Alice ran away, Rex expected that. What he did not expect was to find her in a tree, half a mile away from where they first met.
"Oh my God, I think I lost Alice!" He shouted the last part up at the tree. She seemed to move a little, but still had no intention of leaving her "hiding spot." That brought him to her hiding spot, it sucked. In most cases the green leaves of trees could hide people well. But Alice seemed to forget about her pure white cloak. That left her extremely visible since he immediately spotted the white part of the tree, and by extension, her. It looked like she had no intention of coming down, that meant he'd have to play fireman and chop the tree down, or...
"If I can't find Alice, how will I ever confess my love for her?" Rex laughed silently to himself at the corniness of the line. "There's no way that'll work."
CRACK
CRASH
Rex looked up at the tree only to see Alice's form rapidly approaching him. He could either let her hit the ground, or he could keep playing this new game he just made. He called it "See how embarrassed he could make Alice." Catching her in the bridal carry, he stared into her eyes. They were closed, as if she thought he wouldn't catch her. When she finally opened them Rex was sure his face was fully in her vision.
"Sup." She immediately tried to escape his arms. He let her go, but since he was in a crouched position she fell face first into the grass. Instead of getting up and running she simply sat there. Rex looked on at her, simply dumbfounded. He had expected to have to chase her again. "Ya done?" She nodded and stood up. Rex assumed she was just gonna ignore the entire situation.
"Do you know where the relics are Rex?"
"No, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them."
"Hmmph." Alice turned away from him with her arms crossed, she was angry at him.
"What, you know you liked it." With that she blushed and flipped up her hood. Rex couldn't help but think this scene was rather cliche, but that had nothing on how cliche this was. He walked forward and placed a hand on her head. She looked up at him with a questioning gaze. "Your so cute that you get a head pat." Then he walked away, hoping that she would follow and that they were going the right way.
The walk was rather short, taking only five-ish minutes. Rex spotted a small building looking thing in the distance. Originally he was going to go there to get a vantage point, but he realized that this was where he needed to be. Walking up he saw the little pedestals with...chess pieces?
"Really Ozpin, Chess pieces? Why not something like weapons or guns? Maybe a type of plant." Alice walked up next to him and looked at the various pieces.
"I want that one." She pointed towards a group of white kings. Rex walked over and inspected the carved wood. Were they trapped, maybe they were actually Grenades. Cautiously picking one up, he realized that they were really just wood. He tossed the one in his hand to Alice(who nearly dropped it) before grabbing another for himself. Looking over to Alice he was about to ask if she was ready. Suddenly the bush to his right started to shake. Quickly spinning around he pulled out his rifle from under his cloak.
"40 yards away from your doom Grimm, I dare you to come out of that bush." Instead of hearing growling he heard English.
"-told you that puddle was to wide to jump."
"This is still your fault, my jeans are dirty!"
"Explain how this is my fault." Kane was talking to someone else, and they were whiny. Rex thought about lowering his weapon, but thought it would be more entertaining to point it at the bitch that came through the bushes.
"Well if you weren't there I wouldn't of...". The whiner came through the bushes first, and was immediately faced with Rex's gun. Kane walked out second.
"Kane."
"Rex."
"Who's the whiner?"
"Don't know, it followed me home." Rex looked at the whiner again. Short purple hair, long sleeve shirt, a small medieval looking chest plate, muddy jeans, and some sneakers. The whiner just sat there sweating bullets, at least he shut up.
"What's your name whiner?"
"S-Sean!"
"Huh, whiner is good for now." Rex looked at his weapon, he had yet to name it. This whole thing gave him a great name. "I'll name this rifle president, because everyone shuts up when he's about to speak."
"Smart, what piece did you guys pick up?"
"White king."
"Got it, come here whiny."
"My name is Sean!" They collected their pieces and walked back to Rex and Alice. Once they all stood together Rex turned and faced the cliff.
"We need to get to there." Rex pointed and looked over his shoulder. Suddenly a rumbling was felt. It was gentle at first, but progressively picked up in intensity.
"Uh-oh."
"Kane! Why uh-oh?"
"Well you see, we might've stumbled through a Grimm nest on the way here." Kane put a hand on the back of his neck and looked down. He looked more embarrassed than scared. The same could not be said for Sean, he looked like he was about to liquify.
Rex, on the other hand, was furious.
"Really, that's a little bit more than an uh-oh! I think a 'oh shit' would have been better." Kane looked away with a sheepish grin plastered on his face. "Everyone, haul ass to the cliff!" Kane and Alice started running, but Sean stayed stuck to where he stood. He looked like he was staring into the eyes of death himself. "Sean, move it." Sean finally came back to reality and bolted towards the cliff.
The run to the ruins wasn't much for Rex, but everyone else was breathing hard. That put him on edge, since it looked like the decrepit building would fall with a stray gust of wind. Kane arrived at where the bridge over would have been. "Rex! The bridge is out!"
"It wouldn't matter, they're to fast to outrun. We have to hold them here!" Rex looked around for a defendable position. Something that would give cover and a view.
