Chapter 21

Before we head back to Jaune and Pyrrha's discovery, we go back to the jungle canyon where Sarge and the new recruits, except for Pvt. George, as they drive the Troop Warthog over towards the valley along with an elephant that has the Blues & Reds along with their handler, Cpt. Cosmic. A Spartan of Omega Squad. (Forgot to mention that Captain Cosmic is from the Forgotten Spartans machinima on YouTube.) The Blues & Reds are sitting on the sides of the inside of the elephant. The Reds are on one side, the Blues are on the other with Lorenzo.

They just sit in silent until Loco starts to whisper, "This is the greatest road trip ever."

"Shut it, Loco." Bucky says. "By the way, why do we have these control devices in our armor?"

Biff points out, "They're bombs, Bucky. Since you guys try to blow-up Earth with some weird drill made of highly unstable mechanical parts and toys, we're still treated as criminals. Unfortunately for me, I got roped in."

Everyone looks at Mark. "Yeah." he says, "My bad."

"If we try to escape or refuse a direct order, our handler blows us up. If our handler gets killed, we ALL get blown-up. So we're gonna get blown-up if we don't follow orders."

Surge says with excitement, "Well I'm glad we get back in the action! I was going ster-crazy in that cell."

"Yeah." Gene says. "No kidding. But we're still together with a bunch of idiots."

"No shit." Biff and Mark say in unison.

Sarge continues to drive ahead with Alex, John, Theos, and Rick with the warthog music that everyone knows from RvB with Sarge mumbling angrily to himself. John is riding shotgun while the other three are in the seats in the back.

John notices Sarge's mumbling. "What's the matter compadre?"

Sarges humphs, "Because this vehicle lacks a proper gun in the back. I feel so vulnerable and angry about it."

"Well we need some form of transport for everyone and there is no room in the elephant. Speaking of which, why isn't there a vehicle called a horse? I mean, from what I understand, we have vehicles named after animals. Warthogs, mongooses, mammoths, mastodons, scorpion, grizzly, mantis, bison, pelican, albatross, rhino. How about one of those motor-bikes named after a horse."

"I have to agree." Pvt. Alex says in English. "A horse is a majestic creature that helped many warriors across the battlefield." Alex gives a deep sigh. "I miss my Bucephalus. He was the best horse a conqueror could ever ask for."

Rick asks Theos, "Isn't it weird that we're traveling with the guy that got us killed with two historical figures?"

"Dude, you have no idea how awkward it is to me. And you're right beside me."

"Yeah, I know."

"Cut the chatter." Sarge says. "We're almost there to the pelicans."

"Any idea where we are going?" Rick asks.

Sarge explains, "According to Agents York and North, there is some wild western-style region that looks like it went to hell. We're going to set up an outpost there to understand what is going on across the lake. You should feel right at home Pvt. John. Since you've done a lot of cowboy movies."

"Yee-haa!"

"But we're gonna head further up north to where all the fighting is at. It's time to go to war! Now that deserves a yee-haa. Yee-haa!"

"We're gonna die." Rick and Theos say in unison. "Again."

Now we head back to where Jaune and Pyrrha discovered some sort of makeshift barricade with ruined banners. Jaune, after getting tossed out the mongoose, gets back up from the ground and examines the barricade. Pyrrha gets off the mongoose to join-up with Jaune.

Jaune takes a closer look at the banner with the dragon on it. "Hmm." he went as he gets curious.

"Was there a battle here?" Pyrrha says as she takes a good look at the barricade. "Because it looks like it."

Jaune touches the banner yet notices his implant isn't going crazy like before when people touch something different. Jaune then climbs over the barricade to see what is on the otherside. His eyes widen as he sees skeletons wearing different kinds of armor and some of those skeletons aren't human.

Pyrrha joins him and is taken in by the horrible sight. "By the gods." she says at the horrible sight. "What were they fighting against?"

"Let's take a closer look." Jaune looks serious as he climbs over the barricade with Pyrrha following.

