I do not own RWBY or any Roosterteeth assets. Sorry for this one being late couldn't really figure a good way to continue but then I remembered a few details that I could use to connect the dots.
The forever fall forest was calm and quiet. A fox could barely be seen against the red grass. It scampered across the ground in reach of prey. It raises its head and hears a sound. The fox senses danger and runs to its borrow.
That danger was Rust walking through the forest encounter to the location described by Ozpin. He found that his rust coloured skin blends in nicely with the foliage. He didn't need to use his semblance as often allowing him to enjoy the surroundings. The Grimm here were to easily distracted by the trees sap to care about a simple android. Every few tree he would cut it so sap would flow out keeping the Grimm occupied. Eventually he came to a clearing that was absent of Grimm.
Clank!
Is what Rust heard as he took a step closer to the centre of the clearing. He looks beneath his foot to find something he didn't expect to find in a forest. As far as his scans could tell it was a large steel object. While scanning he found that Air did I fact have a opening but it was under six feet of dirt. He knew better then to get side tracked by some random piece of steel in a forest. He saves the location on his scroll so he can return at a later time to investigate. He may as well bring team RWBY along. After all second year teams will be assigned to assist huntsmen in different areas. One which includes archaeology best not tell Oobleck about this he'd join this expedition with out no matter what.
Returning his attention back to the mission he finds that he is close to the objective zone. He could see signs of life so he began to be more cautions. Activating his semblance he approaches the area. Seeing that the forest ends with a cliff he activates Edan and gets down and crawls to the edge.
What he sees both surprised him and confuses him. The ledge gave way to a valley and in it rested a walled city. The structures looked rather recent and he couldn't see any identifying marks on the wall or see any symbols hanging from any flag poles. Seeing nobody he deactivates his semblance and descends to the bottom of the valley. When he reached the bottom, he could see you the soldering ruins of buildings. From what he could tell there was a farm house and a barn. Because what type of building would still be on this side of the wall. Strangely enough there was no sign of recent Grimm activity in the area so the Grimm couldn't be the culprit. When he enter what remained of the house his theory was confirmed when he found the bodies of the farmer and his family. He could tell they were deer Faunus by the horns of their heads. Rust could feel his vision going red. It angered Rust 'who would attack a farm of all people!?' He thought. Due to the position of the father he could tell the father tried to protect his family. The mother appeared to have thrown herself over her two children to create a barrier between them and the assailant. But her efforts were in vain.
As he moved his down to close the open eyes of the father something flashed in the corner of his eye. He turned to see the family picture of the family he could see just how happy they were. At least the scan registered the children's deaths as quick.
Rust vowed that he will find who did this and repay eye for a eye. He gently picked up the bodies and laid them side by side out side of the house. Then he found buried them the two children side by side and the parents on either side. Then he placed grave markers so people wouldn't show this family disrespect on accident. Once he was sure Grimm couldn't get the bodies he cautiously approached the city. Rust wouldn't cry for the dead family even if he could. He will bring the assailant to justice that will bring them peace.
The closer he got to the city the move damage he could see. The giant wooden gates didn't get blown of their hinges but they featured a hole in the centre. Through that hole he couldn't see any damage to the house that were visible. He activates his semblance and cautiously approaches the opening in the gate. He could see no damage to the buildings but food stalls and clothing laid across the ground.
Rust kept getting the feeling that he's being watched but his scanners couldn't detect anything. Even cloaked he had the suspicion someone could see him. He knew better then to think he is undetectable. He reach the centre of town and found the town to be deserted. He knew the people are somewhere in the town because there was no tracks leading away from the settlement. He couldn't shake the feeling that someone is watching him from the shadows. Rust deactivates his semblance and looks at the town from a different point of view.
The wind picked up and his cloak started to flail around his mechanical body. The rust coloured wolf symbol waving like a flag. He stood there and took in the scenery. If a fight happened here then the defenders were quickly. One thing did confuse him. If huntsmen and huntresses kept disappearing when coming here why hasn't he seen any threats? The only thing that would answer that is that who ever attacked this place is long gone.
Moving toward the exit he sees a sight he didn't expect to see. Standing in the centre of the town was a man. On full display was his masks accented horns and red hair and the synthetic left arm are a dead give away. He held himself in a different way since the last time he met. He turned his body so the synthetic arm was the only arm in the line of fire.
"Well look who it is." Yelled Adam Taurus.
"Hello Taurus how's the arm?" Rust said in a emotionless way raising Edan to warn him to not attack him.
"Rust I'm not your enemy." He said before turning his head towards the ground then in a barely audible voice he says "I need you help."
"What?" Said Rust unable to hear what Taurus said.
"I said I need your help." Responded the bull Faunus at the same volume as before.
"What?" Said Rust still unable to hear what Taurus said.
"I SAID I NEED YOUR HELP!" Yelled Adam as he looked looked at the ground.
"What?!" Said Rust surprised that someone he maimed want his help. "Is this some sort of dirty trick to get back at me?" Rust said in a accusatory fashion.
"Well my love would kill me if I tried to kill you but yes I do need your help." Answered Adam.
"And your probably the only one who can help us." Add a voice that he could barely remember.
Blake watched as Adam asked Rust for help. She had to admit it was amusing to watch her love ask the android. She still didn't like androids but she knows that he can save the people of their village. She could feel Adams discomfort with talking to Rust. Who wouldn't even thought the white fang is peaceful again they still had the public against them. So they offer aid through organizations they created to replace the Whitefang. The Whitefang can only be the white fang here. Most of the members fallowed Adam with out question. When a few disgruntled members complained about the lack of advancement in their goals Adam told them they showed what they are capable of and now it's time to let the peaceful Faunus finish the fight.
