Chapter VIII: When a soldier fights
Ruby Rose with her Grandfather, Twig Rose, eat cookies as he talks in a sad tone "I'm sorry for not being in most of your life, I was a terrible grandfather." Being a General in the Legends was a very busy and demanding job as he had to fight genocidal robots, asshole vampires, a fucking vending machine with a Gatling gun, legions of orcs, Supervillains and that did not include the time when Jack went high berserk after his 3-year-old kid's arms were chopped off, nasty that was.
She smiles at him "Nope." He looked at her confused "If you were a bad grandfather you wouldn't be here." She hugs him as a Qrow watches from afar, glad that Ruby has an actual father figure, though he had to wonder, where the hell has this guy been?
Jacob was walking by outside and saw them through the kitchen window. He got a message from his brother that Twig may return. He had been with the Legends since its formation after WW1, becoming one of its founders alongside the Parker family. He commanded a mechanized shotgun-armed Brigade using blitzkrieg and encirclement tactics that would make even the Nazis look slow.
He also has recently upgraded his armour into with a more modern material of ceramic and titanium-gold alloy, making it very bullet-resistant, the exception would be the flat breastplate which is made of depleted uranium mixed with some vibration-absorbing materials.
His shotgun-axe was upgraded to a Remington 870 Police Magnum (20-inch version with extra full choke) with powerful 12 gauge magnum buckshot shells that were designed to pierce bodies and burn insides thanks to using special incendiary inside the lead ammunition. The shotgun-axe now also had a Halberd function for extra versatility and when fighting sword users. He also had a pair of Desert Eagles holstered behind a dedicated .50 AE calibre magazine belt he wore, not including his shotgun ammo belt across his chest. To compensate the recoil of all 3 weapons he had specially modified gloves with metal gears to lower the recoil by 50%.
All this extra weight meant nothing as Twig had help from an inbuilt skintight Exosuit called the Compact Minotaur that triples a person's strength by using a special floating fluid made by the Russians. It was improved by the R&D team back home to help soldiers in both logistics and on the battlefield. His Aura is also taking a bit of the load off so that helps. His semblance of seeing the dead also allows him to interact and interrogate the dead as well, earning him the nickname, The Grave Marshal.
He was a dangerous man, but a kind one at that. Jacob chuckled, Ruby had two great protectors.
Meanwhile somewhere else...
Henry wearing a simple black Xenomorph t-shirt, blue sweat jeans and one military urban rucksack to go and visit one of these information brokers he heard about in Vale. He arrived to find Yang and Neptune also there as well, he muses they want to find where the White Fang was as well. Yang blows open the entrance which causes Henry to facepalm.
Henry changes his armour into a military backpack that will shock unknown users. He enters the club and spots Yang talking to the broker. Two girls, one in red and the other in blue, look at him with raised eyebrows at his somewhat large backpack "What? I carry a lot of stuff." He ignores their giggling and heads to Yang who was currently posing in front of some very angry henchmen, who have guns aiming at her.
Henry walked towards them, clenching his bare knuckles to deploy his Crusader-class Heavy Armour with stubby Gatling guns to the side and one short 70mm mortar. He aims his Gatlings up and uttered an ultimatum "Beacon security. If you choose to harm this student, I will kill you all." Behind him were the twins rushing towards him with weapons drawn. Henry sighs and backswings both of his elbow-servos and metal plates into their faces, causing them to fall and be knocked unconscious. This caused the bartender to intervene.
"Hey! Stop this, now!" Junior, the bartender, had enough of this. First, the blonde bimbo returned, now a dude in an armoured suit armed to the teeth "Blondie, you're back! Why?"
Yang flicked her hair "You owe me a drink!" She drags him by the arm to the bar.
Neptune was in full awe while Henry was gently waking the twins up and giving them commercial-level painkillers "Sorry about that, no hard feelings?" They humphed and take the painkillers.
With Olive and Samson...
