Chapter 36

It is morning at the Remnant Encampment (which is now the official title). Team RWBY's test house was taken down and replaced with a large 3 story plaster house with not only Team RWBY's banner but also Team STRQ's banner and a banner that have emblems from Ghira, Kali, Willow, Klein, Whitley, Winter, and even Zwei. They all decided to live together and get to know each other more in order to survive in this new world. Raven was a little reluctant to do so, but had to put up with it as she exits out of the front door as she does some stretches when she exited.

Around them are other houses that are made of plaster from Life is Feudal or adobe from ARK. These houses are for the four students of Atlas Academy with General Ironwood, other Huntsmen and Huntress teams, other people from Remnant, and a large adobe house for the former White Fang members. However, Penny and Oscar are living on the top of the cliffs with the ship and rubble reduced to base resources such as steel and wood with the rubble turned to concrete. The entire slope is a huge farm with a few greenhouses that have a few medicinal or poisonous herbs with a small wooden house close to a ranch at the bottom that has ovises, dodos, and a few giant dung beetles. In order to water them, Jaune made a unique piping system from the pipes from ARK that delivers water to the top from the beach that flows down the slope through an irrigation system.

Oscar gets out the door as he yawns while wearing overalls, a blue shirt, beige working gloves, and beige low hiking boots. He looks at his farm with a smile, "Welp, time to get to work."

Penny comes out in overalls, black low hiking boots, a green check shirt, black working gloves, and a cowboy hat while holding a rake, "I'm work ready!"

Over at the cliffs towards the beach at the top of the slope, a large Nordic manor was constructed and that is where Ozma and Salem are living at with their family. The front door is facing the sunrise which offered a great view. Now, you would expect it to be a typical Hearthfire house where you only get to select one wing and you can't change it. But, Ozma and Salem used their magic powers to get everything. They now have bedrooms, an armory, a library tower, a garden, basically everything that allowed them to overwrite the rules with the bedroom and armory having a second floor with a roof over them with the storage room having the patio. The library tower and the enchanter's tower are located at the front of the manor but the alchemy tower is located on the patio with the second floor door (now third) has a balcony. There is even a garden and a grain mill.

But at the cliffs, there is a drawbridge that connects to Jaune's little Minecraft area where he, his teammates, and Lie's family. The large floating island is made of obsidian that Jaune got by getting a bucket of lava over where the red obelisk is with a Minecraft bucket and create a lava flow close to the beach. Yet he filled up this large island with lots of dirt, some Minecraft houses made of cobblestone and wood planks that are connected through a glass tunnel with one house having the Team JNPR banner and the other house is where Lie's family lives. On this floating island, there are some Minecraft jungle trees, a pond, and a Minecraft flower garden.

At the other side of the slope, there is another castle and a stone structure where Tukson is at. The castle will primarily be used for meetings...and at some point a market place for some odd reason. But it is also a place for meetings as well. As for the stone building, it is gonna be a library. There is also a more space age place where Lisa Lavender lives as well as trying to make her own radio station. It is a three story building made of habitats from Osiris: New Dawn with the bottom floor having all the teleporters, the second is a living space for her, and the third having some radio equipment but needs help setting it up. As for where all the vehicles, they are stored in half-built adobe structures.

Everyone got up and try to finish building the defenses and walls of the Encampment, but there is a bit of a problem.

We cut to the warehouse with Ciel checking on all the metal resources, which they are lacking. So that's when she called in the Xiao Long's/Rose's, the Belladonna's, the Branwen twins and the Schnee's to the warehouse.

Ciel look at them, "Everyone. We have a situation."

"Does it involve the lack of alcohol?" Qrow says in a groggy tone. "Because I noticed that."

Ciel shakes her head, "Not that." She addresses the problem, "The problem is that we're running low on metal resources. Steel, copper, iron, you name it."

"But don't we have a mine?" Weiss asks.

"I'm sorry to say that the mine is exhausted of all metal resources."

"No that's a problem of...mine?"

Taiyang then says, "Was that joke made of-"

"WE GET IT!" everyone says in unison.

