The Idiot and Freelancer in Remnant
The Next Day…
Washington, Caboose, Locus, Ironwood, Ozpin and Glynda stood inside of the dorm room of the first two, patiently awaiting whoever it is is going through the door.
"Are you sure your friends will come?" Ozpin asked.
"Yes. Like I said, we're pretty much family."
"That's not good enough." Ironwood glared.
"I suggest you have some faith in him, General." Locus defended, arms crossed.
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Ding!
"FRIENDLY HEAT SIGNATURE DETECTED." The gauntlets said.
They all looked towards the door and saw that it was…shaking? The door opened to reveal…Carolina, Tucker and Doc….being pushed by something? A...red soldier?
"S U C K. I T. !"
BOOM!
Whatever was pushing them, suddenly made them crash to the wall, causing the room to be in a total mess. Someone groaned from within the dust.
"What the hell was that Sarge?!"
"You told me that if there was a way to bring more of us, you'd do it, and I delivered." Sarge answered.
"I think she meant why you launched yourself."
"Well…"
"Hey!" The four turned towards Washington and Caboose, they had surprised looks on their faces, beneath their helmets.
"Wash!"
"Caboose!"
"Me!" Washington raised an open palm towards the four.
"We can do a reunion later, what the hell was that explosion?!" Washington asked. Sarge sheepishly replied.
"Well…"
A few minutes ago in the RvB world…
"Alright guys, make just sure you don't die." Carolina said. She had just called Doc up, and they were standing in front of the door. Donut, Grif and Simmons were standing in front of them, while Sarge was talking to Lopez about something.
"How did you manage to convince Doc to come with us?" Tucker questioned.
"She paid me."
"Oh."
"She also promised me a certain weapon ending in "Shot" should I come here. Muwahahaha." O'Malley said, glancing at Grif.
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"…No! You're not taking the GrifS-" he didn't get to finish as O'Malley just whacked him over the head with a rocket launcher, knocking him out. He then grabs said weapon and aims it towards the sky.
"EXTERMINATE! ELIMINATE! MUWAHAHAHAHA!"
"O'Malley! That's not very nice!" Doc said.
"Shut up, it's the appropriate amount of nice."
"Alright, the door should open up in just a few minutes." Carolina announced, she turned around towards the two others.
"Get in a straight line and run as fast as you guys can once I open door, ok?"
"Got it!"
"Okay."
"Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiineeeee."
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Meanwhile…
"Lopez, I can't believe this." Sarge said to the Spanish robot.
"Cree lo que?" (Believe what?)
"That they'd choose that Medic guy over me…"
"Puedo." (I can)
"I will not stand for this! I will come with those dirty blues, one way or another!" Sarge suddenly got an idea.
"Lopez, how long those that door stay open?"
"Dos."
"Two seconds…." He looked towards the bomb he was building a few days ago…
"Lopez, I'm gonna need a favor."
"Si se trata de lanzarte, cuenta conmigo." (If it involves launching you, count me in.)
Back with Carolina…
"Alright guys, the door should open in Three….Two….o-" suddenly, they all got pushed forwards by something.
"S-"
Present
"And now we're here." Sarge finished.
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"...I actually kind of expected this…"
"Indeed." Locus said, making the others aware of his presence.
"Locus?!" Carolina said, drawing a magnum pistol while Tucker brought out his sword.
"Guys, relax. He's…good." Washington said, standing in between the two.
"What do you mean?" Doc questioned.
"He saved my life. I'll explain, for now, we can make introductions." Washington said, gesturing towards the other three in the room. Ozpin was casually sipping his coffee, Ironwood had a sneer on his face, and Glynda was just annoyed she had to fix another room again. Carolina and Tucker reluctantly kept their weapons and looked at who Washington was gesturing towards.
"These are your friends, I presume?" Ozpin started. He held out his hand.
"My name is Professor Ozpin." Carolina glanced at Washington, then at Ozpin. Wash. Ozpin. Wash. Ozpin. Wash. Ozpin. Wa-
"Yes I know he sounds like me." Washington said. Carolina shook the headmaster's hand.