He was following his daughter and her friend, to a White Fang meeting. He prepared his wrench revolver, Slammer, and was using an experimental cloaking watch he had made for himself to follow them. He was basically 3 feet behind them making both Faunuses paranoid from his footsteps.
Samson was also around but he liked to travel on the rooftops. Olive asked for his assistance on observing Blake's fanatic investigations after being told with Fenrir who he and his brothers were, and their mission.
Earlier...
After being summoned to a command bunker that was half the size of the city underneath Vale, passing 3 heavy security checkpoints with dogs and minigun turrets, as well as passing biometric scans, then given visiting papers before walking down another metal hallway. They arrived at a simple meeting room filled with revolving chairs around an all-metal round table. Attending at the table were Samson with his feet on the table and reading a nude magazine, Henry drinking hot chocolate and Jacob starting out some papers.
"Glad you two are here, please, take a seat." Jacob offered to two seats in front of him. "If you're wondering why you are here, we wish to tell you more about our home, earth."
"Earth? Didn't you say it was a city somewhere?" Fenrir heard about the rumours that spread, about the soldiers from the unknown.
"Its actually a world." A holographic screen lights up showing a globe, a globe with landmass.
"What the fuck?" They both said at the same time, absolutely stunned at what they are seeing.
Jacob explains that his world was on a different realm compared to theirs but they do share the same dimension and universe. They were part of an organization called The Legends of The Multiverse, consisting of the best soldiers and heroes that dedicate themselves to both protecting and stewardship of different realms. They were stationed here by request of one of their allies, the God of Darkness, to help him to protect and improve this world as to spite his brother.
He explains that the God of Darkness recommended the two to an 'employment' that would benefit everyone "With your help, Remnant will stand."
"This is, a lot to take in." Olive put his hands behind his head in disbelief that there were other worlds out there. He heard some wackos saying something about this but to be proven in this form was very overwhelming. He was also glad, maybe his world will no longer be plagued by Grimm, giving his niece new career options that don't have the high chance to kill you.
Jacob also explains that Fenrir and Olive will need to keep a close eye on their relatives and their friends, Shade suspects they are part of a great fate that cannot be changed, not even he can change it. Something or someone was tampering this world's properties as if it was an experiment. Jackson Parker, head of the Legends and eldest of the Parker family, is worried this tampering would start a chain of horrible events no one wants, he has therefore tasked his 3 brothers and Shade to observe and intervene if necessary.
They understand the situation and were dismissed, not before they turn to see a friend thought long dead. Twig Rose "Sup brothers, did you miss me?" he releases a chuckle at his friend's stunned faces.
Now...
That scared the absolute shit out of Olive when Twig appeared behind them, he almost had a heart attack. He looks up to Samson scanning the area with his .50 straight-pull action semi-automatic rifle that replaced his 20mm sniper cannon, the reason being is that it was a bit overpowered, quite unwieldy and they brought it along to help field test it for some guys called Russians, weird name. It had tech that even Atlas can't beat: a holographic sight that can detect thermal signatures behind thick objects, an easily detachable 10-round box magazine with the press of a button, a compensator that heavily negates the recoil, a thick chrome barrel to handle the powerful .50 calibre round, a foldable stock and the entire thing was made of a titanium-gold alloy that was insanely durable.
After reading on the materials that Earth has access too, he soon realised that they basically had better versions of steel, which is the go-to material in most of Remment's weapons, and was told that Remnant had a large gold deposit that was 4 times of that on Earth in all continents. They had been sitting on such a valuable resource without even knowing it. Shade says he thinks that the dominant use of Dust has discouraged the research and discovery of alternatives.
Olive continued to follow his daughter and her friend to a warehouse, from the windows it looks like some White Fang members were in there. He puts on his mask, which was redesigned to cover the entire face by adding a double-filter gasmask feature with bulletproof eye-slits and coloured with butterfly-styled blue lines on a pitch-black base.
He followed them inside to find hundreds of White Fang recruits, talking about humans.
"They kicked me out of my own home to make way for a human!"
"One of them pulled my ears, it hurt really bad."