Pyrrha takes a look at one of the skeletons that look like a humanoid cat wearing some form of armor that looks like Roman. Pyrrha turns the skull of the skeleton and notices a hole in the helmet that looks like a shot from an energy weapon. The scorch mark says that it was done from a distance right through the brain. Jaune takes a good look at a more human looking skeleton and notices the same headshot.

"Were they fighting against the aliens that place us here?" Jaune asks.

"Possibly." Pyrrha says as she continues to examine the cat skeleton. "But I've also noticed that this guy doesn't have implants."

Jaune looks at the skeleton again and notices that it has no implants. "This guy doesn't have any either." Then looks at a more knightly looking skeleton. "Nor this guy." Then looks at another Roman armor skeleton that looks reptilian, "Nor this guy." Then another, "This guy doesn't have one either."

"This is bad." Pyrrha says out loud. "I hope that this doesn't happen to us."

Jaune gets back-up onto his feet after kneeling down to check the skeletons. But then he notices a strange black blade on the ground. It looked strange with the right side of the blade having a complex designs of lines and swirls. He picks it up and raised it into the air like he just pulled a mythical sword from a stone because he is the chosen one. Then the implant in his left arm started to go nuts again after that. Pyrrha notices it too with her implant.

"Sweet!" Jaune says with a smile after lowering his new sword. "We got some new stuff!"

Pyrrha smiles, "And Ciel has to organize our storage again." But then looks at the dead bodies again with a worried look. "But we need to find out what happened here." She looks at Jaune as he puts the sword in his inventory. "We should probably find out more about this place at a library in the Cultural District."

"Right. We'll check on the new stuff later. Let's mount up!"

Pyrrha giggle a little with her cheeks red.

"What did I say?" Jaune looks a little confused on why Pyrrha is giggling.

"Nevermind. Let's go."

They both got on the mongoose and head straight towards the Cultural District to understand more about the city they're in. They drove pass many more skeletons in armor and armed with medieval weapons yet saw some wearing robes and wielding staves along with a few more improvised barricades. The city almost seems dead if not for a few live chickens scurrying about when they see a mongoose. There are also a few horses galloping the streets or eating the weeds coming through the cracks. There are pigs rolling in some shallow mud and a few cows walking by. After 10 minutes of driving, they reached the Cultural District. They see a large plaza with a few crumbling buildings that are massive in size despite the decay. There is a large museum with decaying banners similar to the ones they saw earlier at the barricades. Next to it is a large library. How can you tell it is a library? It is because of the obvious giant metal sign over the nine foot doors with the B and the second R missing. At the center of the plaza is a large statue on top of a fountain of some elven princess praying, a man wielding a sword in the air with a flowing cloak, a knight with a shield with the black knight sigil, and some man wearing a horned helmet and Viking style armor that looks like he is shouting. There is also some sort of university close to the library on one side next to the museum, and some military academy on the other next to the library.

"Whoa." Jaune is impressed by the architect while doing a Keanu Reeves impression. "This is impressive. Must've been more impressive back in its hayday."

Pyrrha gets off the mongoose, "I'll bet." She walks a few feet from the mongoose while looking around. She points at the six story library, "We should head in there first."

Both of them went up to the library and opened the seemingly undisturbed massive doors that have been sealed shut for who knows how long. They try pulling the doors open with all their might but turns out they need to push. Then they try to push the door, but wouldn't budge.

"Dammit!" Jaune swears as he stands back along with Pyrrha.. "Won't budge."

"Let me see something." Pyrrha extends her arms and uses her semblance to see if there is any locks on the door or any barricades while emitting a black outline through her body. She uses her magnetic poles to detect things first. "The door is unlocked, but there is something blocking the door. I'm detecting...nails. Nails that are on a few bookshelves. And I'm also sensing...metal rings. Barrels. They're being used to barricade the door."

Jaune looks at her, "Can you remove them?"

"Not really." she responds and stops using her semblance with the outline disappearing. "But we can use a window to get in then remove the barricade from the inside."

Jaune points at one of the windows next to the door close to Pyrrha, "How about that one?"

The window is made of glass and cast iron along with the frame. Typical medieval engineering. Although a few cracks and holes on the glass.

