends because of her fame. People could never relate to her on a personal level because she was THE Pyrrha Nikos, the four-time winner of the Minstrel Tournament. She was never just Pyrrha. Never just a regular girl. Now, mind you, some of this was Cassia's fault, seeing as how she pushed Pyrrha to her limits and encouraged her to be in the tournament.
"Well…" Cassia said, "It's been wonderful meeting you all."
Pyrrha then looked at her mother and asked "Umm, mom? Can we have a spar? It's been so long since we've spared."
Cassia smiled and said "Sure. Get your weapons, all of you, and meet in the arena in twenty minutes."
The teams cheered, and Yang said "Alright! Fighting Pyrrha's mom!"
Branwen tribe territory in Vale…
Raven Branwen is usually a calm and collected person. She was like an inverse of her brother, Qrow. Where he was an alcoholic, she rarely drank anything containing alcohol, rather, she drank tea. Where Qrow was impulsive, Raven was a tactician, always planning and rarely going in head first. Where Qrow stayed loyal to Ozpin after all these years, Raven… well, Raven didn't.
Raven left Taiyang and her daughter, Yang, almost as soon as she gave birth to the young girl. It wasn't because she didn't love them, she really did. She loved Yang more than her own life. But when she became the Spring maiden, she knew she would be targeted. She knew her family would be targeted. So, she left, left to go back to her tribe. She never told anyone about her being a maiden, not even Qrow.
Currently, Raven was watching her tribespeople enter the camp with the haul of resources they looted from a town. Mind you, Raven didn't like to kill innocent people. She was still a huntress after all, regardless of what she had done.
As Raven continued to think, one of her men ran up to her and kneeled before saying "My lady."
"Speak." Raven said as Vernal, her second in command, walked up beside her.
The man gulped and said "Ma'am, on the raid you sent to Isenhill, we encountered a group of eight people. Huntsmen, I think. They beat us back easily with these weird abilities."
Raven raised an eyebrow and thought, "Never leave a job for a huntress to a bandit."
She then said, "Did any of them follow you?"
The bandit shook his head and said, "I don't think so m'lady."
"Good," Raven replied, "Now get back to work."
As the bandit ran off to help people unload, Raven muttered "Useless. Idiot."
It was then that she heard a knock on the gate, which escalated into a banging, which further escalated into someone breaking the gate open, causing a cloud of dust to be put into the air. Raven quickly threw on her Grimm mask and stood with her arms crossed at the entrance of her tent.
Out of the dust walked a few people that Raven didn't recognize. From the front, one of the men, Kharazim (though Raven didn't know that tidbit of information), called out "Raven Branwen! We have found you…"
Raven glared at Kharazim and the rest of the Nephalem before saying "Who are you and why do you intrude on our territories?"
The Knight looking one, Johanna, replied "My name is Johanna. This is Kharazim, Nazeebo, Tyrael, Sonya, Xul, and Li-Ming. As for…"
"Hold up." Raven said, interrupting Johanna and earning a glare from her, "I get the feeling that you're missing someone… important."
Tyrael chuckled and said "You are perceptive, just like she said. The reason Johanna didn't introduce her is mainly because she wanted to do that herself."
"Really?" Raven replied.
"Really." Another voice said. That voice. It sent a shiver down Raven's spine. It belonged to someone dead. Someone who was supposed to be dead, at least. The group of seven parted, revealing an eighth member dressed in a white cloak.
That same white cloak that Summer Rose wore.
Raven slowly took off her Grimm mask, dropping it to the ground. She rested her hand on the hilt of her sword, as her mouth was agape in shock. Summer was dead. She had to be. But here she was, standing before her, with the white cloak billowing in the wind.
"S… S… S… Summer…?" Raven stuttered as the figure nodded. Raven rushed forward and hugged her friend, tears dripping from her eyes. Summer hugged her back, pulling her in close. They stayed together for several minutes and when Raven broke the hug, she asked "How are you alive? We all thought you were dead!"