"My parents died in a Schnee mine, and all my family got was a fine on damaging equipment. Those ungrateful bastards!"
This was but a few of the actions humans have taken against them. Olive knew these people were angry and in distress, prefect for causing riots and calling the Grimm. He had not seen such zealous fervour during the early days of the Fang nor such hatred to humans. Then a White Fang lieutenant came on stage, Olive recognized him as one of the explosive experts he trained himself.
"Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for so long!" He announced as Roman Torchwick came on stage with a living Neopolitan came from behind a large sheet. He heard from Jacob that this Neo was on their side, though Jacob is still awaiting confirmation from Torchwick.
After mocking the Faunus and calling a woman Deery, which is ironically her real name, he unveiled a large Atlas mech, followed by revealing two more mechs with ex-Atlas Faunus pilots. HOW THE FU-!?
With Samson...
Oh shit, they have mechs. I report this back to HQ and asked for some reinforcement, lots of them. If I'm right Blake shall probably start a fight with them, probably in disbelief that they would go to this extreme. I spot that Blake and Sun were pushed to the front as Olive put his arms up in disbelief. I charge my rifle, *CH-CHUNK*, shit was about to hit the fan.
With Neo...
She spots one of her employers outside the windows with a rifle at the ready, she pales and tugs at Roman's coat with childlike eyes.
"What? You want to leave, but I-" She begins to tear up.
"Okay okay, let's go get some ice cream." He hated to see his figuratively little sister sad.
No more than 3 minutes later an explosion caught their attention and they turned around in horror.
A few minutes earlier with Henry...
After talking with Junior and making Yang apologized for destroying the club after seeing the footage. He paid in full for the damages caused just now as well.
"You're lucky you weren't arrested for that, what you did was extremely dangerous." Henry scolded her as they head to a rendezvous point where apparently Team RWBY would meet up after investigating leads on the White Fang.
"What are you, my dad?" Yang mocked him in mild anger.
"No, yet the same can be said about you being a responsible adult." This made her even angrier and threw a punch at him who caught it easily. He squeezed her fist and cause extreme discomfort "You're also lucky I didn't have you expelled from school and had your sister sent home." That hit a chord in Yang, causing her to burst in flames as her eyes turn even more violent. Neptune backs away in fear.
"I'm a Huntress! I'm supposed to fight bad guys! What else am I supposed to do?!" He lets go of her fist. Junior might seem a shady guy, but what he mostly does were info brokering (not illegal) and extortion on people who have large debts to him (illegal enough to get a fine but not jail).
"You use your fucking brain!" Henry snapped as he has had it with this fucking blonde bimbo! This irresponsible piece of shit for a sister had done much damage to the city and beyond in a stupid search of her mother while neglecting her sister who needed her the most right now "If you actually stopped and think, you might get some something done!" Yang was on her breaking point as she began to wind up her fist.
*BOOM*
With Jacob...
Leading a convoy of Finish AMV XP IFVs escorting dozens of British Vikings TCV(Troop Carrying Variant) APCs heading towards the docks, Jacobs hopes to reach his brother in time. On the horizon, he spots the docks with at least a hundred White Fang members running out. He could also see fires spreading with a large towering inferno and, explosions? 'The fuck is going on down there?'
The roar of 3 Spitflames flew over him as HQ reported what was going on. They say 3 large mechs are rampaging across the city with Atlas forces not arriving due to an order not to intervene, apparently against Ironwood's orders, someone had the pockets of Atlas command. He will deal with that later, now he had to protect Vale.
With Samson...
Taking quick accurate shots, Samson pops the heads of White Fang members as they try and organized against the two Hunters-in-training. Using his ammo wisely he aims at the White Fang officers, sowing chaos within the rank & file and preventing an organized attack.
The mechs, however, were more difficult as they swift enough to throw off his aim. But he had another idea, taking out a hand grenade he jumps on one of the mechs from the rooftops. He tore off one of the vents and threw the grenade in, jumping off and rolling into cover to avoid the bullets. The mech's right arm explodes as the pilot inside evacuates only to get punched in the face by Yang.
