Author's Note: Hello 2018, so far so good at least. Sorry for the as late as ever update to this story, but as usual Christmas was a thing and I also moved across the country to where it's actually warm instead of -45 Fahrenheit (I spelled that correctly first try, I am a god) wind chill temperatures. So that's nice. Next chapter should be coming much sooner since I'm excited about it! As usual, RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Titanfall/Titanfall 2 belongs to Respawn Entertainment. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter VII

Day one of the Vytal Festival

"So, I'm supposed to be finding this… Qrow Branwen?" asked Revenant as he leaned against a wall in one of many bars in the town of Vale.

"Indeed," replied Professor Ozpin over his Scroll, "or more accurately, he'll be finding you."

Revenant looked up from his Scroll and viewed his surroundings, "I'm not sure if that's supposed to be ominous or not."

"You can relax," said a man's voice from behind him, "I'm only intimidating when I'm pissed off." Revenant, startled, turned around and put his hand on the holster holding his P2016. The sleek black haired man put up his hands mockingly, "Woah there sir, no shots need to be taken unless they're shots of alcohol."

Revenant took his hand off of his hip. "Sorry, force of habit. I assume you're Qrow?" asked Revenant.

"Qrow Branwen at your service," Qrow mock bowed, "So I hope you know why you're here."

"Mostly, supposed to do what your boss Oz wants until he gives me my prisoner back," replied Revenant, "Never mentioned anything specific though."

Qrow walked over to a stool next to a counter and beckoned Revenant to sit next to him. As Revenant sat down a bartender walked over, "So what will it be for you gents?"

"One shot of whiskey please," requested Qrow, the bartender quickly filling up a shot glass and sliding it down to Qrow.

"And for you?" asked the bartender to Revenant.

"Full glass of whatever your strongest stuff is, might as well see what this planet has to offer," said Revenant, the bartender looking slightly confused but business is business.

Qrow eyed Revenant and whistled, "Huh, didn't take you for the heavy drinking type."

"I'm not, can't get drunk. Side effect of heavy Stim treatment and usage. It sure impresses the ladies though," said Revenant as the bottom section of his helmet came off on its own, revealing a mouth. Not like you'd expect much else. Revenant took a few gulps and put the glass down. "So, on to business I guess. What do you need me to do?"

"Right to it then, sounds good to me," Qrow took another shot, "So, Ozpin is thinking that there's a group that may have infiltrated the school by tagging along with the other schools coming in for the Vytal Festival."

"Sorry for not doing my homework, but what exactly is the Vytal Festival?" asked Revenant after taking a few more gulps of his drink.

"Definitely an alien. In a nutshell it celebrates the unification of the four kingdoms after a really violent war a long time ago," explained Qrow.

"So you celebrate that by pitting students against each other? Makes sense," remarked Revenant.

"Vytal Festival and Vytal Tournament. Two different things," said Qrow, "Anyways, infiltration is always something you want in a war. I'd know that best as I'm Ozpin's 'infiltration guy' so to say. And Ozpin believes that the enemy has infiltrated one of the schools and are masquerading as a team of four. After all, you need four to enter the tournament."

"Sounds logical, I'd be ashamed if he didn't think of that to begin with. War one-o'-one you know?" Revenant said, a small awkward silence filled the space between the two men.

Qrow coughed, "Right. So naturally we've already gone through all students. Nothing turned up suspicious so far, but I wanted your Titan AI to take a look and see if it'd find anything," Qrow asked as he tapped his finger a few times on his Scroll sending a list of students to Revenant's Scroll.

"It is a she, and thanks for the list. I'll have Northy look through it. That can't be all though," said Revenant, finishing off his drink completely unfazed. The bartender whistled, clearly impressed.

"Yeah, we have two things we need to get done today. First thing shouldn't be too hard, keep patrol during the first round of the tournament today. I don't expect the enemy to be bringing out anything particularly crazy the first day so we're more of an insurance if anything," said Qrow, taking one last shot.

"So what's the second thing? Must be fun if it's taking place later," asked Revenant.