Summer chuckled, seeming more battle-hardened than the Summer Rose that left on that fateful mission a decade ago and replied "I'll explain that later. Right now, we have got a bigger problem."
"What?" Raven asked, "What do you mean?"
"I'll explain everything. Do you have anything to drink?" Summer asked as Raven ushered the group into her tent. Today would be another long day for all the parties involved.
Combat class arena… Three days to Breach
Cassia stood in the combat class arena, with her trident and shield in hand. She watched as the three teams gathered in the arena, ready and waiting to begin. Somehow, Cassia managed to convince Glynda Goodwitch to supervise the fight, even though Glynda was very much against the fight. But that was mostly because Glynda didn't want to have to clean up after it.
Cassia chuckled at Glynda's concern, which strangely was not directed at the students. She assured her that the fight would not get out of hand, seeing as she was a fully trained warrior, against twelve children. This might be an unfair fight… for them.
As the students readied their weapons, Cassia shouted, "Begin!"
The students charged at Cassia, the first to reach her being Ruby due to her speed semblance. Cassia raised her shield and blocked the strike by the young girl and threw her off, only to rush forward in a shield bash, knocking the young girl back.
Weiss and Silas quickly came up from behind her and attempted to get a quick attack in. Cassia blocked Weiss' thrusting strike with her shield and used her trident to sweep Weiss off her feet. She then struck Weiss with the blunt end of her spear, knocking her out of the ring and eliminating her. Silas used his semblance to conjure a spear from his amulet and launched it at Cassia. Cassia thrust her trident forward and launched a blast of lightning at the boy, shattering his spear and shocking him. Though he wasn't out just yet, he was stunned.
Tyrion and Nihilus ran forward. As they did, Nihilus took a red dust crystal out of his cloak and absorbed it. He began launching blasts of fire at Cassia, who blocked the blasts with her shield. Tyrion used his semblance to slow time down a bit, drawing Deadeye and firing a few shots off at Cassia. The shots connected, dropping Cassia's aura a bit, causing her to winch in a slight pain. It was then that Cassia used her Valkyrie charge, launching an ethereal version of herself at Tyrion, who couldn't dodge in time. The Valkyrie connected with Tyrion and threw him at the Amazon. She spin-kicked him in the head, sending him flying off the arena floor. Nihilus raised Saber and cut down, only to be blocked by Cassia's trident. Flipping it around, Cassia grabbed his arm and threw him forward, launching him out of the arena and eliminating him.
Suddenly, Blake, Yang, Lewis, Nora, and Ren shot forward to avenge their fallen comrades. Cassia smirked at the battle tactics of the first-year students. Or rather, their lack of tactics. Quickly she summoned some ball lightning and launched it at the group. It hit Blake first Yang, then Lewis, then Ren and finally Nora. Everyone, save Nora, was knocked unconscious from the attack. Nora seemed to be empowered, and she leapt high in the air, crashing her hammer down on the shield that Cassia held. The impact hurt a bit, causing Cassia to shudder. Quickly thrusting her trident forward multiple times, she shredded Nora's aura, before performing a kick to the pink girl's head.
Finally, only Pyrrha, Jaune and Cassia remained standing. Cassia quickly closed the distance between the two, leaping up and slamming the butt of the Trident into the ground, sending a shockwave out which made Jaune fall on his butt and Pyrrha to stumble. Quickly, Cassia shot her trident forward and slammed it into Jaune's shield, sending him back. Jaune swung at her with Crocea Mors, only to be surprised by Cassia who simply caught the sword with her left hand. She ripped the blade out of his hands, before kicking him, Spartan style, out of the arena.
Pyrrha then configured Milo into rifle form and shot some bullets at Cassia. Cassia blocked the bullets with her shield and rushed forward again, catching Pyrrha off guard. Another shield slam and trident strike later, and Pyrrha was out. Cassia smirked, extending her arm to her daughter. Pyrrha eagerly accepted and got up, as the rest of the twelve got up, groaning in pain.
"Ma'am, you are altogether too good at this." Tyrion said, helping Ruby up.
