DISCLAIMER: C&C IS OWNED BY WESTWOOD, Who? EA? Who's that? RWBY IS OWNED BY MONTY OUM. IF I OWNED RWBY, YANG AND BLAKE WOULDN'T HAVE FIGURATIVE DUCT TAPES IN THEIR MOUTH ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
WARNING: RATED M TO BE SAFE, BEWARE OF BAD GRAMMAR.
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GAMER UI
"EVA TALKING"
"Talking"
'Thinking'
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Prologue
Establishing Communication Uplink
Scanning…
User Status Updated
Physical state stable
Neural state partially damaged
Attempting stimuli revitalization…
Success
Neural Network Connection established.
Welcome back Commander.
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I felt my body twitch from an uncomfortable position and painful throbbing on my head.
Migraines are an unusual occurrence in my life.
The pain I felt in my head was nothing I have ever felt.
I rarely drink alcohol.
Mostly reserve for certain occasions.
So why am I sore all over?
Not long, strength started to return to my limbs and slowly my vision begins to clear to an unfamiliar sight. Not the white ceiling I would expect from a hospital or the Devil May Cry Poster plastered on my rooms ceiling.
Red/Blue…red/blue as deep as blood/the ocean companied with ash-black/white-grey metal walls dominated the room that it even surprises me that I'm still spot small details when the room was barely lit with gothic lamps/Fluorescent bulbs.
I found myself sitting on what could only be described as a star-trek-inspired/gothic-inspired gamer chair, a throne if you will, and in front of me were dozens upon dozens of polygon-shaped computer screens and panels with blue/red highlights that screams cogitators from warhammer. The room had holographic interfaces and rows of neatly placed super computer hard-drives on the walls.
It looked like a command center. No scratch that, it is command center and I'm sitting at the chair overlooking the room so obviously it's the CO's chair.
Where nerds would be already giggling and rambling how awesome everything is, which I would be too if weren't for the logical side of my brain asks.
How did I get here?
"Hello! Anyone in here?!" I shouted but silence was the only response.
I need to know where I am.
I was about to get off from the chair.
"Intelligence Data Updated."
"Waahh?!" I let out an embarrassing scream hearing the deep voice lap then a clang in the floor.
Startled, I looked around if someone was with me in the room. Then I remembered the voice came from my head and that something fell off from my lap. It was a tablet.
I pick it up examining it. The design looked utilitarian, almost thick as the thinnest laptop and only a single button. For a tablet this size it was surprisingly light like a Smartphone.
Pressing the button, the tablet lit and the interface was all red/blue. The running theme apparently is that everything should be ominously red and black.
INTELLIGENCE DATABASE (!)
FUNDS: 2000$
PROFILE (Locked)
ITEMS(Locked)
CONSTRUCTION/TRAINING (Locked)
UNITS (Locked)
MISSIONS (Locked)
OPERATORS (Locked)
RESEARCH (Locked)
UNIT COSTUMIZATION (Locked)
UNIT CREATION (Locked)
DIMENSIONS (Locked)
Intelligence Database? Isn't that from C&C? The data logs from GDI InOps and Nod Intels? This is weird and it's starting to give me the creeps.
INTELLIGENCE DATABASE
Brave New World.
FROM: UNKNOWN
ACCESS LEVEL: Goldhead-Actual - Commanders Eyes Only.
Greetings Commander! Now that you are awake and ready to start, I'll be briefing you on your situation and how you'll be proceeding in this new life of yours. First off is that you died, bloodily I must say, and you were chosen out of the billions of unfortunate souls to be resurrected to a different world and gifted with a different iteration of the Gamer System. I'm sure you already know what I mean.
The system in unlike the versatile RPG-like Gamer Gaia has gifted to countless souls like you. If you haven't noticed from your Data Pad, your version of Gamer is RTS based and army building. You will not worry about EXP, level, stats, quest, dungeons and skills. They instead will be replaced with Funds, Production, Technology, Tier, Objective Parameters, Operations and Units. While overhauled, you will still receive the some benefits of being a Gamer and a single permanent perk.
When you finish reading this, you'll receive the Gamer UI and the benefits, your first operation, the tutorial, a perk and some options unlocked. This Commander-Pad is an alternative to the Gamer UI if you like to get more of a hands-on and familiar experience of being a Commander.
Good Luck, Commander.
P.S. The kid you saved is fine, his rich dad made sure your family will have a comfortable life.
