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Guest: The two brothers will be adressed in the next chapter.
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Guest: I just used how the Ion shields work in the game Freeblade, basically they just defend against slow shots like missiles, i think. And yes, many fanfics portray him as this grand manipulator, but as far as i know he ain't manipulating shit in the show.
Guest: Is there a Psyker among Sariel's retinue? Yes. Are Psykers able to attack the soul directly? Yes.
Jaznavav: Considering English is not even in the same language group as my first language, i think i'm doing pretty good. These extras i'll be doing won't be serious at all, so expect memes and jokes.
"Lord Sariel, we are here as ordered." Reported the Arch-Militant, his voice steeled with pride. Alongside him was his personal squad, Thoren, Johann and Anton.
"Indeed you are." The Rogue Trader turned to them with a serious face.
"I have a mission of utmost importance for you men." The four men saw that this truly was important.
"I am sending you to that Academy, Beacon, to gain trust of the headmaster. You'll be enrolled in the Schola as one of their initiates. Your first task will be completing the Initiation, your second task is to gain trust of the headmaster, I do not care how you do it only that you do. We need his knowledge of this planet's past."
"My Lord, why don't we use their libraries for Knowledge?" Inquired the Arch-Militant.
"Their books contain barely any history only borderline heretical fiction. Whatever Octavian found was some heretical figures named the brother gods."
Their eyes widened at the mention of some heretical gods "My Lord, these heretics should be put down!"
Sariel held his hand up to stop him from continuing "I know but as far as we know they are not a state religion. And those that do pray to them, well let's just say there will be many 'accidents' happen to their heretical churches and their followers." The Traders words eased them a little but they were still greatly perturbed.
"But there are some suspicious books among them that we'll have to look into but now is not the time."
Sariel looked them in the eyes "Remember, the Emperor Protects!"
"The Emperor Protects!" they echoed back.
"Alright, all of you grab your equipment." The four-man squad was currently with the quartermaster.
"Lord Sariel also said to grab Grav-Chutes, said you'll be needing them." Came the voice of the quartermaster.
"Very well. Where do you store the grenades?"
"On the rack over there." He pointed at the wall behind them.
"Thanks." The quartermaster just nodded and proceeded to sort his stock.
"Alright, each of you grab two Frag grenades and and a single Krak grenade." They secured them to their body and went to grab their last piece of equipment. The Ryza Pattern Hot-shot Volley Gun was Thoren's weapon of choice. This fearsome firearm is more powerful than any mass produced lasgun.
The Hellguns were taken by Johann and Anton.
But the most powerful weapon in the armory was taken by Rueben, the Bolter. His massive frame that was almost the size of a Space Marine along with his Bionic arm allowed him to safely wield a Bolter. There was also a power sword he took from a dead commissar. The one he took it fro was a real frakker so he has no regrets on taking it. He also took a Plasma grenade, just in case
"You three prepared for this?" They nodded as they put on the helmets. The squad marched to the hangar, where a Valkyrie was waiting for them. They boarded it and took off.
"Wonder why their calling us to the amphitheater." The silent voice of Blake came, she was reading her book while walking there. It definitely wasn't smut.
"Headmaster Ozpin probably has an announcement." Weiss said her part.
"Who cares why they called us, there are no classes today." Came the upbeat voice of Yang, any scars and injuries of the beating she took were healed weeks ago but the mental image of ten men jumping on her and beating the ever loving shit out of her was still there.
"Oh, hey team RWBY!" From their left came the voice of Jaune, leader of team JNPR, the members of his team were of course, with him.
"Hey Jaune and team JNPR. So, why do you think we we're called to the amphitheater?" Ruby asked her fellow leader.
"Well according to the rumors the academy is getting a team of huntsmen in training. Other than that I know nothing else." They were now getting closer to the doors to the amphitheater.
"A new team? Why are they joining the academy mid-semester?" Just as Weiss said the words they entered the amphitheater. It was already half full. They took their seats and waited.
