Rise of Team ACEE
Author's Notes: So I'm back, and I'm worse than ever. :D Anyways, onto ze notes.
First and foremost, I will be putting this story on hiatus from now up until the end of January. Now you're probably thinking "But why exno-sama?" Well that's because one, I'm going on a vacation in December up until close to the end of January.
Now for another actually legit reason, Mid-terms are coming up at my school so I need to prepare for those. I will be working on my other stories but will also be putting them on hiatus when December 16th or so rolls around. A more in-depth reasoning about this will be at the bottom.
Next, I now see what you mean by your somewhat hating of the pairing "Just Why", but goddamn you should've just said that before. I mean, I accept most forms of criticism as long as they actually have a reason. In saying this, if you just say "(pairing) x (pairing) just no, fuck you." You can see my frustration in how stupid this sounds correct? Anyways, I hope to just end the argument and continue my notes.
Onto another matter, Edward's ship? Oh I have many plans on how to unveil it, but I have to finish up RWBY volume 2 before I write about (if what they say about war is true, then you can expect it to be revealed around that time).
Now for utcoop's review, I know. My writing sucks (or at least I'm just bad at revising). I mean, I don't do it on normal English assignments, so what makes you think I'll do it on something that isn't even school related? xD Anyways, the thing about plot holes? Well let's see here, assassin's identities aren't really well known unless you are one, you're an ally of them, or you're just really good at hunting and guessing who they are. And don't worry, I'm not one of those authors that does a "Oh let's write this amazing fanfic and then go on hiatus for a couple months before saying that I wish to delete it." I mean, sometimes you just have to put up with the fact that people delete their stories for reasons that might be beyond our understanding, but at least leave some sort of ending summary. Anyways, don't worry, unless I get REALLY BORED (which usually never happens with me when it comes to video games or anime), I will continue to write this story.
And another thing, I hope to add Arno and Shay, but I have yet to play the games. And until then, I'll have to hold off on including them in this story. Also, no, I won't watch fucking let's plays or walkthroughs, because I love the Assassin's Creed franchise, and watching videos on it rather than playing the game would make me pissed. But until then, hold off on any ideas that will include them, since it'll probably go to waste if I decide to ruin your day and not include the two of them.
And finally, a big congrats to FanficCrossoverMaster15 for being the 100th favorite of this story. Guess what!? You get… NOTHING! Good day sir!
Anyways, that's all for now.
Disclaimer: Please get Ruby to throw you across the city you live in by slicing you up with her Crescent Rose if you thought that I owned RWBY or Assassin's Creed. Because I don't, now stop thinking I do.
Assassin's House/Headquarters, The Next Day
"Mumble, mumble, mumble." Yang mumbled to herself as she unknowingly punched the punching bag so hard that it ripped off its chain and made a dent in the wall of the house. She continued to mumble as she picked up another sandbag, and if you looked down from where the punching bag landed, you'd see a pile of broken bags forming under the same spot. She then heard the door creak open and Edward walked in.
"You're paying for those damages lass." Edward said as she sighed before sitting on the ground cross-legged. He walked over to her and sat next to her as she stared at a punching bag.
"Still troubled I see?" Edward asked as Yang stayed silent while looking at the wall. He chuckled as he lightly punched her shoulder.
"Why not let me tell you a story?" Edward asked as Yang blinked and turned to him with a sad grin on her face.
"A story from an old man like you?" She asked as Edward rolled his eyes but grinned as well.
"I ain't that old, now come on, let me tell ye one." Edward said as Yang nodded.
Kingston, 2:15 pm
"A nice haul today Captain." Adewale said as he and Edward helped lift their spoils and booty off the new, fully upgraded Jackdaw, its golden weapons glistening in the Jamaican sun.
"Ah, not too bad of a haul, but if that Man-of-War hadn't rammed us we could've fought longer." Edward replied as he set a crate of rum down. He and his crew had just returned from a battle with pirate hunters, and had survived a fight with three pirate man-of-wars. They had received quite a punch, but managed to escape without many scratches since a small fleet of the British Navy was stupid enough to try and intervene.
"No, I think we've had a nice amount of booty gained from that battle in comparison to our previous loot." Adewale said as Edward frowned. He remember how one of the chests he had kicked open was actually a trap, thus exploding the cave they were in, leaving just him to escape the cave with a gashed leg. The other thing that made him cringe was having to free-run his way out, thus making him feel excruciating pain each time he attempted to run.