"Agent Carolina. That's Tucker, Sarge and Doc."
"Hey."
Sarge cocked his shotgun. "Howdy."
"Hello!"
"YOU WILL ALL TASTE OBLIVION!" O'Malley said while pulling out the Grif/BruteShot. Ironwood grabbed his pistol and Glynda grabbed her riding crop. Ozpin just sipped his coffee cup.
"O'Malley!" Carolina yelled, he kept hi- Grif's weapon while he grumbled something beneath his breath. Glynda just raised an eyebrow.
"Doc has a….split personality disorder, Doc is a pacifist and O'Malley is essentially the opposite." Ozpin nodded and glanced at Glynda.
"Glynda Goodwitch." She greeted as she pushed her eyeglasses. Carolina resisted the urge to call out that she sounds like Tex. The two glanced at the General.
"…Ironwood." Tucker looked at Glynda.
"Damn! Those are some nice watermelons. Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!"
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Tucker was met with a bed to the face.
"Anyways….where the hell are we and what's happening?" Carolina asked. Washington sighed.
This was going to be a loooooooooooooooong explanation.
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Back in the RvB world…
"Yu-huh"
"Nu-uh"
"Yu-huh."
"Nu-uh."
Simmons and Grif were in a heated debate on if Game of Thrones really happened. It was a conversation of a fucking lifetime.
"Yu-huh."
"Nu-uh."
"Yu-huh."
"Nu-uh."
"Yu-huh."
"Nu-uh."
"Yu-huh."
"Nu-uh."
"Dude."
"Dude."
"Yeah dude."
Donut was 'chatting' with Lopez.
"And then Sarge was like "The big SPNKR…." Donut was telling Lopez about a dream he had where they were back in Blood Gulch and everyone was singing and dancing.
"Gracias a mi inexistente dios puedo apagar mis oídos" (thank my non-existent god I can turn my ears off.)
"And then they went all like- do-do ah ah, do the Chuppa!" Donut then went on to do a dance with…questionable positions.
"Si pudiera hacer lo mismo con mis ojos" (if only I could do the same with my eyes.)
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One explanation later.
"And that's what happened." Caboose finished.
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"Caboose you didn't say anything, you just stared into space for a while and said "And that's what happened." Tucker said.
"Exactly."
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"Wash?" Carolina asked. Washington sighed.
"Here's what really happened."
One ACTUAL explanation later…
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"We're in another dimension?" Tucker said once Washington finished.
"Grimm, Aura, Faunus, Dust. I'll explain it all in more detail later. Right now though, I think you should get acquainted with the school and such." He turned towards the three others.
"I'm going to take them for a tour of the school, if you don't mind." Washington expected a Ironwood to retort, but he stayed silent. Ozpin nodded.
"Alright, come on Caboose let's go."
"Okay!"
"AFFIRMATIVE"
"Wait is Freckles-"
"I'll explain."
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The RW of RWBY were in a heated match of Remnant: The Game, with the JP of JNPR. BY was facing NR on a separate table. Ruby had control of Vale again, Weiss had Atlas, Jaune had Vacuo and Pyrrha had Mistral. It was currently Jaune's turn.
"I play Smugglers of Wind path! I get to take two cards from anyone I want." He glanced towards the three girls, who all had nervous looks on their faces.
"Weiss!" He grabbed the first and last cards in her hand.
"You monster!" Weiss said as she face planted onto the floor. Ruby and Pyrrha sighed in relief.
"Now I play Awareness! Now my troops can't fall for any traps, at the cost of discarding a card." Jaune sent one of his cards to the discard pile.
"Now, I activate Military dictatorship, this makes my fleet stronger, and I use it to attack Pyrrha!" Jaune furiously pointed at the red haired champion.
"Good job Jaune, looks like I lose." Pyrrha said, landing her cards in defeat.
"Better luck next time Pyrrha." Ruby encouraged. She looked at the entrance to see Washington, Caboose and four others.
"Good morning Teams." Washington greeted.