Oh right I remember now… Before this, I saw a kid crossing the street unaware of a speeding truck about to crash him. Out of impulse to save the child's life I ran to push him, risking my own life in exchange and…
I died.
'Oh God…I died…a-aan-and…I got Truck-kunned and ROB'ed then turned into a GAMER?!'
Without noticing, I'm already on the floor shaking with hitched breaths at the realization that I'll never see my parents and little sister again and I'm living in what can only described as Isekai-cliche or another cancerous fanfiction story.
NEURAL UPLINK ESTABLISHED.
NEW OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE.
-PROFILE
-ITEMS
-CONSTRUCTION/TRAINING
-UNITS
INTELLIGENCE DATA UPDATED.
Hugging my knees closer to my chest, I cried.
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I don't know how long since I dried my eyes of tears but sitting and moping here in the floor forever won't change the fact I'm here, alive and well in a very unfamiliar world.
Though why do I know there's a forest outside without getting out of this thing? Why am I even aware that the sun is starting to rise from the west?
Get it together Ruth.
At least you know your parents and Mary are going to be fine without, sure I'm not there and they'll surely cry and miss me but they'll never forget you and you will always remain in their hearts.
The assurance that my family is going to be okay motivated me to stand back up and analyze what the heck is going on and what to do in this situation. Picking up the Commanders-Pad from where I left it, I read ROB's letter Brave New World again.
So after dying and being resurrected (not reincarnated since I still have the same body when I lived in Earth) I'm now apparently a Gamer, or at least variation of the gamer, a Gamer-Commander if you can call it that.
Which is limited to its specialization and not as versatile as the original Gamer as ROB describes, it focuses more on army building and tech-building/research if half the locked options are assumed to function as how they work in a certain RTS game.
If my assumptions are correct, in the long term a regular Gamer has the potential to grow to the point he/she can destroy entire universes using their leveling, skill creation and earned power alone. My Gamer, in theory, could also achieve this level of power not through leveling but through research and it obviously won't be wielded by me, probably a set of launch codes.
In layman's terms, where a regular Gamers version of Anti-Fortress is Excalibur, my Gamers version is the button of a Tomahawk Missile.
And I'm severely limited to my options.
INTELIGENCE DATA
TUTORIAL I.
GAMER UI ASSISTANCE
The Gamer User Interface can be accessed from both neural interaction (Telepathically) and the Commanders-Pad as to adapt in the selected situation. The UI's primary purpose is to assist you in your endeavors in all aspects of command, base-building, production and boost your tactical and strategic capacity in battlefield control and awareness.
FUNDS - Funds are used to build Buildings or train Units. They can be earned only through processing harvested Tiberium or any raw materials.
PROFILE - This provides information about your current health, status and the perks you possess.
ITEMS - Similarly works like the Gamer Inventory mechanics, this is where items can be safely stored. Items can only be stored via skin contact and neural transmission. Note you cannot store living and sapient beings unless they're clinically dead.
CONSTRUCTION/TRAINING - Provides info of what you are building or training and their time to finish. Divided into six categories; Production, Defense & Utility, Infantry, Mechanized, Naval and Aerial.
UNITS - Info on units currently deployed. Military command structure and designation is decided by Commanders discretion.
MISSIONS - Missions are basically quests for the Commander. They are operations with an instructional set of objectives that vary at the nature of each mission that includes but not limited to production, research, infiltration, reconnaissance, assaults and other military operations. While the objectives provides the direction in completing the mission, it is up to you, the Commander, how to accomplish them. Rewards may vary depending on the mission.
PERKS - There are three types of perks, Operator perks, Temporary Perks and Permanent Perks. Operator perks are the bonuses you receive from the Operator you are currently using ranging from their ingrained abilities, training, specialty and skills. Temporary perks are interchangeable bonuses that passively boost the Gamers current capabilities. Permanent Perks on the other hand are permanently set skills and ingrained specialties, Permanent Perks are gained only through divine intervention, world to dimensional affects or rigorous training and absolute Mastery of a particular skill.
Neural Interaction? So basically I think of it? Instead of a heads display or floating window screens, I have mental awareness of my status.
I also have my own personal mini-dimension to store dead people apparently. I hope to God It won't come to that.
