AN: Hello everybody, phew this is cutting it close. Anyways before reading please put your bets down now. In this chapter you will learn the biggest mystery in this entire story. How did RWBY and Co got here. Along with the identity of Faun. I'm also sure I left a lot of plot holes in those answers. Just please note I did not have a lot of time and I already spent my sick day two weeks back. So any plot holes, I'll fix by next chapter. Now enjoy.
I Don't own RWBY or Fallout NV
English: beep boop I'm a robot beep boop
Robot language: beep boop I is a robot as well beep boop
Inside Ulysses temple
3rd POV
It's been twenty minutes since Six had left Ruby. Her wounds for the most part had healed up nicely. Though, their will be a permeant scar on her chest for the rest of her life. As she waited for Six, she fiddled with Kid ED-E for a bit trying to get him back online.
"… (Sigh) How does it take for Six to kill someone?" Ruby said aloud in a impatiently tone as she grabbed a screw driver from the side. As she begins to remove a piece Divide gunk from it's servers. As she struggles she said aloud while struggling to remove it. "Ugh, please don't let it be like Benny. I don't think my sister can wait four months to find me again."
As she grumbled to herself she accidently applied to much pressure and removed the dirt from it's servos. Along with accidently hitting the eye bot's Memory compartment. This caused the Eye bot to quickly jump off the table. It floated around for a few moments before twitching a bout. It made a few sporadic noises before finally stopping suddenly. A voice then emulated from the machine. Not a series of beeps and boops but an actual voice.
"Experiment log 369248/A - Eyebot Duraframe universal interface override system. This is Dr. Whitley presiding. Initial tests of the override system are promising. Against unsecured or lightly-encrypted targets, the Eyebots have a 98% success rate. More heavily protected systems are still problematic. Military-grade encryption presents a very real possibility of critical overload of key systems. We've stopped tests before any robots were destroyed, but if we don't address the problem our Eyebots will fry themselves hacking military networks. ED-E? What are you doing in here all alone? And who left these old videos playing? Come on, let's get you into your recharge bay." Once the recorded words stopped Kid ED-E suddenly dropped to the ground like a rock.
"ED-E!" Ruby cried out as she ran over to it. Checking to make sure that it was ok, ED-E let's out a few Beeps and Boops.
"Beep, confused Boop, Beep?" (Ugh, wha… What happened?"
"Oh thank Monty your alright ED-E. I thought you will never wake up." Ruby said as she hugged the machine.
"Beep, even more confused Boop, Beep." (What are you… whoa, ok please stop touching me. I suddenly have the worst headache ever.)
Ruby then lets go of ED-E before explaining to him the situation at hand. "So Six just went downstairs to fight Ulysses. The man who forced you here. It's been twenty minutes. Want to go and check up on him?"
"Beep, reassure Boop, Beep. (Yeah, ugh, sure. Just don't touch me. My head feels like it's going to F#*king explode… huh, I can swear now. I mean it's still censored but at least I can swear.)
Ruby presumed it was a yes by the chirp in his tone. She then grabbed her gear. Or at least what was left of it. She put back the Riot Armor with the exception of the chest plate and helmet. It has been ripped to shreds. If she could, she would replace her now exposed tank top with a new one since it was now stained red. With her own blood. ED-E followed her towards the Elevator, before heading down. As they head down, it became slightly awkward since there was no Elevator music. After a few moments Ruby spoke up.
"So, when cleaning you. You kind of played a pre-recorded message. Mind telling me who Dr. Whitley is?" Ruby asked awkwardly.
"Beep, sad Boop, Beep. "An old friend. But what's the point in talking. You don't even understand what I'm saying." ED-E states.
"Ah" Was Ruby's only response.
They then stood their in an awkwardly for five minutes till the elevator finally reached the ground level. When they left, they saw a long hall leading somewhere. Seeing that this was the only place that Six could have gone to, Ruby and ED-E quickly ran down the hall with her Anti Material rifle in hand. As they get close to the door, they failed to notice someone watching them from behind. As the two entered the door at the center of Ulysses temple, a single bullet whizzed by Ruby cheek. She could feel it cut across her skin as it traveled down the hall.