With Henry...
"You fuckers messed with the wrong people!" He yelled as he fires at a disorganized grouped White Fang as his 7.62mm rounds tear holes into lightly-armoured bodies while Dust-based rounds either ricochet off him or are flattered by his interlocking black armour plates. He gets into a crouching pose, slamming his fists into the ground and fired his 40mm mortar into another crowd of White Fang, throwing pieces of limbs around. He stands up and menacingly walks up with audible metal footsteps to a White Fang recruits repeatedly firing a simple revolver at him "Heh, fucking adorable." He grabs his foot and throws him into the air, then fired his left minigun into his torso, keeping him in the air while also riddling large holes into his body. He lets the body fall and he punches it with a full force right hook, turning it into splatters of blood that shower Yang and several other White Fang members all over their bodies.
They all gagged and vomit at the blood with Yang yelling "What the fuck!?" she vomits a lot and collapse as Ruby and Penny arrived. Blake and Sun look in horror at a blood-covered Yang.
"Yang Are you oka-OH SAINT OUM!" She covers her mouth as Penny gets arriving firemen to hose her.
Henry didn't mean that to happen "Oh, sorry." he rubs the back of his head as Yang shoots a round into his face, causing him to fall on his back.
"YOU GOT It in my hair you..." She stops as she looks at his still body "Nonononono please don't be dead!" She freaks out as she runs towards his body thinking she killed a Beacon staff member, automatically expelling her and sending her sister back home to their shitty dad. By universal law, if a huntsmen-in-training has done something illegal they will be automatically kicked out along with their relatives in case they too were also trouble makers. A crapy system.
His helmet collapse into his suit "I'm fine" he grunts out as stars began swirling his head. Yang sighed in relief as the sounds of jets roar in the air. The people of Vale, Team RWBY and Penny sighed in relief, they looked up to expect Atlas fighters only for the even faster Spitfalmes spewing danger-close cannon-fire and unguided-rockets at grouped White Fang infantry. Soon followed by IFVs and APCs open firing with calibres ranging between 7.62mm to 30mm, its occupants disembarking. Sounds of gunfire echo across the docks as the White Fang soldiers were suppressed by the amount of lead in the air
Penny joins in with her swords and fought off some White Fang members firing their guns at her. She was tackled by one of the soldiers as his squad fired many rounds into the White Fang members, riddling holes everywhere into their bodies. Penny is dragged back as automatic grenade launchers began to rain hell. if she could, she would vomit as body parts fell from the sky.
The last of the mechs decided to book it as it raced towards the highway "Catch that son of a bitch!" Jacob ordered his AMV to give chase as Team RWBY also follow it. Elsewhere, a wolf howled.
With Atlas command...
James Ironwood, being the highest in command, was quite frustrated and confused at why nearly all of his forces refused to combat the Fang, what he found out was several of his subordinates were either being blackmailed or bribed. He could forgive the former but the latter was an unforgivable action, he will order an execution later but now is not the time. The only loyal forces under his command he can depend on were only Ace Ops. This may be too much in a normal situation but when 3 of his own mechs are in enemy hands and now are in danger of being captured by outside forces, he had no choice.
With Olive 10 minutes earlier...
After the White Fang had noticed one of their founders in the building, all hell broke loose. Some were delighted to see him while others despised him, thankfully the White Fang lieutenant on stage wasn't the latter. Unfortunately, a more fanatical member stabs him as Blake looks back in shock, her face turns to anger and she starts a fight. This caused the Faunus pilots to enter their mechs and power up their weapons.
Samson fires at an abandoned crate full of fire dust as designated by its sign. Causing a massive explosion as well as start a fire. Soon everyone tried to get out by breaking windows, blowing up walls and even jumped off the roofs. Olive drags his niece and her friend out while some White Fang members fired shots at them. When they got out they could see Yang about to punch Henry in a short distance who both were caught off-guard by the explosion.