"Good morning Mr. Washington!" Ruby saluted the teacher. Tucker was about to say something but-
"A lot of the people we know sound a lot like these people, ok? Ok." Washington cut him off. Washington suddenly got an idea in his head.
"Pyrrha! Can you come here for a sec?" The mention red head, along with her teammates and WBY, walked towards the teachers.
"Good morning, how can I help you?"
Carolina just froze.
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"Carolina."
"Huh?"
"Take of your helmet." Carolina did so, only for Team RWBY, JNPR, Tucker, Sarge and Caboose, to drop their jaws.
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Carolina awkwardly held out her hand.
"Agent Carolina." Pyrrha smiled and shook it.
"Pyrrha Nikos."
"It's good to see so many people supporting Red." Sarge commented.
"Some of your friends from your dimension?" Ren asked. Washington glanced at Team RWBY, who just gave him a sheepish look.
"You told them?" Ruby just helped her hands behind her back and rubbed her foot on the floor.
"Umm…" Washington sighed.
"Just keep it a secret." He looked back towards the four.
"This is Carolina, Tucker, Doc and Sarge."
"Greetings."
"Hey!"
"Hello!"
"Howdy."
"And I am O'Malley." Team RWBY and JNPR just stared at the purple soldier for a moment…
"He has another person in his head." Caboose said.
"Er…yeah…"
"This is Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren."
"Hello!/Hi./Sup'/Nora!"
"What brings you guys here?" Blake asked.
"I'm just going to brief them on Dust, Grimm, that kind of stuff. After that, we're supposed to go to Ozpin's office." He glanced at RWBY. "And by 'we', I mean us and Team RWBY." Weiss just raised her eyebrow.
"Why us?"
"Beats me, we're just long to go deeper inside now."
"Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!" Tucker said as they walked deeper inside the library. They didn't get very far when Ruby noticed Doc's weapon. She used her semblance to instantly run towards the purple soldier's back and knock him down.
"What the-" he didn't get to finish as Ruby was in his face with a wide grin.
"OHMYGOSTHISWEAPONISREALLYCOOLtellmehowandwheredidyougetthisitlookslikeitusee40mmfragegrenadesasaammopleasetellmeituses40mmfraggrenadesasammothatwouldbethebestthingEVER!" Ruby said faster than the ear can hear. The one thing Tucker did hear though, was "Awesome" and "Weapon".
"Hey if you want awesome weapons? Check this out!" Ruby looked at Tucker as he brought out his energy sword. Tucker didn't get a chance to say anything as Ruby tackled him to the ground as he was holding the sword.
"OHYMYGOSHisthataplasmaenergysword?thatsreallyawesomeiveneverseenineupsoclosebeforepleaetellmeitisitshapedlileafighterjetshapedmakingiteasytodisarmfoesPLEASETELLMEITISAPLASMASWORD!".
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"Ruby is a bit of a weapon nut." Yang said, as a Ruby was still drooling over the two alien weapons.
"Anyways, we're going to go now, see you guys later." Washington said.
"Bye!" Caboose said, waving his arm as they went deeper inside the library.
"They seem nice." Pyrrha commented.
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A LOT of time later…
Washington finished his explanation to the four newly arrivals. Carolina seemed interested in this world's history, Sarge wanted a rocket launching shotgun, Tucker wanted to check out the chicks, considering a lot of them are basically supermodels, Doc wanted to go to Beacon infirmary to check their medical technology, and O'Malley wanted to go to Emerald Forest to test out hi- Grif's weapon.
"This is the last thing I expected when we went through that door." Carolina stated.
"Yeah, a world full of monsters but they haven't even went to space yet? Shotgun gauntlets? Dust?"
"Alright guys, you guys can go explore for a while around the school, just don't leave Beacon. We have to go to Ozpin's office in an hour, so just go there later, ok?"
"Are you sure it's a good idea to tell them this Wash?" Carolina questioned.
"Yeah, besides, we don't really have anything better to do, might as well stop another planet from going to war, right?"
"Right." Tucker said.