"Woah!" Ruby responded before diving for cover.
"Beep, Surprised Boop, Beep!" (JESUS!)
Ruby and kid ED-E hid as the gun fire continued. As it continued, Ruby slowly found her courage to look out from behind her cover. At the center of the launch silo was two figures. One was Six, the other a man she had never seen before. But by the way the old world flag flew on his back, she knew that was Ulysses. The two were fighting with guns and their own specialize melee weapons. Six with a huge revolver and red bowie knife. Ulysses with a flag pole and a 12.7mm submachine gun when he couldn't use hist flag pole. The two fought each other with neither side gaining any ground or even coming close to hurting each other. It was like watching a debate, two waves, or even a message being sent to one another through their fist and bullets. Even as the bullets came close to hitting her, it was a spectacle that was worth getting shot over to witness. As the fight continued on Ruby decided that this was going nowhere and pulled out her anti material riffle. Taking careful aim at Ulysses. However someone didn't want her to interrupt their fight. Before Ruby can pull the trigger, she felt the barrel of a gun pushed against her head. Looking behind her was Faun. Holding a 12.7mm pistol to her head.
"Beep, Confused Boop, Beep!" (What the… how did she?)
"Faun… what are you doing?" Ruby asked as she lowered her gun.
"Stopping you. This conflict involves neither of us." Faun said as she pressed the gun against Ruby's head.
"But, if I don't help Six. This may go on forever." Ruby said as she slowly stands up.
"No, not forever. Till either Courier falls. Or when the missile launches." Faun states.
"Missile? What Missile?" Ruby asked. But that question soon died on her lip. In the center of the room was a huge missile. She didn't know that it was active. Question was where? So she quickly changed her question. "Where… where is that missile targeting?"
"… the Long 15, Dry Wells, Mojave. Roads that must be cut off, to end the failed symbols that made claim to the land." Faun states.
Ruby's eye go wide. The thought of one missile launching horrified her. Even more, that they have enough to attack these three locations was unthinkable. She had no idea where these locations were but she knew her sister and friends were back in the Mojave. They could die, or worse become marked.
"Why… why would you do this?" Ruby asked.
"To repay the man. The man who saved me. Who taught me. Who shared with me the secret of destroying a nation." She answered in a calm tone.
"Destroy a nation? What did the NCR do to you?" Ruby asked in a low growl.
"NCR, Caesars Legion, Vegas. Never met any who bore their flags. The Nations I referred to however is an oppressive one. Where my kind are second class at best. Slaves at worse. To them, it's a place. To us, it's home." She then reaches up and remove her helmet. To Ruby's shock she wasn't human or a Ghoul. But a tiger Faunas. Her skin was a coco texture, but mostly covered in pink burn scars. Part of her right ear was gone, flayed completely off. As her golden eyes meet Ruby's silver, Ruby soon realized what she meant by tribe.
"Beep, confused Beep, Boop?" (What… the… F*%k?)
"You… you are part of the White Fang… weren't you, Faun?" Ruby asked.
"A part once. A Khan, most indefinitely. But no more am I it's leader." Faun explains as she tossed her helm aside.
"Beep, even more confused Boop, Beep!?" (I'm sorry but again, WHAT THE ACTUAL F%*K?!)
"No more?" Ruby asked with a confused look. She then remembered her words. 'My tribe betrayed me, tried to kill me. The one leading the revolt was one of my trusted warriors.' A civil war within the White Fang. Hard to believe it, but even terrorist have conflicting ideas. "So… that's why there are Flayed Faunas's here. They were once part of the White Fang."
"Yes, once." Faun states.
"So, you also have a way back. Back to Remnant?" Ruby asked.
"No, I am fine dying here. However should I return, I shall use what I learn here to end it all. Begin again with a new symbol. One that does not bound to the whims of others." Faun explains before pointing her gun at Ruby. "For what it's worth. I'm sorry. You know to much, and I can't let you live. Perhaps you'll return home in the next life."