Henry smiles as his helmet folds over his head, his miniguns revving up. He charges at the White Fang followed by Yang and Neptune. in the distance behind them, he could see the Legends moving their armour here to reinforce.
Olive looks up to see Samson jump onto a mech, threw an explosive into one of the vents and jump off before its right arm explodes. He gets something out under his ghillie suit which was worn over a combat trenchcoat and threw him an MP5 as they called it. He looks into the chamber and used his extensive engineering knowledge to see it was a 9mm calibre, quite potent against light infantry. He switches it to what he thinks was burst fire, he aimed at a White Fang soldier and pulled the trigger, he brings him down in quick succession.
Holy shit Earth gunpowder is so strong.
With Olive now...
After quickly taking a few more White Fang members out, Olive and the Legends secure the area to make sure no civilian nor Atlas personal enter. Olive was in awe at this weapon he was holding right now. The Legend' soldiers told him these were the best SMGs in their arsenal and they weren't wrong. They also explained to him about who made these, Heckler and Koch. They showed him the many guns they produced and b far his favourite was the H&K G36 for its lightness and ability for accurate sustained fire.
He kept the MP5 because of both its compactness, handling and easily hidable. Integrating one of the Legends' compensators and foregrips made firing from the hip more smooth with minimal recoil.
He hitches a ride with a squad of soldiers to chase the runaway mech. They were Germans who joined the Legends to defend Earth and explore the multiverse. They also hoped to join the elite stormtroopers, Legend assault troops who had access to a multitude of weapons and training, including automatic shotguns.
They also talked of the large Super battleship navies they had at the ready to fight in Remnant, armed with large cannons to support landing invasions at long distance. From what they described to Olive is that the Super battleships were at least 120,000 tonnes armed with powerful 22-inch cannons, a secondary battery of dual-purpose 8-inches on both sides with .50 calibre HMGs for anti-air and small boats.
Olive was shocked at what dangerous metal beasts they must be. He was not surprised they were talking about this openly, no one on Remnant would believe sea vessels that large would exist, much less with such powerful weapons. Spies would laugh at such ideas, generals would say it was a waste of resources, people in the streets would say its stupid, no one would believe this.
He hasn't even seen the Legend' spy corps. What tools and tricks they have must surely be powerful.
With Ace Ops...
"What do you mean our transport is gone?" Clover asked as his team was right behind him. They were in one of Atlas bullhead hangers adjacent to the western coast
The person he was talking to was the pilot who was supposed to take them to the front "I don't know sir, it just disappeared. We can't even get another as the rest are either in Vale or are being refitted."
With the Legend' spy corps on the horizon...
32 men wearing winter coats with MP5SDs hanging from their slings, were smoking as the bullhead they stole was now sinking to the bottom of the ocean. They just pushed it off their destroyer with the help of navel personal. Under the secret orders from the 3 brothers, these veteran spies broke into the Atlas airbase, silently taking out guards with chloroform, scrambling the cameras and finally hijacked the transport.
"Jamie?" One asks, his rank on his shoulder indicates he was a lieutenant of the spy corps, 2nd 'Winter Dogs' platoon. He is Brian Hoffman, an English-german with an open mind. The man he was talking to was his electronic warfare specialist looking at his laptop, Canadian Luke Brown.
"Radar shows no incoming soldiers and Atlas military CCTS channels report no suspicion what so ever, we're good sir." The destroyer silently moves into the horizon. Soon they disappeared from this world.
With Jacob...
We finally caught up with the mech but Team RWBY was in the way by fighting it. My guys can't get a clear shot without shooting one of them. We could only try and secure the highway.
Blake used her weapon and managed to tear the rocket launcher off it but the mech fired a sonic cannon on its torso, knocking all the members out. The mech's right arm transforms into a large sword and swings downward on Ruby. The blow was blocked by Fenrir who ran up in wolf form and barreled rolled into his human form with his Zweihandler at the ready. Twig fires several shells into the mech causing it to stagger back.
Without a word the two made quick work of the mech with Fenir swiping the lower torso off and Twig firing his Dessert Eglae into the cockpit, instantly killing the pilot in a clean death. He hops off and runs hurriedly to Ruby with Fenrir on his tail.