"Now, it's time for me to see if anybody here wants to help me make this bad boy a rocket launcher." Sarge said as he cocked his shotgun.
"What about Ruby?" Doc said.
"Of course! Us Reds have to stick together after all." Sarge said as he began walking back the way he came.
"I'm going to go into the forest to kill some Grimm, might as well test out my new toy after all, Muwahahaha." O'Malley said.
"But I want to go to the Infirmary! I want to see their medical supplies." O'Malley groaned.
"Fine, forty minutes of killing, and fifteen minutes of medical stuff. The other five minutes will be walking."
"Okay!" Doc agreed, heading for Emerald forest.
"I'm going to stay and read some history." Carolina said as she walked towards the History section.
"Hey Washington, mind pointing me to the dorm rooms? I want to check out some of the chicks here."
"Tucker, they're 17." Washington dead panned.
"I was talking about the third or fourth years, besides, I'm only 23." Washington sighed in defeat.
"Take the first right, then go up four stairways."
"Thanks!" And with that, Tucker ran off. Washington glanced at Caboose, who was sleeping with his head down on the desk.
"Cookies." Caboose instantly woke up.
"What? Where?!" He looked around frantically searching for the sugary goodness. When he realized there were none,
"You lied to me." He pointed Freckles at the Freelancer.
"…DÉJÀ VU." Washington chuckled.
"We have some cookies back at out dorm, come on, let's go."
"Yay!"
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"Ruby!"
Said person turned around and saw Sarge walking towards her.
"I need your help with something." Ruby raised an eyebrow at the colonel.
"What is it?" Sarge cocked his shotgun.
"I need you to help me make this guy into a fine rocket launcher. Think you can do that?" Ruby had stars in her eyes.
"YES! Let's go!" Ruby, using her excited adrenaline rush strength, pulled Sarge back to her dorm room.
"…She really likes weapons." Blake observed.
"Yup."
Once they arrived, Ruby grabbed several tools to help them make it.
"Alright, let's do this, any idea what kind of rocket launcher you want?" Ruby turned towards the Red leader.
"I want something that hurts Reeeeaaaaalll bad, something that shoots respect. Blowing people up is an added bonus." Sarge explained. Ruby cracked her knuckles.
"Alllllright, let's get to work!" Ruby began dismantling the rocket launcher and Sarge gathered some of the materials they needed. He created Lopez after all, he knew how to make things.
"Alright, we can either have a round frag grenade missile, or a rocket shaped one." She turned towards Sarge.
"Hm…Frag grenades general give a lot of range….though rockets launch a LOT faster." Sarge and Ruby scratched their chins in thought. The two weapon nuts ended up having a LOT of arguments, but it was mostly in good intentions. They were gonna get along juuuust fine.
"How about we make a…."
"I prefer the…"
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"ALL OF YOU WILL TASTE OBLIVION! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
O'Malley shot at the heads of several Ursi, destroying their heads. Several of them roared in anger towards the Medic/Pre-A.I.
"So much aggression! You'd think tearing people in half that enter the forest would be good stress relief." O'Malley ignored him and sliced a random Beowolf in half.
"ALL OF YOU WILL BOW TO ME! MUWAHAHAHAHA!"
"Take deep breaths O'Malley. In…" He stabbed an Alpha Beowolf in the head.
"AND OUT!" O'Malley shot a grenade and used the recoil to slice the body in half, while destroying a pack behind him. Once the Alpha was down, all that remained ran away.
"ALL WILL SUFFER!"
He continued his reign towards all Grimm that opposed him…until he got bored.
"Ugh, alright wet nurse, you can have your Medical time now."
"Yay!"
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"Hey Washingtub." Caboose said. The two were in their dorm room eating some leftover cookies.
"Yeah Caboose?" Washington said as he ate another cookie.
"There are four beds, but six people." Caboose noticed. Washington looked around and saw four beds.
"I'll ask Ozpin to give us some extra pillows and blankets later."
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TELL HIM ABOUT US?" Freckles asked.
"The truth. If he wants to hear it, so be it."
"AFFIRMATIVE."
