Author's Note: Late chapter is late. When No Man's Sky becomes playable and Titanfall 2 Frontier Defense happens, not to even mention school starting up and work, you tend to lose time. But oh well, at least it's here. Also just as I was finishing this chapter the announcement for Postcards from the Frontier got announced and I gotta say, I NEED THAT KRABER WARPAINT. Not to mention every single new banner, RIP Onyx. Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and RWBY belong to their respective owners Respawn Entertainment and Rooster Teeth, go support both please and thank you. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter IV

"Seeing as we can't effectively transport your Titan as you call it, we will have to walk back to the city of Vale south of here. We will be escorted by our ships, so no need to worry about attack," explained Winter to Revenant, leaning back in the opened cockpit of Northy as the group traveled southward.

"Me? Worry about attack? Did you see what I did to that scorpion thing? It was so badass! Nothing can stop me!" proudly exclaimed Revenant, trying his hardest to impress Winter.

"That pride is gonna get you killed," replied Winter, "Not like I'd care."

"Oh, I'm hurt," said Revenant, dramatically putting a hand over his forehead.

Winter rolled her eyes and decided to stay quiet for now, not wanting to provoke anymore conversation between her and the clearly unstable alien, or maybe that's normal for his species? Is he even a he? Now Winter had questions.

"No no that's stupid," whispered Winter to herself, shaking her head. He's clearly humanoid, not like what all those movies seem to show aliens as.

"Four unknown human life signs approaching, they appear to have slipped under the view of your comrades Specialist Schnee, due to their small size," announced Northy.

"Oh great, must be a team from Beacon Academy. You," she turned to Revenant, "stay quiet, I'll do the talking."

"I'm a perfectly fine ambassador," Winter's glare didn't break at all, "Fine fine, whatever you say," said Revenant finally, closing the hatch of his Titan covering himself. To Revenant and Northy, they could hear four distinct female voices, thanks to the tech on board the Titan. Winter however couldn't hear anything that they were saying or even where they were coming from. "They're coming in at nine o'clock," said Revenant quietly over Northy's equipped loudspeakers.

"What do you think the caused that explosion from earlier? I bet it was a reallllly big Grimm!"

"Ruby, don't get your hopes up, and quite frankly I'd rather not fight a Grimm that could've caused such a large blast."

"You don't have to crush her dreams all the time Weiss," at the mention of this name Winter flinched, "All she wants to do is kick some butt! Right Blake?"

"You clearly want to fight whatever caused the explosion as much as Ruby, Yang. I advise we find whatever it was and not engage, but report back to Ozpin so that a higher grade team can handle it."

Four girls walked into view, the first was a short, black haired girl with red fading in at the edges. She was wearing a black and red blouse as well as a skirt. The second looked very identical to Winter, with white hair, but brought back into a pony tail. Also wearing a skirt but with a more refined look to herself, she was short as well but not as short as the red one. The next one was a black haired girl with a bow on top of her head. She was wearing an outfit of black and white that seemed to give off a stealth feel to Revenant. The last girl was the tallest of them all, and clearly the strongest. Long blonde locks of hair combined with some slightly revealing clothing made her quite the site to behold.

The white one, Weiss, froze in place as soon as she looked forward and saw the giant mech. Her frozen position led the red one, Ruby, to bump into her. "Weiss, why'd you stop walk-" A long pause before Ruby finished her sentence, taking in what she was seeing, "-ing."

"Woah," said Yang, the blonde, under her breath, looking up at the menacing robot.

"Uh guys, there are Atlas ships right above us, I don't think we're supposed to be here," said Blake, back pedaling slowly.

"You're not," spoke up Winter, walking forward as to take the attention off of the Titan and onto her as to not send the girls running in fear.

Weiss's head shot over to Winter after hearing her voice, "Winter?! I thought you weren't supposed to be here until the Festival!"

"You know this chick?" suddenly spoke Revenant's voice over the Titan loudspeakers.

"I thought I told you to be quiet!" hissed Winter.

"Ah! It talked! Giant talking robot!" suddenly yelled Ruby, startled by the voice.

"Quiet, all of you," Winter pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration, "This is a top secret Atlas military op, Ozpin should've been notified to not send any teams in. Why are you four out here?"