'…Profile'
PROFILE
Ruth Heather
HP: 250/250
AP: Locked
Operator: None
Operator Perks: None
Temporary Perks:
Slot One: None
Slot Two: None
Slot Three: None
Permanent Perks:
Commander's Body - Experience the world as a Gamer, your life is represented by your HP. The Commander's body grants pain tolerance and lack of the need to eat and sleep. This perk allows you to access and use Operators to your own personal use. (Note that Debuff still exists in the forms of bleeding or fatal injury.)
Commander's Mind - Grants the commander direct neural link, control and awareness to any units in your command, absolute invulnerability to any mental influences or attacks, extended senses from units on the field and geography-based photographic memory.
Priestess Tiberius - Within you is the Tiberium Core. You automatically gain the benefits of Tiberium infusion evolution granting increased speed, strength, endurance and immunity to poisons or any hazardous materials. Also gains complete control over Tiberium at its spread, growth and lethality at will. (Gains 150% of base physical status. Receive 150% damage from sonic-based weapons. Gains mastery over Tiberium manipulation)
? - Unknown readings detected. (Locked. Requirement: Discover to Identify, Awakening to activate)
? - Asymmetrical Fluctuations detected in Commanders body. (Locked. Requirement: Discover to Identify)
Oh my God.
I stopped breathing and perhaps paled if my shaking form wasn't any indication.
Darn it Ruth calm down… Deep breaths.
Okay…So Commander's Mind doesn't give me Apathy unlike the Gamers Mind. Good thing the mind protection is still there. The Geographic-based Photographic Memory is kind of weird but it does make a whole a lot of sense in the context that when you play RTS games, you have a bird's eye view of the battlefield.
The neural link and extended senses confused me at first. Just the thought of micro-managing an army and being aware of what they hear and see at the same time would be literally mind boggling and disorienting but somehow I'm not having an aneurism so I can only assume the CM also granted me a Multi-tasking brain.
Since receiving Robs message, I've been aware I'm inside an MCV parked in an open grass field with hills, forests, mountains on the horizon and that dawn just came. Perhaps it's the extended senses I'm receiving from the MCV, while not sapient or alive still had exterior cameras, anything further from what the MCV can physically detect and identify is blank to me. Again this makes sense in an RTS setting; it is simply what is called the Fog of War.
The Commander's Body is comforting to be honest, it is useful to know that I can stay up all night and use all the time of the day available to manage my base and army. While not sleeping even if I lack the need to sleep can still be unhealthy to the human mind and since I don't have the Gamer's Mind it might be unproductive to not sleep at all, so I would continue the habit of getting 8 hours of sleep every day unless it was an emergency.
Though my HP is a bit concerning. With the lack of important stats like VIT(Vitality), STR(Strength) and Levels, my survivability is solely depended to my wits, perks and my soon to be army of meat-shields.
That doesn't give me any assurance at all, not the Units capabilities to protect but their role as my guardians (which is a polite way to say meat-shields). Are they even alive or are they just blank summons. Either way, the thought of sending soldiers to die in my stead grips my morals and soul.
250 Health Points is already big when starting as a Gamer but when you compare to the more versatile standard-Gamer in growth potential. 250 is a pint of the bucket to a VIT: 50 Gamer.
But my biggest concern is my most useful and helpful Perk.
Priestess Tiberius.
With this perk, I've basically ensured unlimited Funds for my use. No worries about having to extract raw materials and minerals from the ground. I have complete control over Tiberium so I can just start a Tiberium farm and start refining them.
So why am I not happy with that?
Because I am Alex Mercer incarnate but instead of Blacklight, it's Tiberium.
What's worse is I have the potential to be-, nope scratch that. I am the catalyst of a Scrin invasion.
I am a walking apocalypse.
It may sound I'm exaggerating a bit but people who played the Tiberium series tend to forget the extent of devastation of what Tiberium can bring to a breathable garden world.
Earth in the Tiberium series if I remember correctly has only 15 percent of living space left with the remaining charred with Tiberium infestation, internal strife and civil unrest. I read the logs from the game, if yellow zones describe the life of a scavenger from the Metro series, I can only imagine a life in the red zones.
And let's not talk about the Scrin, if they even exist here.
Ugh, Ruth you're rambling again. Come on, Focus.
Ignore those long term consequences for now.
Focus on the present.
The two Permanent Perks that are unknowns and locked, The Temporary perks being useless for now and I have no idea what the Operator means.
What to do.
Obviously, I have to start up production and building assets to know where in God's name am I, and then I might be able to identify what those two perks gives.