Soon when the amphitheater was full Ozpin came on the stage "Students, you may have heard rumors about a new team joining Beacon Academy. Well, I'm here to tell you that they are true. Today this new team will be undergoing an Initiation, the same way you did. But when they'll complete it, based on their decision we'll attach them to the first-year team that picked the same relic."
The students started whispering and mumbling among themselves "Now let's watch their Initiation."
The screen came online and they saw four men heavily armored man standing on the platforms, they looked like those Imperials. The murmuring increased in volume.
Yang started to glow red when she saw their insignia, an Eagle. She was reminded of those that put her in the infirmary for a week.
"Whoa, Yang calm down!" Her sister whisper-shouted at her.
"They have the same insignia as those men!" She exclaimed back at the younger sister.
"I know but please calm down!" If Yang wanted to refute her sister, the words would have been drowned out by Glynda Goodwitch talking to the men.
"Gentlemen, your task is to retrieve one of the relics and come back here. The temple is located containing the relics is located north from here. Whoever you make eye contact will be your partner and also you are to kill every Grimm in your way." The four men nodded.
"How will we get down from here?" The biggest one asked.
"The platforms you are standing on will catapult you into the Emerald Forest. Now, are you ready?"
"Give me the strength to carry my duty through, and smite those who seek to thwart me."
"We are ready now." Was the answer that came after the prayer.
"Then I'll be launching you in then seconds." Another nod he then turned to the other three "Turn on the Grav-Chutes when descending and try to land as close to my position."
"Yes sir!"
"Launching you now!" The platforms catapulted them upwards and into the forest.
"For the Emperor!" They bellowed when launched.
As they were descending they activated the Grav-Chutes and safely glided back to the ground. Rueben looked at his auspex when he landed and saw the others were quite far away from him.
He switched it to show heat signatures and saw several of them heading his way. He quickly put the auspex away and took his Bolter into his hands and faced the direction from which they are coming.
They came into his field of view and he immediately opened fire on them. These black wolves didn't stand a chance against the against the rocket-propelled bullets. The carnage that ensued caused the the pack to dwindle down to ten wolves. They advanced fast and Rueben didn't have time to reload.
So he quickly holstered the Bolter and prepared to take them with his fists, he figured that if they couldn't handle the Bolter, they surely won't be able to handle the Power Sword. He might as well take them on with his fists.
He grabbed the first one by it's muzzle and snapped his jaw off, the next one swiped at him but he quickly dodged to the right and leaped at the one behind him. This one didn't even have the chance to fight back as Rueben's Bionic arm pierced it's chest and came through the other side.
Another one tried to kill him but Rueben proved to be too fast for them, countless Campaigns and Crusades can make a man into a killing machine. It's arm were ripped of and with them the Imperial slashed the wolf with them and decapitated it. It's own claws were it's demise.
The biggest one slashed at him but the Carapace armor proved to tough for it's claws. Rueben quickly pivoted and grabbed the body of what he presumed was the leader of their pack and threw it at the remaining wolves. It's size and weight trapped the others beneath it.
Capitalizing on this opportunity he took out a Frag grenade and threw at the pile of wolves. When the wolves stood up and roared at him the grenade exploded and splattered their guts across the clearing. Rueben smirked at his victory. He then checked the location of his squad once he located them he wandered to them.
BACK IN BEACON
Everyone was speechless of what had occurred during the fight. Bullets that explode when they enter the Grimm? A grenade that blows up the Grimm like nothing? What shocked them even more was the man literally tearing a Beowulf's arms off and then decapitating it with them.
At first everyone thought that he would be killed because of the sheer amount of Grimm coming at him but he proved that he could take care of them single-handedly.
"You know what, I think I changed my mind." Yang quickly said after she witnessed the carnage that occurred at the screen.
"Yeah I don't think I would wanna mess with that." Pyrrha said her eyes still glued to the screen. She has seen her fair share of fighting sure but the brutality that the man on screen showed was new to her.
The screen then showed the one with the heavier version of the gun that the other two had.