Caboose ate another cookie.
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Carolina was reading through a random history book. Carolina felt her blood boil when she read Faunus discrimination. She hated racism, the White Fang have the right to be mad, but what they're doing is only adding fuel to the fire…
"Hello."
Carolina, out of instinct, grabbed her pistol, stood up and aimed it behind her, and it was met with Locus, with her pistol point blank.
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Carolina reluctantly kept her pistol and sat down.
Locus sat on a chair on the opposite end of the table, reading another book.
The two read in silence for a while.
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"Why are you here?" Carolina asked, breaking the silence.
"The library, or Remnant?"
"You know which one I'm referring to." Locus sighed and placed his book down.
"…Redemption." Carolina seemed surprised by his answer.
"what do you mean?"
"All my life I followed my superior's orders, thinking that that was the way of a true soldier. Someone who doesn't ask unnecessary questions, and gets the job done no matter what. The one question that plagued my mind though, was why I wanted to be a true soldier." Carolina continued to listen.
"Why did I want to be a true soldier? I had no reason. I thought I was already to far gone to change. Agent Washington made me realize something, however."
"Which is?"
"…I was never a true soldier in the first place, I was nothing more than a monster. This world has not heard of what I've done…I want to keep it that way. This is the only way I can redeem myself."
"No matter how many good deeds you do, your goal of redemption will always be out of reach." Carolina countered.
"Maybe, but damn if I won't die trying." Locus said as he walked away from the table.
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Tucker was walking down the hallway, trying to pick-up chicks…
"Hey girl, you're not from around here are you? Cause that ass is out of this world!"
"Baby, I'm like a firefighter, I found them hot and leave them wet."
"Violets are blue, roses are red, what is it going to take, to get you into bed?"
All of which either resulted in a kick to the balls or a slap to the face.
"These girls have no taste in men." Tucker sighed and continued walking.
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Once all of the Reds and Blues were done with what they were doing, they arrived at Ozpin's office. They all were sat down on chairs in front of Ozpin's desk. There were 14 of them in the office right now. Washington, Caboose, Tucker, Carolina, Sarge, Doc, Locus, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Ozpin, Ironwood and Glynda. Ozpin sipped on his coffee cup.
"So. Where would you like to begin?" Washington asked.
"Like I said before, your story."
"Before or after season 5?" Caboose said.
"What?"
"Never mind that, why are they here?" Washington pointed towards Team RWBY.
"They are the team you are most acquainted with, I thought that you'd like someone familiar to be here as you tell your story." Ozpin said.
"Yeah, well, five of us aren't too familiar with them, just me and Caboose." Washington countered.
"Hm…" He glanced at Team RWBY.
"We deserve to know what's going on at least. We save your butt back at the warehouse anyways." Yang said. Washington sighed.
"Fine."
"Even if we told you the truth, would you believe us?" Sarge questioned.
"…Yes." Ozpin replied. He was mostly speaking for himself on that matter.
"…Fine." Washington sighed.
"This is going to be a long story…Guess the first thing I should do is tell you about our world."
"Indeed." Glynda said.
"Our world is much more technologically advanced than you guys. Your robots follow orders, we can build the same, but we can also build A.I. robots, with freedom and choice, that sort of thing." Ozpin nodded, though Ironwood just glared at them.
"In our world, we pretty much travel all the time around the universe. Across planets, galaxies, etc. Our world at the time was in war with aliens." this surprised them, but said nothing.
"And then…there was Project Freelancer, made to combat the alien forces. It was stationed on a large ship, called 'Mother of Invention'. It was a Special Operations program to, I quote, "Project Freelancer is a state of the art scientific endeavor, with one goal in mind: to ensure the security of humanity in a harsh and violent galaxy." But in reality, it was a research program, set up to study skilled experimental agents combined with an A.I." Ruby raised her eyebrow.
"A.I.? Like Freckles?" Washington shook his head.
"Freckles was once a robot, then it was destroyed and turned into an assault rifle, then into SMG gauntlets."
"These A.I.s were different." Carolina took it from here.