"Yeah, same can be said about you." Ruby remarks before doing a Ranger takedown.
Faun never saw it coming. She fell to the ground and Ruby had time to pull out her weathered 10mm. But Faun didn't go down as easily. She quickly did a backflip upwards, not only returning her back up to her feet, but also kicking the gun out of Ruby's hand. Faun then points her gun at Ruby, but Ruby intercepts by grabbing ahold of her wrist and twisting the gun out of her hand. She quickly twists it behind her back and fired off a few rounds before getting the clip out. Before firing off the final round, Faun put her foot against the wall and flipped over Ruby. Once behind Ruby, she wrapped her arm around Ruby's neck. Kid ED-E finally breaks free from it's stunned look before racing towards her for aid. However Faun spotted him and quickly kicked him away before it could stun her with it's electrical baton. With this distraction, Ruby used her semblance to try and shake her off her. She threw herself against the wall, the floor, and up the celling. While on the floor she took the opportunity to grab her gun. However despite picking it up, mid flight Faun managed to reload her weapon as well. As they travel up the side of wall, they begin to fire off 10mm and 12.7mm at each other. Like a tumbleweed of roses and bullets. Eventually they made it up to the roof before falling to the ground in the center of the room. They let out a few groans in pain from the crash. The landing really did knock the air out of both of them. As they slowly begin to collect themselves, they noticed their guns were just a few inches away from them. Side by side. Acting quickly Ruby and Faun quickly crawled towards them, but the moment they grabbed them two pairs of boots. Looking up, Six and Ulysses looked down at them.
"What, are you doing here Ruby?" Six asked as he loads six new rounds into his Sequoia.
"Same can be asked of you, Faun." Ulysses asked.
Both Ruby and Faun begin to talk over one another. Trying to get the point across that it was the other one who started it. However it ended up sounding like gibberish. As Six and Ulysses tried to figure out what the two are saying, Kid ED-E flew up behind them.
"Beep, even more confused Boop, Beep." (I don't know what just happened, but what Ruby did… I don't know what that was. But it was some Mystical shit.)
"ED-E, mind explaining to us why they interrupted this meeting between two old…friends." Six said, as he turned to Ulysses as he said that last line. Six had a look a look distained when he was looking at Ulysses. However he simply just shrugged it off.
"Beep, simple Boop, Beep." (Well… basically, she got board. We followed after you since your departure twenty minutes ago. We watch you two fight and then Faun here snuck up on us with a gun pointed at Ruby's head. The rest as you can see is History.) ED-E answers.
"So like the tale of the Super Mutant and Brotherhood. Enemies at first sight, friends after once their bullets ran dry, they built a community upon a broken hill." Ulysses remarked.
"Yeah, except this ain't like that story." Six remarks before turning to the two. They seem to have fallen on childish maneuver of slapping each other like children. Annoyed the two were quickly pulled apart by both Six and Ulysses.
"Ruby, just go back to the entrance. I'll be their momentarily." Six said as he pushed her away.
"But Six, Faun is a Faunas… and the Nuke is active." Ruby pleads. This catches the ears of Ulysses, who then spoke to him
"He is aware. Young one. He has been for some time now." Ulysses said as he walks over. "But Judging by his shadow, he kept you in the dark about this."
"… Wha… what?" Ruby said unsure what Ulysses was talking about.
"Or perhaps, you do know and yet chose ignorance. Either way, it doesn't matter. The Divide giants are awakening. The missiles here… on their way home. No way to stop them." Ulysses states as he walks towards Ruby. "You are to late. The Divide is awakening. The package, and the message within have come full circle. The sequence has begun, just as before. Except this time, the missiles will touch the sky instead of being locked beneath the ground."
"I still don understand. What Six did at the Divide… was an accident. What you are doing… is Madness." Ruby said as she pushes through Six arm towards Ulysses.
"No, now there is purpose. I believe you when you say he was careless. The Divide… the Chip… the machine you brought here. Even you and your friends arriving on this world…being here, was an act of carelessness. Many messages can be taken from that, intended or not." Ulysses said as he crosses his arms.
