Here's the end of the Meetings arc after this is onto everyone's lives (both new and old) as Beacon gets a handful of new students!
Chapter 4: Lives on the edge
-Vale, cafe somewhere downtown 5 minuets prior to Stella, Tracy, Riku, and Kate meeting team RWBY-
Here instead of the 4 huntress and 4 unknown people from earlier, we find 3 girls and one boy sitting around one outdoor table at a late night cafe talking among themselves. One was a tanned white girl that had black and purple hair set in a long yet messy style, a long slender dark purple hooded sweater easily showing her slender body along with her c-cup breasts, slender black jeans doing the same job of showing off her legs, and black wedged shoes. Next to her was was another girl with porcelain white girl who had long dark blonde hair, a white jacket, white gloves, white pants, and white boots. On the other side of the blond was a tanned white male with short black hair with a gray tank top, blue jeans, and gray and blue tennis shoes. Lastly was a pale white girl that had short cut brown hair, a white yet extremely dirty muscle shirt, gray cargo pants leading to equally dirty white sneakers. They had just grabbed their drinks from inside and decided to sit down instead of walk around the city.
"It's strange..." the black and purple haired girl started "Wonder where Riku is, haven't seen him since earlier today."
"Given that he's with Tracy, Stella, and Kate? Probably killing some poor unfortunate soul." the blond said with a tone that didn't seemed surprised by what she just said before drinking some of her tea.
Chuckling a bit before drinking her coffee (don't judge I know there are people out there that do that.) before setting it back down and asking "Come now Luca, must everything involving the four of them always include a dead body?"
"Riku and Stella are smart enough to not go and mindlessly kill, which I respect a lot. Tracy can control herself to some degree, but she usually needs someone to keep an eye on her so she doesn't go all 'creepy homicidal vampire' on people in broad daylight. It's Kate I'm concerned about, that girl lets her emotions dictate everything and she will never give it a second thought until it's to late." the blond now known as Luca sighed before giving a example "Remember the fight we were involved in the mall with her?"
The 4 teens sat there in silence for a moment before shuddering at the memory of her getting angry at someone in a mall they had went to in search of something for a birthday party gear and resulting in a giant fight and the cops bringing riot gear to control the situation.
"What dose that girl eat in the morning?" the brown haired girl asked with a noticeable Russian accent "I mean my family may have had fights and all, especially when alcohol is involved, but even then none of us were as punchy, or shooty, or staby as her." then she grabbed her coffee and took a long drink of it before setting it back down with a satisfied 'Ahh' at the end and returning to her phone and scrolling through something.
"Who knows." the only male among them shrugged "She probably eats testosterone for breakfast or something."
"Now if only her chest could shrink down from d to a cups, then I could easily call her a boy." the purple and black haired girl laughed
"Mato..." Luca dejectedly whined as her head slumped down and a depressed aura surrounded her "Don't remind me of how big hers are to mine..."
Realizing her goof she got close to Luca and patted her back in a comforting manner "There there, they'll grow bigger one day..." she mumbled the last part softly so Luca wouldn't hear, but it didn't matter because she slumped into a deeper depression because Mato's breast were rubbing against her side. "I'm sixteen Mato, sixteen! Why haven't they've grown in the years we've known each other!?"
"Because their destined to forever stay flat?" the Russian asked without ever looking away from her phone.
"Yuri." Mato glared at her "Not helping."
"Sorry." the Russian called Yuri said quickly before her phone lit up and her face had a smile on it "Got it."
"Huh?"
"I finally got a damn signal to a satellite, although it pretty weak but I'll take it over not having satellite access."
"Do you really need it? I mean your already a accomplished hand to hand combat expert." the boy said
"Unlike Mato and Luca, who use magic more often then their mechs, I rely on it for all my weapons. And unlike you Ryu, I'm a girl...err no offence." Yuri said as she looked up and towards the boy called Ryu who simply raised one hand slightly in the air to show no offence was taken.
"Anyway's moving away from the talks about Kate's habits for emotional murder and her breast size I say..." Ryu started before being interrupted by a man screaming down the road, he then lowered his head in defeat and didn't even bother finishing his sentence "Never mind..."
"Come on, things are about to get worse, lets go check it out." Yuri said as she and Ryu got up finished their drinks and shouting their thanks to the people inside for their good drinks and running towards the sound while a white light disappeared from her hand revealing a Saiga 12k shotgun and Ryu pulling a pair of tonfa's from their buckle's on his belt, Mato and Luca simply got up and followed after them, after the Mato convinced her to get up.
When they got there a man was pinned to the ground as a 6 foot tall black haired werewolf thing,with bone like spines covering parts of their bodies, was tearing his throat out with it's teeth. "На прошлой неделе меховой шарик!(Hey fur ball!)" Yuri yelled before slamming into the werewolf thing, putting it on it's back and shoving her shotgun's barrel in the snarling beasts mouth "Smile!" and fired at least 3 shots into it to make sure it was dead. As she was pulling the barrel out of it's mouth she spared a glance at the man who was attacked and swore under her breath that she was to late to save him.
"Heads up Yuri!" Ryu yelled in time to see her duck out of the way of another werewolf's attack, he did a mid air kick to hit its head, doing what appeared to be nothing other than annoy it, next he the used his tonfa's to beat the beast to the ground, then his tonfa's glowed white for a second before the glow was gone and he went to striking the beast in the head when he connected with its jaw it flew right off, Ryu then struck its head and it dropped to the floor with great force. He panted a little as he didn't want to use his ability so soon as he only woke up this morning on a not so conformable rooftop. Yuri walked up to him as she stared ahead and tapped his shoulder, when he looked at her he saw she was looking straight ahead and looked to see another 2-3 there staring at them with red hungry eyes. He got up a little wobbly but managed to get into a combat stance as Yuri pointed her shotgun at them.
"Ready?" Yuri asked
"No." Ryu answered not looking forward to fighting these things.
As the werewolves charged Mato came flying passed Yuri and Ryu with a pair of black katanas slicing the two in half. She saw another lunge at her but a white arrow came flying through the air and striking the werewolf in the heart, it started to howl painfully before bursting into flames.
"You two alright?" Luca asked from behind Yuri and Ryu with a white bow in hand as she ran towards them.
"Y-yeah..." Ryu stuttered out
"Good, now then what are we going to do about them?" Mato asked and they all looked around to see the people stare in awe and whisper things like "Who are they?" "Are they Hunters?" "Think they go to Beacon like the other Hunters in training?"
"Охотники?(Hunters?)" Yuri asked curious what they were talking about
"Who knows." Luca shrugged "Now with this handled, lets get back to our drinks." then a massive tremor was felt causing many people to fall to the ground. "Never mind."
"Hey look." Ryu said and they turned to see a building in the distance rise to the sky by a pillar of earth "Now that's something you don't see everyday."
"20 yen says that's where Riku is." Luca said absentmindedly while staring at the newly rising pillar
"I think we have bigger problems then your stupid bet." Yuri said as the street in front of them began to sink.
"Great...more fun for us." Mato said with a sarcastic tone as they neared the newly formed hole in the ground. When they and some other people neared it they began to hear various sounds, none of them sounded friendly in the slightest
"Все снова!(Everybody get back!)" Yuri yelled and everybody just stood there looking at her like she just spoke in a foreign language.
"Yuri enough speaking Russian, none of them can understand you!" Mato yelled before yelling what Yuri yelled in Russian "Everybody get back!" and then they heard what sounded like a snake or snakes hissing as multiple black and white snakes came slithering up from the hole.
"Умеешь?(What the hell?)" Yuri asked as they stared at the amphisbaena like snakes as it hissed, causing the people to panic and some to yell "That's a King Taijtu!" "What the hell are grimm doing inside the city I thought we were safe!" "Run for your lives, let the hunters handle this!"
"They meant us didn't they?" Ryu sighed knowing the answer
"Sadly..." Luca sighed as well before turning to Yuri "Think you can call Makarov to sent us help?"
"I'll see what I can do, but I don't think I have service here."
"Well figure it out, we'll cover you." and with that her, Moto, and Ryu ran straight towards the King Taijtu's while Yuri stood there with her shotgun in one hand and another with her cellphone to her ear as she kept muttering "Come on come on pick up pick up."