Pyrrha turns around and notice the window. "That could work." She reached out with one hand as she uses her semblance again and crushed the window. "Let's go."

Both Pyrrha and Jaune made it through the window with Pyrrha going first and Jaune following behind. When they get inside, they see a huge hall filled with bookshelves among bookshelves with many books scattered around with many either burnt or ruined all over the place with many dried ink splashes, empty inkwells, pieces of paper and quills thrown around, a few chandeliers in ruin on the floor, some shelves tipped over or leaning against each other. There is also a huge hole where a skylight is supposed to be and below are some deep footprint impressions on the ground like something heavy crashed through the glass and landed on their feet. To make matters worse, there are many skeletons of civilians trying to tear down the barricade to escape yet ended-up getting killed by some energy weapon of some kind.

"Guess we won't find anything here." Jaune says before sighing. "This place is more trashed than my room after my sisters had a party. And I wasn't invited. In my OWN room to boot."

"Come on." Pyrrha slightly tapped Jaune's right shoulder. "We gotta move the barricades to open the doors."

Both huntsmen remove all the shelves and barrels out of the way in order to get the two doors open. However, Jaune found a book that is surprisingly intact.

"Hey." Jaune says as he picks up a strange green, leather bound book of the ground. When he picked it up his, implant starts to go nuts again. Same with Pyrrha's. "Sweet!" he says with excitement, "More new stuff."

"What is that book?" Pyrrha asks.

Jaune opens it up and reads, "Travels Between Worlds. Interesting."

Running through many folk tales is a common motif of travel between worlds. By way of example, think of Orphelius, who ventured into the nether realms to save his beloved, Theodor, who, fleeing a hurricane, found himself in the drab and monotonous world of Zo, or Ecila, who tumbled down a ferret hole into a land that had never heard of wonder. Also of this ilk are the many rural legends about people captured by the Wild Hunt, only to return to their homelands after years riding the sky with the spectral cavalcade.

Academia has, for the most part, dismissed these tales as mere epiphenomena of human irrationality. I, on the other hand, always operate on the assumption that a grain of truth lies in every tale - and so have decided to make it my goal to find it. After years of research, I have ascertained with great certainty that travel between worlds was once indeed possible - though only to a select few.

The key is the so-called "Elder Blood" - or rather, to use the scholarly term, the gene of Lara Dorren, the powerful elven sorceress. By comparing her genealogical tables against all known folk tales I have been able to determine that she and her descendants were the archetype of the worlds-traveling heroes of many legends. The bearers of Lara's gene possessed an extraordinary talent which allowed them to move through time and space and to reach realms beyond the borders of the known world. The overwhelming majority of them, however, did not know how to control this. It would only manifest itself in extreme situations, pushed out by sudden bursts of emotion or when the bearer's life was at risk.

That is how the above-mentioned Orphelius, in shock after the death of his wife, could in fact journey to another world, which he foolishly mistook for the afterlife. The hurricane provided the pressure needed for Theodor, terrorized at home by his zany Uncle En, to unleash his talent and teleport to a world free from madcap antics. And if we read between the lines, we clearly see Ecila was a prostitute and a fisstech addict - the "ferret hole" represents how, when she had reached rock bottom, she whisked herself away to another universe to get sober.

Unfortunately for any future Ecilases, the sad conclusion of my research is this: Lara Dorren's line has been irrevocably cut off. The last bearer of her gene, Cirilla Fiona Ellen Riannon, heiress to the throne of Cintra, died childless many years ago.

Jaune finishes reading. "Not what I was expecting. But some of this stuff seems interesting. Guess you can't judge a book by its cover. Or title in this case."

"Indeed. But lets finish removing the barricade and head back to the others BEFORE we read."

Jaune adds the book to his inventory, "Right, right."

After removing eight barrels and ten bookshelves, they finally got the door open.

Jaune does some stretching, "Man, that was a lot."

"When you've got some mysterious force wiping everything out, you have to do a good job with the barricades to keep people out."

Both of them exit the library and get on the mongoose.