"Ugh, whatever, I just need a damn drink right now." Edward said as Adewale pointed towards the town of Kingston. Edward sighed in relief as he began to walk in that direction while Adewale chuckled as he walked up the gangplank and back onto the ship. Edward continued to walk down the road and shooed the air in front of his nose as it smelt like puke in the particular area he was currently in. He was dressed in his black and red assassin robes, his pistol swords swaying back and forth as he continued to walk down the street. Luckily, carrying weapons around was completely normal, encouraged sometimes in fact, seeing how pirates could attack at any moment, whether it be on land or at sea.
"Hm?" Edward looked up as he saw a young woman being harassed by a couple of grenadiers from the British Royal Navy, or redcoats as he liked to call them. He saw how she was trying to get away from the small group of drunk soldiers, who were in turn, trying harder to get her to do what they wanted. Being the rowdy gentleman he is (which seemed to pass onto his grandson as well), he calmly tried to intervene.
"Oi, the lass is clearly not into any of you, so why don't you stop?" Edward said as one of the grenadiers turned to him. Frankly, while they thought that the massive amount of padding they had made them much more bulky looking and dangerous, Edward always thought they were fat and in turned, didn't hold much respect for them. However, the grenadier who had turned to him had the gall to push him down.
"Oh? And what's a welshy like you doing here?" The grenadier laughed. "Oh wait, I should say welshy lad, you puny little man."
"Please stop." One of the grenadiers was beginning to grope the naughty areas on the woman Edward was attempting to help, and frankly, since he's a pirate, he could say "Fuck you!" to the rules of society, which he did, and it started with the drawing of his swords.
(A/N: Can't figure out how to do line breaks in Google Drive, so I'm gonna start implementing line breaks like so. Feel free to tell me how to actually put in line breaks if you know the answer [Remember that it has to be in Google Drive].)
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"Wait, so this is just a story about saving a woman?" Yang asked as Edward rolled his eyes.
"What were you looking for? A story that has some sort of life-helping advice?" Edward replied while Yang kept a face that read "You're kidding me right?".
"Hmph, next time tell your own fuckin' story." Edward said as he got up and left Yang to resume her training, but she stopped herself as Edward popped his head back in.
"And I fucked that lady after all that!" Edward yelled as he ran off while laughing, leaving a red-faced Yang as she imagined a shirtless Edward doing… things.
'Asshole.' She thought to herself as she resumed punching the sandbags off their chains.
Downtown Vale, Same Time
"So where are you taking me anyways?" Blake asked as she walked alongside Connor, who was dressed in his casual clothes, or rather, his Traditional Colonial Assassin Robes. Then again, Blake was also wearing the same attire she'd go into battle with so I guess they were both dressed awkwardly, just like how they managed to awkwardly start dating as well.
"Well I mean its up to you, I don't know what to do anyways." Connor shrugged as they continued walking down the street. They soon came across a pet store that had a blonde dog that looked like a crossbreed of a cocker spaniel and a bichon. Connor thought it looked cute and tapped on the glass as it ran up and stood up against the window. However, he was drawn back as Blake walked back a bit while putting a hand in front of her mouth as if not wanting to speak.
"What?" Connor asked as he looked back to the dog.
"Oh, you're afraid of dogs?" Connor responded with a soothing voice, but any of the other assassins would see a look of mischievousness written all over his face. But, seeing how the person he was thinking of scaring was actually his girlfriend, it gave him all the more reason to do so.
"Well c'mon, you can go pet the cats while I take a look at the dogs." Connor said as he slightly dragged Blake into the store, and when they walked through the doorway, she was clinging to his arm, which was a massive change from when she acted quiet and combative during missions.
"Ha, you look really cute when you're afraid." Blake narrowed her eyes as she smacked the back of his head, causing him to start rubbing it furiously.
"Shut up."
Ruby's Mind, Same Time
"Ugh, again with this godforsaken apple." Altair grumbled as he clutched his head while taking a look at his surroundings. He found himself to be in a winter-like forest, a full-moon illuminating the snow on the ground. Altair thought that snow at night was beautiful, but that was until he felt the wind blow pass him, causing him to cross his arms and try to hug himself. He then heard a noise that resembled gunshots and continued forward until reaching a clearing resembling that of the first forest clearing that he and the original assassins woke up when they first arrived in Remnant.