"We were out here minding our own business hunting some Grimm on our free time. Next thing you know we see all these flaming objects start falling form the sky, then later. A while later we felt the ground shake and we saw a huge explosion in the distance! So we decided to check it out," explained Yang.

"Yang and Ruby thought it was a bunch of space Grimm or something stupid like that," said Blake, gesturing over to the two.

"I thought it was none of our business, and it looks like I was right. But at least I get to see you Winter," said Weiss.

"You four are coming with us, we can't let word of this get out to the public or mass panic will spread," ordered Winter, regaining her composure yet again.

"What happened exactly?" asked Ruby, not being able to take her eyes off of the Titan.

After a few seconds, Winter came up with a fake story, "Meteorites made contact with the surface of Remnant, the White Fang made a clear beeline to the impact sites and we needed to make sure that they didn't get anything that would give them an edge."

"What about the giant robot? It looks way more advanced than anything Atlas could make," observed Blake.

"Experimental, classified. Since you four have seen it you'll need to sign some papers that will swear you into not saying a word about this," replied Winter, keeping a stern stare on all of them.

"But, how do some meteorites spread mass panic... unless it's something big?" asked Yang, tilting her head slightly.

Silence from Winter as she tried to think up something, but before she could Revenant spoke up from inside Northy, "Looks like your little excuse is falling apart."

"I said zip it!" yelled Winter, spinning around to look at Northy with fire in her eyes, the fire intended for Revenant.

"Excuse for what?" asked Weiss, slightly tilting her head, curious as to why her sister was so upset over this.

The cockpit on the Titan opened, revealing the Pilot inside. "Well, to put it simply, aliens," said Revenant, posing himself almost as if he was holding a box along it's sides. This only made Winter more furious.

"Do you not care for our planet's social stability?!" yelled Winter.

"Woah," said all four teenage girls simultaneously.

"It's like those mecha anime I watch sometimes, but so much cooler," said Ruby, jaw dropped and unable to break her stare aimed at Northy and Revenant.

"I don't know what that is, but thanks kid," said Revenant. Suddenly, a notification for an incoming transmission popped up on his helmets HUD display, accompanied by an annoying alarm ringtone. "Hold up, gotta take a phone call," said Revenant while Winter was desperately trying to calm down team RWBY. He closed the front hatch and sat back in the cockpit and opened communications with whoever was trying to contact him, "Alright, who's prank calling me?"

"Your child like antics won't be tolerated for much longer Pilot Revenant, or should I say mercenary?" said a harsh, deep man's voice, "As for who you're currently speaking to, it's none of your concern as you'll be dead within the hour. I originally was going to offer you the choice of leaving this system or staying to die, but you've killed too much of our men, and you're going to be paying with the bounty on your head. Expect us." And immediately after those last two words, the trademarked catch phrase for The Ivory Gauntlet.

"Expect us? That's gotta be ripped off from somewhere," pondered Revenant. Several knocks on the outer chassis could be heard as well as Ruby's voice.

"Woah, it's so hard and solid," she said, knocking on the chassis a few more times.

"I believe the appropriate thing to say in this moment is 'That's what she said', am I wrong?" said Northy, startling Ruby enough that she didn't notice the dirty joke Northy attempted.

"Gah! He's a lady now!" said Ruby excitedly.

"Ruby, get down from there, you don't know how many moving parts up there could crush you!" yelled Yang up to Ruby.

"To be fair you don't know either, Yang," said Blake quietly.

Ruby jumped down from the front of the Titan, allowing Revenant to open the front hatch again. "The woman's voice you just heard is Northy, my Titan's AI," said Revenant, leaning against the frame trying to look cool.

"An AI? How much computing power does she have?" asked Weiss.

"Not important, all you need to know is that a Titan's AI is a Pilot's best friend, they do a lot of things for us," informed Revenant.

"You can tell us all the details later when we get out of this forest, we need to start moving again, you four are coming with us," said Winter, having regained her temper yet again today.

"Actually, give me some coordinates to where I need to go. I was contacted with a threat to kill me within sixty minutes just a little bit ago and I'd rather not have you people caught up in it. These guys have some heavy weaponry and you wouldn't stand a chance," replied Revenant, backing up into the cockpit and closing the frontal hatch yet again.