"Heh, I like where your head's at. More of those Ivory Gauntlet guys landed last night and we need to go take them out before they cause any panic or damage. I'll do the quiet stuff and you'll be the big guns since... you have a giant robot of death," replied Qrow.

"Interrogated my prisoner already? You guys are fast," said Revenant all of a sudden.

Qrow pauses before he takes his shot and sets it down. "Perceptive, Ivory Gauntlet give it away?" asked Qrow, silently impressed.

Revenant leaned forward and answered, "Yep, I don't recall telling you guys the name of those people so it was obvious." Qrow simply nodded and kept drinking. "So anything else?" asked Revenant for a final time.

"Nope. We should be heading down to the fair grounds now. The tournament is about to start and since I'm here I want to see my nieces for a bit," said Qrow, standing from his stool and beginning to walk out of the bar with Revenant quickly in tow.

"Is this the part where you go 'it's time to split up gang'?" said Revenant as they both started walking down the street.

"I'll go to the arena itself and you'll stay in the fairgrounds for today. Try not to woo too many ladies with your drinking skills," Qrow chuckled to himself and turned a corner out of Revenant's sight.

"Heh, I'll try to keep my charms minimal," said Revenant as he turned the corner, only to find himself alone. He looked around for a few seconds in confusion. "Qrow? Qrow? Where'd you go man?" Revenant heard the flapping of wings above him, and when he looked up he saw a lone crow staring at him. It cawed and took off from its perch on a light pole and into the sky. "Oh, Qrow and crow, I get it. Ha I'm so smart," said Revenant to himself as he made his way uptown to the fairgrounds.

The Vytal Festival Fairgrounds

Revenant had just finished watching the match between Team RWBY and Team ABRN of Haven Academy. He noted the fighting capability of Team RWBY. "Well I see how they could have taken down a Ronin Titan on their own now. Pretty impressive but still have a lot to learn," he commented. "Northy, any progress on that list?"

Northy spoke back through his helmet radio, "I have a few suspicious persons listed. But one in particular stands out completely."

Revenant sat down into a bench, looking into the sky, "Well who is it?"

"One Jaune Arc, his papers for getting acceptance into Beacon Academy are perfectly forged. They're so plain and normal yet pristine," answered Northy.

"What? Let me see this," files and videos appeared on Revenant's HUD inside his helmet. A mother and her energetic child walked past him, the child immediately started pointing at exclaiming at how cool he looked dropping his cotton candy.

"His cover is genius too Pilot, he's terrible at fighting. At least that's what he's showing, take a look for yourself," said Northy, a video maximizing itself on Revenant's HUD.

"Not the face not the face!" said a blonde young man in the video, presumably Jaune Arc as he got clubbed in the head by a mace by another student in what looked like a sparring/training session.

"He has no defense and no offense, he's just simply awful at fighting. It's the perfect cover up..." Revenant commented, "what an evil mastermind..."

The video minimized and all Revenant could see in front of him was a child's face. Leaning over from next to him on the bench. "Um sir, my son wants to know if he could… touch your helmet," said the mother of the boy.

"Uh... sure kid, go nuts," said Revenant turning to the kid. The kid laughed happily and started plastering his hands all over his head. After a bit Revenant stood up and lifted the kid back on to the ground, "All right all right that's enough for now."

"Thank you sir," the mother thanked Revenant and carried her child away as he waved back at Revenant from his mother's hold. Revenant waved back but paused as he heard a familiar girl's laugh from behind him.

"Didn't know you were a family man!" yelled out Yang, next to four other girls. The other three were the remaining members of Team RWBY, but the last one was a short, green color haired girl that he didn't recognize.

"I'm not, all you need to do is be calm around kids and they'll be calm around you. Unless you're a badass like myself," said Revenant as he walked up to the group of girls.

The entire group giggled, Revenant, proud of his comedy, stood in front of them. "So mister Revenant," asked Ruby, "What're you doing here? I'd expect you to be…" she takes a moment to find her words, "…finding a way out of here. So to say."