"Hello?" It was Makarov's voice that had answered with curiosity and suspicion
"Благодарю Бога.(Thank God). Makarov, it's Yuri, we have a situation down here and it isn't one of us causing trouble for the locals either." Yuri explained knowing he'd ask if the situation was any of their doing.
"I know, Azrael was just informing me of what was going to happen in then next few hours, I already sent Shadow team to the local combat school here to find extra aid as I believe despite the aid the military in this kingdom can and will provide, it'll still take time for them to actually mobilize and we'll need more bodies on the ground than just the entire Wolf Knights can provide until they get here. At any rate, I've already began planing everything out, first batch of support will arrive in about 5-8 minuets. Think you can hold out till then?" he explained then hung up before she could say that there was only 4 of them actually fighting.
She chuckled at his antics "You never change now do you?" and ran into the fray with her shotgun in hand ready to fight to the last breath for and with her friends in this place that she had absolutely no idea about.
-Forever Fall-
Returning to a pair of the 8 that that had escaped the research build via portals of white light. We see a portal open once again and out come Riku and Ruby at mach speed. Riku adjusted his body for his wings were flat to the wind so that he could slow themselves down. After about quarter of a mile of the wind beating his face with small leaves and bugs he was finally slow enough for him to plant his feet on the ground and promptly fell on his butt with Ruby still clutching hugging him for dear life.
"I-is it over?" Ruby asked fearfully while not removing her head from his chest
"Y-yeah I think so..." Riku said with some doubt in it his voice but after several minutes of hearing nothing remotely hostile he told Ruby that they're safe for the time being
When she opened her eyes it was fairly dark now but she could make out trees and a waterfall in the distance thanks to the moonlight then she whispered "We're alive?" to which Riku simply nodded as he patted her head with one hand
"We're alive?" she said louder still a bit unsure
"Yup." Riku smiled
"We'er alive!" Ruby yelled with pure joy now in her voice and tears coming down her face as Riku just put her into another hug and laughed loudly into the night and soon enough Ruby followed suit. It lasted a full minute before they heard howling coming from all over the area they were in, a lot of howling. They both quickly got up and unsheathed their respective scythes
"Wolves?" Riku asked
"Worse." Ruby said angrily as she wasn't to happy that their guests decided to break up their moment "Beowolves."
and on queue several black werewolf like creatures with bone like spines covering parts of their bodies, quite big in size, came out from their hiding places in the darkness
"These things again?" Riku asked a bit unsurprised at the sight of them
"You fought them before?" Ruby asked surprised that he fought them before
"Once, in a forest in a snowy Romanian forest with the rest of Omega team, though those were a lot smaller and they'd just up and attack us.
"You fought against the younger ones then, they like to just be vicious without thinking about it, these are wiser and know when their beat." Ruby explained
"So what just kill enough of them until they get the message?"
"Pretty much."
"I like the sound of that." Riku ran straight into the Beowolves while Ruby planted the business end of Crescent Rose into the ground and began firing off rounds like no tomorrow.
-Somewhere far to the north-
Weiss slowly opened her eyes and found her vision half whited out, she slowly rose from the ground and looked around a bit to see nothing but snow as far the eye could see and a pale white girl in a white one piece dress kneeling in front of her.
"T-Tracy?"
Tracy simply smiled a normal smile "Thank god your awake, I was starting to worry there."
"Y-your not going to kill me right?" Weiss asked still remembering the words Stella and her spoke when they were still in the research building and scared at just what Tracy could do now that they were alone and her knowing she had harmed Riku.
Tracy tilted her head in a confused manner before asking "Now why would I kill a friend?"
Weiss was dumbfounded at question for a good 2 minuets as her brain racked itself to think of something, anything, she did to get on her nice side and the only things she came up with were everything she did, or thought she did, to get her on her bad side "Y-you consider...me a ...friend?"
Tracy simply smiled "Of course, underneath that cold brave face you have on lies a person who has never seen had a friend until recently and finds it difficult to express herself. Though you did give us a bad first impression when we first met, with you trying to skewer Riku and all, but you don't seem the type to outright kill someone without good thought into it. That and it gets kinda lonely with only her to talk to."
Weiss felt herself smile at her for her reasoning then looked at her confused before she pointed to the right, Weiss turned to see another girl in a white one piece dress and messy hair squatting there and she said waving her hand in a slight friendly manner "Yo." this caused Weiss to fall backwards with a "Wah!" into the snow in shock, causing the Parallel to snicker at her expense.
"I don't think that was very nice..." Tracy sighed at her Parallel's antics
"Hey, you don't want to kill her but I still need a laugh here and there." the Parallel shrugged
Weiss got up from the snow, brushed herself off, and glared daggers at the Parallel "And who is she?"
"She's my Parallel." Tracy asked
"Para what now?"
"Parallel, think of her as my twin sister that is the evil of the two of us, the good kind of evil of course."
Weiss still looked confused so the Parallel spoke up "I'm just like her expect I'm a bit more crazy and fun."
Still confused but she nods her head anyway's before asking "Any idea where we are?"
Both the Parallel and Tracy looked at each other and both said simultaneously "Nope, we thought you knew."
"I guess we're lost." Weiss sighed "But it can't get any worse, right?"
Both the Parallel and Tracy face palmed "Remember how Embers jinxed us when she said please?"
"Yeah?" then the three of them heard what sound like bears roaring
"It's kinda like that..."
Before long in the distance at least 20 or so low looking figures could be seen.
"What are those?"
When they stopped several feet from them and looked at them. They were like polar bears in appearance for the most part but had three ice icicles under their mouths and round ears. "Beartic's..." Tracy said
"I've never seen these things here before. Are they a different kind of Grimm?"
"I don't know what Grimm are, but I've seen these on Earth before."
"So how do we fight them?"
"Let them charge you and dodge it and strike their neck from the side."
"Alright, lets do it." Weiss said as they both prepared themselves for a fight of their lives as the Beartic's roared and charged them.
-Secret White Fang base, location unknown-
Kate and Blake we're side by side and looking in different directions with Kate pointing her revolver and Blake pointing Gambol Shroud in it's pistol form at the group of White Fang members that was surrounding them
"Well this isn't the way I wanted to meet the locals." Kate said
"These aren't locals, these are terrorists." Blake said
"Oh good, now I won't have as much moral guilt to deal with later."
"Well look what we have here, a pair of worthless human trash." a eagle White Fang member said as several others laughed at them
"Hey we aren't worthless Birdbrain!" Kate yelled
"Kate there's far to many of them for just of us to handle by ourselves." Blake said
"Right..." she sighed and came up with a plan in her head "If I run distraction can you find a way for us to get out of here?"
"Yes I can..wait your going to fight all of them!?"
"Maybe not all of them, just most of them." Kate said before yelling "Hey Birdbrain! Just so we're clear I take my wings extra crispy!" and fired her revolver at him, when it impacted he instantly caught on fire much to the horror of everyone there except Kate who simply smirked at her work
"What the-" one White Fang member yelled before turning their gaze back to the black clad pyromaniac who was now laughing "God you have got to love incendiary rounds."
"Kate are you insane!" Blake yelled at her
"You heard Rose when he told you about the dock fire right?"
"I thought he was kidding!"
Kate stopped laughing and told her "You think with all the shit he's been through he would ever joke? He couldn't joke to save his life." in a complete dead serious tone catching her off guard "So quit yapping and get going!" Kate yelled before running headlong into the fray while Blake just stood there for a second before sighing "Kinda reminds me of Yang for some reason." and ran towards another batch of shocked White Fang members with Gambol Shroud shifting from it's pistol form into dual katana's and sliced them down before jumping into the air and landing onto the second floor, that surprisingly had no White Fang there looking for an exit of some sort then...
"Kate, there's a exit on the far side from you!"
"Got it!" Kate yelled as she stabbed another White Fang member in the chest with her cane before turning around and running towards the door. While Blake ran on the second floor to the other side, she jumped down as Kate barreled into the door's. Once they were on the other side of the doors, Blake slammed them shut while Kate pushed a vending machine onto its side and over to the door.