"What will his gun do? Spew copious amounts of laser?" Sarcastically remarked Jaune.
At the exact moment he said that, multiple Ursa came out Majors and Minors. The man then held the trigger and from the gun came rapid-fire lasers that punched through the Grimm armor, some were even cooked.
While his battle wasn't as long or gory as the other one it proved that these men wielded weapons that could obliterate a Grimm at anytime, anywhere.
"I'll shut up now." Jaune commented the last time before shutting his mouth.
The screen then came to the remaining two that managed to group up when they landed. They carried weapons almost the same as the other one, but these ones were smaller.
Johann and Anton walked almost in sync with each other, well it wasn't that surprising since they were brothers.
The two walked to the Arch-Militant's position as quietly as possible but walking quietly didn't hide them from the big Nevermore that was flying above them.
"Anton, set the Hellgun to full power and shoot the bastard down." Anton did as he said and crouched while aiming the Hellgun at it, time slowed down for him as the laser hit it's chest making a hole through it.
"Nice one." It was the result both of the expected, a full powered Hellgun could punch through ceramite so why wouldn't it punch through some measly bird. Johann stopped his musing and continued to the Arch-Militant with his brother
The students in Beacon felt like their entire existence was made as a joke, these newcomers just proved them that their weapons were shit. A whole team of huntsmen were required to take down a Nevermore of that size.
"This is ridiculous! Not even Atlas has technology that advanced! And laser weapons were supposed to be fiction!" Ranted the heiress at the screen.
"Whoa, Chill out Ice Queen." And as usual Yang made a pun. (A/N: This was the last time I made a pun. I want to puke.)
"Not the time for puns, Yang."
The four men soon came into contact and then proceeded to the temple. The walk there was uneventful, only a stray Beowulf here and there, but they were quickly killed by a laser to their head.
The temple soon came into view "This is the temple? It looks like someone's ruined house." Anton commented on the state of it. This wasn't a temple by any means, it looked like a ruined house from one of those Agri Worlds.
"Let's just grab these relics and get out of here." Inside were pedestals on which sat multiple relics, ones were golden and the other ones were black "Are they supposed to represent something?"
"Don't know, don't care." Rueben just quickly took one and put it in his pack.
Back in Beacon the blonde of team RWBY, put her head in her arms and muttered "Oh no."
The four were about to go back to Beacon but from the forest emerged two Ancient Deathstalkers. Their bone armor showed that they were a part of many battle.
"By the Emperor." Rueben muttered to himself. Those wolves already disappointed him and now these two scorpion rejects come waltzing like they own the Emperor-damned place "Johann, Anton throw your Krak grenades at the left one, Thoren and I will take the right one."
They waited until the two waddled closer and then threw the grenades at them. The left one died as expected but the right one survived, even if barely. But one shot from the Bolter rectified that.
"That was one big disappointment after another. I would rather be purging Orkz than be here." Rueben really expected that the beasts will be tougher. From what he managed to learn from the locals, these Grimm forced them to hide like cowards behind those walls of theirs. They were supposed to be these scary monsters that could kill you instantly. It was obvious that they were exaggerating.
The Beacon students just stared at the screen with shock written all over their faces. While their other feats were almost impossible, this one just didn't make any sense. How could two grenades kill an ancient deathstalker just like that?
The weapons they wielded truly were a sight to behold. Their trek back was as uneventful as the one to the temple and soon they came into the amphitheater.
"Well done on retrieving the relic." Rueben handed the taken relic to Ozpin "Rueben, Thoren, Johann and Anton your team will be named Team Imperium, because I didn't have enough imagination to come up with a name for you and as I have explained earlier, the team you will join is... Team RWBY. Congratulations boys."
Johann snorted when he said boys "Hehehe, he said 'boys'" He quietly nudged Thoren who stood silently.
"Now if you would please follow Glynda, along with team RWBY, to your new shared dorms." The four went off the stage and followed the professor with RWBY also going with them.
The dorm was a larger than normal, it had eight beds and four desks. The Imperials quickly claimed the right side of the room while team RWBY took the left side.
