Chp. 37: Bonding

Remnant

Mountain Glenn, Vale

Valley

June 2, 2020

The next day back on Remnant, it was morning and in a valley outside of Mountain Glenn, Keaton, Alex, Cassandra, and Steel, along with the Ace Operatives, the Happy Huntresses, and several U.S. soldiers were all hunting and fighting off the Creatures of Grimm. Keaton, Steel, and three other soldiers were kneeling behind some boulders as they were shooting some Grimm.

"Target down!" Steel shouted after shooting and killing a Beowolf.

"Two hostiles on the right!" Keaton shouted as pointed his rifle at two oncoming Beowolves.

Before the Beowolves could get any closer, Robyn ran up with her crossbow and shot two crossbow bolts struck one of the Beowolves on the neck and back. Just as the other Grimm rushes at her, Clover runs up with his iron fishing pole, Kingfisher, and casts his line around its feet, tripping it. Robyn switched her crossbow into her shield form and slashed down at the Beowolf, finishing it off. Two Ursai charge at the Huntsman and Huntress until a voice shouted out close by.

"Fire!"

Out of thin air next to the two Grimm, a few crossbow bolts and streams of bullets struck at the Grimm as they dropped to the ground. Right as the Ursai faded away, May and Joanna with their crossbow staffs, along with Cassandra, and three other soldiers faded into view as May deactivated her semblance, Invisibility Field. Suddenly, Six Boarbatusks rushed out of the bushes and charged at the group.

"Stay!" as voice called.

The Boarbatusks slowed to a complete stop, frozen in place. May, Joanna, and Cassandra turn to where the voice came from and sees Marrow pointing at the six Grimm as he was using his semblance, Freeze. While still pointing at the Grimm, Marrow pulled out his large boomerang, Fetch.

"Harriet!" Marrow called.

On que, Harriet with the aid of her semblance, Super-Speed, dashes up to one of the Boarbatusks as she leaves behind a trail of electricity. She brushes her nose with her thumb and smirks before she deploys her robotic exosuit arms, Fast Knuckles, onto her arms. She dashed past all six Boarbatusks as she punched each of the over onto their sides. Marrow quickly threw his boomerang at the Grimm, slicing through each of them in the belly one at a time as it flew back to Marrow as he caught it.

As Keaton, Steel, the two soldiers with them looked on, a large Grimm stomping towards them. The Grimm bared much resemblance to a modern day African elephant. It primarily has a black body like other Grimm, with giant, white tusks and a red patch on its forehead. Like most Grimm, it has bony, white protrusions on their bodies with a massive row of the going down its spine. This Grimm is known as a Goliath.

Before the large Grimm could trample Keaton, Steel, and the two other soldiers, a pair of aura-like appendages grabs the four and pulls them away from the Grimm's path. Keaton looks back and sees Vine using his semblance, Aura Vines, as he sets Keaton and the others down next to him.

"Thanks," Keaton said as Vine nods in response.

The Goliath turned towards Vine's direction and charged at him. As the Grimm drew closer, Elm leaps over Vine and stood in between him and the Goliath. She activates her semblance, Aura Roots, planting her feet to the ground. Elm grabs the Grimm by its tusks, stopping it in its tracks. She lifts the Goliath and hurls it straight up into the air, then quickly pulls out her rocket launcher, Timber. Elm fires a rocket at the large Grimm as it explodes upon impact.

An Ursa charges at Elm as she quickly takes notice. She transformed her rocket launcher into a large hammer and swung it at the Grimm, sending it flying into a nearby rock wall of a cliff. The impact caused a large boulder atop the cliff to shift slightly but then stopped. Elm approaches up to Keaton, Vine, Steel, and the other soldiers.

"That was fucking awesome, Elm," Steel said.

"It's no big deal," Elm said.

A loud screech was heard from the sky. everyone looks up and sees a Nevermore circling around them in the sky. Keaton turned around facing something.

"Barker, is that AA gun ready?" Keaton asked.

Several feet away from everyone was Alex sitting atop an M164 VADS army tank, mounting the gatling gun and Fiona standing next to the tank.

"Armed and ready, Cap!" Alex said.