"Thank you." Cassia said, "I've had a lot of practice."
"Mom…" Pyrrha said, "Don't you think you were a bit too rough?"
"Nonsense!" Cassia said, "You kids can still stand, right?"
"Yup." Ruby said cheerfully, "Though it does hurt to stand."
"I must say," Weiss commented as Silas helped her up, "Your fighting style is quite unique."
"It's meant for efficiency, removing opponents from a fight in the quickest way possible while using the least amount of energy possible." Cassia replied, "I also use less flare the most people while fighting."
"Ah." Weiss said, dusting herself off "That explains that then."
"I could teach you all how to fight efficiently if you like. You could all use the training." Cassia said.
Ruby looked up, wide-eyed and said "Yay! Combat classes with Pyrrha's mom!"
Summer sipped the tea Raven had made for the group. As she did, they all conversed, talking about things, catching up on Remnant's current events. Over the course of the conversation, Summer talked about Sanctuary, the places she's seen, the things she fought. Raven was astounded, but she also realized why Summer seemed more battle hardened. That's because she was, spending the last ten years fighting a war against beings that made Raven cringe. Butcher demons literally sewed from the flesh and bones of other demons. Mallet lords, towering monstrosities that used their massive legs to smash any and everything. But what frightened Raven most of all, were the Prime Evils. As the group continued to tell Raven about the Prime Evils, she got increasingly more and more distressed. They told her of Bastion's Keep, Tristram, Caldeum, Westmarch. They told her of the horrors that they had seen, witnessed with their own eyes. In the end, Raven was shell-shocked, unsure of what to do.
"So," Raven said, her shaky hands picking up her tea, "What you are telling me, is that there is this army from literal hell coming to claim this artifact of great power that can be found somewhere on Remnant. Correct?"
"Exactly." Tyrael replied.
"Well shit." Raven said, "So, do you know their first move?"
"Yes." Summer replied "Spread fear, hate and destruction. Those are what the Prime Evils thrive on. And we now know that there is a fourth, thanks to Tyrael here. Salem."
"The Grimm witch, huh?" Raven replied, "This could be interesting."
"So…" Summer said, putting her tea down, "Guys, I need to talk to Raven alone. So… could you… y'know."
"No problem." Kharazim replied, "Come on, let's go."
After all of them were out of the tent, Summer turned to Raven with a glare in her eye and said, "Raven. I have only one question I need you to answer."
"And that is?" Raven asked, nervously.
"Why did you leave?"
…
…
"What?" Raven said, confused.
"Why did you leave us? Why did you leave team STRQ? We were a family… And you left us to rot!" Summer said, "Why?"
"I did it because…" Raven began to reply.
"None of that tribal bullshit! We both know that you never wanted to go back!" Summer yelled, "What is the real reason?"
Raven sighed. Time to reveal the truth. She began by saying, "Summer… do you know the legend of the four Maidens?"
Summer nodded and signaled her to continue, "Well… Summer, I am one of those Maidens. The Spring one to be specific."
"How long have you known?" Summer asked.
"I… I became the Spring Maiden only a month after Yang was born." Raven said, "Dunno how or why, but I did. Ozpin told me about being a maiden, and about the things I could do. I was ecstatic about it, just so much power at my fingertips but… but then he got to the part about… the witch. He said she would stop at nothing to take that power from me. I knew Yang and Tai would be targeted by her because of me. So… I left and gave the bitch no reason to hurt either of them. Summer, I loved them then, and I still love them all now."
"Oh…" Summer said, "You do know Yang is probably looking for you, right?"
"Yeah. Qrow has told me." Raven replied.
"You also do know that it's not too late to come back, right?"
"Yes… I hope…" Raven said.
"It's never too late." Summer said, "But if you keep staying away, you're just digging yourself a deeper hole."
"I… I guess you're right..." Raven said.
Summer smiled at her friend and said, "Well, in that case, since you seem sincere, you are coming with us to Vale."