He found the perfect spot.
There was fallen pillars piled on each other, creating a platform with cover and a place for his bipod. The only problem was that it was only big enough for two. He kicked a pillar into place in front of it so that the rest of his team could have a place to shoot from. Rex climbed to the top of the platform and pulled out president. He gazed back at three people with jaws touching the floor. "Stop staring and move!"
"Yes sir!" Kane gave a mock salute and climbed up next to him. He pulled out his weapon, finally giving Rex a clear look at it. He had a M240 Bravo. An Lmg that packs a punch. He set up his bipod next to Rex. Alice and Sean took cover beneath them. Alice carried dual Uzi's while Sean has a SPAS-12. They all waited for the Grimm.
The first Beowolf to punch through the trees was cut down by Kane. Then the next, and the next, and the next. Eventually the Grimm realized there strategy of throwing one Grimm out at a time was flawed, so they turned their murderous drops of water into a murderous tidal wave. Hundreds came out of the tree line, overwhelming Kane's gun. Alice started to shoot into the horde as well. They eventually stopped gaining ground when they got into Sean's shotgun range. "Kane! Use your weapon!"
"I'm waiting for hard targets, you guys can handle the trash." Almost as if some god had answered his inner prayer for a big target, a ursa bursted our of the trees and sounded a deafening roar. The roar was cut short by Rex though. The round from president tore the Grimm's head clean off, splattering the scenery with a black mist. Kane gave him a sideways look. "Look back through your sights Kane, I'd hate to be overrun."
"Yeah." Kane turned his head back to the action just in time to witness a Deathstalker appear. The monsterous beast rushed them, crushing Beowolfs standing inbetween it and its pray, them.
"Jesus, did you guys also bitch slap Ironwood? If you did please say you got it on tape, that would be funny." Rex shot at the monster's stinger. His bullet struck a weak spot in the hard bone armor, taking the appendage off. Next he aimed for the head plates. Two shots destroyed the bone, then two more liquidized the head. The beast came to a sliding halt 30 yards ahead of them.
"That was too close!"
"Did you really worry? I'm one hell of a shot." Kane laughed and shook his head. There was a girlish screech, and they both had the same idea. "Alice!"
"Alice!"
"Not me, Sean!" Rex looked down at where he used to be, only to find a lone shotgun. Sean has been pulled out of cover by a few Beowolfs while everyone was focused on the oversized bug.
"God dammit Whiner!" Rex dropped President and jumped over Alice's head. Pulling out his revolvers mid jump he emptied both into the Grimm around Sean. Once he hit the ground ahead of Mr. Bitch, he holstered the guns and took out his swords. Rex swung at everything in front of him, holding back the wave of teeth. "Someone drag him back to cover!" Rex heard Sean protest about something regarding his pain, but he tuned it out. He was too focused on killing everything.
"Rex, get out of the way of my weapon!" Rex glances back at Kane. Alice had dragged Sean back to cover and was now shooting at the monsters. Kane had his weapon trained on Rex, waiting for him to move out of his killzone. Rex took the hint and dove towards cover. He landed outside of it, just out of Kane's sight. The thunderous gunfire started up. Rex even contributed to it by using his revolvers. Ending anything that got close. They had them with numbers though, and eventually closed the distance. The bodies landed on Rex, covering him. After a few minutes the Grimm thinned out, then stopped. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey Kane?"
"Yeah Alice?"
"Where's Rex?"
"Oh...shit." Kane jumped down to the pile of decomposing Grimm and began to move the bodies. After about thirty seconds a hand shot through a gap in the dead monsters. After moving one more body Rex surged out breathing heavily.
"Oh my God it was hard to breath in there!" Kane sat down in the black stained grass and laughed, then Rex laughed, and Alice finally started laughing as well. It was a moment of pure joy.
It was short lived.
"Excuse me, I'm wounded here!" Sean silenced them. Rex lifted himself out of his prison and looked over the cover at Sean.
"Kane, check his wounds." Rex only saw a slice running down the inside of his right leg. It was deeper than a flesh wound, but not deep enough to cause any real damage.
"Just the cut on his leg."
"I can't walk!"
"You aren't hurt."
"Yes I am!"
"Kane, maybe he has internal damage. They did rip him out of cover. I'll carry him." Rex picked him up in a fireman carry. Rex walked over and picked up President. After stowing his weapon he started walking to the cliff. "Let's move."
The walk to the cliff was short, but Seans constant complaining annoyed Rex every step of the way. Rex looked up at sheer wall he had to scale.
"Come on Rex! It's just like a climbing wall." Kane walked by and started to climb. Then Alice walked by him as well.
"Well, are we going?"
"Shut It whiny." Rex planted his hand into the stone wall. The force embedded his hand into the cliff. Then he drove his other hand in as well. He pulled himself up, securing himself with his feet. He repeated this action all the way up the cliff, while Sean complained about various things. At the top Rex decided that he had had enough. Throwing Sean off his shoulder he started to walk away past Kane and Alice towards the teachers waiting for them.
"Get up and walk."
"I can't asshole."