"Well little rose, I got a job to do and it requires me to stay here so I'll be sticking around for a while," replied Revenant conspicuously.

"Cool! Did you see our match?" asked Ruby.

"Yeah! We totally kicked butt!" added in Yang.

"Yeah I watched it. Could've been better though, could've been worse as well. I give it a solid seven out of ten," said Revenant.

"Hmph, I'd at least give it an eight," said Weiss as she turned her head away.

Revenant laughed, "You all did good, relax. More importantly, have you seen anyone suspicious lately? Been kinda on the look out since that one time..." he looked over at the green haired girl, who just looked blankly back, "in the forest, together. Alone?"

Everybody looked at him like he was an idiot, which he is. "Uh yeah totally, definitely get it. Gotcha..." said Ruby quietly trying to play along.

"Excellent cover up Pilot, nobody suspects a thing," said Northy enthusiastically.

'Right', thought Revenant. "Well, who is this young lady?" asked Revenant, now facing the green haired girl.

"Emerald Sustrai, mister?" trailed off Emerald.

"Revenant, pleasure to meet you," said Revenant, taking his hand in hers and shaking it vigorously.

"Pilot, you never shake hands, what're you up to?" asked Northy to Revenant.

"It's an intimidation tactic that I wanted to try," said Revenant as he finished off the lengthy handshake.

"Um, right…" said Emerald, "Anyway, me and Merc are gonna go catch some more fights." She started walking away towards a boy with silver hair and attire sniffing… boots? Revenant decided not to question the customs on this planet.

"Have fun!" waved Ruby as Emerald walked away. She suddenly turned towards Revenant, "Oh right! We were just talking about getting some victory food! Wanna join us?"

"Sure, why not," replied Revenant, "So where to?"

"I know just the place, follow me," said Yang, starting to walk away as she motioned for everybody to follow her.

A Simple Wok, a food hut in the Fairgrounds

"Hopefully you can eat food around here Rev," said Yang. She looked at the old man that was working at the hut, "I'll have the usual please."

The old man nodded and slid over to her a large bowl of noodles, Ruby squealed, "I want the same!" Promptly another large bowl of noodles slid in front of her as well.

"I should be fine, everything else I've eaten hasn't been too much trouble," said Revenant, "I'll just have a small bowl of whatever costs the most." The old man then brought out a small bowl and poured a single ravioli into it. Everybody looked confused but Revenant was excited.

"Um, okay… do you have anything with a lower amount of salt?" asked Weiss, all she got was a simple bowl of noodles. She sighed, "Um… okay..."

Blake didn't say anything at all, she just nodded towards the old man. The old man smiled and nodded back and slid to her a giant bowl of noodles topped with fish. She gasped and started drooling over it like she just found heaven.

Weiss looked weirdly at her teammate, then turned toward the old man and offered him her credit card. "Aw Weiss, what's the occasion?" asked Yang.

"Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round," Weiss said cheerily, but the smile went away as she got hit in the face with her credit card. Revenant stopped his ravioli preparations and turned to look at what was happening. The old man who was clearly annoyed was pointing at his register which was practically screaming "CARD DECLINED". "What? How can my card be declined? I was barely into my monthly allowance!" said Weiss, frustrated and confused.

Blake, in shock, tried to start taking the bowl before the old man could notice. But alas, the fishy bowl was ripped from her hands. "Nooooo..." said a dejected Blake as she fell over on to the counter in front of her in defeat.

"Maybe I could help?" said a redheaded girl from behind the group.

"Pyrrha!" said Ruby as she flung her arms out in joy.

The rest of them started talking about how to get food, but for Revenant, he had his eye on one of Pyrrha's companions. There were three of them behind her, a boy in green and an energetic pink girl right beside him. And the last one… "Jaune Arc," said Northy, "He's here."

"Damn, didn't think he'd be so quick on trying to take me out. He's good," whispered Revenant to himself.

Later on, after everyone was done with their meals, they were sitting around talking before Team JNPR's first match. Team JNPR being Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren. Nora being the energetic pink girl and Ren being the green clad boy that gave off a ninja like aura.