I singled my medics to rush to their aid as I spot Olive jumping out of his transport and also run to Team RWBY. The medics report no permanent nor critical damage to Yang, Ruby and Wiess but Blake's Faunus ears were bleeding "GET HER TO A HOSPITAL!"
Olive was held back by Twig as medics began to administer morphine and began placing warm washcloths into her ears. They began to carry her to an ambulance to take her to proper doctors back at Beacon, Olive was allowed on while Twig and Fenrir will take care of the 3 girls.
I walk away in sadness. The whole thing was a mess. There were dozens of civilian casualties, a huntress-in-training was critically injured, Atlas and Vale were now eying each other in suspicion, the White Fang suffered over a hundred deaths and injured, Atlas tech now had sonic weapons and now he was forced to show a portion of their power, causing great panic in Vale.
With fear at an all-time high, he needed to consolidate more resources to protect Vale from Grimm. Time to exterminate some Grimm
Somewhere else...
"Neo, you mind telling me why what happened?" He asked her as he eats his ice cream.
"I made a deal with the security guards at Beacon. In exchange for telling everything about our employer, we would be given amnesty, amongst other things." she sighed.
"What convinced you to change sides?" Whatever had her worried must really be bad.
She took out the lifelike sketch she was given earlier from Jacob and showed it to Roman, causing him to stop midway through a scoop.
"Oh, I see." He was also given the paper Jacob offered her.
Elsewhere in Vale...
Gary looks down in shame as he looks out his office window, unable to prevent the slaughter that just happened. Unable to use his powers to do anything to this world, with good reason. He limited his powers as by request from the Legends and to also hide from his brother. Why his brother has not seen him amongst the mortals is still unknown, he hopes that still remains true.
Holding in his arms was the small Vesta, who was sound asleep, oblivious of the carnage outside. He took her in out of love for humans but now? He took her in because he is her father.
He was there when she took her first steps, called her "Dada!", read bedtime stories to put her to sleep and was there to change her nappy. To some it was annoying but to him, he felt like someone who was appreciated. Her first steps gave him joy, her calling him dad was heartwarming, putting her to sleep was a duty and changing her diaper made her laugh in amusement, causing him to chuckle.
For the first time in his life, he felt content and happy.
North-east of Vale...
An Ursa aligned to the God of Darkness fights another Ursa aligned to Salem. Around them were hundreds of Ursas fighting each other on the name of their leader. While Salem's Grimm feeds on fear to empower themselves, Grimm under Gary Shade instead feeds on excess hope and strength to empower themselves. These Grimm had a broader body, aqua blue eyes and had aqua blue lines on a black base mask to show their new leaf.
Another benefit of being moulded by the God of Darkness himself was the ability of speech "GOTT MIT UNS!" One Ursa crudely said as it decapitated its enemy's head by backhanding it really hard. Using its new miniguns on its shoulders, the Ursa with many others shred their opponents.
However, even with armour and weapons, the Grimm under God was being pushed back by the numerous Grimm under Salem. They were being empowered by high amounts of fear from Vale, replenishing their numbers and making them stronger. If this continues any further, Shade's Grimm will loose.
Suddenly, IFVs and heavy infantry from the Legends began to reinforce Shade's Grimm as 40mm grenades and rifle fire began to rain on Salem's Grimm. A hundred soldiers filled with strength began to move up, at the high risk of dying a gruesome death.
Shade's Grimm began to regain their strength as well and began charging at a weakened line of Salem's Grimm, killing 9 out of 10, ending the combat.
Soon after the Legends set up a FOB (forward operating base) to supply further operation and to hide their new allies. It also was 1km away from the northern coast, perfect for being a future naval base to be connected. It was important to conceal the base so they built it within large oak trees and underground, covering anything above ground in foliage or a simple tree. Shade's Grimm soon began making their nests in the form of dugouts and nearby caves, making the area look like there was no military outpost.
End of chapter VIII