Reviews:
Mephistopheless: I notice that some authors that combine a warhammer character into the RWBY universe tend to soften them over the course of the story, that is not a bad thing but it has been done before. The Magos Dominus wants to feel pleased, sine his emotions are dampened it feels like getting to see your best friend in person after a year or two.
Dovasinn270: While it is always nice to have your OC in a story, yours might not fit in this story. But maybe in my next story after Gleaming Giants is finished. I am planning to do a story about every major Forge World going into a different universe, this is my Metalica and I will have the final chapter be a poll for what universe to send the next Forge World into. All the tech-priest have different hobbies that will be revealed over the course of the story. Thanks for the blessing of the machine god!
Artyom-Dreizehn: I am having aura be adding a wound or six to the model. I am still trying to balance it and I would love to hear your ideas. Only the standard issued weapons will be seen until the Adeptus Mechanicus starts to annex land on the planet. I know the problem of sending an OP army into a world of people with less advanced technology. I might buff aura a little too much or dumb down the Ad Mech forces by accident, let me know if I go too far in either of these directions. But I do not want the battles between the Ad Mech and the locals be a cake walk for either side, unless if they bring in their strongest weapons.
Chapter Master Sinclair: To be honest, it took longer than it should have to figure out who 'pen' was. In Chapter Two (2), Penny, John, Dane, Ian, and Alex stayed at the entrance to the bunker while the four other Atlesian Soldiers entered into the bunker and were presumed dead.
Guest: The androids are robots run by code, they do not count as Men of Iron. If they did, then the city of Atlas would already be ruins. They are just simple robots, similar to the Kastelans but without being blessed by the Omnissiah and far inferior.
Votes for Trial of Penny:
Automata [2]
Silica Animus [5]
Feudal STC [2]
Speech Syntaxes:
-Speech- Lingua-Technis
"Speech" Low Gothic/English
Notes: Sorry for not uploading sooner, the college trip took longer than expected. The radio frequency came from the rough point cost of the army divided by 10. Also, I will be slowly going away from cannon starting in this chapter. I am trying to add more gore and death into the story to make it match up to the standards of the 41st millennium and the M rating.
Chapter Ten: Dimming the Torch
All of his forces on the surface were waiting at Beacon and the orbital scans started to give off their first targets. His subordinates informed him that some of the soldiers must be spared to arrest this Roman Torchwick. He will spare the three units of Dragoons, one unit of Ironstriders, the two Onagers, and two units of Skitarii Vanguard. He personally gave them orders to save as many civilians as possible and prevent the criminal to harm them. The citizens of Remnant would view the Adeptus Mechanicus as their saviors before he puts them under heel. A Vulture landed and the Ruststalkers and Infiltrators silently loaded upon the machine to bring the wrath of the Omnissiah upon the enemy. The Magos Dominus as going to speak with Ozpin about allowing him to start orbital bombardment on a Grimm hoard near the local mountains until a Skitarii Ranger, that should be out in the field, stopped him.
General Ironwood watched from Ozpin's office as one of the Adeptus Mechanicus VTOL craft filled with twenty soldiers left the landing pads heading to Oum knows where. He knew whatever they were planning it is not good for Remnant. The Atlesian quickly left Beacon Tower and started to march to the Magos Dominus to get answers. Once he saw the tech-priest he noticed that one of his soldiers was giving him a report in their own secret language. General Ironwood interrupted their conversation, "Where exactly is that VTOL craft going Pugnus?" The Skitarii moved his hand to the trigger of his weapon, but the Magos Dominus stopped him.
Pugnus lightly remarked, "We can keep him alive for now. After all he saved me from walking up all those flights of stair to confront him. It is nice to see you General Ironwood, I was just informed about one of Atlas' recent creations. Penny Polendina to be exact, the reason I bring this up is because she might be viewed as tech-heresy to the eyes of the Omnissiah. I will have a council with the other tech-priest to debate this matter. Inform the creator that they will be given fifteen minute to tell us how the android you call Penny operates. It might mean war if the answers are unsatisfactory. Tune into radio frequency 904.7 in thirty-one minutes to answer your question." After threatening him with war over a single android, he just walked away like nothing happened. It was starting to get on his nerves how Pugnus acted like he owned the place, Ironwood planned to talk to Ozpin about this latter. But right now he had a few calls to make.
All of the tech-priest, except for Cyber, gathered onto a single Vulture which left for the fleet in orbit. The trial will last anywhere between 24 hours to 72 hours. The Cybernetica Datasmith was left alone with his blessed Kastelans, which was until one of the students came up to talk with him. "Where are all of the other leaders going?" asked the student known as Emerald. Cyber knew that she was on the list of students that the Logis in the fleet are inspecting, perhaps he could get them more information to help the research.
"They are conduction important discussions that could change the maps of this world within the week," explained Datasmith-1721.