"Yeah, well it wasn't Six's fault for being sucked up into a sandstorm." Ruby sneers back. Their was a moment of silence. Confusing Ruby for a moment. She looked back at Six, his face was slightly hollow as he looked down at his face. That was all it took for Ruby to question if Six had anything to do with it.
"He didn't choose to tell you. Did he?" Ulysses remarks before letting out a small chuckle. "Question now, was it for pity. Or for him to hide his burden."
"What… are you talking about?" Ruby asked completely confused of what Ulysses is trying to say.
"The door, at Big Mountain. It was caused by a rag. Not any kind of rag. This one was smeared in the mist of a dead city. The Sierra Madre. Calling it a door isn't as truthful as one may think. It was a trail. Should it worked properly, you and your friends would have ended up in that city of the dead. However someone had left a trail. A trail that acted like powder, waiting for it to be lit." Ulysses said as he pointed at Six's feet. Flashes begin to appear in Ruby's mind. Of a Chibi Six, walking away from the Divide, through the canyon's in Zion, and different locations all around the Mojave.
"That Powder keg was lit when the two bullets pierced his skull. Caused a reaction similar to the Divide. Instead of ripping the ground apart, it brought forth you. A sandstorm, of the Divide bringing children to the Mojave. And Faun to the divide. Leaving you along the trail left behind by his footsteps."
It took Ruby a moment to try and figure out what he was talking about. But once she managed to decode his shaking voice, her face was in a gasp of horror and shock. Words could not describe how she was feeling. Disgust, anger, or sympathy. After all, it was Benny who shot him. He didn't try to commit suicide or anything.
"Now you know, you may leave now. You don't need to know the why of it anymore. You can go home Red Reaper. However me and him have unfished business." Ulysses states as he pulls out his staff.
"Yeah, unfinished." Six said as he cocks his revolver.
However before the two could continue Ruby pulls out her weathered 10mm and points both her pistol and rifle at Six and Ulysses. She then said, "Well, so do I; and that is stopping this madness right here and now!"
Her response only caused Faun to pull out a chain like whip from her side. "You heard what they said. Return to your home. Maybe you will see the nation of two axes again. Maybe you can see it before it burns."
"You might not believe in Nations Faun. But I do!" Ruby states as she cocks the hammer back on her pistol.
"Words are not enough to bear the weight of your flag, young one. If you follow the Courier like his shadow. Then you know he has no flag that he hails from. Speeches are things of NCR, words without strength. Your actions have shown nothing. Your flag will burn. The Mojave will follow. And then, it's history." Ulysses remarks.
"So say's the man who tossed away his own. Those tapes practically littered the Land." Six said as he points his Sequoia at Faun. This slightly angered Ulysses but gave Ruby an idea to try and talk them down.
"… Your tapes prove you've walked the Mojave, and yet learned the wrong lessons. Ulysses, Faun. Far as I can tell it is your flag that will burn. Ours will stand or at least mine." Ruby remarks as she moved the barrel to Faun. She responded by pointing her pistol at Ruby.
"Comes down to perspective, how far one's walked, and what they've left behind. If you challenge this moment, let's hear your perspective. If my words are all you have, let's hear them." Ulysses challenged. Seeing this was an opening Ruby then clear her throat.
" Eh hem… Who, are you, who do not know your own history?" She asked in a strong tone.
"… That question… wither you walked the Big Empty… you found the last of the holotapes. The words are mine. Whatever answer you think they hold, you're wrong. It was a question, nothing more." Ulysses said with a scuff.
"The question reminded the ones you spoke to of their purpose, why they cared." Six remarked. He remembered the long conversation with the Think Tank. He was somewhat glad that he didn't pass out from boredom.
"I spoke those words in anger, and I did not expect an answer. All was lost… I thought it was the end. Past their graves of failed technology, they had cared about the flag they had followed… and the people beneath it. Even with them dead and gone. But there's no answer in that. I do this because I care, because I believe it must be done." Ulysses states.
"You said in the logs yourself that technology's a dead road. These missiles will solve nothing." Six responded.
