Hi Everyone, Sorry, this is like my break from academic writing, so updates will be sporadic. I'm happy for the overwhelming support for this story though, I thought it would just be a fun area to explore. I do not own minecraft or RWBY, those are owned by Mojang and Rooster Teeth respectively.
Chapter 5:
"Well, I have a rocket? So that's how I can go to the moon?" Steve answered, kind of shuddering slightly at how everyone yelled the question at the same time.
"But... how are you going to power your ascent?" Asked Professor Peach, curious from the academic standpoint.
"Well, I found a large source of material that I can turn into a solid propellant, and that provides the thrust to go up. I'm planning on building a space station on the moon so, if you want to be an astronaut..." Steve trailed off, rubbing the back of his head in slight exasperation.
"Oooo! Pick me! I'll go!" Nora yelled, raising her arm in exasperation, Ren lowered her arm and shook his head, not willing to risk his childhood friends life.
"Should we continue the tour?..." Steve asked, and started walking back through the workshop with everyone walking behind him.
Steve clicked his fingers together, "I haven't shown you the library!" Blake immediately stood at attention, a hungry gleam in her eyes.
The group walked together down the large tunnel, and after about a twenty minute walk, with idle chat on the journey about the facility, they walked into a hall that was approximately twenty stories tall, with book cases lining a walkway filled with tables in the middle of the room. There were spiral staircases that went up to different levels between the staircases, and at the end of the library, there was a roaring pyre, with a large lounge area and chimney taking the smoke out of the room.
"Is this what love feels like?" Blake mumbled, walking past different sections of the library, everyone was wondering how the hell he got so many books. Different sections were seperated, including a section on law, cooking, ancient history, and even a section labelled smut. Blake blushed at that and kept her eyes a little toward that section more than the others.
Everyone was in awe of the structure, occasionally stopping and looking at titles. There was a large box of books ahead, and between these books was a cube made of purple volcanic glass, with diamonds at the corner and red felt. Everyone was perplexed at the floating book at the center, occasionally flipping through pages, with strange glowing runes coming out of it.
"Ahh, the most special book in the library, my enchanting table. Does anyone have a weapon I could quickly use?" Steve asked, and quickly Ruby's Crescent Rose was extracted and unfolded, Ruby excitedly handed him the weapon.
"Right, give me a second," Steve pulled out three blue gems, and held out Crescent Rose, everyone was looking curiously, while Ruby was dancing slightly on the balls of her feet.
Crescent Rose started glowing and Steve walked back, Ruby had stars in her eyes, both fists together. Quite literally vibrating on the spot.
"This scythe now has unbreaking, punch, and infinity." Steve started as he handed back the scythe, sniper rifle to Ruby. "Basically, your scythe won't break, it will push enemies back after they're shot, and if you have a regular round, you will have infinite ammo."
"THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" Ruby rushed out hugging Steve, who was laughing looking slightly bashful.
"Do you think that it will work?" Whispered Weiss to the rest of Team RWBY, who were looking at the now glowing Crescent Rose with interest.
"I don't know, he hasn't led us astray yet..." Yang whispered back, a grin on her face with how happy Ruby was now.
"Well, unfortunately I don't have any more energy to make any more enchantments, maybe another time?" asked Steve looking around, all of Team JNPR and CVFY nodded, a dangerous look in Coco's eye at the mention of infinite ammo.
"So... I think that concludes our tour, we've been wandering for nearly four hours, anyone have any questions?" Steve asked looking around the group.
As they were crossing the bridge seen at the beginning of their tour, everyone thanked Steve, and the professors got permission to come back and look at the library, Steve was quite adament about letting them near some of the labs they saw on the tour.
They all walked back to Beacon and contemplated what they saw, the Professors had their own meeting with Glynda and Ozpin, who were both extremely curious as to the facility and the house of the mysterious stranger Steve.
They all sat down at the conference table, all looking toward the flickering lights coming from the former mountainsides of Beacon academy.
"So tell me," Ozpin took a sip of coffee looking at the mountain with interest, "What did you find?" Glynda looked at the faculty who toured the mountain with curiosity laced in her eyes.
"Well, we discovered he has a dust supply that could power Vale and Beacon for the next decade and a half." Professor Peach voiced, eyes still staring at the mountain.
"His library Ozpin! It was glorious, I got permission to go back sometime soon, I wanted to look at most of the historic tomes to see if there was anything new!" excitedly said quickly, taking a sip from his steel cannister.
"And his future endeavors are absolutely incredible! He's planning to go to the moon!" Port boomed out, a small smile on his face. "He can also house thousands of people if needed, and it's a well defended structure, a very well defended structure."
"Interesting..." Ozpin said, "If you find out anything else let me know, our resident ore supplier is proving to be quite the smart investment now.
As soon as everyone else left the room, he pulled up his scroll and called someone, "Steve, we need you to move the CCT."