"Come on." Pyrrha says as she drives back to the others. "Lets get everyone else before exploring any more of this place."

We head back to Crash Site Bravo where Sarge, Cpt. Cosmic, and a few others made their way towards the pelican near the lake in the valley. Sarge does a power slide close to the pelican and turns off the radio. Near the pelican is one of the pilots in Mark V grey armor.

"Reporting for duty!" Sarge says gladly with the elephant stopping behind him.

"Oh shit." the pilot says to himself with great disgust. "That fucker's alive."

The front doors of the elephant opens with Cpt. Cosmic leading the Blues & Reds.

The pilot salutes the Captain. "Special Officer Lemons, reporting sir!"

"Lemons?" Sarge says as he gets out of the driver seat. "I thought you're supposed to be dead! I killed you as part of the final test!"

Lemons stops saluting, "Guess again, asshole!" He speaks to Sarge in a disrespectful, hateful tone. "I wasn't part of the fucking test, you moron! You shot me twice with your fucking gun and killed many of the other idiotic applicants!"

Rick and Theos looked at each other as they get out before looking at Sarge again.

Sarge chuckles, "Funny story. I found out my entire military career was a big huge lie."

Lemons shout, "OF COURSE IT WAS, YOU STUPID, DUMB, HILLBILLY ASSHOLE!"

Sarge aims his shotgun, "That is no way to talk to a Colonel. A Colonel that helped save an entire planet!"

A woman then speaks through the radio, "This is Four Seven Niner, what the fuck is going on out there?!" (Does anyone know what armor Four Seven Niner was wearing in a flashback of Season 15? I couldn't get any info.)

"Sorry, ma'am." Lemons says through his radio headset. "Just dealing with some...past, horrible memories about getting killed by a sim trooper."

"Yeah, well, I got even worse news." Four Seven Niner sounds serious. "They say that there is a storm coming from the south about less than six hours from now. So make it quick and get your asses onboard!"

"Yes ma'am." The door of the pelican lowers. "Alright, get your asses onboard."

Everyone got onboard the pelican except Sarge's Team who are in the warthog in the back of the pelican.

Pvt. Alex starts to say something in Ancient Macedonian in a frighten manner.

"What was that, Alex?!" Pvt. John says.

"I said I always wanted to know what it would be like to fly! Now I'm terrified!"

"Man up, Pvt. Alex!" Sarge ordered.

Rick shouts, "Hey! Didn't you developed a fear of heights after jumping off from high orbit?!"

"Yep!" Sarge replies.

"Now I'm even more terrified!" Pvt. Alex declares.

After an hour flying across a massive lake, they made their way towards a wild western town known as Blackwater. Four Seven Niner and Lemons dropped the warthog in the middle of the main street while landing a little further in.

"My god." Pvt. John says when he sees the town.

The place is intact, but there are fires burning in certain areas of the street. Dead bodies of horses and people scattered about with wagons filled with stuff that that suggests that people try to pack up and leave. Yet the corpses have a bit of a green coloration of the skin. There is some graffiti on some of the buildings that say, 'God Save Us', 'We Are Going to Hell', 'Close the Borders', and many other such things.

"Jesus." Theos says. "What the fuck?"

"Daaaaaammmnn!" Rick says in surprise. "The hell happened to this shit western town?"

"Watch it!" Pvt. John threatens with his battle rifle. "I like wild western towns. Why do you think I like being a cowboy in my movies?" Pvt. John takes a good look at the horrible place. "But I have to admit. This is terrible."

Pvt. Alex looks around with an ominous feeling, "This place has a bad aura about it."

"You don't know the half of it." says someone in the alleyway.

The Reds aim their guns at the alleyway where the voice was coming from.

"WHOSE THERE?!" Sarge demanded.

Out from the shadows comes someone wearing tan Mark V armor with white trimmings with his hands up. "Easy there, cowboy."

"Agent York." Sarge recognize the person. "Don't sneak up on us like that. Wait, did you do this?"

"No." York replies while lowering his hands. "Like I said in my report. This place looks like it went through hell. But what we do find surprising is that the dead bodies are strangely preserved."