"Those are my words. After what happened with the Brotherhood… talking with them. Then with the rulers of the Big Empty." Ulysses said as he begin to lower his weapon but after a moment of hesitation he repointed his staff back at Six. "But it is their philosophy that was flawed, their weapons, used with new perspective. Those weapons can be used to kill a symbol that has already proven itself wrong."
"By your standards, or History's?" Ruby asked.
"Both. Why do you care?" Faun retorts.
"Any symbol deserves a chance to defend itself, by words or acts… not, this." Six responded, causing Faun to shift her whipping arm his direction.
"As you defend it now?" Ulysses asked.
"It hasn't proven itself wrong. That's why the Legion and NCR conflict must continue. To test it." Ruby responded.
"Test it? As you test me? As if you believe there is some other road here." Faun states with a smirk at the ridicule's notion.
"If you believe the destruction of the Divide was just, then I cannot stop you." Ruby said as she dropped her weapons and walked forward into the mixture. Causing the three to turn their weapons on each other.
"Just? There was no justice in it, it was an act of carelessness, a coward." It was from their that Ulysses finally understood what Ruby was trying to get out. Even Six and Faun understood. "Killing an idea, before it had a chance… I see your meaning."
"You're tying this to our history… but this… this is different." Six said as he points his sequoia at Ulysses.
"The symbol he will destroy has proven itself wrong." Faun states in furry as she points her gun at Ruby's head. "Sides even if you convince all three of us. What makes you think you will stop the rockets, much less make it out of here alive?"
Ruby didn't say anything for a moment. Rather she just took a step forward and let the barrel of the gun lay against her head. She then said. "Even if those missiles launch, and I die here… if I can convince any of you to stop this feud of east and west. Human and Faunas. To put an end to it before another nation burns. Then, that'll be enough for me."
There was a long moment of silence. Nobody said a thing for a full intense minute. After a minute goes by, Ulysses made the first move. By pulling back his staff and saying, "It is… enough."
"I… agree." Six said as he de-cocked his Sequoia.
"… (Sigh) If only their were more humans back home. Maybe we could have been friends." Faun said as she puts away her pistol.
Ruby lets out a small sigh of relief. For a moment she honestly thought she could not talk the three down from killing each other. She then noticed a shadow over her. Turning around she see's Ulysses standing before her. He then kneels down to her level and removed his gas mask. Speaking in a calm tone. "You have spoken truly. There is a shadow of a nation behind you, the hope of a people… yet it may not matter. The Divide still stands against us."
"The Divide? What do you mean?" Ruby asked with a confused tone.
"Our enemies gather outside… shadows of the Bear and Bull… they will have found their way in, just as you two did." Faun explains as she points to the elevator doors. They were glowing red indicating someone was coming down.
"It was always my intention, in case I could not kill him, the Marked Men and Faunas would have flooded this place, cut off your escape." Ulysses explain.
"So… we're surrounded?" Ruby asked.
"Looks like it kid." Six said as he pulls out Blood-Nap.
"Eh, it's nothing new. Once me and my team were surround by Grim in downtown Vale. So this shouldn't be any different." Ruby said as she goes over to retrieve her weapons.
"I saw that story. If that is true, then this shouldn't take us long." Faun said as she cracked her neck.
"Beep, confident Boop, Beep." (Surrounded and most likely going to die. F#!k it, I'm in.)
As the Six get ready, the doors slowly open and Marked Men and Faunas entered and rushed towards them with hatred in their eyes. Ulysses then said as he held his flag pole in a defensive stance, "If we cannot prevent what comes, then let us make our stand here. Two Couriers, and their shadows, together, at the Divide."
Play "Lonesome Road" By Brandon M. Dennis.
Look Down
Look Down
That Lonesome Road
Before you travel on
Ruby with Six begin to open fire on a wave of incoming Marked Men. As Six blasted them with his personal Sequoia, Kid ED-E and Ruby provided covering fire with her Rifle and his laser module. As they killed ten marked Men, Ulysses, Faun, and his personal Eye-Bots fought off a wave of Marked Faunas with their melee weapons.