"No more bad puns or dad jokes." Ruby says.

"Fine." Taiyang and Yang just cross their arms and look to their sides.

Ciel does a short cough, "As I was saying, we're gonna have to do some scavenging. Team JNPR, Mr. and Mrs. Ren are already out with their own scavenging mission at the castle's treasury. As for you lot, you're gonna go on a scavenger mission along with a recovery mission."

Ghira tilted his head, "What kind of recovery mission?"

"Finding a few spell tomes for everyone."

Qrow, fully awake, goes, "Wait, what?"

Winter then says, "There is an arcane university of some kind back at the mythical city. It should have a large collection of spell tomes somewhere similar to the one located between the museum and library."

"Excuse me." says Maria entering the warehouse. But something was completely off. Her augmented eyes are gone and now she has dulling silver eyes. Everyone turned and noticed that change.

"Maria?" Ghira ask while being in shock.

Ruby sounds excited, "Oh my gosh! She has silver eyes like me and mom!"

"I was shocked as well." Maria says while using a bamboo stick for a cane. "But does anyone have any tea?"

Yang points at the slope, "Oscar and Penny are in charge of the farms. They should have goldenrods and peppermints fully grown right now."

"Why thank you, my dear." Maria thanks Yang. "I'll use the elevator then." Then Maria just walks away. But before disappearing from sight, "Oh and Summer, Ruby. I'll meet you two at the beach for some special training." Then she walks towards the elevator from Empyrion.

Ciel then continues, "At any case, we also need those spell tomes for trade." Ciel then pulls out the map on the table. It is the copy of the original map but Ciel circles the areas of importance. She points at the map, "As you can see here, there is the university that studies magic close to the library where Winter and her group went." Then points at another location, "Team JNPR and the Ren's are over here at the castle at the center. With any luck, there should be some resources in the castle's treasury. If not, then some of the blacksmith shops at the Market District."

"I have to agree." Raven says. "So is that everything or-"

Her sentence is interrupted by everyone's implants acting up.

Kali looks at her's and asks, "What just happened?"

Willow responds, "Oh, that happens when someone in our tribe or our allies found something." Willow opens up her implant, "Let me see what we got." She scans through to find something new added. "Ah. It looks like Takashi's group found something."

"Who?" Summer asks.

"I think it was the chubby guy with glasses and has a bigger obsession with weapons than Ruby." Taiyang says.

"HEY!" Ruby smacks her father's shoulder for such a comment.

"No." Weiss responds, "He is the leader of the trio that went off to the wastelands who has spiky black hair, average skinny, and brown eyes."

"Good to know."

Velvet runs up at the door of the warehouse and says, "Hey, everyone! Takashi, Rie, and Saya are back!" Then runs off towards the teleporters.

Everyone are at the bottom of Lisa's tower as they see three people in different colored power armor and styles exiting out of there. However, Takashi's Nuka-Cola paint power armor's left arm looks like it got torn off.

Takashi takes his helmet off and takes a huge gasp of air. His facial expression looks like it is terrified, "HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS CRAZY!"

Saya took off her helmet, "And I thought those Things back in the canyon were worse!" She sounded a bit exhausted.

Rie took off her helmet and notices something different. "Are there more of you guys?"

"Indeed!" Maria says from the back of the crowd. Everyone got out of Maria's way as she walks towards the three power armor wearing teens. "Now then dearies, my name is Maria Calavera. You three are Takashi, Rie, and Saya. The youngin's told us all about you."

After some introductions, Takashi tells them something interesting, "When we head northwest, we came across a very deep canyon or ravine of some sort that has these giant snake things that spit acid. Not to mention the strange flying creatures that can turn invisible."

Rie says, "So we took the train from Nuka-World to some place called, the Commonwealth. That is when we came across a gang called, the Gunners. They look military, but they were raiders."

Saya continues the story, "And then we headed north to a settlement called, Sanctuary Hills."

Rie smiles, "Believe it or not, we actually came by some friendly people called, the Minutemen."