"I understand that you killed a lot of them, as gruesome as it is, but why do they want you dead so badly that they'll kill you as fast as possible?" asked Winter, the four girls eyes widening when they heard that this guy had blood on his hands.

"Maybe it's because I have a large bounty of several million credits on me, means I've killed a lot of people if you couldn't tell," replied Revenant through the loudspeakers on Northy's chassis.

"H-how do you live with yourself? How many innocent lives have you taken?" asked a mortified Ruby, shocked to hear how much money Revenant got stacked on himself from just solely killing people.

Revenant just burst out laughing at that, "Kid, anybody I've killed is far from innocent. I'm a bounty hunter, I do what the client tells me to do no matter what. With some obvious restrictions but that's pretty universal."

"Pilot, incoming Ivory Gauntlet drop pods and Titanfall signatures. They really want us dead," announced Northy.

"Titans?! The client said there were no Titans or Pilots!" yelled Revenant, he turned to Winter, "Get your people down out of your ships to hide, more giant robots and soldiers are gonna fall from the sky. To put it simply."

"Like hell we're gonna hide, we can help you, our weapons aren't useless against these people," Winter replied, trying to convince Revenant that they weren't helpless.

While Winter and Revenant started arguing again, Ruby decided to bring out her pride and joy, Crescent Rose, a red and black high caliber sniper-scythe. She aimed it upwards and looked through the scope of the weapon in rifle form. After a few seconds of looking around, she spotted five flaming objects appear out of nowhere directly above them, "Uh, guys? Something is falling from the sky, I think it's those bad guys the robot lady was talking about."

"Her name is Northy, and that means it's time for you all to either go, hide, or get yourselves killed in a fight. Your choice at this point," said Revenant while glaring through his helmet and Northy's chassis at Winter.

"Two Titans and three drop pods. Pilot, if we wish to make full use of our newfound allies, we must destroy the Titans while they take care of the rest," advised Northy, setting down the large crates of time bending material off to the side and pulling out her Plasma Railgun.

"Sounds like an alright plan to me, let's kick some space bad guy butt!" said Ruby while raising a fist into the air.

"No, you four are going to hide while the rest of us fight. These people don't have Aura and they will die. At your current age and experience I will not allow you to have blood on your hands and mind," said Winter with a softer voice, although her true fear was her younger sister Weiss getting hurt against an enemy with unknown power.

"B-but..." stuttered Ruby, before Yang decided to step in.

"She's right Ruby, we don't know how strong these guys are and if what she said is true, then we don't wanna be involved in this at all. Let's get to a safe distance and wait until this just blows over," said Yang, going into Protect Little Sister Mode.

"Alright, come on team, let's hurry out of here," said Ruby with a bit of regret in her voice.

"Calculating trajectory of enemy drop pods and Titanfalls," suddenly interrupted Northy, "Contact with an Atlesian drop ship and the ground in three point seven zero seconds. I advise finding cover immediately."

Nobody had time to speak up, and they didn't either. After hearing how much time they had, Winter and Team RWBY bolted to find cover behind trees. The Atlesian drop ships didn't have such reaction time though. Out of the two that were present, one was in the line of a Titanfall.

Before the inhabitants of the drop ship could comprehend what was happening, they were either eviscerated or crushed by the explosion and Titanfall respectively. Fire consumed the immediate area of where the dropship used to be, metal plating and mechanical parts flew from the blast and embedded themselves in the ground and trees below. A completely burned and unrecognizable head landed next to where Team RWBY was taking cover, nearly making them all wanting to vomit in disgust and leaving them in shock from the gruesome sight. Revenant's focus was on where the Titan dropped, trying to get a visual on it so he could immediately open fire on any exposed weakpoints. Any debris being reflected off of Northy thanks to the energy shield surrounding them.

Seven red lights appeared in the dust and smoke, two sets of two lights along the sides of a set of three lights going down between them. The ocular systems for a Legion class Titan.

Revenant said one last one liner as the drop pods and another Titan landed behind the Legion, still hidden behind the smoke in the air, "And here. We. Go."

Author's Note: Sorry for the dialogue based chapter, but as you can see, it's gonna ramp up even more so next time. And as always have a nice day/night and feel free to leave a review saying what you did and didn't like. Peace.