The student gave Cyber a confused glance before interpreting, "Are they planning to invade a Kingdom?" The Datasmith shook his head before returning back to his blessed Kastelans. Before there was only six, but now there are twelve. It made his servo joints leap for joy. They six Kastelans under the command of Dominus Quin Decium were armed with their fists and Incendine Combustors. Despite him clearly working on checking on the holy automata the student continued asking questions, "Where did the bullhead of twenty soldiers go earlier?"
She was going from innocent asking to a potential spy quicker than the Datasmith would prefer. "Frequency 904.7 in twenty-eight minutes will answer your question." The frequency itself contains a broadcast that is planned to spread propaganda and reports on all of the White Fang members killed by the Omnissiah's unstoppable wrath. Their names would be read off in alphabetical order pretending that they refused surrendered and were slain by the Sicarians. This plan was already in action so most of the member of the Adeptus Mechanicus knew about it. Cyber wished he did not receive information when the Skitarii did, it was a little bit insulting.
The two Skitarii Rangers assigned to observe the targets of Yang Xiao Long and Neptune Vasilias lost them once they obtained a motorcycle. Both of them agreed to position themselves between the other Rangers in Vale and Beacon Academy to better transmit the location of the criminal. While they were waiting they decided to sit at a local establishment that served rations, otherwise known as a cafe. They could not eat anything because they do not have the local currency or have the desire to consume food. When it started to hit dusk, they received a transmission from the two Skitarii assigned to Blake Belladonna and Sun Wukong, -We have a location of a White Fang recruitment outpost in the City of Vale at sector 3403. The terrorist also stole an armored walker with assistance from the HVT. Requesting that the counterattack start now.-
The stolen Atlesian Paladin chased after the two students throughout the streets of Vale. The loud crack of galvanic rifles answer to the rogue machine's rampage, the chase soon leaves the range of the Skitarii who stopped their firing. Ignoring the shocked civilians around them, they join in the chase.
Weiss picked up her scroll to hear the answer the call from Blake, "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-" The Faunus was cut off by Sun's yelling, to which she glanced at the Skitarii following her. His, if it even is a guy, only response was him checking what she assumed to be magazine of his weapon.
Yang and Neptune sat outside of the nightclub on her motorcycle listening in on the call. While Sun was terribly explained what was happening, the blue haired student spotted them running down the street with a giant robot chasing them with two Adeptus Mechanicus chasing after the giant robot. Neptune remarked, "I think that was them." Yang quickly hit the throttle on her motorcycle to join in on the chase, the two Skitarii glared at them as they drove past them.
The pair of Ranger Skitarii in the chase kept giving coordinates to where the criminal was and where he was going, that was true until he reached the highway. In their rampage, multiple cars were tossed to the side of the road and the civilian passengers could have been harmed. A regular Skitarii would view civilians as something to ignore, but their new orders forced them to change their habits. The two broke off from the chase and rushed to the car crashes. The broke windows, ripped off doors, and moved cars just to save as many civilians, both abhuman and human, as possible. The other Skitarii Rangers soon reached their location and joined in the tedious work of saving civilian, some of whom need medical aid quickly.
Due to the ice created by one of the Beacon students, the Paladin lost stability and fell off of the highway. The Dragoons quickly surrounded the mech with the Ironstriders off in the back ready to support their Skitarii comrades. One of the Skitarii yelled thru his vox, "This is your last chance to surrender Torchwick! If you defy us there will be consequences!" The rest of team RWBY joined their leader in front of the stolen Paladin a few of them glared at the Adeptus Mechanicus forces. The criminal responded by slowly approaching the four students. The same Skitarii yelled, -Start the Benedictions of the Omnissiah and open fire!-
The Sydonian Dragoons peppered the walker with their Phosphor Serpenta, while the six armed with Radium Jezzails focused fire on the cockpit of the Paladin. The six Ironstrider Ballistarii awoke every civilian in the area with the sound of their twin cognis autocannons, whose machine spirits screamed for the death of the unsanctioned machine in front of them. Ruby Rose quickly ordered her team, "Freezer Burn!" Blake and Ruby stepped back as Weiss created a circle of ice which Yang in a mere second turned to mist with her fire dust round. Unfortunate for the soldiers of the metal messiah, they were taller than the cloud of water vapor. The criminal sent out a wave of rockets and fired the armed mounted energy cannons at the chicken walkers, but thanks to the mist their targeting system could not work and he was inexperienced with how to operate his machine of war properly.
The four students started to employ hit and run tactics under the cover of the water vapor cloud, their slashing weapons did little against the armor compared to the arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The lead Dragoon yelled over the sounds of battle, -One more volley then have the Vanguards enter the fray! - The twenty-four chicken walkers responded with a glorious chorus of gunfire. The air was starting to become polluted with small pools of phosphex, faint remains of radium in the air, and shell casings from the autocannons. The Paladins was visible slower than before, it was on its last legs.