"Think that'll stop them?" Blake asked
Before she could answer they saw the doors were pushed slightly before returning to their original position "Nope." and ran while not really knowing where to go exactly.
Running through a hallway, they saw a door at the end of it "Think that's an exit?" Blake asked
"One way to find out." Kate answered and once they made to the end of the hall, she opened it and it wasn't an exit at all. It was a men's wash room full of naked and semi naked faunus men in there, fortunately the steam was heavy enough to block certain parts of the male anatomy that wasn't being covered by towels. "Hey privacy will ya!" One of the males yelled before Kate slammed the door shut and they both looked at each other for answers as to what they just stumbled upon.
"Kate, your nose is bleeding..."
"So is yours Blake..."
They wiped their noses and before they were about to talk, they heard a voice yell "There they are!" they looked to see that the White Fang members that were temporarily trapped earlier had escaped and were not to happy.
"Any ideas how we're getting out of this one?" Blake asked "Preferably one that doesn't involve setting anymore people on fire."
"Yeah yeah I know. Follow me." Kate said and reopened the door to the washroom with Blake following and the White Fang members in the hall not that far behind.
In the washroom there was, aside from the under dressed men forcing Blake and Kate to hold their noses tight as to not freely nose bleed while running, a window next to a water heater and boiler. Blake ran in front of Kate and switched Gambol Shroud back into it's pistol form and shot out the window and jumped out of it, while Kate fired her last two shots into into the water heater causing it to hiss violently as she to jumped out the window. As the White Fang members neared the window the water heater blew up killing a few before the water boiler did the same at the same time the water heater blew up.
Kate and Blake's luck held up long enough for them to realize that they were only on the second floor of a five story building in the middle of nowhere.
"That was one hell of a think huh?" Kate smiled at Blake who returned it with her own small smile
"Yes it was." Blake said with her fist held up in front of her which Kate obliged with her own fist bump. "Now come on we have to find the others."
"Think they're in the same place we are?"
"Only one way to find out right?"
-Dessert somewhere in Vacuo-
Now onto the last set of our color matched warriors.
Crash landing in the middle of a desert at night isn't anyone's idea of a good time but if you were falling from 300,000 ft with a giant boulder chasing you and your only escape was a bright white light, then you sure wouldn't complain. Sadly these was a certain blond brawler that could complain about it and it was starting to annoy a certain blond assassin that was her only company for the time being until they found civilization.
"Ugh...this sucks!" Yang complained as she continued to follow Stella through the night dessert and pull sand out of her hair.
"I know..." Stella sighed
"I mean I'm happy we survived and all but the desert? Of all the places it had to be a fucking desert!"
"Hey, I didn't pick the place we'd get to land in."
"I know I know but still the dessert!?"
"I'm not enjoying it anymore than you are, I have to clean all the sand out of Hidden Intent's barrel, firing mechanism, and magazines."
The rest of the time was met with silence until the managed to find a oasis that wasn't an illusion. They both undressed and cleaned up themselves, their clothes, and their weapons. Now both were in their undergarments as they sat in front of a fire while they let their clothes dry.
"So um Stella..." Yang began and for some reason was nervous
"No Yang I don't swing that way." Stella answered in a plain tone
"What? No I wasn't going to ask 'that'."
Stella turned her head towards Yang with an arched eyebrow
"I was going to ask where were you from."
"Oh..." Stella said suddenly feeling guilty that she thought that way. "Well Riku, Tracy, Kate, and myself aren't from around here if that's what you were wondering. We're from a world called Earth, if you looked at it as someone new, you would think it's pretty peaceful but it's anything but. Underneath that front is a world of war, death, deception, betrayal and revenge and that's a normal day." she laughed "On a not so normal day we're just...now that I think about it there's never really a 'not so normal' day for us..."
Yang didn't respond at first, trying to take in what she was just told. "Wow that must make you guys pretty strong huh?"
"Yeah we are pretty strong, but there's someone out there that's even stronger than us. Plus we never had normal lives even by our worlds standards."
"How?"
"The four of us were kidnapped when we were kids, Kate and I were 8 at the time while Tracy and Riku were 5, and forced into Project Hunter. It was there we obtained our mech's well aside from Tracy who use's energy to fight instead of a mech."
"Project Hunter?"
"Yeah, I don't even know what is was for none of us did, all they ever told us was we we're going to be Hunters. Kate and I asked numerous times in between the experiments we were put through what we were supposed to hunt and all we got was the same answer 'you'll be hunting down things not from this world.' and neither of us ever understood what the hell they meant."
"Wow... I...didn't know..."
"It's fine we don't exactly like remembering the year we were in that god forsaken castle to be used as guinea pigs. The only good those memories had were the faces of the people that did it to us, they wanted us to be Hunters and that's what we became just not the way they had intended us to be Hunters of course."
"You became Hunters of men instead of Hunters of beasts."
"Yeah, that's what we were."
"Well here you won't need to hunt down people. You'll be hunting down grimm." Yang said in a confident and comforting voice
"Well lets hope so." Stella smiled a bit at the thought of things being different from their world
"I know so."
They both got up and redressed themselves and prepared for sleep when they heard something stir the sand and saw a fin come out.
"Sand Sharks...great..." Stella said with an annoyed dread in her voice as both of them went back to back in battle stances ready to fight.
"What are Sand Sharks?"
Before Stella could answer the sand stirred again and out came a gigantic black scorpion with white bone like plates with red markings along it, multiple glowing red eyes and a glowing gold stinger.
"That's one big scorpion..."
"That's a Death Stalker."
"Any idea how to fight it?"
"Underbelly and a blade that can pierce. Least that's what I've learned back at Beacon." Yang said as she viewed some of the Sand Sharks jump in the air before diving back into the sand. The land fish was tan as the sand it 'swam' in with all the features of a shark minus the gills fish usually have. "So what do these things hate?"
"Blunt weapons to the nose usually deters them, although if they smell blood at all they hunt it down even if it's one of their own."
"So you want to take on the Death Stalker while I fight the Sand Sharks?"
" Yeah, I have an idea how we can get through this in one piece."
"Alright, lets do this!" and they ran straight towards their intend targets.
-Vale-
In the warehouse where Makarov and the others were using as a temporary base, Azrael had just told them the situation and had vanished leaving Makarov to plan everything when a teenage girl came into his line of sight. She wore a similar black military uniform as Riku and many of the others around them as they armed up for war however on her head was a black sack over her head with a pair of white X's over where the eyes would be stitched there and a white stitched on mouth where the girls mouth would be. She walked up to Makarov and saluted him "Sir, Shadow 0-1 reporting for duty, sir!"
"At ease 0-1." he said as he motioned her to enter her rest stance "I have a mission for you and Shadow team to undergo while the rest of us head to where Azrael said there was going to be a invasion of sorts occurring."
"What's the mission sir?"
"I need you and the rest of Shadow team to infiltrate Beacon, the combat school here, and convince whoever's the head there to sent us help until the Vale military mobilizes and sends aid for this."
"Yes sir." Shadow 0-1 said "Um sir...mind me asking but any idea where Ghost went? I haven't seen him all day."
"He's currently with Kate, Stella, and Tracy if I recall correctly. No need to worry about him 0-1, he's in good hands."
"He's with Kate sir, something's bound to go wrong with her around."
He chuckled "Yes that girl is insane, but damn if she isn't good at what she dose. Besides do you like him that much?"
Suddenly glad she had a sack over her head to cover her blush creeping up on her face she blurted "N-n-no sir, its just I'm concerned about his health when he's around that pyromaniac is all."
"Uh huh, sure you are."
Shadow 0-1 started to backup as she said "I-I'll get the rest of Shadow team ready s-s-sir, we'll have your support in no time." then turned around and sprinted away from her chuckling commander
After she was a good distance from him she saw 13 teenage girls and was greeted with normal greetings before one asked where they were heading if not the front lines for now to which the answer was "Pack your gear girls, we're going to school."
-Beacon, 5 minuets later, Headmaster's office-
Inside we find a 50-something year old man with gray hair, shaded spectacles, a dark green scarf with a small cross in the middle, a unzipped black suit top with a buttoned black vest with a green undershirt, dark green pants, and black shoes sitting in his office chair reading several papers concerning various students and them unintentionally destroying school property.