Delta appeared next to York, "Yet there is no trace of any embalming fluid or any other preservatives on them. Carbon dating states that they're over two centuries old. Still need more information about the unrotting cadavers."

"Well we're not gonna stay here for long." Sarge says. "We're heading north."

"Did someone say my name?" North mysteriously appeared right next to Sarge.

"JESUS GHOST!" Sarge screamed out. Everyone on the jeep aim their weapons at him.

"Whoa there!" North stepped back. "Easy! I was just doing a joke."

Theta appeared, "But it wasn't that funny."

"I have to agree." says York.

Sage then says, "Well in the meantime, I'm taking the new recruits to where all the action is."

"What action?" York asks as he looks around. "This place already has seen action and you missed it."

"Not here! We're heading north. My battle senses are tingling." Sarge looks forward as he reeves the engine. "Time to make our way to the frontlines to kill any filthy savages while declaring war on them."

"Wait a minute there, space pilgrim! I don't think-" Sarge puts the pedal to the metal before John can finish his sentence.

Sarge screams, "CHARGE!" while the stereo of his warthog plays the music in full blast.

"Well." York says as the Freelancers watch the warthog taking off. "So much for reinforcements."

"Dear god!" Cronut shouts from a distance with a disgusted tone of voice. "This place is awful! The coloring of the shingles are wrong! The saloon doors are atrocious! Whoever designed this place is a fucking slob!"

"...Can we go now?" North says to York after hearing Cronut's complaints.

York looks down as he sighs, "Yeah. Sure."

/2: Entity known as Col. Sarge and his group are attempting to make contact with subjects of Project ARES. Request action.

With the sandstorm approaching, prepare for wormhole loop. When storm ends, teleport them back to Crash Site Bravo.

/2: Affirmative.

Now we head back to the Remnant encampment arena where Whitley falls flat on his ass and dropping his wooden sword after Weiss defeated him. Oscar, Cinder, Amber, and Emerald are watching them practice. Saeko is also there as well with Soichiro. Penny is there, but is more interested in some of the new stuff she got along with Sky and Dove who are also taking an interest on what to make.

Weiss point her wooden sword at Whitley's chin, "How many times do I have to tell you?" She says in a serious tone, "Don't let your anger get the better of you! If you do, you'll fail again and again." Weiss pulls her sword back, "Try again."

Whitley growls at her sister as he steps back-up while grabbing his sword.

Weiss instructs her brother. "In position. Head up." Whitley has his head up. "Shoulders back, right foot forward. Not that forward. Slow your breathing. Begin!"

Whitley strikes at Weiss with a stab, but Weiss parries it and swings at his right shoulder. Whitley blocks it before she strikes and repel Weiss' sword back. Whitley then follows it with a swing to her left leg, but Weiss parries it. They attack and parry each other like their in some sort of fencing match as the audience move their heads left to right, back and forth as they watch.

Sun is in his treehouse on top of Team SSSN's house with Sun looking through the spyglass to watch the action. He chuckles, "Man. That guy is getting schooled!"

Neptune is next to him eating a twinkie, "Bad joke, dude. What are you, Yang?"

Sun slaps Neptune in the face with his tail and starts eating the other twinkie.

"For fuck sake." Neptune rubs the sore on his left cheek. Then he looks at the coasts and sees massive storm clouds approaching. He looks at Sun, "Gimme that!"

"Hey!"

Neptune grabs the spyglass from Sun as he uses it to look at the storm clouds that seem to be producing lighting. "Ah shit." He lowers the spyglass, "Looks like a hurricane."

Sun takes the spyglass from Neptune and looks at it. "Yikes. Just hope it doesn't blow its way here."

Sun jinxes it as the wind blows up north that is causing the storm clouds to approach inland.

"Shit. Guess we need to get everyone and head to the vault."

"I'll get the sirens."

Neptune rappels down the rope, head downstairs, and runs out of the house towards one of the sirens and flip the switch.