"Your schedule will arrive tomorrow morning until then stay out of trouble, if there are any questions please one of the members of team RWBY. See you in combat class." The professor then left the two teams.
After a moment of silence Rueben spoke up to ease some of the tension "I guess if we are working together from now on introductions are in order, I am Rueben, Arch-Militant in the service to Lord Sariel."
"Thoren, Tempestus Scion in the service to Lord Sariel."
"Johann, Tempestus Scion in the service to Lord Sariel."
"Anton, Tempestus Scion in the service to Lord Sariel."
Their introductions were short and straight to the point. The girls were next to introduce themselves.
"Ruby Rose, leader of team RWBY!" The Imperials already didn't like the girl, she was coming of as naive, that didn't stick well with them.
"Blake Belladonna." It seemed she wasn't very keen on meeting new people, she struck Rueben as a recluse. And was it just him or was her bow subtly twitching?
"Weiss Schnee, heiress of the SDC." The white one spoke like a noble, hopefully she wasn't as arrogant as some higher ranking officials.
"SDC? What's that? Some kind of Corporation?" It seemed that Rueben wasn't the only one who didn't know what that was.
"How could you not know the Schnee Dust Company?! The amount of dust your laser weaponry probably uses cannot be obtained in the middle of nowhere!"
"Cease you incessant shouting, girl. Our weapons do not use this dust you speak of, even if we did what use would particles that float in the air be." This seemed to anger her even more.
"You don't even know what Dust is? From where did you come from? From under a rock?"
"We definitely didn't come from this ball of grox shit." That shut her up momentarily and allowed for the last one to introduce herself.
"Yang Xiao Long, brawler of team RWBY." The blonde answered somewhat coldly. Rueben narrowed his eyes and remembered that Captain Frescher described a girl similar to Yang.
"Are you perhaps the one that attacked Captain Frescher during Lord Sariel's visit a few week ago?"
The girl looked directly into his eyes "If you mean the guy that choked and threw my sister across the plaza, then yes, that was me. What he did to her was unforgivable" Rueben could almost feel her anger towards him.
"The captain's actions were justified, while yours were not." Rueben retorted as he unclipped his power sword and Bolter and placed them near his bed, the rest of his team was already sorting through their stuff.
"How can choking and then throwing my sister be justified!?" Her hair started glowing red, was this the 'semblance' that these people had?
"Your sister tried to steal a weapon from an Imperial Guardsman, a high ranking one, no less. If this was an Imperial world she would receive a thousand lashings or a public execution. Emperor forbid that you would try stealing from a Space Marine, your family tree would probably be stricken from the records or made into servitors." Came the nonchalant answer.
Rueben's words sickened the other team "Why would you execute someone because they stole something?!" The naive one shrieked.
"We don't have the time to keep someone on prison for an unknown number of years. If someone committed a crime the severity of it would determine his punishment, as I said earlier that would be either lashings, execution, being turned into an servitor or sent to a Penal World." He gave them some common knowledge of the Imperium, so they wouldn't have to learn everything when this world will be integrated.
"What are servitors?" The one called Blake asked.
"They are mindless, cybernetic drones created from a fusion of human flesh and robotic technology that are used to carry out simple, manual tasks across the Imperium of Man. They do the more hazardous jobs that could cause harm to a normal man." The girls were positively disgusted that they would do that to another human.
After the momentary shock, Blake picked up something from Rueben's words. "Is Faunus flesh not compatible with your technology?" She would soon regret asking those words.
"Huh?" Came the response from every member of the male team. "Faunus?" The word was familiar to them somehow.
"You know, the ones with extra appendages, like rabbit ears or something."
"Oh! The filthy mutants. Of course the technology is compatible, who else would take ninety percent of the servitors that we have." Rueben's boast did not sit well with the black haired girl and neither did with the rest of them. If they wanted to say something about it they didn't, instead the youngest one, Ruby, ushered her team back to their old dorm to gather all the stuff.