"Wonder where and her team are at the moment..." he said to himself thinking there was no one there "Also you can come out of hiding." to which he received no response
"I've known your there." then in front of his desk what appeared suddenly like she was always there, was Shadow 0-1 with her standard uniform and sack but now had a black jacket with a white star on its left side and a white strip running from one sleeve stopping at the hood and continuing on the other side, with one hand holding the hood down "Then you must know what I'm about to ask correct?"
"You wish to attend the school by showing me first hand what your capable of?"
0-1 shook her head in mild amusement before saying "Perhaps I'll take you up on that offer later with some of my comrades after we save this city from being turned into a desolate wasteland."
"What do you mean?" the man asked before in the distance an explosion showed it's self "That's what I mean, sir."
He stared out towards the city as another explosion happened "What's going on?"
"An invasion of sorts sir. Black skinned monsters are invading the city and are killing it's civilians, a military force that is not from this world is currently engaging the threat and aiding in rescuing the civilians, but we can only do so much before we lose ground within the downtown area."
"I suppose your here to ask me to help in aiding the fight?"
"I'm not asking you, sir." then 13 other girls appeared out of nowhere around the man, in the same fashion shadow 0-1 had, with various guns pointed at him "We're telling you, sir."
After a brief moment he agreed to sent his students to aid in repealing the grimm threat and the girls lowered their weapons, 0-1 placed a piece of paper on his desk and began to walk out before the man asked "If I may ask, who are you young ladies?"
Shadow 0-1 motioned the others to go and they pulled their hoods over their heads and disappeared leaving her and the man the only two in the room "We're Shadow's sir, nothing more than just mere Shadow's" then she pulled the hood over her head and disappeared as well, leaving the man all by himself to read the piece of paper.
-several minuets later-
The students of Beacon were loading them selves onto Bullhead airships in a hurry when they heard that Vale was under attack by grimm and they were tasked with aiding in the efforts to hold them off until the Vale military came and finished things up.
"It's weird, why did Headmaster Ozpin tell us we were aiding in efforts to repeal the grimm?" asked a blond teen with a orange undershirt under a black hoodie and a white chest plate and a set of white shoulder guards, a pair of blue jeans that had a sword plus it's. and black shoes
"Not quite sure about that yet, but judging by the sound of his voice over the speakers he sounded more worried than ever before." answered another teen with black hair with a magenta streak, a green tailcoat with black and gold trimmings, tan pants, and black shoes.
"Who cares!" yelled a hyper short orange haired teen with collared black vest with a sleeveless white top with a heart shape in the center underneath that, on her back was what appeared to be a gray grenade launcher, detached white sleeves on her arms leading to pink finger less gloves, a pink skirt that ended mid thigh, and pink and white shoes "We get to actually fight some big bad 'ready to kill you in a moments notice' grimm and save the world from the gri-"
"Nora..." the black haired teen said to his hyperactive teammate with a had placed over her mouth, who simply nodded her understanding before the teen removed his hand from her mouth, in front of them was a now scared beyond shitless blond who was being comforted by a pony tailed red head with light brown strapless top split in the middle by bronze, a low bronze V neck under that, on her back were a spear and shield, brown cut off sleeves on her arms, red mini skirt, bronze greaves, and brown bronzed trimmed shoes "There there Jaune, Nora's just excited to do something that doesn't involve classwork." the red head said
"I know that Pyrrha, but it doesn't make me feel any better that were facing some very dangerous grimm like Nora said." the now known Jaune said to a now known Pyrrha who nodded in understanding "Well while we're likely to encounter combat with grimm our only task is to aid in the effort to hold the grimm off until actual help arrives."
"Yeah I know that but who knows when that'll come and if we're all alive at that point." Jaune sighed
"Best not to depress yourself just yet, we'll need you out there leading us. For as they say before a major battle 'Shit is about to hit the fan.' " the black haired teen said while placing a reassuring hand on Jaune's shoulder.
"Thanks Ren." he smiled a bit at the now known Ren before sighing once more "But I think the shit as already hit the fan and we're moving up to the next best thing."
They all boarded the Bullhead along with three other groups of 4 as others did the same. Once they were in the hatch closed they took off with one of the pilot's say "Welcome every one to the Bullhead now known as Beacon 5. We're heading into Vale to aid in the defense for the rest of the city as we have currently lost the downtown portion of Vale." everyone murmured there worry at this before the co pilot said in a feminine voice "We'll be arriving at The Wall shortly."
From worried mummers to full blown panic took over the students as they now hastily readied themselves for anything they would encounter.
"And that's our current situation as of right now. " the co pilot said, now that everyone was scared and nervous about what they were about to do. "We'll be perfectly honest with you people, with so many grimm attacking, many if not all of you will die out there protecting the people of this city. I apologize for lowering moral levels like that but right now we need you to help and new faces will help moral for a bit."
It was then quite for a few moments as they contemplated their chances of surviving and that wasn't much. Then full blown arguments and conversations erupted as many decided that if they were going to die be it guns blazing on the front lines in front of The Wall and pride in their actions. While others opted to help from whatever The Wall was seeing as many of the riflemen would need the extra help and firepower that the students could provide. the rest decided to help in more medical and strategic positions behind The Wall as they very much wanted to live
"Well that was reassuring..." Jaune sarcastically sighed before holding his stomach with both arms and his face turning green for a second before returning to normal.
"I say we head to the front of whatever this Wall is!" Nora yelled with a giant smile on her face
"Nora are you..." Pyrrha began before Juane stopped her with a hand on her shoulder "She's right you know." Ren nodded his agreement
"What?" the spartan asked not quite understanding whatever logic Nora had apparently showed that convinced both Juane and Ren to agree with her, that was just plain scary for her to even understand.
"Your the only one out of the four of us that any true long range capabilities. Your going to be needed at The Wall to help keep the grimm at bay with rifle fire while the three of us are being the vanguard for everyone else."
"Why can't Nora go wall instead?" she argued
"I think I speak for everyone here and everyone down there, the last thing we need is to be nailed by pink grenades from something we're supposed to be protecting."
"Not only that but guessing on how they would have positioned their riflemen, I think the higher off the ground they were the less likely they deal with ground grimm and allow them to focus on giving support and defensive fire." Ren stated the assumption in his head
"See what I mean? You'll be more useful with your rifle then your sword/javelin and shield."
"I guess..." she sighed with defeat in her voice "But please just promise me that the three of you will come back alive and in one piece."
"You bet we'll come back and we'll be back as hero's!" Nora yelled while snaking arms around Juane and Ren's necks and bringing them in close.
Pyrrha just giggled at her teams hyper active bomber as she did her usual antics "Just try not to kill the only two men on our team before you can go and be called hero's."
"What?" Nora yelled as the rear bay door opened while they were in the air still and the pilot spoke over the speaker "Heads up kids, the LZ is too hot for all 7 Bullheads to land with out a major aerial accident occurring so your going to have to jump out and think fast on where you want to be."
Suddenly they felt a lot more worried then ever before, now instead of a safe landing to figure out where they were going to be, now they had to jump from about god knows how high off the ground and make a split second call on where they were to be and stick with it.
Well some most of them anyway's as everyone in Beacon 5 and the other Bullheads heard a ungodly caw as a giant raven with red eyes dug it's talons into the front of one Bullhead.
"Oh no..." Juane said what was on everyone's mind
The speakers roared to life with the voice pilot's of the Bullhead under attack "Shit! We're going down! Everyone brace!" then the Bullhead came crash landing before they reached the downtown area.
"Testler! Testler! If your still alive answer me dammit!" another pilot yelled
"Sinch, I'm sorry, but Testler's dead..." yet another said
"Who else was in there with Testler's Bullhead?"
"I believe Teams CRDL(Cardinal), HLFR(Hell fire), STGR(Stinger), and HLIX (Helix) were with him."
The other teams were now morning the 4 teams as Beacon 5 came under attack and rocking the entire Bullhead "Beacon 5 that Nevermore's back!"
"Yeah I kinda noticed!"