"Is this seriously what's in her mind?" Altair asked as he saw how Ruby was fighting some wolves with her Crescent Rose and looked absolutely amazing as she shot across the battlefield, ripping apart every single beowulf that attempted to even get close to her. However, his mind roared for him to jump to the side, and just as he did, she flew straight past him, and he managed to catch a glimpse of her face, which had eyes that were fully black instead of her usual silver eyes.
"Kill." Ruby said as she launched herself at Altair again, but he managed to jump out of the way once more. He drew his sword and turned it into its assault rifle mode and let loose a spray of bullets on her, which normally he would just use rubber bullets, but this was a special case.
"What in the hell is wrong with you?" Altair asked as Ruby blocked every one of his shots before launching at him. He wasn't quick enough, and ended up getting hit by the pole of her scythe and flung across the forest until getting lodged into a tree. He groaned as he rubbed his head, but threw himself down just as Ruby appeared once more and cut the tree in half without hesitation. He scrambled up and saw what appeared to be a crimson light portal and saw that there was what appeared to be a room inside of it. He ran forward and dived into it just before Ruby sliced the air just behind him. He then tumbled forward before seeing how he was in a room that was colored a lot, and I mean A LOT, of crimson red.
"What kind of sick, twisted place is this?" He asked as he saw a ten year old Ruby kick open her door and a 12-year old Yang walking behind her, but Yang stopped just before entering the door.
"Ruby…"
"Just shut up Yang!" Ruby cried as she kicked her door shut and jumped onto her bed and Altair could hear tons of sobs.
"Ruby?" Altair asked as he watched as Ruby clutched her pillow and sob into it. She cried for about a minute before grabbing a picture frame by her bed and she cried even more as she let it go and smash against the floor. Altair walked over, the illusion of Ruby not being phased just yet, and picked up the picture. Suddenly he felt another urge to fall to the ground, which he did, and ended up managing to dodge a bullet fired at him. The 10-year old Ruby had her black eyes once more and had Crescent Rose in its sniper rifle form, the barrel smoking.
"Goddamnit." Altair rolled out of the way of another shot before Ruby switched her weapon into its scythe form and slashed around the room. He quickly opened and slammed her door shut and walked into a hallway that was pitch black, except for certain things like lamps and tables that were against the walls of the black hallway. He ran forward as Ruby's scythe smashed through her door and he saw salvation through another portal and dived through it.
"When is this going to end?" Altair asked as he fell to the ground and finally found himself in the winter forest again. However, Ruby was on her knees and looked at the sky with her eyes void of life, but Altair drew his weapons as he saw multiple beowolves that had designs that resembled that of the apple.
"I don't need more than one dog to deal with, seeing how he's bad enough as it is." Altair grumbled as he ran at a beowolf and slammed his sword into one of them. He then switched it quickly into its assault rifle form and held it at his hip as he emptied its massive magazine into the horde of wolves that were attempting to attack Ruby. He dropped the empty mag onto the ground before pulling out his dagger and throwing knives before going into a mess of combos.
While he had to protect Ruby, it was a challenge in itself to keep himself alive, so he started off by drawing most of the beowolves away from Ruby. He led all of them towards another part as Ruby laid on the ground in the certain, unconscious.
"I hate apples and more importantly I hate when my mind gets screwed with!" Altair yelled as he blocked a Beowolf's incoming claw and proceeded to then swing backwards, causing the beowolf that dodged him to lose its head. He dashed forward and hopped up before switching his sword into its assault rifle form and let loose another shower of lead on the horde of wolves with his snow white assault rifle to shine in the moonlight. He dropped to the ground and sheathed his sword before doing an action roll and stood up in front of another beowolf.
"Rah!" Altair yelled as he slammed his hidden blade into the beowolf's neck and rolled backwards, causing the beowolf to slam its back into the ground. Altair ungraciously removed his hidden blade before sidestepping another attack from a beowolf that had attempted to land a hit on him while he was distracted. As if he were slow motion, he quickly turned on eagle vision and reeled his right arm behind himself, and when time seemed to resume, the beowolf ended up getting caught by his wrist blade. He threw all of his weight into the toss as he made the beowolf shoot across the forest clearing and into other beowolves.