"Then open fire!" Keaton ordered.

Alex began shooting at the Nevermore, hitting its right wing. The Nevermore began to fall to the ground in front of Clover as everyone around him ran away. The impact caused the boulder at the top of the cliff to fall. The Nevermore sees Clover in front of it and just as it was going to hurl its beak at the operative, the boulder falls on top of the Nevermore's head, crushing it. Keaton assumed this was the work of Clover's semblance, Good Fortune.

"That should be the last of them," Clover said, turning to the marine Captain.

"Good. Hopefully these areas will be Grimm free for President Trump's arrival," Keaton said.

"So are we heading back?" Alex asked as he and two more soldiers stepped off of the tank.

"Yeah. We need to check on the kids anyway," Keaton answered.

"Right," Alex said before turning to Fiona. "Hey Fiona, do you think you could..."

"Sure," Fiona replied.

Fiona places her hand on the tank, and a shockwave travels from the truck to her hand, which shimmers with aura. The tank begins disintegrating from the back, forward, and the powder flows into a black hole in her palm, which disappears as she makes a fist. This was the sheep Faunus' semblance, Pocket Dimensions.

"So how do you think the kids that haven't seen the show will take it?" Marrow asked.

"I'd imagine they'd be asking a lot of questions," Cassandra answered.

"Most of them will be for Team RWBY and Team JNPR," Vine added.

"And Teams GRMA and CFDT," Keaton said.

"They're certainly going to be in for a long day," Harreit said.

"It's gonna be a long day for all of us," Robyn said.

"Which is why we should head back now," Clover said.

"Right. Let's move out," Keaton said.

Everyone began to trail back to the base.

Daniel Air Force Base

Prison Facility

Meanwhile back at the air base, Yang, Qrow, and Taiyang were being escorted by a guard down a hallway. They approach a pair of double doors with a coded door entry panel next to it.

"Before I let you three see the prisoner, I'm gonna half to ask you all to stay behind the white line when inside," the guard instructed.

"Are you sure this cell will hold her?" Qrow asked.

"We have her strapped to a chair inside a containment box that's bulletproof. And even if she somehow breaks free from her restraints, the containment box will instantly detect this and will knock her out with a general anesthetic gas," the guard explained. "And for further improvement, we have cameras watching the prisoner twenty-four/seven, 50 caliber guns all pointed at her, and all sharp, blade-like objects are far away from this facility to make sure she can't use her semblance. She ain't going anywhere anytime soon."

"Good to know," Tai said.

The guard turned to the panel and types in the code. The thick doors slide open as everyone walks inside. The doors closed once they were inside. The room was large with cameras on the corners of the room, watching the prisoner who was strapped to a chair inside a large glass box. The prisoner in the box is Raven Branwen.

"You've got five minutes," the guard said to Yang, Qrow, and Taiyang.

Small hatch doors on the walls slid open and coming out were the barrels of 50 caliber machine guns, all pointed at the Spring Maiden. Yang, Qrow, and Taiyang approached the glass box and stopped behind the white line on the floor which was a few feet away from the box. Raven looks up at Yang.

"So after all this time you finally decided to visit me," she said.

"You know that I searched for you. I spent years looking for you," Yang said.

"And you've found me. Despite me and my tribe's capture and imprisonment by your sister, your uncle, your friends, and these unknown militaries, you were patient, determined, and strong enough to make your dream a reality," Raven said.

"Funny how you talk about strength, since you don't know the first thing about it. You turn your back on people, you run away when things get too hard, you put others in harm's way instead of yourself. You might be powerful since you're the Spring Maiden, but that doesn't make you strong," Yang said.

"Who do you think-" Raven gets cut off by her daughter.

"Becoming a Maiden already puts a target on your back and Salem will be coming after you. You believe Professor Ozpin would fail in protecting Beacon Academy. He would have if the United States military hadn't caught on and intervened."

"Yang, you don't know what you are walking into!" Raven shouted.

"Yes I do! And I'm scared too! But unlike you, I'm still standing here and I won't run away!" Yang shouted back.

"You don't want to do this, Yang," Raven said in a somber tone.