"What?!" Raven said, her tone of voice shifting from sad to defensive, "Summer…"
"Nah-ah-ah." Summer said, "You are coming back. And because I'm nice, I'm going to give you a choice. You can either come back home in two ways. You either come back willingly, with us. Or… I knock you out, tie you up and we keep walking to Vale with you dragging by your hair behind us."
"Uhh… is there an option three?" Raven asked, hopefully.
"Nope." Summer replied, "Those two are your options. Now, choose. Before I chose for you."
"In that case…" Raven replied, "Option… one."
"Good choice. Welcome back to the team, Raven." Summer said, hugging her friend tightly and smiling brightly.
As Raven hugged her back, she said, "What do you think Tai and Yang will think, us coming back and all?"
"I don't know how Yang will react, but I think Tai and Ruby will be good." Summer replied, "At first, for the very least."
As Summer got back up, she looked at her sister-in-law of sorts, and pulled Raven into a standing position, before saying, "I just think they'll be happy to have you back, Raven."
"Same thing with you, Summer." Raven replied, "Probably more than for me."
Alrighty, that's the end of that. First thing I would like to say, I find that Raven's Semblance is a bit underpowered in my mind. It's basically a fast travel from any open-world RPG, only she has to know the person she wants to travel to personally and has to develop a bond with them. My sort of buff to it allows her to open portals to wherever she wishes, allowing her to use it in combat. However, the amount she is drained by using the portal is equal to the distance traveled with it and whether or not the person or place she travels to has a sort of bond with her in any way. If she has a bond, she can basically travel from anywhere to them. If she doesn't, the amount of energy is based on distance.
As for the semblances of Team STNL, Silas can make energy constructs out of his aura, Tyrion can slow time for everyone but himself so that he can hit shots easier, Nihilus can absorb powers and abilities from both people and dust, People granting him the knowledge to use the abilities and dust simply granting him the elemental powers corresponding to the crystal he absorbed. Lewis can make the ground shake, like the Earthbender from Avatar: The last Airbender and Legend of Korra.
Next, I would like to prototype a fic of an XCom and RWBY fic that I've been working on. It is not as far along, but it's getting there. Here's a little bit of the first chapter for all you readers. Let me know how you think it is!
The first thing Gabriel saw when he woke up was Angela in his face. Not that it was a bad thing, and also not unknown to the married pair, just uncommon on duty. Angela was very professional.
It was then he realized that she was unconscious. Which was not right. It was also then that he noticed that the skyranger crashed into a forest full of green trees.
"Angela, get up," Gabriel said tapping her head a bit. Angela's eyes slowly opened as she registered the situation.
"Did you get the license of the truck that hit us?" Angela asked rhetorically.
"Nope," Gabriel replied cheerily. Angela rolled her eyes as she kissed him and got up.
Slowly, Darren and Anne came to and Darren asked, "What the hell happened?"
"Dunno," Gabriel said, shrugging, "But it happened."
Anne chuckled as she brought out her GREMLIN drone, which was still working for some godforsaken reason. She looked at the drone and said "Can you scan the area? Try to connect to any local networks you can."
The drone 'nodded', if the drone could nod, and flew out of the wrecked skyranger. Almost immediately the drone flew back into the wreck and began chittering off to Anne. Anne's eyes widened as she got out her Chosen Assault rifle, more commonly known as Disruptor Rifle, and loaded it.
Gabriel looked surprised and asked, "What's wrong Anne?"
"We aren't alone," Anne said, getting outside. The rest of the group shrugged and prepped their weapons. Gabriel brought out his Chosen Shotgun, Arashi, loaded it and checked Katana, the weapon of the Chosen Assassin. Angela brought out her Darklance and her Darkclaw, preparing both of them. Darren brought out his prototype Chosen cannon, which he called Ragnarok, recovered from the fight with the Elders in their stronghold along with his advanced grenade launcher, loading in the plasma grenades he kept handy.
"Alrighty," Gabriel said, "According to Anne over there, we aren't alone. The first thing you see that's hostile, take the bloody shots, aim to kill."
"Got it," Darren said, revving his gun's barrels.
