Chapter 10: Deployment

Morning rises, Yang and Blake were glad that Alex didn't try to do anything that would raise major trouble. As Rei wakes up Alex (who was cuddling with Zwei for warmth), Ruby stretches and Weiss rubs her eyes. Yang couldn't help but stare at Alex for a while before Blake pulls her glare away, she whisper something and Yang nods. Kureha got ready as she gets into her outfit and straps on her guns to her back, Ruby couldn't help but asks.

"Can I try out you gun later?"

"Maybe later, we need to see where we need to go first, remember?" Kureha said, she walks out before any more questions were asked.

"She's still upset of Eli?" Weiss said, Alex nods. He groans in pain.

"Master, Are you okay?" Rei asks, still in her pajamas

"I'm fine, ArFA-sys, just some nightmare that felt to surreal." Alex said, he slept in his outfit so he doesn't have to change. Also he never set his sleeper outfit so of course he didn't want to be just wearing boxers in front of girls.

"I'll get ready and meet you outside, okay Master?"

"Sure, I just need to relax for a bit." He lays back down as Rei changes into her suit in a press of a button and Ruby and Weiss changes into theirs (Alex face downwards with a pillow and Zwei on top of his head), afterwards when they left the room. Alex knew there were two others, two others who heard him last night. "How much did you hear?" He asked.

"As much as to you having a demon inside you." Yang said, "You know, we don't keep secrets here."

"Kinda figure," Alex stands up to face them. "Yes, I have a demon in me. Well, another me as I call him."

"Another you, so you have a different personality then." Blake said.

"Technically… no… maybe… yeah." Alex said.

"So what do you mean by that?"

"I mean, I talk to another me that can act as a different me." Alex said, they still look confused. "Pretty much, this is someone I don't want anyone to see.

"And by that, who is that person?" Yang asks.

"Ismael, my first name that can cause a break of the past and trigger him if I am controlled. Alex is actually a short version of my middle name, Alexander, if you're wondering why."

"So that means your other personality is much of an evil side you hide to protect them."

"He only takes control when I sleep, but he won't be able to do anything when there are a lot of people."

"And I'm sure he kills a little too much, huh?" Yang said.

"Yeah… a lot… like evil lot." Alex explain, "He learned that Rei was in love with him… well us, I don't know. He would turn this story from T to M."

"Wait, story?"

"Nevermind, just know that he's more of a psychopath." Alex said, "Just don't let my team know, they will kill me, really."

"Can I ask why?" Blake asks.

"Well, I was infected by a virus that made me see things and soon I was consumed by the glitch. Making what's known as a broken player." Alex explains, "After the SBC Flugel ship quest, He suddenly brought everyone to the most unreachable place that was just out of the safe zone. He attempted to kill them but failed because he wasn't use to body features, of course it gave me my body back but I had to die in the game and that hurts."

"But the glitch is still in you, I want to know more." Yang said.

"Same, and I want the others to know." Blake agrees.

"Good, again, not them. All we need now is a-" Alex was cut off by a scream, "That was Kureha!" Alex shouts as he runs out, the girls follows. There they run straight to the scream where they see Ruby, Weiss, team JNPR, and the GGO group pinned down at the courtyard by fast building heavy shooting Fortnite players.

"Looks like they manage to stay in the shield!" Yang shouts as she fires back, destroying left out builds.

"Why are there so many of them, usually it's four players, right?!" Eli shouts, he was right, typical royal is a four man squad or less, maybe.

"It's 50/50! There's a lot of firing!" Kureha said, soon rockets were fired and flies at them, one of them looked very different and flew a bit slower. "Is that?!"

"Missiles!" Ruby shouts as they all got to better cover as three explosion hit, one turned towards Jaune and Nora. "That rocket is controlled!" Nora jumps and Jaune almost felt the heat.

"We need reinforcements!" Eli shouts, students around join the battle but it wasn't enough. Students were flanked and retreated to heal, the school was taking heavy damages.

"Keep firing!" Yang orders, Kureha yelps as she was hit in the shoulder by a sniper. She slouches on her cover as she breathes heavily.