The sirens blared as Neptune says over the powered speakers, "Heads up, people! We got a hurricane blowing in from the south! Everyone grab everything and get inside the vault! This is Neptune Vasilias signing-"

Sage cuts him off before Neptune can finish.

"Aw, man!"

The Malachite Twins grabbed the sleeping and drunk Willow Schnee, who is snoring, into the vault.

"Why are we carrying this drunk?" Militia asked while carrying Willow by her legs along with Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald carrying the food passing by them.

"She's our most valued costumer." Melanie replies while carrying Willow by her arms. "She's the only one who actually drinks the alcohol we make."

"What about the butler guy? Isn't this supposed to be his job."

"Coming!" Klein comes running and carries Willow before running into the vault.

Whitley runs headlong into the vault while thinking, 'Maybe I can get to the vault and keep everyone of these assholes out. That'll teach them to disrespect me."

But Ruby dashes her way to the entrance with her semblance to the cave entrance. "Come on!" she yells out, "Hurry!"

'Dammit!'

Yang got out of the outhouse with a laptop and runs towards the warehouse to help out with the supplies.

Ciel is at the warehouse that Zwei made along with Teams CFVY, SSSN, & CRDL along with the Fallen Crew, Takahashi, Rei, Kurumi, and . Everyone takes all the crates they can carry onto a few wooden sleds that were meant to carry logs.

"Hurry!" Ciel ordered. "We need to load as much as we can before the storm hits!"

Scarlet says, "Hey, can't we use the teleporters instead to get this stuff in the vault? I mean, we did get the settlement workbench on the other side of the teleporter at the school."

Ciel just realized it. "Oh. I'll get the teleporter."

Penny, Oscar, Megumi, and Yuki start to gather as many of the crops that are ready as much as they can in order to save the farm.

"Hurry guys!" Oscar says to everyone while getting all the corn, "Hurry!"

"We're going as fast as we can!" Yuki says to Oscar while getting all the blueberries.

Saya, Miki, and Blake are at the library to save all the books. There isn't really much though.

"Worse. Library. Ever." Saya complains.

"What were you expecting?" says Blake with a small stack of Fallout 4 books in her hands. "We don't have much in terms of reading because there isn't a lot of books that are intact and legible."

Miki looks at them while holding a few books in her arms. "Enough fighting. We've got to hurry."

Alice and Ruu heard all the animals such as the dung beetles, ovises (or is it ovi, the sheep looking creatures), and dodos with the three dogs helping them out. Shizuka and Kiriko help the young ones out. Flynt, Neon, and ABRN make sure all the power generators are shielded to make sure no debris starts smacking them. Losing power to the defenses is not exactly the best thing. Yuriko helped out by getting the robots inside while Takae, Matsudo, and Kei try to secure the defense turrets. Everyone else is at the castle to secure the windows and doors while getting the rest of the supplies at Ciel's warehouse inside the castle for safe keeping.

"How do we cover them up?" Akiko says as she looks at the windows.

Misuzu replies, "Try covering them up with another wall or something."

The wind starts to blow stronger with leaves and small pebble-size debris blowing in suck as twigs and some dirt. The wind then blows harder on the encampment with the skies getting darker and temperature dropping.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Weiss screamed out as she tries to cover her eyes to shield them from the wind.

Yang screams, "MY HAIR!" as a leaf hits her in the face.

"EVERYONE INSIDE! NOW!" Soichiro ordered.

Everyone made it inside the vault to take shelter from the storm that is rapidly approaching as Ruby shuts the vault door. The storm blows in as it is being followed by rain soon after.

"That was close." Emerald says as she and the rest of her team head towards their new room. "Do you think that the aliens are testing us?"

"I don't know." Cinder responds. "Who ever they are, they must have some nefarious plans for us. Ooh." Cinder stops in the hall when she realizes something.

Emerald and Mercury turned around.

"What's wrong?" Mercury asks.

"For some reason, saying 'nefarious' feels good." Cinder then says to herself, "Nefarious. *deeper voice* Nefarious. *sings* Nefar-i-i-ous! *manically whispers* Nefarious. *acting like a cheerleader* N-E-F-A-R-I-O-U-S. Nefarious, nefarious! Woo!"