Another rocking of the Bullhead was felt with a scream of pain with another voice yelling "Shera!" followed by several curse's toward the giant bird
One of the students that wore a beret and a brown top ran towards the front of the Bullhead and kicked the door open. The sight wasn't pretty, the co pilot had most of her chest missing and a giant talon sitting between her legs as the pilot was speaking incoherent words as the sound of machine gun fire roared outside and a voice that could barely hear due to the gunfire hitting the back of the avian grimm "Hey you oversize bird over here!". The grimm released it's talons from the Bullhead and flew away as something flew after it.
Next thing they heard was a siren wail and they realized they were descending at a dangerous rate, the pilot tried to adjust the altitude and bring it back to level, but his dead co pilot managed to her dead body over her controls and now the Bullhead was spiraling out of control down.
"Everyone out now!" the student yelled and everyone decided to chance it and make it to The Wall or die trying. Everyone jumped out praying for a safe landing, well as safe as jumping out of a out of control airship and into a war zone filled with hungry black skinned monsters that have a nice love of human flesh can be, before heading straight for the Wall where ever it was. Juane and his team had jumped out and they didn't exactly have an idea how to land with out injury much like everyone else, however Nora had an idea and grabbed everyone and yelled for them to hold on. She eyed a two story building and aimed for it.
"Nora!" the three of them yelled in a panic while Nora just laughed manically, aimed her grenade launcher at it and fired a single grenade at the roof on it. The blast slowed them down enough to more or less land in one piece.
"How did..." Pyrrha asked wanting to know how she did that. However the roof creaked a little and ultimately gave underneath them and they fell onto the floor below.
"Ow..." they said before hearing the sound of firearms being cocked behind the smoke. The four of them pulled their weapons out, while Nora shifted her grenade launcher into a war hammer. As the smoke died down a bit, they could make out 9 silhouette's around them.
"Drop your weapons and put your hands where I can see them!" one silhouette ordered in a female voice, the smoke finally died and they could make out 9 females in black military uniforms with guns pointed at them as well as several civilians cowering behind them and cover.
"Juane..." Ren began before the same voice barked "I said drop your weapons and put your hands where I can see them or else we will have no choice but to kill you!"
Realizing the situation, Juane ordered Ren, Pyrrha, and Nora to do what they were ordered. Once they did and put their arms in the air the women began to shoot him with questions "Who are you? Why did you fall on us? Are you the cause of this invasion?"
"Whoa whoa slow down there, I'm sure we can settle this..." Juane couldn't finish as the girl that was ordering them to drop their weapons stepped closer and aimed her M4A1 carbine pointed at his crotch while staring him dead in the face "Either you answer me right now or you answer me right after I ensure you won't have any kids." she said in a very dark voice
He gulped at the threat. Why is everyone so keen on destroying my chances of having kids later on? I mean first Weiss, then Yang, and now this girl that I don't even know. What did I do to deserve this? he thought before feeling the rifle's barrel touching his jeans where his privates were and heard the girl say "5..."
"My names Juane Arc!" he yelled realizing he didn't have much time left to answer her and pointed to his team "This is Pyrrha Nikos, he's Lei Ren, and she's Nora Valkyrie, together we make Team JNPR! We fell on top of you because the Bullhead we were riding in was attacked and we were forced to jump out! And we didn't cause this invasion, we were told to aid a unknown military force that was fighting against the grimm until the Vale military arrived!"
It was quiet for a second before another female voice ask "Switchback?" towards the girl that had her rifle poised for instant castration of the poor boy.
"Weapons down, their with us." Switchback said and the others lowered their weapons and went back to where ever they were before JNPR fell on top of them, Switchback removed her rifle from Juane's jeans, much to his and whatever children he would have relief, and offered him a hand which he shook.
"Sorry about that, we're a bit on edge because of all this." Switchback apologized
"N-no it's alright, I'm kinda used to castration threats..."
"I'm not going to ask." she said with a slight smile on he face "Anyway's it only seems fair that if you told us who you are, we tell you who we are."
"I'm Omega 0-1 or Switchback as you already heard." the Asian girl with black hair and a blackball cap over it and brown eyes said before pointing over to a girl that was tending to a minor cut on one of of the civilians "Next is..."
The girl stood up, she was tan with ebony hair, hazel eyes and they noticed a red cross on one of her sleeves "Omega 0-2 at your service, but you can call me Med" Med introduced herself "Any of you hurt from that little fall you did?" to which she received a collective "No." from the four teens
A whistle got their attention to a white blond teenage girl and blue eyes with a SCAR-H rifle in her hands smiling at them "Omega 0-3, but it's Mono just so you know."
"Name's Blade, but my call sign's Omega 0-4, so your supposed to be our backup or something?" Blade asked as she continued to sharpen a kunai, she was a tanned girl with black hair rolled into a a high pony tail.
"Well no, we were heading to The Wall when we were attacked by a Nevermore and were forced to jump out of our Bullhead." Jaune explained
"Right...sorry."
Then a white skinned girl with orange streaks in her short black hair and a USAS-12 shotgun on her back stepped forward and said " Greetings, current operator's call sign is Omega 0-6, alias known as Det."
"Dose she always talk like that?" Ren asked as he looked down to the street below from a window and then back to the group.
"That's kinda a long story and no she didn't always talk like that, it's a bit complicated." a dark skinned girl with long ebony hair and brown eyes sadly as she looked down the sights of her M4
"I see, it must have been painful for you all."
"Well we got used to it to the point where we could joke her about it." she said a bit happier than she was a few seconds ago. "Anyways I'm Omega 0-7, but it's Tech."
"Yeah because all you do is talk about tech like it's a art form or something." another blond with brown eyes said earning a glare from Tech "Call me Swift, call sign's Omega 0-8."
"Swift play nice mate." a dark haired, white skinned girl said in a British accent before turning to JNPR "I'm Omega 0-9, but call me Sights alright mate?"
They all nodded and then heard something buzzing and looked at a pale white skin girl with dirty blond hair and purple eyes and a quad drone that had a light machine gun mounted underneath it "Oh sorry had to let Dragonfly out to test her circuits. I'm Omega 1-0 , better known as Sentry, nice to meet yall." said in a southern accent
"Um.. aren't you missing someone?" Pyrrha asked after the introductions
"Yeah Omega 0-5 isn't here and to be honest none of us have any idea where the blue hell he's been all day." Switchback said
"Do you think..." Juane began but struggled with the next word which everyone picked up on
"Dead? No." Mono said "There's no way the only male in our team could be dead, he's far to stubborn for that to happen."
"Anyway's we need to get out of here, if I'm correct the Vale military will likely shell the entire downtown area before sending troops in for cleanup." Ren stated
"Agreed and lucky for you guys we already had a plan before you decided to drop on in." Switchback said before handing a flare to Juane. "I'm assuming there's going to be a Bullhead or two in the air looking for survivors still, despite all the birds in the air. We use these to signal them and they land down and we all get in and watch from a distance the fireworks."
"Doesn't that involve going into the street for them to land since I'm pretty sure the rooftops here aren't going to hold especially due to the grimm hitting them and fighting hordes of grimm?"
"Lucky for us that the main threat is in the North sector since that's where this all started from. We're in the North East sector so there's only one quarter or so of these,,,grimm you said?... to deal with instead of a endless wave of them."
With that said they all prepared for the hell that was going to happen when they make down there, at least they had a plan of sorts. "Nikos, you and Sights get onto the roof tops and provide as much cover fire for us as long as you have bullets." the two nodded as Sights grabbed her SR-25 DMR, both went to a window that had a fire escape and went to the roof. "Valkyrie I need you and Det to clear the immediate area plus what ever LZ we improvise." they two nodded as Det grabbed a small box and chucked it out the window.
"Uh..." Ren began but got a finger to his lips by Tech who simply said "Wait for it." and Det pressed a detonator in her hand and a extra loud explosion could be heard from outside as Det simply smiled at her work and Nora laughed saying she already liked Det.
"Now you see why we call her Det?"
"Yes."