"Mission Objective Received."
I let out a girlish scream…again.
The recognizable voice of EVA scared the heck out of me.
Ugh, that voice in my head. Seriously EVA , I love you but that's the second time you scared me.
'Missions'
Main Missions.
Brave New World
#Establish a Base of Operations and Scout the region.
1. Deploy MCV
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
Side Missions.
World Natural Law.
#Identify unknown energy readings from Commander.
1. ?
I'm going to assume that I need to finish the current objectives to reveal the unknowns. Deploying the MCV and putting up production buildings will unlock some of the options in the UI.
Preparing myself mentally, I went to seat in the chair overlooking the command center.
Focusing, I try extending my awareness beyond the room and reached outside into the open world. Through the neural network I see the area around the MCV, a group of small hills and dense forestation here and there.
The flat land is a bit too exposing to build to but it will have to do for now.
'Unit, MCV, Deploy.' I recited like in Tom Clancy's Endwar
Then a series of machinery whining and cogs clanking can be heard throughout and outside room. Internally I was fan-girling hard at the noises, I mean come on. Front row seat on the inside of an MCV while deploying is like you in the shoulders of Bumblebee ending into the driver's seat of a Chevrolet.
"New Construction Options."
The MCV deployment finished, nothing changed in the room I was in but the outward appearance of where I am now is now from vehicle to a fairly tall building.
Here goes nothing.
'Construction, Build, Refinery'
"Building."
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AN: And cut, that's a wrap baby.
Welcome if you're a new reader to my series, thank you for reaching the end of this prologue and I hope I have enough skill and imagination to make your stay worth. If not, sorry about that. I really suck at English and writing Fanfictions is an alternative hobby outside of Gaming.
If you are reader of my other stories, welcome back. Greetings from the grave that I have not risen from yet, I'm back again to bring you some C&C and RWBY crossover and here's hoping that my imagination and motivation to write doesn't go down again. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you very much for those that PM'd me of my health.
I hope enjoyed reading this starting chapter, despite the grammatical errors I didn't notice, this is an attempt of starting something new and different outside of my other stories.
This is my sort-of reboot of Black Deathstalker series which was both an achievement and utter failure. Hopefully, this time I won't get lost along the way where to go in this story.
Ruth is far cry OC from the bland and edgy Gryle Bane that I created when I started Fanfiction. I was hoping to create a character that is more humane, real and relatable than something a fat weeb would wish someone he was. I hope I delivered it in this chapter so you know what to expect of her decision-making.
If you didn't noticed, I left which C&C faction Ruth was playing ambiguous but you might have noticed that it's the Brotherhood at the start but it started going vague at the end.
That's when I started doubting myself if the Brotherhood is the right choice of faction for Ruth or should I just switch to GDI which blends more to her character. As of posting this story, I am still undecided. Please leave suggestions.
Also, the Gamer. I will say that it will be an integral part of the story's progression but it won't be the most important element when Ruth grows and deals with conflict. I don't know if someone ever made heavily specialized Gamer version solely contextualized to be a C&C experience. I'll be honest to say that it is a first to me making up something like this.
Many things are things are still unexplained about the mechanics of "Gamer-Commander" (I am doing IRL air quotations) I'm saving the info dump for next the few chapters.
Please don't scream OP, like Ruth said, she is severely limited both short and the long term. Acquiring tech is lot harder than making up skills on the fly. Not to mention the aforementioned tech you are acquiring.
The Operator system will be explained in the next chapter, but tell me if you want a PM spoil.
The Operators perks and TP is meant to be a compensation for Ruth's strictly limited versatility when compared to the Standard Gamer, you might think them as OP at first but they are not. A sample of an Operator Perk is Dual-Wielder (Ambidextrous) and a TP is Quickhands(100% hand movement speed), nothing much compared bonuses given STR,AGI,VIT or Anything with a base STAT of 50.
Please give any suggestion or advices you would like to give. They would help me a lot.
Anyways, Thank you for reading and I hope I get to see you in the next chapter.
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A bit of Spoiler here so BE WARNED.
My goal for this story is to of course finish it and eventually have Ruth access to dimensional travel and where she gets that Technology is already implied by her herself. Eventually, turn her into a Multi-verse traveling Commander carrying and integrating technologies from many fictional verses. Basically, this story is the foundation of that start of a traditional PA or SupCom Multiverse Story.
And God I hope I do get to reach this goal.
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