Takashi says, "They welcomed us, gave us some food, let us sleep. Then told us about the Minutemen, the Commonwealth, the raider gangs, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Railroad, and the Institute. Which turns out that they were surprised when we told them our story because they had no idea about some of the stuff outside of their wasteland. But that is when we headed north."

Rie rolls her eyes, "Oh boy. That was insane."

Saya explains, "We came across a house on the end of the canyon that had large boxes that was guarded by a clan of deathclaws."

Takashi pulls out a t-shirt that has the Sunset Sarsparilla logo on it, an olive colored backpack with ammo, a sleeping bag, and a Fallout U.S. flag patch on it; and a few magazines. "And then we got these."

Sienna steps forward and takes a RobCo Arcade Cabinets magazine and looks at her settlement building function. That is when she discovered that everyone can now place arcade cabinets of the pip-boy games. She looks at everyone with a smile, "Looks like we get to create more stuff for out settlement."

"Come and get some free sh-" Takashi gets his left ear pulled by Saya. He looks at her and goes, "What?!"

Saya points at the four little girls while saying, "No swearing!"

Takashi turns around and sees the four little girls in front of their parents. "Oh." Then looks at everyone, "Come and get some gifts! And make sure Mr. Takagi and the others get some of this too!"

Almost everyone come up to them and get some of the new shit to add to their settlement.

Ciel says, "I'll open up a new, scratch that, a few new categories."

Whitley comes up and asks, "Do you guys have any copper or steel? We're pretty low on those."

Rie gives a few metal bars to Whitley, "We found 20 copper bars that are worth 10 copper each and a shipment of 250 steel which actually does add steel to the settlement workshop once you scrap it along with 20 shipments of 250 gears."

"Why thank you." Whitley smiles greatfully and takes the items.

Ruby yelps and shows a magazine, "We get to make donuts!"

Whitley looks at Ruby, "For real? I'm dying for something sweet. Right on!"

Over at the castle of the dead magic city; Team JNPR, Li Ren, and An Ren are on top of the roof of the castle where there are a bunch of shipping containers lodged into certain areas. Jaune and Pyrrha are over at the treasury door where Pyrrha tries lockpicking.

Jaune leans against the wall cross-armed while looking at Pyrrha. "Hey, Pyrrha?"

Pyrrha tries to concentrate on lockpicking, "Yeah?"

"Do you think our families will be here?"

Pyrrha broke the lockpick right before looking at Jaune. "I...don't know." She stops and stands up, "Why do you ask?"

Jaune sighs, "Well...it's just that...I really miss them." Jaune looks down, "One of the reasons why I enrolled in Beacon, other than the obvious, is so I can get away from my sisters." He smiles a little, "Usually they would braid my hair, they all gang up on me in pillow fights, tickle me to scare me." Then he starts to look sad, "But now...I really miss them."

Pyrrha places her and on Jaune's shoulder which Jaune looks at her. She gives him a sad look, "I miss my mother as well."

Jaune closes his eyes and takes a deep sigh. He opens his eyes, "Sorry. I just-"

Pyrrha gives him a very tight hug. "It'll be alright." she says softly. She stops hugging him and hold his left hand. "Maybe we can...well...maybe..." she takes a gulp, "Jaune?"

"Y-yeah?" Jaune's face is completely flushed while also sounding a bit hesitant.

"Jaune. If...if we can't get back home...will you...marry me? And start a family of our very own?"

Jaune's eyes widen as his jaw quivers along with his face being completely red. But before he can give his answer, lots of loud banging and booming noises coming from the castle's rooftop that caused a rock to nearly hit Jaune and Pyrrha. Pyrrha yank Jaune out of the way from the falling rock closer to the door. Jaune presses his hands on it while Pyrrha gripped him close. So close that she accidentally kissed him. Both of them are in shock to be in this situation with eyes wide open and looking back at each other. They both stopped, looked away at each other with one hand touching their lips and blushing.

Jaune does a short cough, "We should get this door open. Although I can talk about one of my sisters. How about Saphron?"