"Then you can die here." Sean looked at Alice and Kane, only for them to walk away. Rex heard him get up and catch up. "Is he really on my team, whyyyyyyyy?"
X
"I wonder what our team name will be?"
"Probably something stupid."
"Shut up." Rex looked up at the stage and saw Blake. He gave her a joking salute, which she ignored. Rex wondered when they would get called up.
As if on queue, Ozpin asked, "Those who collected the white king please step up." Rex made his way to the stage alongside Kane. Followed closely by Alice and Sean. They stood in a line and faced Ozpin, awaiting his words. "Rex Thomas, Kane Volt, Alice Bel, Sean Nyt. You collected the white king, from this day you will work together as team RKAS(Ruckus)...led by Rex Thomas!" Wait, he would lead? Oh boy.
"Good job man!"
"Thanks for getting me out of the tree, partner." Alice had a slight blush, Rex couldn't stop himself from patting her head. The moment was once again ruined by Sean.
"I should have led."
"Shut up whiny."
X
The room they were staying in wasn't that grand, but it was nicer than the barracks he had to stay in while he was in the military. Alice rushed through the door and chose a bed. She took one of the beds next to the right wall, Rex took the other. Kane and Sean got the other ones. Rex changed(much to the embarrassment of Alice, which he planned) and started to clean his weapons. "Dude, you only emptied a magazine, do you really need to clean it?"
"Actually Kane, this gun takes clips. And those five shots could dirty the barrel. I also don't know what happened to it when I dropped it. I just want to keep it working."
"Come on leader, tell me your not this boring."
"Oh it gets worse, I'm gonna clean my revolvers and swords after I'm done here." Kane put his hand over his heart and faked a heart attack. He fell on his bed in a dramatic matter. Alice had come out of the bathroom in her sleep ware. Rex didn't see her leave to go to the bathroom, but before he could ask any questions she cut him off.
"Do your weapons have names?" Rex put away president and pulled out his revolvers
"Well as you know my rifle is called President, but I've yet to name my revolvers and swords. Why, did you have an idea?"
"Let me think." Alice put a hand on her chin and sat down on her bed. Rex looked at his weapons and turned them over in his hands.
What was a good name?
It hit him like a hammer. "How about I name the revolvers hammers and my swords nails?" Alice looked at him, her eyes closed and a hand on her chin.
"Maybe."
"What, did you want me to name them after you?" Rex grinned as she blushed and dove under the covers, it was too easy. Kane looked on with a shocked face while Sean just glared at him with a jealous face. "Heh, night guys. Goodnight Alice." His tone softened and he spoke smoothly. She threw her scroll at him from under the covers, something he did not expect. She probably didn't expect him to catch it though. "Well if you wanted my number you could have just asked." That made her jump out of her bed and snatch it back, before retreating into her cave of solitude. "Well, goodnight everyone."
"Night."
"Night leader."
"N-night partner." With that Rex laid down and tried to sleep, wishing that he wouldn't have a "nightmare" again. If only it were that simple.
X
A group of soldiers sat in the back of an APC, traveling to some battlefield. Two lean towards each other and start to speak. "Hey, you know that Demon guy?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, I was wondering how he got such a badass call sign."
"You want to get a name like his, Well first you go..". He was cut off by another soldier leaning forward next to the guy who asked the question.
"You get it by following orders." The two soldiers looked at the new member of the conversation with surprised expressions.
"Do you know him or something?"
"I was there when he got his name. I saw what he did." There was a pause.
"Well, any day guy."
"We were walking through a bombed out town. Command ordered us to kill anything that moved, including civilians. I could tell most of the men weren't going to. But the soldier in the front walked ahead, looking at the buildings and scanning for life to snuff out. We came up to a house, and he must've seen something in the window because he kicked down the door. He ordered us to stand guard while he checked the house. We stood there for awhile before there was gunshots and cries. After four shots the cries stopped, but were replaced with one. A baby was bailing its eyes out. We all stood there tense, waiting for something to happen. There was a final gunshot and then silence. When the man walked out he was covered in blood. He walked right up to the captain and said, 'five EKIA Sir.' The captain congratulated him and we walked on, he did the same thing to six different families that day."
"Really? That's cold."
"What a monster."
"They were enemies, that should be reason enough for them to die." The three looked towards the back of the vehicle, towards the new addition of their discussion.
"What, do you sympathize with that inhuman monster?" The man, who had been sharpening a knife, leaned forward. His face plate came up, revealing the demon in question. The three soldiers backed off, suddenly very worried about their life decisions.
"No, I just think that talking bad about your allies isn't very friendly. From now on all of you shut up, wouldn't want any negligent discharges from weapons in your direction, would we?"
X
Rex woke up in his bed, looking around the room. He had another nightmare.
"Man, I'm not sleeping anymore."
That was a fun chapter to write, I hope you liked reading it. Next chapter team RKAS meets RWBY and JNPR. Blake gets dissed(probably). And Ozpin gets smarter. Criticism and reviews are appreciated. Next chapter soon, don't die in the meantime!