Look Up
Look Up
And Greet your Maker
For Gabriel blows his horn
More, and more Marked men and Faunas flooded the room. Switching side, Ruby and Ullyses worked together by having him throw plasma grenades and Ruby Shooting them mid air. Meanwhile Faun and Six worked together in close combat. Kahn using a chain as a whip while Six used his Bowie knife and revolver like a tomahawk and knife.
Weary totin'
Such a load
Travelin' down that lonesome road
More and more marked Men and Faunas ran in, forcing the six to fight back to back. Fighting together it was like the shadow of the two Couriers had joined the fight. Ruby and Faun, the shadow of Ulysses and Six. Each caring a different message. One that cannot be described in words. One that cannot be overshadowed by the Divide or it's inhabitants. After fighting for a good ten minutes. The Six stood alone in the ruins of the Divide.
Look down
Look down
That lonesome road
Before you travel on.
As the Ruby was catching her breath. She noticed that Faun was now standing over a familiar Marked Faunas. He was once a Bull Faunus, but by the way she looked at him. She wondered if that was the warrior she mentioned. The one that betrayed her. Before she could say anything the entire room begins to shake. The rocket was preparing to launch.
"Shit, the Nuke!" Six shouts out.
"We need to stop it!" Ruby cried out realizing her sisters and friends along with hundreds of thousands of innocence's life's was endanger.
"Agreed, we will go on ahead and clear a pathway." Faun said as she retrieved a broken red katana from the ground.
"Alright, I'll redirect the nuke. Maybe stop it from launching." Six said as he ran over to a panel.
"Once done here, let's leave the Divide behind. If we get separated, I'll meet you above Hopeville, near the Canyon Wreckage." Ulysses said as he kicks up his staff into his hand.
"Right, will do. Stay safe till then." Ruby remarks. She was just about to help Six when Faun grabbed her arm.
"Wait, before we go. There is something you must know." Faun said as she held Ruby's hand.
"Is now a good time?" Ruby asked.
Before she could even pull herself free, Faun pulled her in close and whispered something. Time begins to slow down as Faun's words echoed in her ears. Her eyes went wide at the secret she told her. Once done, Ruby's reaction turned to a solemn look. She gave her an understanding nod, before the two parted ways.
"What was that about?" Six asked as he tried to type in the rocket abortion code.
"I'll tell you later. Right now we need to stop this thing." Ruby said as she ran up next to Six. After pressing some buttons a single denying beep came out causing Six to bash the computer.
"GWWAAA, Stupid Pre-War junk!" Six shouted as he hit's the computer.
"What! What's wrong Six?" Ruby asked.
"It's guarded. The Abort code is encrypted with an advance Pre-War military encryption sequence. I have to be a code cracking robot to crack it on time." Six explains.
"Beep, Glad yet sad Boop, Beep." (Well, thank robot Jesus that I am one… shame they never improve my capabilities.)
"What are you talking about ED-E?" Six asked completely unclear what kid ED-E was saying. Ruby however knew exactly what he meant.
"No ED-E. It will fry you servers. You will die!" Ruby pleaded
"Beep, slightly emotional Boop, Beep." (Hey, that's life. Sides if not me then no one else will.)
It then drew upon Six that kid ED-E can stop the missiles. But seeing how complicated the encryption is. Kid ED-E will surely die. He would have argued that he shouldn't do it. But he's right. There is nobody but ED-E to do this. So with a sad tone Six Said. "If… If you're really sure about this… then by all means. The spotlights yours."
"Beep, Brave Boop, Beep" (Well, better not miss my chance. Goodbye everyone. Oh and Six… you were a bit of an a$#ole when we met back in that base.)
"Heh, same could be said about your counterpart back in the Mojave." Six said as he gave him a two-finger salute.
"Beep, sad Boop, Beep" (I'm going to miss you as well. Though I do find it completely strange that you can do those abilities. And that cat lady really freaked me out. I know you will do fine out there.)