"They were just fragments of an Alpha based on The Director, Project Freelancer's leader." Ironwood spoke up.
"An Alpha? How would one be able to gain additional A.I. from one?"
"By torturing it." Carolina replied, causing the seven Remnant-ers to look shocked.
"Torture?!" Blake yelled out.
"He tortured the Alpha to go through several simulations, causing certain attributes of it to form into A.I. Fragments, Anger, Ambition, Logic, Deceit, Happiness, Memories, etc. One of them was Beta, the attribute of failure."
"Failure?" Weiss questioned.
"It was created through the Director's last memories of his wife, Allison. With that, she was given black armor and turned into Agent Texas, though she believed herself to be human, not even aware of her own birth. She was even given her own A.I., Omega. For a while, things went on as it should've, until one of our own, C.T., Saw what we were before we saw ourselves."
"What do you mean by that?" Ozpin questioned. Washington answered.
"C.T. Saw what we were in the Director's eyes, we were just his test subjects. We were still blind to what we were becoming. On one mission, she met up with an Insurrectionist leader, some Freelancers found her and ended up having to kill her." Washington said sadly. Blake suddenly felt a pang insider her. C.T. Saw what they had become, and tried to change it for the better…only to be killed while doing what was right. Blake related to C.T.
"After that, Tex ranked number one on the Freelancer leaderboard."
"Leaderboard?"
"It keeps track of the best of the best, number one was originally Carolina, but she failed a mission, while Tex succeeded it." Carolina continued from there.
"I wanted to get my spot back. I wanted to be number one. Once I learned Tex had an A.I., I signed up to have my own A.I. I decided to have two instead of one, which was the worst move I ever made."
"What happened then?" Ruby asked, feeling sorry for the freelancer.
"I demanded to challenge Tex to a fight. The Director noticed our fight though, and ended up shouting "Allison". After that…I don't know. My head just started to feel pain…I…I don't really know how to describe it." Ozpin noticed the pain in her voice.
"It's fine, Ms. Carolina. You may skip and continue your story." Carolina breathed in and continued.
"I was sent to medical assistance. I…don't really know what to say about that." Washington continued for her.
"During that time, I was next in line to get implanted with an A.I….the A.I. was called Epsilon, the A.I. of memory. When it was implanted inside me….I went insane. I started seeing pictures and kept hearing voices….I'm just going to try and skip this." Washington stated, as the very thought of it sent shivers down his spine. Ozpin nodded understandingly.
"You may continue."
"Carolina wasn't the only one. Another Freelancer soldier named Maine was feeling similar headaches. His own A.I., Sigma, was manipulating him."
"Manipulating him how?" Ironwood questioned.
"There are four stages of an A.I. The last one had greatly interested Sigma, Metastability. It was at this point an A.I., could be considered human. He wanted to gather every A.I. so that he could reach this state. While Carolina and Maine were recovering from the pain, Tex found a dog tag left by C.T."
"What is so important about a dog tag?" Glynda questioned
"It was a file regarding everything, A.I., The Director, the Freelancers, it had a lot of data…along with the fact that she was Beta. Tex read it and realized she herself was the Beta A.I., she went rogue and went on an assault on the Mother of Invention. She had the help of York, a good friend to me, Carolina and Tex."
"She went rouge?" Ironwood questioned. If a soldier were to go rouge, it'd just be another casualty for him. Carolina spoke next.
"The Director assigned me to stop her. We ended up having to fight on the Mother of Invention. In the midst of the fight, we were crashing towards planet Sidewinder. There, I landed on the planet. Maine was just being controlled and manipulated by Sigma…he grabbed my throat and ripped of the A.I. Chip I had on me…after that, he just threw me off a cliff…I thought I was done for but I miraculously survived. "
Wash continued. "Main changed. He became Sigma's puppet to try and search for the A.I. Fragments, along with the Freelancer's armor enhancements. He was obsessed with Metastability…and that was the end of the first part…the next part is where it all gets very complicated."Ozpin nodded. He turned towards the other members of the group.
"I presume all of you are members of Project Freelancer?"