At the rooftops, Nora uses Magnhild to bash open a few crates that crash landed onto the castle. She managed to bust the door open with a lot of boxes falling down when she got the door open with the shipping container at an angle.

"Way to go, Nora!" An cheered.

Nora turns to face An while giving her a thumbs-up. "Thank you, future mother-in-law!"

An giggled before she approaches the boxes to see what's inside them.

Lie is a bit embarrassed what Nora just said and shakes his head with a facepalm.

Li's left eyebrow was raised. "Quite the teammate you got there. A big ball of energy...and a handful."

"You have no idea."

Li looks at his son, "What exactly is her semblance?"

Lie looks at his mom and Nora picking up boxes, "Nora is able to produce and absorb electricity which is the result of her strength and attitude."

Li looks at Nora and An, "That would explain it." The two remain silent for a few seconds before Li looks at Lie, "So are you really gonna marry her?"

Lie gives an angry glare at his dad, "Stop it!"

At the library; Team RWBY, Team STRQ, Kali, Winter, Whitley, Willow, Ghira, and Sieben came out of the teleporter while all dressed in leather armor for extra protection. Kali is armed with a silenced M7 Caseless SMG, Ghira is armed with a sledgehammer and a M739 SAW LMG, Willow is armed with a steel cutlass, Whitley is armed with a modified Chinese officer sword armed with an electrified serrated blade, and Sieben is armed with a modified plasma rifle that has a splitter barrel, a photon exciter, a recoil compensating stock, and a short recon scope; Raven is armed with an Akaviri katana, Summer is armed with a glass bow and glass arrows, while Taiyang is only armed with steel plated gauntlets, Qrow is armed with a steel cleaver.

Winter stands in front of everyone and address them in military fashion. "Everyone, pay attention! We need to gather as many spell tomes at the university as we can before nightfall. At nightfall, we will be swarmed by ghosts and other undead creatures. Also, avoid the sewers."

"Why, because they stink just as bad as you?" Qrow says jokingly.

Winter gives Qrow an angry glare, "No, because of the monsters lurking down there."

Raven points her thumb at Qrow, "Sure it ain't my brother?"

"HEY!"

Everyone chuckled a little at Raven's joke. Although Winter is giving a more serious glare at them and ain't laughing with them. When everyone see that, they all stopped.

"Any other questions?" Winter asks.

"I got a suggestions." Willow says. "Since it is a big university, we should split up into twos. Divide and conquer."

"I agree."

"Also, I think we should split with people we aren't familiar with and get to know them better."

Winter rolls her eyes, "Very well."

"Alright." Qrow says. "Since Raven and I can transform into birds-"

Yang interrupts, "Yeah, about that."

"Later Yang." Raven says.

"Anyway, since Raven and I can turn into birds, we'll take the rooftops and work our way down."

"I can work with that."

"Then lets go."

Raven and Qrow turn into birds and flew to the top of the arcane university just across the ruined brick street.

"Are we all set?" Ruby asks. Everyone nodded before Ruby says, "Okay lets go."

Everyone head over to the large university that has some sort of crystal cluster just dangling through the top of a glass tower window of the largest tower of the university. It has a big courtyard with a statue of a woman with pointy ears and some sort of dress with her left hand removed that has water spilling into the fountain. On the left wing, the fourth floor looks like that some of the rooftops got collapsed in on themselves with a huge hole at the front end. Although everyone else is a bit distracted by everything else around them.

"This must've been quite the city by one time." Kali says as she looks at the amazing sites, even though they are in ruin.

"Any ideas on what happened here?" Summer asks.

Winter explains, "From what I gathered, there was some sort of attack that tumbled over this civilization. They just slaughter as many people they can find including women and children."

"That's...morbid." Ghira says with his head tucked down.

"So where these guys that attack magical like these guys or using scientific weaponry?" Taiyang asks.

"I do believe that they use science and advance technology that might be similar to the obelisks." Winter answers.

"Well that explains the destruction." Yang and Whitley says in unison.

They made it to the front door and open it to find some ruined wonders inside. Taiyang and Ghira push the doors open to see what is inside.