"Copy." Angela said as she took up a vantage point, "Which way are they coming from?"
"Southeast," Anne replied, readying her gun.
"Roger, compensating," Angela said.
A few seconds later, a creature with all black fur, red eyes and white armor bust right through the tree line. When the group saw it, Gabriel said "What in god's good name is that… Thing!"
"Dunno, but it sure as hell is ugly!" Darren replied.
The beast turned to them and growled. It then howled and charged. Angela fired one shot, killing the beast before it even got close to them.
"Target down." She said.
"Nice shot!" Gabriel said.
"Thanks." Angela said, "But we ain't done yet. At least twenty more contacts coming out of the forest."
"Shit…" Darren said, "Well then. Let's fuck 'em up!"
Ozpin was having a fine night. That is until he looked on the cameras in the Emerald Forest as he usually did. On one of the cameras, he saw what looked like a downed flying vehicle, which looked like a bullhead, with four people and a weird drone in it. Suddenly, the group got into what looked like a battle formation. One of the women, holding the long barreled gun, got up on the downed vessel while the drone controller got out front. A man with a shotgun and a sword on his back leapt out with them, followed closely behind a man wielding what looked like a large minigun.
Suddenly, a single Beowulf came out of the forest near them and began sniffing the air. Almost as soon as it did, the Beowulf charged at the group. The woman, with what looked like a sniper rifle took a single shot, sending a red/black bolt right through the Beowolf's head, killing it instantly.
'Interesting,' Ozpin thought, 'Strange weapons they wield.'
Then the hoard arrived. En masse swarmed what had to be at least forty Beowolves total. The team of four worked with so much cohesion, you would have thought them to have been doing this for their whole life. The two women with rifles laying down fire on the advancing Grimm, dropping them. Any that got to close were shredded by the man with the shotgun and the man with the minigun. No Beowulf got within ten meters of the group, each being torn to pieces before they could get in the radius.
'It's only a matter of time before they get overrun." Ozpin thought. Quickly, he pressed the call button to Glynda Goodwitch, second in command at Beacon Academy.
"Glynda," Ozpin said, "I may have a mission for you."
Team RWBY's Dorm Room…
Ruby was having a fun night. Right now, at least. This week was their break week and since none of the team was going home, Ruby made it a priority to have as much fun as possible during the short time classes were out. So… Ruby and Co. were sitting around playing Remnant's version of Monopoly, the game that they had been playing for the past three hours. They had asked Team JNPR if they wanted to join, but unfortunately, they made it a point to practice right now.
"Alright, Chance card." Ruby said as she placed her piece on the Chance square, "Let's see… oh! That's nice."
"Ruby?" Weiss asked, "What's the card?"
"Read'em and weep, Weiss!" Ruby said, holding up a Lawsuit chance card, which let her take one of another players properties. Ruby carefully plucked one of Weiss' properties out of her hands before placing it in her own. Yang and Blake chuckled while Weiss looked dumbfounded.
"That's unfair!" Weiss said, angered, "I'm gonna get you back for that!"
"You can try," Ruby said, sticking her tongue out at her partner, "But you will fail."
Just as Weiss was about to retort with an angry comment, they heard a knock at the door. Yang got up and said, "Who is knocking on our door at eleven thirty at night?"
As she opened the door, Yang was met with one Glynda Goodwitch, staring right back at her. Just as Yang was about to ask Glynda what was wrong, Glynda said, "Get dressed."
"Pardon?" Weiss asked, looking up from the board game.
"Get dressed. Ozpin gave me a mission and told me to take a first-year team with me. We are to investigate an anomaly in the Emerald Forest, around two kilometers out due west."
"Ok…" Yang said, "And I'm assuming you chose us for a reason?"
"Yes." Glynda said, "Now get dressed, the Bullhead leaves in ten minutes."
Lemme know what you think of this little project that I'm working at on the side. If it gets published, I'm thinking of calling it 'Strange people from a war-torn world' and its main characters will be my main squad from XCom 2. Well, see you all in the next update. This is Narsauce, sighing out.