"If I barf, I'm blaming you," remarked Jaune to Pyrrha, who just prior gave the reason of eating before their tournament battle was to gain energy.

"Oh! Aim at the enemy!" said Nora enthusiastically.

"Nora, that's disgusting. But if you feel the urge," interjected Ren.

Meanwhile, Revenant was still watching Jaune a little too closely. Not that anyone could tell due to his helmet's visor covering his face. But, he's been silent the entire time in thought over what he could be planning. "Maybe he's just trying to draw someone in with this sick act of his. Go in with some kind of poisonous dart hidden in his sleeve or something," muttered Revenant.

"That wouldn't achieve anything, he's clearly smarter then that Pilot," commented Northy, "I predict he'll try and stir things up during his team's game shortly."

Revenant leaned forward and put his hand on the side of his helmet, unknowingly unmuting himself to the outside world. "Good thinking Northy, and when he does, I'll pop his skull with my Kraber," said Revenant out loud, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and look at him.

"Um, pop who's skull?" nervously asked Ruby.

'Crap,' thought Revenant to himself. "Uh, just some of those darn space pirates!" quickly said Revenant. 'Too much!' he immediately thought after.

"Space pirates?" Nora gasped, "Are you a space mercenary!? That's so cool! Hunting pirates… in space."

"Wh-wh-what? That's ridiculous! Of course he's not a space mercenary pilot person!" quickly spurt out Ruby, waving her hands in the air.

"Right..." said Ren, "Well, our match is about to begin. So we better get going."

"Agreed, it was a pleasure having a meal with you all," said Pyrrha politely after standing from her stool.

"Thank you sooooo much for paying Pyrrha. I don't know what happened with my card, but I'll make it up to you!" proclaimed Weiss.

While Pyrrha was trying to convince Weiss that she didn't need anything in return and that she was just trying to be a nice friend, Revenant received a call on his Scroll from Qrow. "Sorry ladies, but I gotta go here. Duty calls," announced Revenant.

"Aw, but you didn't even talk much," pouted Yang.

"Sorry, I was focused on my work," he glanced at Jaune, "I think I have a lead on something suspicious." He stood up from his stool and took the single ravioli that he had yet to eat. "Well, cya kids. Good luck in your matches."

"Thank you, good luck in whatever your work may be," replied Pyrrha with a smile.

"Make sure to pop the guy's skull extra hard!" said Nora a tad too excitedly for everyone but Revenant's liking.

"Will do kid, will do," he began to walk away as the rest of the group waved at him. Revenant took his Scroll from one of his many pockets and answered Qrow's call, "What's up?"

"Took you long enough," came the old crow's voice from the Scroll, "Plan's changed, we need to get a move on before those Ivory Gauntlet guys get out of our range of operation. Sorry to cut your patrol short."

"It's alright, I might have a lead anyway. I'll tell you about it later though since it's not one hundred percent confirmed," replied Revenant, beginning to plot a route back to Beacon in order to get to his ship.

"You have half an hour to make it to the rendezvous point, good luck," said Qrow, hanging up immediately after.

"Hey wait a- damn..." cursed Revenant, rerouting his course for a much quicker path to the edge of town. "Northy, bring the ship to the end of the path I just sent to you, I have to do some good ol' hardcore parkour," ordered Revenant, "But first, got to get out of this park slash fairground."

Revenant began a full sprint forward until a tent appeared in front of him. 'Ha, a single tent is no match for a Pilot!' thought Revenant to himself. People at what appeared to be a glass molding tent turned their heads towards the commotion caused by Revenant's unstoppable running form. People began to take cover as they realized he wasn't stopping his path to the tent, the old woman at the helm of the little tent shielding a glass sculpture of Beacon's tower. At the last second before contact, Revenant jumped clear over the tent with the help of his jump pack, the pack flaring on his lower back boosting him over the tent and directly into the pond behind it.

"OH SH-" his cursing got immediately halted by his belly flop into the water below him. Onlookers flooded around the tent from before to find out what happened to the madman. After a few seconds, their waiting was rewarded as water violently erupted at the other side of the pond, Revenant emerged completely soaked and promptly continued his run. The people just stared for a while before going back to their previous activities, shaking their heads at the crazy man.