"Nope. But I'm gonna do it anyway," Yang said and gave a sigh. "There were many things I wanted to say to you. Many things I wanted to ask you. But after some time of thinking, I realise I have nothing to say to you. Summer Rose was a better mom than you'll ever be."

Raven looked down as Yang turned away. Qrow then spoke to his twin sister.

"I at least hoped you would listen to reason back Anima, but I realize that you would stoop to any low, cross any line, just to save yourself. And we're not family anymore."

Raven stayed silent as Tai then spoke next.

"I... I don't even want to speak to you. I think we're done here."

Raven still had her head down and still stayed silent. Yang, Tai, and Qrow turned around and walked away as the guard opened the door. Once the four exited the cell, the door closed on their way out. Raven's eyes welled up with tears as one dripped down on her lap.

"I... I'm sorry..." Raven choked.

Outside the cell, Yang broke down in crying as her father embraced her as Qrow gave a somber look.

Hangar 5

Meanwhile in one of the hangars, everyone inside had just finished watching RWBY Volumes 1-7. Teams ABRN, NDGO, BRNZ, FNKI, and CRDL were all shocked, angered, and conflicted that they had just watched a show that predicted a would-have-been future. Teams JNPR, GRMA, CFDT, SSSN, and CFVY, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Neo, and Penny all stepped away from the other teams, while the teachers, Pietro, and Maria prepared to step in to calm the tension as they all knew that the other students are going to turn on them.

"What the heck is this?!" Brawnz asked.

"Why were we shown all this?!" Nebula asked.

"Are our headmasters really at war with someone who can control the Grimm?" Neon asked.

"Not to mention she can't be killed," Reese added.

"Is all this even real?" Nolan asked.

"Guys, we all know you all have questions, but-" Sun was cut off.

"You bet we have questions. Especially with the alien freaks," Cardin said.

"Okay seriously, who invited him and his team of d-bags?" Kendra asked, gesturing to CRDL.

Everyone turned their heads to Ozpin who took a sip from his mug.

"I'll admit, despite their history with the other students, they do show promise to be great Huntsmen," the Beacon headmaster said.

"But he does have a point. You all do have some questions that need to be answered," Flynt said.

"Okay listen... back on Earth, you guys, academies, the Grimm, the kingdoms, everything on Remnant is all part of a web show watched by millions," Britney explained.

"So we're all just nothing but entertainment to your world? Are we even real?" Dew asked.

"Just because you are from a show doesn't mean you aren't real," Ruby said.

"Yeah, you're all standing right in front of us living and breathing," Kelly said.

"RWBY and JNPR have been to our world and they didn't fade out of existence or stuff like that," Allen said.

"But thanks to the outcome of discovering that Remnant is real and the fact that it was time in between Volumes 2 and 3, we prevented a terrible future from being manifested," Jacob added.

"But now, their world is now in danger. Salem will want to bring our war to Earth for their interference," Ozpin said. "Which is why this organization was made, to not only become the bridge in between both worlds, but to also fight back against her."

"Keep in mind, Professor Ozpin never wanted all of you to be involved, but unfortunately no matter what we would do to avoid this, it may still lead to the same outcome," Glynda said.

"And I am sorry that you all were brought into this and none of you should ever be a part of this," Ozpin said. "But now, you all do have a choice. And none of us won't stop you from whatever you decide."

"And no one will fault you if you leave," Ironwood added.

Everyone began to look at each other and murmur from the headmasters' words. Those who had just watched the show all stood in silence and hoped for the better. A moment later Yang, Qrow, and Taiyang walk into the hangar.

"What did we miss?" Tai asked.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed outside from the hangar. Everyone walked outside to see where the light came from. What followed after the flash was the sound of turbine engines, roaring in the air. They all looked up and saw a large airplane flying in the sky.

"Air Force One has arrived," a familiar voice spoke.

Everyone turned to see Keaton and his team, the Ace Operatives, and the Happy Huntresses.

"The President and the VIP have arrived and will land shortly," Keaton said.

"Everyone please follow me to the U.H.L. Headquarters. They will meet us inside," Cassandra said.

Cassandra began to walk away from her team as they stayed behind to greet the President, while everyone else followed behind her.