"All right everyone grab your ass and put into gear, cause we got a hell of a night ahead of us." Switchback ordered as everyone got up and began to aid the civi's downstairs, while Nora just jumped out the window Det had chucked the box of explosives from and onto the ground in front of the building as the front door was kicked open by Mono as Juane and Switchback popped their flares. A Bullhead that was flying over head saw it and flew over two blocks over and hovered in the air telling them that was the LZ they were to head to.
"Move it people that's our ticket out of here!" Mono yelled
-Forever Fall-
The ground was littered with black blood as two red reapers with their scythes still out stared at their handiwork.
"Well that was fun." Riku said with a smile on his face
"Yup." Ruby answered with a smile on her's
"Any idea where we should head?"
Ruby put a hand under her chin as she pondered this for a second before a white portal opened up in front of them "I think that way." pointing at the portal.
Shaking his head in amusement "What gave it away?"
"Come on, maybe we'll make back home and get some rest."
"So long as the words 'warm bed' and 'hot food' are included, I'm in."
"Well the food may not be hot and the beds may not be warm but they'll do I think..."
"Good enough for me." and they walked into the portal expecting peace
-Somewhere far to the north-
"I must say Tracy, these are really comfortable." Weiss said
"Told you I could do it." Tracy said with pride
The two now wore Beartic skin clothes over their own and Weiss was very impressed by how Tracy could create them without a sewing machine and several hours of labor.
"How did you do it?" she asked wanting to know
"Just something you pick up when you fight for life and don't have much chance of anyone saving you."
Then a portal of white light opened before them. "Think it's time for us to leave."
"If it leads to somewhere that doesn't involve fighting then it'll be a miracle."
"Beats being here."
"Fair enough." and they stepped into the portal
-Forest around the secret White Fang base-
Kate and Blake searched around their area calling out for their friends...
"Urgh...this is hopeless..." Kate said with a defeated voice
...with no luck in their search.
"It's not like we can just give up." Blake said trying to give her hope as well as herself
"Oh yeah it's not like a portal will magically appear in front of us." surprisingly that's what happened
They stared at each other as Blake said "You have some seriously weird luck."
"So what I've been told. Come on maybe our friends are on the other side of this thing." and into the portal they went
-Dessert somewhere in Vacuo-
Stella and Yang were now enjoying the sight of several Sand Sharks eating the insides of the Death Stalker with a mix of disgust and happiness.
"How did you know that would work?" Yang asked
"It's an old trick to use with any shark. Though I didn't expect black blood to come out of this thing."
"You get used to it." Yang shrugged as a white portal opened behind them "Let's go our rides here."
"Think it'll be normal on the other side?"
"Well if it ain't we'll be ready to kick some major butt!"
Stella just shook her head but kept the smile on it from her fellow blonds confidence "Have fun taking them head on."
"What about you?"
Stella showed Yang one of her Hidden Intent's blades and said "I prefer to stab people in the back."
"Literally too." and they walked into the portal
-Vale-
On the rooftops above the chaos down below and keeping over watch on their team, Sights and Pyrrha were engaging everything that looked beastly.
"This seems like there's no end to them!" Pyrrha yelled as she took down a pack of Beowolves with head shots
"Well Switchback did say we wouldn't deal with as many of these things, not that this would be a walk in the park!" Sights yelled doing the same as Pyrrha did to another pack of Beowolves. Once Team JNPR and Omega team left their line of fire they ran towards the next building when the saw something bright catch their eyes.
The portals opened leaving Riku, Ruby, Weiss, Tracy, Kate, Blake, Yang, and Stella there and not exactly expecting a war zone.
"Are we still in Remnant?" Yang asked surprised by the amount of chaos apparent around them.
"We have to be..." Blake said "This place looks like Vale."
"Don't think the city was in the middle of a war this morning..." Riku said remembering the entire day if there was anything that could incite such a thing.
"We must have died and gone to hell..." Weiss said with obvious dread in her voice.
"Oi Rose!" Sights yelled as she and Pyrrha ran towards them
"Sights?" Riku asked surprised and very happy to see one of his teammate "So we're not dead!"
"The bloody hell would make you think that!?" she yelled as she tackled hugged him, that question was all they needed to know they weren't dead yet.
"Hate to break up this little happy reunion but what the hell is going on?" Kate asked wanting an explanation
"Pyrrha?" Ruby asked
"An invasion of grimm hit Vale somehow. Headmaster Ozpin called all students to aid a military force fighting them of until the Vale military comes and takes it from there." Pyrrha explained
"That would be you I assume?" Weiss asked
"Me, him and everyone else in a black military uniform." Sights said "Rose, think your up for getting out of this place?"
"What's the plan?"
"We're a block from the Bullhead that's picking us up. Omega team plus JNPR is escorting a few civi's to it, mind lending a hand?"
RIku just smiled as he yelled "There's no way in hell I'm letting these things get in my way and a bed."
"Good." she said before they heard a 'Kah!' they all looked up to see a Nevermore descend on them with talons out,
"W-what is that?" Tracy asked eyes wide at the sight until Yang yelled "Nevermore!"
"Move!" Sights yelled before the giant bird landed on the building
Down below they saw the Nevermore attack the building the 10 of them were on and Juane yelled "Pyrrha! Sights!"
"Heads up!" Yang yelled as she Sights, Weiss, Blake, and Kate landed on the ground
"Yang? Weiss? Blake?"
"Talk later Vomit boy run NOW!" the group picked their pace up and made it to the Bullhead as it began to lift off
"Hold it we still got people down there!" Blade yelled
"Sorry but the Vale military's here and their not going to wait." the pilot yelled back
"Then at least keep the hatch down so they have a chance!"
"Fine! But I'm not waiting for them!"
Back on the rooftops, Pyrrha and Stella were on a new rooftop looking at the Nevermore while Tracy, Riku and Ruby were still on the now unstable roof top.
"Tracy kill that thing!" Riku yelled
"Consider it done." Tracy yelled before sending a bunch of energy swords at it to get its attention off the red reapers
"Ruby!?"
"Over here!" Ruby yelled as she tried to get up but winced in pain when she was successful "You alright?" Riku asked when he ran over to her "No I think I landed on my leg weird."
"Look out!" Pyrrha yelled from a distance while firing her rifle until it clicked empty as the Nevermore tried to attack them with it's beak.
"Oh no you don't!" Tracy yelled sending a energy sword into it's head and blowing it up. It roared in pain as Stella appeared in the side of it's head with one hand holding her in front of one it's eye's and the other holding Riku's scythe, seeing this Pyrrha's hand glowed for a second along with the blade end of the scythe
"Hope you like this!" and slammed the scythe into the eye earning her a cry of pain from it as it tipped over the edge of the building. Stella landed on the building as the bird fell onto the streets below
"RIku!" they both yelled as they saw Riku hoist Ruby onto his back and he yelled "Lets get out of here."
They both nodded and Tracy put several of her energy blades on her back once again and flew to the Bullhead while Stella teleported in front of Pyrrha and told her to move and that Riku and Ruby would be fine.
"Hold on tight ok?" he asked to Ruby who nodded her head and Riku ran/vaulted/jumped across the rooftops toward the now about to leave Bullhead.
"There's no way he can make it." Ren said worriedly at the sight of Riku running towards their Bullhead as Tracy, Stella, and Pyrrha landed in the Bullhead "Don't worry he's pulled crazier stunts than this." Stella assured him
"We're not going to make it!" Ruby yelled
"Like hell we are!" Riku yelled back as he landed on the last rooftop as the Bullhead was readied to leave. With one final push from his muscles and a scream of exertion he made it to the Bullhead, well half of him anyway's. The Bullhead moved forward a bit causing Riku's chest to meet the ramp. He lost his breath, but got his his arms in front of him so he could have at least a little grip.
"Guys I'm slipping!" he yelled
Mono grabbed his arms and heaved the two reapers in.
"We're all here go go go!" Switchback yelled which the pilot happily did and left the soon to be shelled area.
"You two alright?" Blade asked them with worry on her face.
"Don't worry about me." Riku said "Just a few cracked ribs is all." then he got a pill bottle thrown at his face "Ow."
"That should ease your pain a bit." Med said as she walked over and crouched over to Ruby "And what about you Little Red?"
"I just landed on my leg funny." Ruby pointed to her right leg then Med looked over to Riku who was about to down the entirely full bottle of pills in one go "Rose, save a few of those for the girl you just saved."