"I'm hit badly." She states, Alex and Eli sees this and fired without stopping.

"ArFA-sys, you need to patch Kureha while we cover you!" Alex orders, she quickly loaded her healing field but was suppressed by incoming LMG bullets. Students took care of the flanks and gotten rid of some downed players before being barrage by explosives, Yang had Blake slingshot her close and downed as much until she was downed herself by bullets and shotguns. Luckily, Ruby followed along to stop any more from actually killing her. During that time, Rei manages to heal Kureha and continue fighting. Kureha pulls out her plasma launcher and fires all four shots, downing and eliminating players. Alex hears another controlled rocket go off, he spots it and fires at it. He manage to destroy it before it got close for comfort while Eli stood next to Kureha and acted like a human shield. The battle rages on and Beacon was slowly losing, Ruby and Yang were pinned and they were being pushed.

"Yang, you gotta drink this!" Ruby hands Yang a ball glass of blue liquid, Yang chugs it all without thinking and got up.

"I feel amazing!" Yang shouts as she goes back out and fight, Ruby watches as Yang barrels through hordes of players. They hears footsteps from behind her, when she look back, she sees a player with a double barrel shotgun aimed towards her. A spark flashes on the players head and he was downed, Ruby looks and sees what she didn't expect to see the one person that she mistaken, The Suit. He waves and Ruby waves back, he continues to fire to provide cover for them. She spectates the field and sees another person in a orange astronaut outfit, he was doing strange combos with a different axe, a large plasma axe. Soon, it was all over. Some students were hurt but luckily none were fully killed, they immediately head to the infirmary to treat their wounds. As for the fifty squad, they were taken, leaving behind a huge amount of different rarity of weaponry. The Suit and the Astronaut walk to the team but with caution, Team RWBY walk to them with their hands up.

"It's okay, we're not going to attack like last time." Ruby said, calmly.

"I know, that's because we can craft our weapons now." The Suit said, this, for all reasons of her gun nut ways, intrigue Ruby.

"Look, I tried saving your friend here. But someone shot him before we landed." Yang said.

"Oh, he doesn't mind that at all. Actually, this is his idea in helping you guys when we found one of the broken rifts." He said, the Astronaut nods. "I prefer we just travel and see what we can do around here, but noooo, someone had to get all heroic and save the day. Just be glad the storm isn't here, or else we be turned into those husks."

"Husks?" Weiss asks.

"I'll explain, anyways I think we're done here so let's go." The Suit walks away but the other didn't go. "Hello, you heard me?" The Astronaut turns around and shook his head, "You want to help still? I already saved someone, let that be a reward." Again, shook his head. "Fine, god you are really challenging to work with." The Suit sticks his hand out, "I'm not saying my real name so you can call me Reaper since this is the skin I'm using." He points to the Astronaut, "His skin is a bit long, Mission Specialist, so call him Jim."

"Hehe, Jim." Alex chuckles, 'Jim' shook his head furiously.

"Okay, jeez, call him Jose, he said that's his real name and if he would like to work with y'all he better be truthful." Reaper said, he smirks. "Of course it's not about the girl, huh."

"Which girl?" Yang asks, Jose looks away.

"Anyways, wherever you go, I guess we'll follow."

"Great, we need to investigate these areas before they're over run by whatever that may be a danger than the grimms." Ruby said.

"We best be heading out now before Winter comes in seeing injured students." Weiss points out, they quickly leave just in time as Ironwood and Winter made it.

"Where are those kids? we were suppose to have the whole city secure from any incoming threats!" Ironwood shouts angrily, "Those people hurt and damage so much property and even endangered innocents, and they were working as an army!"

"Maybe there was something we didn't hear about from their 'leader.'" Winter said, "And I hope they didn't leave already, or else they are in for some problems with some others."

Time lapse: Reaper explains to the group while they are leaving that Husks are monsters that are made from a purple storm that can turn humans into these skeleton head zombies to disfigured creatures with unique attacks, while at that, Jose was showing Nora, Ruby, Kureha, and Juane the beauty of crafting deadly weapons from reusable schematics.