Emerald and Mercury started laughing at Cinder.

Before the storm hits; Winter, Yuri, Nora, Ren, and Team NDGO are waiting for Jaune and Pyrrha to return. Kohta checks his weapons. Nora falls asleep in a cart with a snot bubble and snoring with Winter looking at her with disgust. Yuri tries to figure out what happened to the city by looking around. Ren is in a meditative position with his eyes open as Nebula try to wave her hand over his face. Octavia checks out the new stuff in her implant along with Toshimi. While waiting, Dew hears something to her left. She looked at a bunch of rubble that started to shift. She slowly and cautiously walks over to the little bit of rubble. She gets into arms length of the rubble as she carefully tries to touch it. With just a centimeter away, something popped out of the rubble that caused her to scream.

"Uh, pancakes!" Nora woke-up with her snot bubble popped.

Kohta aims his weapon with a maniacal look.

Ren snaps out of it and look at Dew along with everyone else.

"What happened?!" Winter asked in a surprised yet demanding tone as she readies her weapon.

Dew is holding something very fluffy in her arms that has a tan coloration. Something with a long tail, big adorable eyes, and big ears. She shows the strange creature to everyone.

"Awwwww!" all the girls and Kohta say except Winter, who pulls her hand away from her weapon.

"So cute!" Nora says as she takes the little creature from Dew while doing some twirls. "It's so cute! Ijustwannahugit,loveit,andgiveitlotsandlotsofsnuggles!"

Kohta says as he lowers his weapon, "That is the cutest little creature I've ever seen."

The creature's left ear twitch and jumps down. Everyone looks at the creature.

"What is that?" Octavia asks.

"It is pretty cute."Gwen admits.

"It's like an adorable hybrid of a kitten and a chinchilla!" Toshimi says while clasping her hands together close to her face.

"Some sort of rodent, I'm sure." Winter says as she doesn't find the creature cute.

"It's called, a jerboa." Yuri points out. "I read it in a book back at the library you guys have. It said something about being an early warning weather detector. When it does something, it lets you know what type of weather we're gonna get."

"Sounds useful." Winter is starting to like the little jerboa.

What happens next is that the jerboa admits a high-pitch chirping-like sound while it seems it is barking at the sky. Ren looks south at the sky and notices a change in the air.

"What's it doing?" Gwen asks. Curious on what the jerboa is doing.

Ren keeps looking at the sky as he licks his finger and points it at the sky while guessing where the wind is blowing.

Yuri guess, "I think it is saying that there is a rainstorm or a sandstorm."

"There is a strong wind blowing from the south." Ren says as he lowers his finger. "A storm is coming. A big one. We need to take shelter very soon."

Pyrrha and Jaune finally came back on the mongoose. Everyone looks at them as the jerboa scurries away.

"Hey guys!" Jaune greets everyone. "Got a place for an outpost."

"Good timing!" Nora says. "Because there is a storm blowing in."

"Really?" Jaune says in disbelief.

The winds start to pick-up as leaves and tiny debris start blowing in.

"Okay!" Jaune says after the wind picked-up, "Now I believe you!"

Everyone started to run towards the Cultural District with Jaune and Pyrrha still on the mongoose that is slowly moving in order for everyone else to keep up. The wind starts to pick-up more as the skies start to go dark with temperatures lowering.

"MAN THAT'S COLD!" Jaune shouts.

"THIS WEATHER IS RUINING MY HAIR!" Nebula shouts as she tries to keep her hair together with her hands.

"YOUR HAIR?!" Octavia says as she's keeping her hair together. "WHAT ABOUT MINE!? MY HAIR IS LONGER!"

"MY RINGLETS ARE BECOMING UNDONE!" Gwen complains. "THESE THINGS TAKE FOREVER SINCE THERE IS NO SALON OR CURLING IRONS!"

Yuri is smiling. "I don't mind it!" she says in a happy tone. "This reminds me of the time I had to run through a storm in a 10-kilometer marathon at my school!"