Revenant, disregarding his little dip into the farthest parts of his memory, continued his run through an alley way. Normally he'd be disheartened when he came upon the dead end in the alley, but he's a Pilot. And Pilots don't do dead ends. Revenant stepped on to the wall to his right and began running up it with the assistance of his jump pack. He continued this until he began to descend on the wall, but before he could lose any progress he leaped over to the other side of the alley wall, propelling himself up further and further repeating this until he reached the rooftops.

He landed on the rooftop with one hand on the ground, looking down. "Super hero landing," he whispered to himself, he then shot forward, jumping the gaps between buildings effortlessly. Wall running along other buildings in order to gain speed. This continued for roughly ten more minutes until he sighted the wall that separated the city from the wilds of the outside world. Now as usual, normally when confronted with such an obstacle as a large towering wall, a normal person would turn back. Maybe even an under equipped or novice Pilot even. But Revenant had his own little manufactured trick up his sleeve.

Revenant jumped off of the final rooftop, and used a double jump to run directly into the wall. He didn't immediately start sliding down the wall as his jump pack held him in place just long enough for him to activate a Stim boost. With the assistance of his jump pack of course, he began running up the wall at a sprinting speed. "Come on come on come on," repeatedly said Revenant as he neared the top of the wall, however his Stim boost was near ending as well. "Just… a little… more..." wheezed out Revenant as his Stim boost expired, leaving it up to his natural body power to propel him up the rest of the way. Slowly but surely he stopped having upward momentum, and as time seemed to slow down, he reached his hand out as if reaching for the sky.

"No need to be dramatic Pilot, I have you," interrupted Northy over radio, activating the phase boarding protocol for Revenant. He then suddenly got enveloped by a white light, and landed on his feet in the dropship.

"I was having a moment there," complained Revenant as he walked over to a window to spot where they were.

"We are already on our way to Mountain Glenn Pilot, ETA at full speed without breaking stealth is fifteen minutes," announced Northy as Revenant peered out of a window, observing the quickly shrinking city of Vale.

Revenant nodded his head, "So, what is Mountain Glenn anyway?"

Mountain Glenn, several hours prior

"Sir, all of our ship's stealth systems went out upon entering the atmosphere. They'll know we're here," reported a grunt to his superior.

"Hmm, it won't matter, if anything it'll just make this go quicker. Axson wants these people dead and I'm not one to keep him waiting," replied the superior, "It'll be especially easy, considering he gave us permission to use that weird sparkly Stim juice on some of our guys."

"Yeah, I've heard some rumors about that stuff, supposed to be a weapon to surpass Titans… sir," said the grunt, "Regardless though sir, we're already prepared to set up camp. If the rumors are true, they should be able to clear the creatures that infest the area without too much resistance."

"Good good, you're dismissed," replied the superior, waving away the grunt. As the grunt walked away, the superior opened up a video feed on a monitor behind him. The stream was looking over a group of six individuals, each one wearing jet black heavy armor that made them look half a foot taller than they really were, which was still tall.

They all were training, practicing various martial arts against a slew of dummies. One soldier backwards roundhouse kicked a dummy, breaking the stand it was resting on and sending it across the room. Before it could hit anything however, the video distorted heavily and white noise prevailed for approximately half a second before the stream came back online. The soldier that kicked the dummy now held it by it's dummy throat on the other side of the room. The superior nodded and closed the stream, satisfied with the Diamond Crown unit's training regiment.

Author's Note: I was going to add a battle scene to this chapter, but unfortunately that would've been too long for my tastes so that'll be first thing next time I promise. Also I won't lie right now the Metal Gear series is giving me a lot of inspiration, and quite frankly Survive actually looks alright. For a zombie game anyway. Anyways, this chapter is still technically my longest one yet as each new chapter is tending to be at this point, so we'll see what happens with that. So, as always have a nice day/night and feel free to leave a review saying what you did and didn't like. Peace.