Ruby quickly hugs the robot. Before saying "Thanks for everything ED-E. I won't forget you."
"Beep, sad goodbye Boop, Beep" (And I won't either. Goodbye guys.) Kid ED-E said as he goes over to the controls.
Play "Lonesome Road" By Brandon M. Dennis. One last time.
Kid ED-E Begins to shock the Military computer. Hacking into the controls of the device and removing the encryption protecting the abort code. As he does so, the room begin to explode. Rockets self-detonated, fire blew from ceiling. Realizing that the place was going to collapse, Ruby and Six quickly ran for the exit.
Look Down
Look Down
That Lonesome Road
Before you travel on
As they ran, time seemed to slow down as explosion rang out. The fire begins to spread, rocks fell from the crumbling rocks. However, the main launch missile begins to descend back down into the pit. As it does, the flames spread to it, burning the old glory from its banister. Eventually the wires snap and it fell silently to the ground.
Look Up
Look Up
And Greet your Maker
For Gabriel blows his horn
Back over with Kid ED-E he continued to decript the Pre-War military code. As he manages to do so, he felt every bolt and circet slowly frying from within realizing he didn't had much time left. Kid ED-E played a recording of his creater… his father. 'It's going to be a long journey, my little friend. You'll have to fly very far, and fly very fast. Can you do that? I know you can. Be careful out there, ED-E. Maybe I'll see you again some day.' With that line the electricity stopped. And he fell to the ground, bursting with electricity as the machine fell silent. Holding on to that one last memory.
Weary totin'
Such a load
Travelin' down that lonesome road
The View pulls back on Six and Ruby. They still ran towards the exit as the world slowly burned around them. Rocks had fell from the ceiling, slowly collapsing in on them. They had barley made it inside as the lights slowly faded from the ceiling. They had just made it inside the elevator as the dust cloud shoots out. The door closes and the elevator managed to ascend as the underground silo is buried forever under the Divide. With that the Scene then goes black.
Look down
Look down
That lonesome road
Before you travel on.
Play "In Hell I'll be in good Company" By The Dead South.
The screen goes black before a slide of a broken Eyebot laying on the ground in the burning ruins of the temple. Kid ED-E then narrates. "Series of childish beeps and boops." (When ED-E's circuits burned in the fires of the Divide, there was one small part that held on until the end. It was the fragment that held the Old World memories and the words of his creator in his last moments.)
The slide then shifts down to show a new image of a ED-E hovering as it moved onwards towards Primm, with New Vegas far behind him. ED-E then narrates. "Even more beeps and boops." (As his last gesture, Kid ED-E sent one last signal to his counterpart in the Mojave, passing along what the Courier had taught him in the Divide. There was the chance... always, that ED-E's journey would continue, perhaps carried by another eyebot in the Mojave...the one from which the ED-E from the Divide had been shaped. For now, the Courier and the Red Reaper knew ED-E's history and could carry it, even if the eyebot had forgotten)
The slide then changes to two lone figures walking down a ruin highway in the distance with a radioactive wind blowing through them. Faun begins to narrate. "Hopeville burned lightless in the night, invisible fires of radiation scorching it from within and without. It is said a man and a woman still walked its streets, with tattered jackets, one with the symbol of rebellion the other, an Old World flag etched on their backs..."
The picture then changes to both Ulysses and Faun staring outwards at the cracks and crevices of the Divide. Both wearing the same jacket except Faun's had the WF symbol on it. Faun continues to narrate. "They remained there, perhaps as punishment for the scars they had left on the wastes and a distant world… or a reminder of a history that they could not forget. For Ulysses and Khan... their journey was over. The Courier and the Red Reaper had been the end of the road for them."
The next slide was of Ruby and Six walking east, along the Highway out of the Divide. Ulysses begins to narrate. "As for the Courier along with the Red Reaper that had followed him... they turned their back on his home for the second time and made their way back, navigating the treachery of the Divide. Tunnelers, the Marked Men and Faunus... avoided the lone figures, as if recognizing the Courier's and the Reapers right to passage... or out of fear."