"Seriously!" Dew says to Yuri while running. "That's just cruel!"

"Not to worry!" Yuri re-ensures Dew. "We Japanese are a very sturdy people!"

"Not too sure about that!" Toshimi doubts.

The members of Team NDGO look at Kohta who is having a hard time keeping up because of his weight.

"Yeah, I doubt that too." the four say in unison.

Then they noticed some old decaying skeletons wearing armor while running. Visibility is a little low but they noticed them along with the barricades along the road. It is a haunting sight yet they had to push forward while pushing the bones back in their minds.

Everyone then made their way towards the library as they slam the door shut with Jaune and Pyrrha driving the mongoose into the library.

"Whew!" Kohta says. "That was...that was... Boy I'm worn out." Kohta is catching his breath before passing out.

Winter shakes her head in disappointment. She then looks around at the massive library and the total mess it is. Winter also notices the huge hole in the ceiling. "This is supposed to be our base?" Winter questioned. "This will not suffice."

"I'm sorry." Pyrrha apologizes. "Its just that we thought we could find some more information on this place. There isn't much but Jaune found some information about traveling between worlds. Not sure about what section it is supposed to be in, but it was a little bit useful."

Winter sighs, "I supposed it will have to do. Let's set up our base of operations here and collect all the books that we can. The ones still intact."

"Got it."

/2: Progression of Project PHOENIX: 49%

Preparing second phase of Project ARES

AN: Hel-loooooo! How are you guys doing. While doing the finishing touches on my new home, I had some rather good ideas for a future fanfic. However, I already have plans for a Yu-Gi-Oh! one in the future. I can put that one on hold if you guys want one of these two other stories.

The one in Yu-Gi-Oh! is called Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimensionals (Still a working title). It is focused on a half-human half-kitsune duelist that wants to be the best by defeated the greatest duelists of all time. Ranging from Yuya Sakaki all the way to Yugi Muto. Once he does this, he can face against the only person he has ever lost to and never won against. His own father. In order to do so, he applied to a very special school in another dimension with duel monsters being one of the main courses known as, Dim Academy. Yet our main protagonist must face against some new threats that threatens all dimensions while awakening a power within him that will change his fate forever. It is a Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover fanfic so expect characters from other shows in this.

The second one is focused on Minecraft: Story Mode. After saving the world, again, from a power mad Admin, Jesse and Petra go on another adventure. But this time, they stumbled upon another portal that takes them to another world. A world where mods exist. However, everything is post-apocalyptic because of a few nations abused these mods to the point where wars were fought to a point where one nation has someone even worse than the Admin controlling everything. Once here, Jesse and Petra encountered some resistance fighters at some ruined city. Unfortunately, they have to get out before dark. There are things worse than zombies prowling in the dark of the night. It is Minecraft crossover fanfic.

The third is gonna be focused on Legos. During the invasion after the incident of Taco Tuesday, Emmet and Wildstyle get dragged into a portal to a world similar, but different. On this world, it is also post-apocalyptic because of an ever looming threat that terrorize everything that is Lego. However, this threat is organic and not made of bricks that devours everything it touches with its black Eldritch tentacles and blobby mass. It is so bad, forces of good and evil had to unite in order to deal with this threat and survive. Now Emmet and Wildstyle have to help keep the peace between many opposing forces to put an end to the threat once and for all. So it is a Lego & X-over fanfic because there is a lot of Lego theme sets out there.

I'll set up a poll for you guys to decide and leave a review on what you think of these ideas.

Now for the questions:

Bomberguy789: Well Atlas (originally Mantle) has been known for being technologically advance and may have a museum dedicated to inventions that later create the crafts being used today on Remnant such as VTOLs. Pretty much like we do. Not to mention that there has to be a few planes still dusting the farms. Every invention has to start somewhere.

RvB Man: Sure, but as long as he has certain immune boosters such as antibiotics, he'll still be around. And I wrote that chapter before the episode tell us how Alexander died. Just thought that they may've cured him of his malaria or something.

MurphysLaw89: That, and Twilight Princess. You'll see later.