Since Blake was identified as a Whitefang member most Faunus and humans avoided her. When a child would try to approach her the parents would hold them closely. Slowly but surly the villages out side of the kingdom were able to tolerate the Whitefang no longer seeing them as a threat.
Blake could vividly remember the last time they met. Rust standing above the defeated Adam the cold and calculating eyes that despite being those of a machine. She could see that he hasn't aged a bit he looked almost the exact same as they first met. She was shocked at how closely he resembled the newer altesian knights. Everything except his head and cloak looked like the soulless machines of Atlas.
"We built this village to give Faunus a safe heaven from the cruel treatment they received." She stated then she adopted a sad expression. "Then we were attacked by these strange humans." She said feeling guilty about it.
"Strange? In what sense?" Rust asked with curiosity.
"Their muscles looked like they were separating from the bone." Answered Adam while he walks over to Blake to comfort the women he loves.
"He didn't." Rust said bluntly.
"Who are you talking about Rust." Said the confused cat Faunus.
"Alpha this is a new low even for you." He mumbled then he turned away from facing the two. "We need to save your people which way were they taken?" He said giving a look that Taurus and Blake knew to well. Someone was going to get hurt.
"They were taken towards vale. Why do we need to save them?" Asked Blake.
"Because they don't deserve the fate alpha intends for them" stated Rust.
"WHO IS ALPHA!" Yelled the two Faunus.
Meanwhile
"Arrrgh!" Yelled Alpha. He watch as the metallic and organic parts of his hands try to separate themselves. He could feel every molecule try to separate the organic from the metallic. It's a side effect he didn't expect and he knew Rust would kill him for doing this. Well like he hasn't tried already. He could feel cinder laughing at him. It made him angrier the more she laughed. He didn't completely understand how she even survived the experiment but he didn't care. Alpha needed to find out how he did it. How did he get it to work properly with out the side effects. His two 'subordinates' had similar problems since these problems so they informed him that they are bringing test subjects to use to figure out a way to fix it.
Exiting the chamber he was currently in travels that Alpha has made a home in a abandoned atlesian cruiser. The name of the ship is the leviathan and it showed plenty of signs of deterioration but that was all a cheap but effective smoke 'disposing' of the lab worker and any evidence that would lead to the leviathan he began renovating the ship slowly turning it into a factory. Outside it is a abandoned warship, Inside it is a highly advance factory. The materials were provided by other air ships scattered around the area. The ship grave yard was filled with old and new ships. Using the virus that cinder created he hacked the altesian military archives and stole the latest model of the altesian knight. He already has battalions of his soldiers mixed in with other altesian knights. He planted a modded version into his sleeper soldiers so they can infect the rest of the knights.
He could almost taste it. The blood, the death, and the pain. He couldn't wait to feed the Grimm so to speak. He entered the factory assisted by some of the active units he kept here as a security measure. He couldn't wait for the altesian military week.
Meanwhile
Blake and Adam were running fast they long since left Rust in the dust. He acted as if it wasn't urgent. So they fallowed the prints. They came to a clearing and to their surprise Rust was already there.
"Took you long enough!" Exclaimed Rust
"How did you get here so fast!?" Demanded Blake
"I tried to tell you they were leaving a fox trail but you were to rushed to notice." Defended the machine
"So basically we took the long way." Answered Adam
"Yup." Responded Rust. The two Faunus sigh in defeat once again outsmarted by the android know as Rust.
They turned their gaze to the other side of the clearing. They could see the camp it was being guarded by older models of the altesian Knights. The couldn't see the two that attack the village they seemed to have disappeared. Adam was about to get up to go save his people but Rust held him down. Adam looked at the android and he saw that he's looking thought Edans rusty scope.
"Not so fast it appears they have bombs strapped to their necks." Rust said as Calmly as he could.
"That complicate things." Answers Blake with obvious worry.
Elsewhere
Acirta wakes up after a long night. The last thing she remembered was ruby accidentally dropping the object Rust gave them for safe keeping. It some how manage to end up downloading into a altesian knight. Then instead of going in a murder spree it went around slapping people across the face. It kept calling itself delta the king of slapping. She could feel the sting of the multiple slaps she received from the stupid machine. Strangely enough to Ruby was the only one who wasn't slapped.
Speaking of her fearless leader she was currently hanging out with the android and making sure it did go and kill somebody. Velvet loved the android it slapped Cardin and his team so many times that they actually can't see thought the swelling. She hoped Rust would be here soon and help delta stop his slapping fetish.
Acirta gets up and turns to the two remaining team mate that are sleeping. Weiss had two red spots that looked like hands and Yangon face was completely red showing only a little swelling. Instead of walking them up she turns to get dressed. As she got ready she played over the possible reactions Rust will have ranging from deadly to face palming. She could vividly remember Yangs pun slaptastic.
Ozpin knew stress. But nothing could prepare him for Rusts sibling. Delta said he like Mu just as much as he liked slapping people he didn't like. He was relieved that he wasn't entirely psychotic. But the amount of complaint and threats of a android hunt as they putted has clogged his mail box. He didn't blame the girls for what happened. It seemed that fate wanted to mess with everybody through by using this machine. He message Rust what happened but he knew he would be out of contact for a few days due to the area he was going to. No reception for scrolls in the area. Even if there was Rust would have turned his scroll off to save power. But he understood why he didn't want ironwood to have it and now he sure the general would have sent this android to him with out delay.
SLAP!
"Ahahahaha!" Came from the elevator. Ozpin could feel a killer headache setting in.
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