"Well that was an experience." Johann commented on the short almost one sided conversation they had.
The Arch-Militant just shrugged "It sure was. Anyway, we should unpack our luggage." The only thing they had to unpack was their equipment.
It was about half an hour later when team RWBY collected every item from their former dorm. Once they came inside the new one they saw team Imperium on their knees in front of a table that was decorated with gold and had a golden statue of a man on the middle. It seemed they were praying, the four girls never even suspected that these men were religious, after all almost nobody in Remnant worshiped the brother gods and this statue did not look like any of the two brothers.
They stayed silent as Rueben recited a prayer from the book he held in his hands.
Love the Emperor
for He is the salvation of mankind
Obey His words
for He will lead you into the light of the future
Heed His wisdom
for He will protect you from evil
Whisper His prayers with devotion,
for they will save your soul
Honour His servants,
for they speak in His voice
Tremble before His majesty,
for we all walk in His immortal shadow.
The Emperor protects!
Once finished they each went to their own bed and started disassembling their weapons and also started reciting some form of prayers.
The girls just silently decorated their side of the dorm. They finished quicker than the last time since they had a much bigger room now and could store things more easily.
They looked at the other team and saw them finishing up with their prayers and recitals. "Never took you guys for a religious type."
"Every man, woman and child in the Imperium worships the God-Emperor." Thoren said from his bed, his bed was the closest to the girls.
"Who's the God-Emperor?" Weiss asked, she was intrigued about this deity since the only one's that she has ever known are the two brothers.
"I would have executed you for saying that, but since we're on a planet that has yet to be inducted into the Imperial fold I will not. Now let me enlighten you. The God-Emperor is the Guardian and God of humanity. He guided humanity from it's conception to now. Until the Horus Heresy he walked among us but now he leads humanity from his Golden Throne upon Holy Terra."
"Then how come we never heard of this God-Emperor until now? Remnant isn't that big. If anything like that happened it would be in the history books."
The Imperials looked among themselves, stupefied that they haven't figured it out yet.
"You must be one of the dumbest feudals I've met and I've met a plenty of them. We. Are. Not. From. This. Emperor-forsaken. Planet. Do you understand now?" Rueben angrily told them.
"Wait, what?!"
Dear Emperor...
Extra
Vale burned. It's people were fleeing the Grimm that came here with the negativity from the events of the Vytal Tournament.
And Cinder Fall took pleasure knowing she caused this herself. Well mostly herself. Now the only thing to do is to take the remaining power of the Fall Maiden.
She descended the elevator already knowing that Ozpin, Pyrrha Nikos and the Arc boy will be there.
The elevator door opened and she summoned her bow and took immediately took a shot. The arrow flew to Ozpin, piercing his head and frying his lower body.
She was surprised at this, shouldn't Aura protect him? She would ponder on this later, now the only threat here is the Arc. Once again her arrow flew through his shield and incinerating his body like it was made of paper.
She widened her eyes and took a long look at the bow she had in her hands. Was this the power of a Maiden. She hasn't even killed Amber and she already has this much power. She smirked imagining how much stronger she will be once she takes the rest of the power.
She walked close to the machine and took a long look at the squirming Pyrrha Nikos and the Fall Maiden. She then turned her gaze to the vault of the relic.
'THUNK!'
The sound came from behind her she notched and arrow and spun around ready to fire it at the one that made noise.
There was nothing there. Only rubble and Ozpin's body. It was probably her imagination.
As she turned back she gasped at what she see. Well, more like what she didn't see. The machine was missing, the vault also had a circular hole in it, the Relic was also missing.
A million questions raced through her mind. How did this happen? Who did this?
Her mind came to a halt as a paper landed on her face. She slowly took it off of her face and turned it around.
The paper had just one sentence on it:
You've been dicked by Trazyn.
Have a good day.
Trazyn the Infinite
She didn't know who this Trazyn was but the urge to scream his name hit her like a train. And scream she did.
"TRAAAAAAAAAAAAZYYYYYYYYN!"