"So basically, what your government have that surrounds the city is the storm shield that keeps the Husks from entering, but not other players or humans." Reaper explain.

"So that's why the fifty army manage to enter." Blake said.

"We really need to get information about this kind of technology." Ren follows.

"You may want to speak to Ray about that."

"Wait, Rei? As in… that Rei?" Yang points to the Android.

"Wait, her name is Ray too? Or is it sounding the same but different? Anyways, no. Ray is a robot but not in a human shape as that Ray, she's more like built in metal, floats around, and pretty much the brains around here… well not in medical, lot of people were shocked to death because of that." Reaper said, the others didn't know what to come from it. Jose stopped to craft something, sounds of equipment being used is heard as Reaper turns to him. "Better be crafting something useful!" Jose nods.

"So you're basically crafting something from Silver ore, String, duct… tape. And an Active power core?" Ruby spectates, He nods. Soon enough an orange pistol appears on top of him and went into his backpack, he reaches for it and pulls it out, a panel shows its name, Jackal. "Whoa." Ruby was amazed.

"So you can just make something out of thin air if you got the right amount of items?" Kureha observes.

"That is sooo GREAT!" Nora shouts ecstatic, "Think of us using these type of techniques than just sticking to using our custom weapons, but I doubt that it would even best my hammer." She whips out Magnhild, first shows him Grenade Launcher form (GL) to her hammer form.

"I got Crescent Rose." Ruby said, showing him Sniper to Scythe form of her weapon. "What do you got Kureha?"

"Oh, I… uh… Got a submachine gun and my Plasma launcher." Kureha shows them her primary and secondary weapons, "They're not really the best but it gets things done, right?"

"Yeah, I mean Jaune's weapon is his Crocea Mors, which is just a Sword and Shield." Ruby said.

"Hey, it still is good at fighting." Juane defended his stand.

"Of course it does, that's why you're team leader." Nora said.

"Wow, team leader, I remember my squadron. Alex seem to kept us perfectly close even when we decide to go Solo."

"So Alex is the leader of your team?" Ruby said, "He must be feeling lucky for that day he was made."

"That's… a different story." Kureha said.

"How so?" Juane asks, Nora and Jose left the conversation because Jose pulled out the Wallop hammer and begin smacking things with her.

"Well, he never wanted the position in the first place and tried to hand it off to me."

"And you didn't take it?"

"Of course not, I mean I like to, but I felt like it never belonged to me. I hated it but it was true, I even left the squadron to become strong… not until that death arena." Kureha trails off as she remembers another friend who betrayed them and almost killed them with the nervegear, the thought continues to course her mind every time she passes by his room. She wouldn't forgive him for doing such a thing, what she couldn't believe is that Alex didn't pull the trigger on him.

"I guess it's a hard past you had to face, too huh?" Juane comforts her.

"We understand." Ruby looks at everyone. "We all do."

"Thanks you two, I just didn't think it would have happened." Kureha grew close to Ruby and Jaune for making her feel not alone. They reached to the edge of the shield and there standing guard were two Atlas robotic soldiers.

"Halt, identify yourself." everyone stated their name (all but Jose) but the bots aimed their guns at the GGO and the two Fortnite players. "Intruder alert."

"I guess they haven't known us as much as they did." Reaper said, he pulls out a Tactical shotgun and destroyed them both.

"Hey!" Weiss shouts, "I could have just authorized our passing , you know?!"

"Wait, why didn't you just when we said our names?" Eli said, that made her hesitate for a moment.

"I-I didn't think he would resort to that." Weiss said.

"Come on, we can't delay anymore time if they are going to keep falling from the sky." Yang said, she points up and see items smashing to the ground. As they pass by the shield, Rei stops Alex.

"Master…" Rei said, softly so they won't hear them.

"What is it, ArFA-sys?" Alex said, he notice that she was holding on to him as if he was going to let go. "What's wrong?" Rei took a deep breath before answering.

"Do you still have it?" Rei asks, "You know, the charm?" Alex reached into his shirt and pulls out a locket.

"Our bond? As promise." Alex pats her head and pulled her out the shield, the locket that changed what could have been a bad ending to his life and the others.