"Hell no." Tucker said, surprising the headmaster.
"I'll take it from here." Sarge said, then looked towards the headmaster.
"We were nothing but simulation troopers for them."
"What do you mean?" Blake asked.
"When that giant ship crashed, the Director and all of those other dirtbags survived, and Washington over there lived."
"I was known as recovery one. The Meta was recently attacking anyone with an A.I. and armor enhancements. I was sent to recover all of them, then I was stabbed in the back." Washington said.
"You were betrayed?"
"Yeah, my partner ended up only using me to get a certain A.I. After that…Sarge, you can continue."
"The surviving freelancers essentially worked as mercenaries, and they faked an entire war on us."
"They faked a war?" Ironwood questioned.
"Red vs Blue. We were told that the Blues were evil bastards who tried to ruin our lives…but in reality, we were just scenarios for them. A freelancer eventually stepped in to our so-called war, and we'd just be nothing more than a goddamn random trooper once they were done. It would have been the same for us too…"
"But Tex was the freelancer to come to our base." Tucker chimed.
"What happened after that?" Ruby asked.
"That's where everything happens."
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Cinder and her subjects were in a warehouse, discussing their plan for the upcoming Vytal Festival in just a few days.
"Once the finals reach…you know what to do Emerald."
"Yes Ma'am." Emerald replied.
"What about Felix?" Mercury asked.
"He will be the one monitoring everything. He is a very skilled hacker, and he already has more than enough data for us."
"As long as you hold up your end of the bargain." Felix stepped into the warehouse, wearing his armor.
"Don't worry, Felix, you will get your revenge when the time is right…" Cinder pulled out a scroll and began tapping.
"What's that?"
"We're just getting more and more access points…" She closed her scroll and turned towards Emerald.
"Tell Mr. Taurus that we will be having a meeting soon…"
"Yes Ma'am." Emerald saluted as she went deeper into the warehouse.
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One Very Long Explanation Later…
(I'm sorry if you were expecting me to write an entire RWBY reacts to Red vs Blue here.)
"After all of that…Epsilon was gone. Hargrove was arrested, Chrous was mostly in peace…and we went into retirement." Tucker finished.
"And I went back to Chorus as a Medic." Doc added.
Silence fell onto the office.
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"You have experienced a lot in your lives…and you have lost a lot as well. I'm sorry for making you recall these events." Ozpin said. RWBY was just silent, not really knowing how to respond to their story. Glynda was in the same boat as RWBY. Locus had already left when they mentioned him on Chorus, but Carolina had requested not to go into detail about that, much to the confusion of the others. As for Ironwood…..
"Do you have any proof?" Carolina just stared at the General.
"What…?"
"Do you have any proof that any of what you said had actually happened?" James accused.
"A story such as that cannot be faked, James." Glynda said with hostility in her voice.
"It could be planned, it could be just another trap." Ironwood countered.
"James, do you really believe what you say, or do you just do that so you feel powerful?" Ozpin accused. Ironwood seemed offended and slammed his fist towards the desk.
"I am not the one who let Grimm invade Vale!"
"James!" Ironwood turned back towards the soldiers.
"If you truly expect me to believe all of this nonsense without proof then you-!" Ironwood didn't get to finish as the one person who didn't speak at as much as the others during the story, slammed his fist against the table.
The one person who was never angry unless in angry mode.
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"Caboose?" Washington asked, concerned. Caboose suddenly pulled out a black circle with three orbs on it.
"Caboose what is-" Caboose just pressed a button on the circle. The three lights flashed as a single cobalt hologram was shown in front of the,pm.
"Church!/Epsilon!" They all said, minus Caboose. The Remnant-ers just widened their eyes in shock.
"Hey guys... if you're hearing this then it means you did it. You won. You kicked the shit out of Hargrove's forces. I knew you could. But this is my last stop. See, when I came into this world, I was really just a collection of somebody else's memories. But with your help, these memories... they-they took form! They became my voice, my personality. And, after a while, I... I began to make brand new memories of my own. All of these things are what make me who I am... but they're also holding me back. I can't run this suit as Epsilon, but if I erase my memories, if I... deconstruct myself, the fragments I'll leave behind will have the strength to get you through this. I believe that.