Riku simply put the bottle away from his face, grabbed two of the pills and threw the at Med who caught them in her hand "Best she doesn't develop a dependency on them." Med simply nodded in agreement then told "Don't worry you just strained you muscles on the landing you did, but I'm recommending you stay away from anything that will involve running, for now just take these." Med explained as she handed the pills to her. "They'll taste weird since we don't have anything for you to drink with it, but bear with it."
Ruby just popped the pills into her mouth and swallowed hard the pills down. She didn't need to say anything because her face told it all 'These things are disgusting!'
"Painkillers, you got to love them..." Riku deadpanned
"Heads up people we're arriving at Beacon in 2 minuets."
"That place any worse than downtown?" Tech asked hoping for some peace and quiet as the sound of distant artillery signified the arrival of the Vale military.
"No it's about as peaceful as a combat school can be." Juane said
-Beacon-
Once they landed Teams RWBY, JNPR, and Omega team exited the Bullhead all very happy to be alive. As they walked towards the entrance of the school they were intercepted by Ozpin and a middle age blond women with a pair of glasses, white long sleeved business top with puffy sleeves, under a black buttoned business skirt leading to black boots with brown heels, and a tattered black cape with the inside of it purple. In her hand was a device that she looked into with anger and worry on her face.
"Welcome back, I would say a celebration for successfully holding off a grimm invasion until the Vale military arrived would be in order, sadly we no longer have the numbers necessary for a something like that." Ozpin said with dread in his voice
"W-what do you mean Headmaster?"
"Some of your classmates never made it onto the battlefield as the Nevermore's attacked the Bullhead's that were en route. The ones that survived the Nevermore attacks were killed when fighting their way to The Wall. Your two teams as well as several lucky individuals were the only ones to get out alive."
That wan't a good feeling for the the 21 teens there to hear. That was a lot of people that out there that died trying to hold off the grimm. They were the lucky ones and the fact they were the lucky ones didn't help them ease the pain of losing a lot of people.
"So would you like to introduce us to the 13 new people in front of us?" Ozpin asked
Switchback and the others, aside from Stella, Kate, and Tracy, suddenly stood at attention with a salute as they began to introduce themselves.
"Maj. Haruhi 'Switchback' Tokoshima, call sign Omega 0-1, commander of Omega team, sir!"
"LCpl. Luisa 'Med' Sanchez, call sign Omega 0-2, sir!"
"Sgt. Crystal 'Mono' Armstrong, call sign Omega 0-3, sir!"
"PFC. Blair 'Blade' Talito, call sign Omega 0-4, sir!"
"Capt. Riku 'Rose' Hyabusa, call sign Omega 0-5, sir!
"Current operator is SFC. Stacy Davenport alias known as 'Det', call sign Omega 0-6."
"SPC. Timira 'Tech' Owen, call sign Omega 0-7, sir!"
"GySgt. Sara 'Swift' Conner, call sign Omega 0-8, sir!"
"1stSgt. Emma 'Sights' Stonner, call sign Omega 0-9, sir!"
"SSgt. Molly 'Sentry' Finch, call sign Omega 1-0, sir!"
"Together we make Omega team from Project Knight Wolf. The project consisted of 634 highly rained soldiers tasked with safeguarding the innocent of the world and our own interests. The Wolf Knights as we were commonly called have participated in two wars and several operations around our world."
"What makes you think we should believe a word you said and that you not lying to our faces?" the blond at Ozpin's side asked skeptically
"Glynda..." Ozpin said not liking the way she asked the question
The nine Knights looked at Haruhi, who simply nodded and they began to remove their shirts to show them their upper bodies, the girls naturally placed a hand to cover their breast's from the eyes of the others.
Haruhi's body had scars on her arms that looked like at some point they were blown off, a burn wound that looked like she got hit by buckshot at pointblank range on her right side. A tattoo on her right shoulder showed a red arrowhead with a black dagger in it, above of it was a word in read that said in capital letters 'Airborne'.
Luisa's had several small puncture wounds in a small area that appeared that she had injected herself with something several times in the same place. around her wrist had a similar scar to Haruhi, and another similar burn wound on her right side that moved more towards her back.
Crystal's body while highly toned and sporting a six pack had gunshot wounds around her midsection, scars similar to the other's in terms of a explosion blowing her right arm off from the elbow, some discoloration on several spots on her arms that looked like they were broken and not taken proper care of, and a tattoo of a slightly bent black and gold rectangle with the word 'Ranger' in capital gold letters.
Blair's body had cut marks running everywhere on her body including ones that led down towards her waist, several gunshot wounds, and scars of an explosion around her lower arm.
Riku's body was similar to Crystal's but was less tone and had a four pack, had a similar wound to how Blair's were as far as the scar around her arm, there was a scar line that went from one side of his midsection to the other, a tattoo on his left shoulder had a Globe, Eagle, and Anchor in one tattoo and under that said in bold black letters 'The Few. The Proud.". Around his neck was a piece of black rope tied around a single bullet
Stacy's body looked the worst out them all, as her entire front looked like it was blown to pieces at some point. on her back in a slightly bent red rectangle with the word 'Sapper' in capital white letters.
Sara's body had a Eagle, Trident, Anchor, and a old flintlock pistol in one tattoo on her left side of her body while on the other side had the word SEAL going down her side, a scar on her right shoulder made it appear like it was blown off, and several gunshot wounds on her arms.
Timira's body had a picture of a aerial drone on her back and underneath it said 'Run and hide as much as you want. Because it's it will never work.' next to it was the number 14, lastly was the numerous gunshot wounds on her body
Emma's body had a similar necklace around her neck, on back the words 'Scout Sniper' in red and a sniper cross hair, on her left shoulder were the British and American flages tattooed on, her arm's from the lower arm down to her hands were burned, but not like the others where they looked like they were blown off, her's looked like she was set on fire.
Lastly Molly's body was covered in several oil stains, bullet wounds, and her stomach had a tattoo of a skull with a monkey wrench behind it along with a rifle in a X shape under it said the words 'Grease Monkey'
While they were surprised and taken back by the wounds they had, what took the cake for all of them was the wolf ears and wolf tail they had.
"They're all Faunus?" Blake asked not believing her eye's
"My my well this certainly is a surprise." Ozpin said in a even voice hiding his surprise
"Answer me this ma'am." Haruhi said straight to Glynda "Do these bodies look like we would lie and have lived peaceful lives instead?"
The middle age blond didn't say a word, everyone took that as her acceptance of their words.
"I take it you three are under the same circumstances?" Ozpin asked towards Kate, Stella, and Tracy
"That we are, I'm Stella, this is Tracy, and this is Kate, however we aren't a part of Project Knight Wolf were allies of them, the three of us as well as Riku were once part of Project Hunter but that Project was forcefully discontinued."
"I see. So the ten of you, Omega team correct?, you are all soldiers?"
"Yes they are." a voice called out they all turned to see Makarov, Sergei, Savannah, a white skinned women, and several Knights walk ahead of them.
"RIKU!" a voice yelled before anyone could say a single word and Riku was tackled to the ground in between Ozpin, Glynda and the others. "Ow..." they all said as they sweat dropped happy they weren't the ones tackled like that.
Looking up Riku saw Lindsey's face as a smile appeared on his face "Lindsey?" they hugged each other happy to see each other until Riku's face changed from happy to pained as Lindsey got up and raised him in the air, she cried tears of joy "I have't seen you all day, I thought you died!" as she put him in a hug so tight one could hear the sound of his bones breaking his said in a pained voice "Lins*crack*ribs*crack*lungs*crack*help..."
"Huh?" Juane asked
"She's hugging him so hard that his ribs are breaking and piercing his lungs and he's now asking for help." Blake explained with worry on her face as they watch a man about to be murdered by love.
"Hey Blondie, mind giving me a hand?" Mono asked
"Me?" Juane asked as he pointed to himself
"Sorry Scraggly, but I meant the blond with the bracelets."
"I guess..." Yang said as the two blonds moved over to the brown haired wolf and the black and red haired wolf and but hands on each arm "Ready?" Yang nodded "One. Two. Three!" after several seconds of pulling they freed Riku from the death hug of his unofficial little sister and brought her back a few steps while telling her that she was killing him to which she was denying.