"*huff* *huff* These *huff* ugh…" Altair said as he had dropped his sword to catch some breath but quickly rolled out of the way as he saw another portal open up over where Ruby once was.
He activated his assault rifle mode for his sword and ran towards the portal as if hell were on his heels. Then again, a horde of beowolves could come a bit close to hell in his case. He ran towards the portal and let loose a spray of bullets, and even had a drum mag instead of a normal 32-round clip for occasions like this where there must be a literal SHIT-TON of ammo in the magazine.
"Haha you wolfy assholes!" Altair exclaimed as he fell through the portal while facing the entrance of said portal and raised both his hands and made fists before flashing a certain finger at the beowolves. He then proceeded to hit the ground with his back and groaned as he slowly stood himself up. He was in a room that had golden monoliths that had etchings and carvings similar to "Those Who Came Before" and their species had made. In the middle was Ruby on her knees with her hood off, and Altair tried to walk over, but she suddenly stood up and looked at him. However, when he got a good look at her face, she had golden irises instead and suddenly and energy shield popped up.
"Another trial or something?" Altair asked as he raised his sword and held it at Ruby (or what could just be an illusion).
"I'm afraid, you're wrong assassin." Ruby said with a feminine voice that he knew immediately wasn't her's.
"Whoever… whatever you are, you're getting out of that girl right now." Altair said menacingly as "Ruby" laughed and shot a beam of energy straight at Altair. He rolled out of the way of the laser before aiming his assault rifle. He switched to semi-auto and aimed for 'Ruby's' head. She disappeared in a flash of rose petals before appearing behind Altair and whispered into his ear, making him shiver.
"You'll never have her back." 'Ruby' said as she swung her scythe and slashed Altair across the back. He face planted onto the ground a couple feet away from her and a massive slash mark that had blood forming around it appeared, soaking his robes.
"Ha, you don't know what kind of torture you've wrought by coming here you stupid thing!" 'Ruby' said as she lifted up the heavily wounded assassin and stared directly into his unconscious yet open eyes. Suddenly, she dropped him and smiled sadistically as Altair cried out while clutching his head due to a massive amount of pain, along with the slash mark across his back.
"Yes! Yes, feel the pain of your past once more! Let it consume you, and become a part of me!" The thing inside Ruby said as Altair continued to scream and clutch his head.
Altair's Consciousness, Time Unknown
"Make it stop!" Altair cried out as his sanity was slowly eaten away at as he continued to recount every single painful moment he had ever experienced in his life all at once.
"Oh, but it won't stop unless you make it stop." Altair suddenly felt the pain go away slowly and was able to open his eyes and look up as there was an image of Maria in front of him.
"Maria!?" Altair asked as Maria had a tear form under her eye.
"I'm afraid that I'm no longer living still Altair, but I was left here to help you in your time of need." Maria said as Altair was still laying on the ground, which was awkward since all he could do was stay laying on the ground, while Maria was talking to him standing up straight.
"Then help me! Help me get out of this damn torture chamber, I have someone I came for, and I'm not leaving until I get her back!" Altair said as Maria nodded and smiled as a single hidden blade bracer appeared before him, the difference being that it was glowing white and had what looked like electricity bouncing around it.
"Altair." Maria embraced the assassin while wrapping the bracer around his right arm before planting a light kiss on his cheek. "Strength."
"Right." Altair said as a tear formed under his eye as Maria's hologram dissipated and Altair found himself in front of the possessed Ruby, who also had her Scythe out. Altair narrowed his eyes before extending the hidden blade that Maria had given him, the white electricity bouncing around the blade still.
"Are you prepared to go this far for the sake of another comrade who might not even do the same if it came to you?" 'Ruby' asked while Altair sneered.
"I don't care, long as someone is alive because of me, I'm fine with it." Altair said as he crouched a bit with his hidden blade in front of his face while Ruby smirked as disappeared in a flash of rose petals. She then reappeared in front of Altair before attempting to slam her scythe into him. He blocked her scythe with his hidden blade and used his other hand to try and get a left hook on her. He succeeded, and knocked her back a few steps.