I wish that there was another way. But I'm leaving this message, as well as others, in the hopes that you'll understand why I have to go this time...hehe, it was actually Doyle who made me realize something that I've never thought of before. There are so many stories where some brave hero decides to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors all cheer, and everybody lives happily ever the hero... never gets to see that ending. They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference. They'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith.
Epsilon shatters.
Ain't that a bitch."
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"What was that…?" Weiss asked.
"Church's last words." Caboose said sadly, sobbing, as he grabbed the circle and walked towards the elevator. Washington glared at a Ironwood before following him, and taking it to the lowest floor.
Tucker, without hesitation, drew out his energy sword and slashed at the General. Ironwood dodged the slashes, left and right. After a while, Glynda uses her telekinesis to stop Tucker from attacking.
"What are you doing?!" Ironwood yells out.
"WHAT AM I DOING?! YOU FUCKING MADE CABOOSE, CABOOSE! CRY FOR FUCKS SAKE!" Tucker yelled to the Atlas headmaster.
"I was just being cautious!" Carolina suddenly stood up and shot Ironwood in the arm.
"Carolina!" Ozpin yelled out.
"He deserved that." She kept her pistol and went towards the elevator. Tucker followed soon.
"I may be whatever the opposite of a pacifist is, but that was just a dick move." O'Malley said.
"I agree." Doc agreed.
"Son, I may still bare some hatred towards the Blues, but that was worse than anything I could've done."
"What do you mean?" Glynda questioned.
"I'm not the best person to ask about this, but Caboose pretty much saw Church as his best friend. Caboose lost Sheila the tank, Freckles' original body, and Church and or Epsilon multiple times. Caboose has lost a lot." Sarge said as he walked towards the elevator.
"As much as I'd love to tear you apart, I need to go see the boy. I was once in him after all….my personality I mean." O'Malley said and walked to the elevator.
Once the three teachers and RWBY were just left, they stood in silence…
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"We're just going to go check on them now…" Yang said as she and her team walked towards the elevator…not before Blake gave Ironwood a glare though.
Ironwood started "I….."
Ozpin sighed. This was going to take more than a simple apology to fix.
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Well…that got sad.
Some of you may be saying Ironwood wouldn't act like this, in a way, I agree, but let me explain myself here.
1.) Ironwood has shown that he's a pretty direct person, willing to be blunt and be willing to bring his army to the conversation if he feels threatened.
2.) He seems like the kind of guy to believe that what he's doing is for the best, and he hates to take risks. This made him very predictable for Cinder in Volume 3.
3.) Remember that these guys are essentially strangers to him, he wouldn't believe a story like this, a single word from Locus is just that, a single word. It's up to him whether to believe him or not.
4.) I can see his and Washington's relationship to be similar to that of him and Qrow.
If I completely misinterpreted Ironwood's reaction to this, let me know and I'll try to rewrite this chapter. Sorry if I seem a bit….I don't really know what the word is but you guys probably do.
Anyways, Reviews!
Guest JP: Thanks! I've always seen the two like an older and little brother.
Dracohalo117: Thanks for reading this far!
Guest: Kudos to you for your eyes. I'm sorry about that little mis-description, but in my head-canon he has black hair, and I think it would be a little bit of a bother to people if I suddenly changed a characters appearance. Thank you for pointing it out though.
Thanks for reading, and now I received a PM that left me wondering something:
What's your guys thoughts on shipping in this story? You can either leave your opinion in the reviews or just PM me.
Also, I brought Sarge into the story for three reasons.
1.) Sarge himself is military, and he knows the reality of war, he may sometimes be seen as an idiot, but he also managed to kick Freelancer ass time and time again.
2.) The motivational speeches are real.
3.) I added him because I can see Sarge launching himself to make sure he goes with them so lol.
Sorry if this chapter wasn't what you expected.
Thanks for reading, and have a great day.