The slide then changes to the both of them looking back outwards to the Divide one last time with a small foot locker under Six's arm. Ulysses begins to Narrate once more. "The Courier and the Reaper walked until they stood again upon the edge of the Divide, the last road they would walk together before the second battle for Hoover Dam. There, beside their feet, was a final package, from one Courier to another… a footlocker, bearing a gift, and a message. But that message - it is something for Couriers and his shadow to carry, and for them alone. The lights flickered across the Divide, reminders that the Old World histories persist, and find meaning in the present"
The finale slide then show Six and Ruby walking down a lone road together. Six was wearing a Brown sleeveless duster with a Old world flag on it with a white shirt rolled up to his arms. Next to Six Ruby was wearing a black duster similar to his except with a Blue Ace of spades with Red and white lines going down. A yellow twenty-one-number written inside a white star at the center of the Ace. Flickering in the wind was a decaying red hood the only covers her head and small pieces of the number. Ulysses then finished Narrating. "It's said war, war never changes. Men and women do, through the roads they walk. And this road - has reached its end."
Hello everybody
Phew, that was one hell of a chapter. Anyways, to answer a raging and confusing question I'm sure most of y'all have. Yes Six brought the kids and Sienna Kahn to the Mojave. Where he went the trail from his time in the Sierra Madre has left a trail. More or less when Benny shot him, it was the light that lit the powder trail. To which RWBY and Co landed all along the trail. Or at least close by to it. So question is, if you were in Ruby's shoe would you forgive him? Answer in the comments down below. Now Let's answer some Comment and Questions.
From RedRat8: Um no, I believe Faun was wearing that. Nah, Armor isn't Ruby's style. Hence why she has a Couriers Duster. Feels… fulfilling wearing it. Know what I mean? Where you receive the duster and despite it lacking in defense you still wear it during the battle of Hover dam because it makes you look awesome. Also, everyone thinks that Ruby is Six's kid. Even when they don't look alike.
Thanks for writing RedRat8
From Combine117: … um ok. I'll ignore the comment about Couch-Cthulue.
Like Severus Snape. He is very deliberate.
Yep, she talked too couriers down.
Thanks for your guess. Your were right about the boom, but it was more of a bang.
Thanks for writing Combine117
From FEV Grim: … Nope, Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nooooooooopppppppeeee. I already paying for the time Don Fluffles attacked. I am not bring any elder gods onboard till Chapter five.
Thanks for writing FEV Grim
From Imperial Warlord: Thanks for the Awesome comment. Did I blew your mind with this chapters big reveal?
Thanks for writing Imperial Warlord.
From thewittywhy: Yep, but also he's the reason why they are here. The main why Jaune got Pyrrha pregnant. Why Weiss found herself in the Sierra Madre. Why Blake nearly fell into her WF pursuits. Why Yang had her hair ccccuuuuuuuuuuttttt…. Um, excuse me TWW. I'm going to give FEB a call. I think Six will need a priest and a body bag next chapter.
Thanks for writing thewittywhy
From Shadow Dreamer 10: Yes. Though that isn't the only Easter egg through out this story. How many have you found?
Thanks for writing Shadow Dreamer 10
From Guest 1-27-20: Ah, well Ulysses is an interesting character. One of those two sides of the same coin deal. However I would find the humor in it if this happened in Kansas. As for season seven. No, I have been to busy with two RWBY X stories. However once I'm done I'll take the month off to catch up.
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From Guest 1-28-20: true, but their idiots. Just all coincidence with them.
Thanks for writing Guest 1-28-20
From Carre: 1. No problem
2. Um, the games called Atomic Heart. I believe.
3A. heh, cute.
3B. Perhaps. But I was thinking that big speech would have been a good time to play it.
4. Nah, I don't have time to make popcorn. Only time I have is a five minute break before running away from the next monstrosity.
5. Thanks and tell me. Did the reveal surprise you?
Thanks for writing Carre.
Alright, so please Fav and Fol the story. Leave a review or question down bellow. Who here was surprised by the fact that Six brought the kids here?
Alright this is Wombag1786 signing off.