"Now let's see what you can do!" Altair said as he made his hidden blade glow white and aimed it at Ruby. He then pulled his arm back before thrusting it forward and looked as if he shot a white laser. It hit just next to the fake Ruby, but Altair raised an eyebrow when she began to scream in pain. He examined her closely and saw how tiny bits of the powerful laser landed on Ruby, leading Altair to believe that the new hidden blade was actually a liquid plasma cannon.
"Awesome!" Altair said with his sadistic smile before changing his facial expression to a stoic one before punching forward multiple times, sending plasma lasers everywhere Ruby stood or where he thought she would go.
"I'm taking back my student no matter what!" Altair said as his hidden blade changed from metal to the same white plasma and charged at the heavily wounded Ruby and jumped up into the air with his hidden blade arm raised up. The fake Ruby's jaw was agape as it stared at the human conscious that would soon end its existence. Altair then silently shoved the white hidden blade into the fake Ruby's throat and he stayed crouched over and grinned as a golden aura surrounded Ruby's body before dissipating.
"Now, we must prepare for the fight in the real world." Altair said as a portal opened up showing both his and Ruby's unconscious forms on the table. He picked up Ruby and carried her like a piggyback ride and stepped through the portal.
Assassin's House/Hideout, Time Unknown
"Ugh..." Altair said as he clutched his head and sat up on the kitchen table. He looked to his left and saw Ruby sleeping peacefully next to him. He raised his arm up and saw that he had kept the hidden blade that Maria had given him. It shined white with electricity still bouncing around the blade area. He attempted to stand up by sliding off of the table, but he cried out as he found his legs to be asleep.
"What the!?" Yang rushed in as she saw Altair on the floor with one of his hands open and reaching forward as if feeling for something that could help lift himself up. However, she was about to help him up, but stopped in the middle as she heard another cute little yawn and saw Ruby sit up.
"Ruby!" Yang cheered as she rushed over to her whilst stepping onto Altair's back as well.
"Ack!" The assassin cried out, but he was left laying face first on the ground as Yang continued to embrace her sister.
A hand then appeared in front of Altair's face, and he attempted to grab hold of it and lift himself up, but he soon found himself falling on his face again as his hand gone straight through. The reason of this was the fact that the one who had reached out to him was Mars, who was laughing hard.
"Ohohoho man *huff* too funny."
"Yang, mind helping me up?" Altair asked as a hand that he knew wasn't Yang's grabbed hold of his before hoisting him up. He looked at Ruby and he saw how she was hiding her face a bit since it was a bit red.
"T-thanks, for saving me." She said sheepishly as Altair also went an eensy weensy bit red. Frankly, there happened to be a weird part of his past that no one had ever known about. And that secret was that he actually would've had to marry someone who was WWAAAAYYYYY younger than him had he not been an assassin, seeing how his father would've been a prominent merchant had he not joined the assassins in their cause.
"No problem." Altair said as he clutched his stomach since he still felt one of the hits he had received from the fake Ruby.
"Where are the others?" Altair asked as Yang punched him in the arm.
"You got good plays, I'll tell you that." She joked as Altair rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, now, care to answer my question?"
"They're all doing their own things, frankly, me and Mars were the only ones here until you two woke up again. The others will be glad to hear the news too." She responded as Altair nodded.
"Then I guess we have to prepare for a journey." Altair said as Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"I was told by a certain someone that you, your sister, and the rest of those two teams are going on a mission together." Yang put her hand up to her chin in thought before facepalming.
"Goddamnit, I just realized that now too actually." She replied.
"Well then, gather the others, cause we're coming with you." Altair said with a somewhat smile while Yang blinked multiple times due to realizing that Edward and the others would be coming along with them.
"..."
"Hwat?" Ruby asked as she rubbed her eyes again.
-End-
A/N: Jesus god I'm fucking exhausted. Anyways, as of this chapter, this story (and most likely all others) will be on hiatus. Now this isn't because I don't want to write, but because I'm going on vacation from Dec. 19th to Mid-January. However, if I'm able to bring my laptop to the place where I'm taking a vacation, then expect at least one chapter for one of my stories (Assassin of Gods most likely).
Also, Arno will most definitely not be making any appearance in this story since one, I haven't played Unity at all. And for Shay, maybe, but I won't think about adding him until I complete Rogue.
-Exno out!-