"You alright Riku?" Ruby asked worriedly as he got up and breathed heavily for a second before asking "Med you have any more painkillers?"
"Let me check..."
As she searched her backpack they all heard a pair of voices yell "BRO!"
"Glynda, I think we should move."
"Agreed sir." and the stepped to the side and Riku was dive bombed tackled by a pair of pink haired girls even further away from the group.
Thank god I'm not in his position... everyone thought with a bigger sweat drop as they saw the poor reaper wolf tackled further away from them
"Yui Yukki I just got out of Lin's death hug, I'm pretty sure if you keep hugging me you'll finish the job..."
The identical pink haired girls quickly let go and helped him up "Hehe, sorry bro." they said in unison
"Heads up Rose." Luisa shouted and threw another bottle of painkillers towards him and Yui caught it and handed it to him, he then popped the top of and downed the entire bottle.
"Better?" Yukki asked
"Better."
"Honestly Arcangel Arcfiend, you two must enjoy putting him through pain..." Blair face palmed at the sight of his teammate/friend being hurt in the span of 30 seconds
"Now now Blair they're just happy to see their only brother alive is all." Sergei laughed
"And who may the four of you be?" Ozpin asked taking more and more interest in the situation
"I''m Sergei Zukav, this is my brother Makarov, this is Savannah Sandoval, and this is Helen Pierce." he introduced while pointing to each as he did "We're members of Project Knight Wolf as well as the four commanders of the Wolf Knights."
"I'm the Headmaster of Beacon my name is Ozpin." He introduced himself "And this fun loving women is Glynda Goodwitch a professor here." he introduced Glynda with a bit of sarcasm in there that she scoffed at.
"Good, with the introductions out of the way, I think it's time we took back our Knights and left." Makarov said
"Now hold for just a moment." Ozpin said and now eyed Makarov who was doing the same thing.
"Seeing as you are all hero's to the city I believe it's only proper to allow you to stay here before you take your leave."
"I think I have a better solution to this entire situation." Savannah said with her usual smile on her face
"Oh, do tell."
"Seeing as your student population has been lowered by recent events, we'll help you repopulate the school once more with very promising talent."
"What's the catch?"
"All you have to do is allow Sergei, Makarov, Helen, and myself teach here and allow some of our Knights to attend the school as well. Simple no?"
"Now why would we-" Goodwitch began before Ozpin said "Agreed."
She just looked at him with a shocked yet disapproving glare "Now Glynda, they are hero's after all, it only seems fair. What's the worse that can happen?"
"Thank you sir, however I will say this." Savannah said "We're no hero's, we're simply survivors."
"Aren't we all?"
After that Riku told Yui and Yukki to go grab a room and get some sleep even if he wasn't there, despite their insistence of not wanting to have him leave their sights. The others had put their shirts back on and had left dragging the pink haired twins with them, Riku simply grabbed his shirt and cloak and held them in his arm. And began walking with Team RWBY
"Your not going to put them on?" Ruby asked
"I don't think my chest will enjoy the feeling of body armor or cloth for that matter." Riku said as he felt his chest hurt every time he breathed but the pain was getting more and more tolerable and he could have sworn he heard Yang whisper "Yes!" when he said he was staying topless. "Anyway's I need to find a room to sleep in before they're all taken."
"You can stay with us." Ruby said
"Ruby are you insane!?" Weiss yelled "He's a guy, what if he tries to do something to us?"
"I've lived most of my life around girls, I've slept in the same room as them with out sleeping with them in the same bed so you don't have to worry about a thing Weiss." Riku explained
"See? Wolf Boy ain't gona bite you in your sleep." Yang said before grabbing his arm "Now let's go!" and ran dragging Riku behind her.
Ruby would have chased after them, but Weiss reminded her what Luisa said about running, so she followed at the same pace as Weiss and Blake.
Once they were all in Team RWBY's room Riku had one thought concerning their idea of bunk beds "Is that even safe?"
"Well it's held up for this long with out failing, I don't see why it would fail now." Ruby said
"Well at any rate, I'll just sleep on the floor."
"What?"
"Those are your beds right? I don't want to be anymore of a bother to you all than I already am."
"Your not a bother to us Riku, you'll just sleep in one of our beds." Blake said
"Not mine, no offence but I prefer to not have wolf hair in my bed." Weiss said earning glares from everyone but Riku
"Weiss." They said disapproving her statement
"None taken. Guess it's the floor for me."
You'r sleeping in my bed." Yang said
"Wait why dose he get to sleep with you?" Blake asked with slight anger in her voice but no one noticed
"He'll sleep in my bed, while I bunk with Ruby." and she climbed up to Ruby's
"I don't think that's such a good idea..." RIku said before the ropes holding Ruby's bed up came undone and it fell down onto Weiss's bed "Called it..."
"Good thing I wasn't in bed yet."
Riku had just tossed his top and cloak into a corner and placed his M1911 pistols onto a desk and was about lie on the ground when Blake said "You'll sleep in my bed with me, I don't mind as long as you don't get any ideas, but I think you won't."
"Well I guess that sounds-" Riku began before Ruby yelled "Wait why can't he sleep in my bed?"
"He values his life and doesn't want to deal with a angry Yang in the morning." Weiss said matter of factly
Ruby just pouted with her arms crossed her chest "Honestly I'm 15, not 12."
"Huh your a year younger than me."
"Wait your 16!?" they yelled in surprise
"Don't I look it?"
"No, you look a bit older maybe 17 or 18 and you definitely don't act like a teenager."Blake said
"Well I've had it rough trying to take care of Yui and Yukki by myself since I we told my grandmother not worry about us and not move in with us. And I guess I look older is because of the stress of worrying about them all the time."
"They're you sisters?" Yang asked
"Adopted twin sisters."
"How did you get your parents to sign both of them?"
He didn't answer for a bit and Yang thought she stepped on a mine
"My parent's were long dead by the time I met the twins, so I got my guardians to sign the papers to adopt them." he said sadly
"Riku I'm so sorry. I didn't know, I'm sure they would have been proud to know you took them in."
"Would they?" he asked and everyone didn't understand what he meant "My father died on a mission before I was born and my mother died giving birth to me. All I had left were my grandmother, my guardians and my older sister, then..." he started to tear up at the thoughts
"...my guardians and my sister were murdered because someone wanted to get back at us...my grandmother wasn't around at the time so she got away and by the time she got back Yui, Yukki, and I were alone with no one left in our family but the three of us..."
They couldn't believe what they just heard, the things he went through and it was probably only a year or two ago he went through them!
Oh man, that's something I didn't expect to hear, he seemed so nice and he saved me and Blake and for him to go through that...it's just not right...I-I need to help him anyway I can!
For him to undergo that type of traumatic event, most people would have broken down and go insane but he... he bared it all and stayed sane all the while caring for a pair of twins... he suddenly makes me happy I still have my family despite our name and our past.
Me and him are certainly similar in a lot more way's than I originally thought...but the events he told and not needing much detail, it's hard to just hear that coming from one who is more concerned about us more than himself. he has a dark past that will forever haunt him yet he puts a smile on despite it and is more than willing to help others...kinda reminds me of Juane but this is more serious, far more serious...I need to be there with him so he isn't alone in pain anymore.
Oh man that was really deep, I never knew my mother and Ruby never knew Summer but at least we still had dad. He didn't have either of his parents from the start! I know there's people that have survived without their actual parents but even his guardians and his own sister were murdered and so he's forced to be the parental figure for both the pink haired look a likes and he was still developing as a teen...even I doubt I could go through the things he went through, not by a long shot.
Riku finished crying enough for him to get his composure back together and climb up to Blake's bed wishing for this day to be just a horrible nightmare. The others despite their thoughts went to their beds after they moved Ruby's off Weiss's and their thoughts began to turn to the events they were told and if they were in his shoes. They didn't sleep for a long time as they were more concerned about Riku's mental health
Don't worry Riku, your not alone anymore and I'll be there with you so you never feel that type of pain ever again this was the last thought they had before sleep finally took over.