"Ladybug!" ordered Ruby as she launched herself at the walker with the recoil from her weapon, with Blake soon following. Under their constant pressure, the Paladin started to break and fell down to the ground with the pilot of the machine brushed himself off as he inspected the remains of his stolen machine. Yang quickly fired a shot at the unarmed criminal, but a two-toned girls blocked the bullet with an umbrella.
"Ladies, cyborgs, and Ice Queen…" remarked Torchwick. Ignoring Weiss' interjection he continued, "Always a pleasu…" He was silenced when a volley from the hidden Vanguards' radium carbines pierced thru his body. Two fist sized holes now covered his chest, while the girl block four rounds with her umbrella. The other twenty-four shots riddled the asphalt ground. The two-toned girl spared a glance at her comrade before running away from the battlefield. Two Skitarii Vanguards rushed up to the corpse and checked for a pulse. Their white robes were stained with the puddle of blood now surrounding the ex-criminal.
"No pulse," informed the Skitarii to the four dumbfounded students as he and the soldier next to him picked up the body by the arms and legs. All of the soldiers of the Adeptus Mechanicus left the encounter in complete silence, their work here was done.
A news reporter ran up to the soldiers and asked, "With Roman Torchwick dead, what does the Adeptus Mechanicus have to comment about this?"
The Alpha Vanguard explained, "The Magos Dominus will give a comment on this matter tomorrow. Right now it is time for the citizens to go back to bed knowing that they streets are now safer." The column of warriors of the Omnissiah resumed their silent march to the landing pads to head back to Vale, a cooler of ice was waiting for them in the Vulture for the corpse. On the other side of the city, a second squad of Vanguards and the two Onagers surrounded the White Fang recruitment outpost. The terrorist inside quickly chose to surrender for most of them were fresh recruits and unarmed, they were all secretly loaded onto a Vulture that left for the fleet in orbit. The remaining soldiers started walking to the landing pads as well.
Cinder watched from her dorm as the news reports came in. The great criminal Roman Torchwick was found dead at the hands of the Adeptus Mechanicus after he rampaged thru the city of Vale harming civilians. It appears the robots have chosen to side against her and the Queen, she will make sure they pay for their insolence.
General Ironwood and Headmaster Ozpin were discussion the plans for the Vytal Festival, but Professor Goodwitch stopped their conversation when she barged into the room. Glynda did not say a word, instead she brought up the news on her scroll and showed it to the two headmaster in the room. The news reporter stated, "Early this evening the wanted criminal Roman Torchwick was killed by soldiers of the Adeptus Mechanicus when he was using a stolen Atlesian Paladin to rampage thru the city. At this time there has been no comment from the Adeptus Mechanicus leaders."
"They are dangerous Ozpin, this only helps prove my point," accused the General.
Ozpin countered, "On the contrary Ironwood, this only shows how far they are willing to go to defeat their enemies. I do not doubt their threat to us, but I am interested on how Pugnus will comment on this problem. Also, which criminal will fill the power gap left in the wake of Mister Torchwick's recent demise and when will they do it?" How the headmaster saw this, the Magos Dominus could either damage or increase the people's faith in the Adeptus Mechanicus with how he acts in the next twenty-four hours.
A group of twelve tech-priest sat around a table in the Astral Knight, they were the jury of the trial of the fate of the one called Penny Polendina. Five of them so far claimed that she was an Silica Animus and had to be destroyed before there is a repeat of the Men of Iron, Dominus Ferrum lead this front. Four Adepts reasoned that she is just another robot similar to the Atlesian Knights, Dominus Decium lead this group. All of the tech-priest in the room had a laughing fit when they saw what the Atlesian call a Knight, it was nothing compared to their Knights. The Magos Dominus stayed silent during the entire debate. Magos Explorator Double Null questioned, -Magos Dominus Pugnus, what do you believe this Penny Polendina is? Do you side with the youngest tech-priest by condemning her, or do you side with reason that she is a simple Automata?-
-I will refrain from speaking until her creator explains what she is, right now I have a statement to create about the recent death of Roman Torchwick at the hands of a squad of Skitarii Vanguards. Magos Biologis Nova will you please follow me to the hangers, there are fresh shipments of…local specimens from the surface. - explained Pugnus as he left the room and headed for the door, with another tech-priest in tow.
-The meeting is on hold, you may return to your previous work on board the ship, - ordered Magos Explorator Double Null. The other ten tech-priest slowly started to dissipate out of the confined room back to their offices or resting quarters. They all have work to be done, and if they did not they could always conduct the weekly ritual of their machine augmentations or recharge in their rooms.
Afterword: Short chapter with abrupt cut off just to get something out to you guys on the weekend, next chapter will not be longer.