-Time skip-
Blake and Sun panting, staring across the warehouse district with discontent at the White Fang and Roman Torchwick.
"The kitty cat and monkey come out to play," His look became more sinister, "This should be fun."
Blake and Sun readied their stances, until suddenly, a loud splash was heard coming out of the water.
Everyone looked over and saw a man with blue crystalline armor grabbing onto a dolphin and landed in the middle of the battle. Roman's eyes widened in recognition, from his previous battles.
"Oh crap!" said Steve, as he quickly attempted to save the dolphin by digging a quick three meter cubic hole in the middle of the concrete floor, he quickly filled it up with water from an impossibly tiny bucket. Everyone was staring blankly at him, almost not recognizing he dug up a large part of the concrete to save a dolphin of all things.
"So we meet again Sparkles" Roman growled out, angry at the reason he was almost caught.
"Oh, hey?" Asked Steve, and he turned around, "Blake, it's good to see you again!"
Blake's eyes widened, "Steve?!"
"Steve? What the hell how do you know this guy?!" Asked Sun, still in slight shock at how he beached a dolphin and then saved it by digging a hole.
Roman started laughing, "Your name is Steve?!" He started laughing, "That makes you much less menacing, I prefer Sparkles though." He said, as he aimed the cane toward the group, and the white fang turned their weapons toward him.
Steve sighed, and pulled out what looked like a massive rocket launcher, "I really don't want to do this." It was almost the size of Steve, and he was holding it on his shoulder like it was absolutely nothing. Everyone on the other side started to panic slightly, and Roman's eye twitched.
"Blake," Sun whispered, and Blake looked toward him, "How the hell do you know this guy?"
"Later Sun," Blake watched in apprehension, also wondering where he got that rocket launcher.
"What do you have in there, Sparkles? A missile that shoots anvils?" Roman yelled across, and he started to laugh. Everyone looked at Roman like he was crazy.
"No Roman," Steve sighed, "This is a miniature thermobaric missile."
Roman stopped laughing immediately, "Let's not get to hasty here Sparkles. The explosion will take out the entire shipping yard of Vale if you launch that missile."
Everyone's eyes widened, and Steve chose to say, "Well luckily I'm not a citizen of Vale." That made the White Fang panic even more, unsure of how much damage a thermobaric missile would do. "So here's what you're going to do Roman, you're going to leave the inventory here, and turn yourself in." Steve said, looking through the sights of his rocket launcher.
Suddenly, all the combatants across from them disappeared and Steve's eyes widened he quickly clicked the trigger.
"NO!" Blake and Sun yelled, but it was too late, they could only watch the missile launch toward the empty space where their enemy previously occupied, and then the missile detonated, with Blake and Sun watching with bated breath.
The missile exploded into a small explosion of anvils. There were a bunch of groans, and the illusion shattered, nearly all the white fang combatants were on the ground, most likely knocked out by the anvil launcher.
Steve wiped his brow, and turned toward Blake and Sun, "That could've been much worse, eh? I'm still working on my bluffs..."
Steve put his hand toward Sun, "My names Steve, it's a pleasure."
"The names Sun, so... how did you put all those anvils in that missile?"
Steve shrugged, "I just crafted the missile."
The three of them heard a bunch of airships heading toward their way, and then saw a large beam of Green light cut the airships in half
"Salutations!" Said a red haired girl with a plethora of knives surrounding her person, accompnanied by a familiar reaper.
"Blake!" Ruby yelled as she rushed in with a trail of petals behind her, giving her a big hug.
They looked over and Steve had dug a path in the concrete for the dolphin, and filled it with water, the dolphin quickly went down the path into the port. Steve took up all the water and filled the hole with concrete, in fact, it looked entirely like nothing happened in the first place.
"Ruby, good to see you again," said Steve as he approached the group.
"Steve! My upgraded Crescent Rose is AMAZING! Thank you!" Ruby said as she hugged Steve excitedly.
"Well, I have to go, I can't leave Triton waiting." They all turned toward the dolphin who was giving a slight expression of impatience, if that was possible.
"Later!" Steve jumped off the side and swam off with Triton.
"Well..." Sun started, "that was weird."
-Time skip-
"But if what Qrow said is true..." Ironwood started, looking at the windows, squinting toward the mountain.
"If what Qrow said is true, then we will handle it tactfully." Ozpin said, as he holds up an index finger, "It's the Vytal Festival. A time to celebrate unity and peace. So I suggest that you not scare people by transporting hundreds of soldiers halfway across the continent."
"I'm just being cauti... Ozpin, what the hell is on that mountain over there?" Ironwood pointed and Ozpin got up and looked.
"Ahhh, that is the home of our mysterious benefactor. I sold the land Beacon owned to him, and have been reaping the rewards." Ozpin finished.
A loud beep was heard coming from Ironwood's scroll, "General, I have an incoming message from an unknown source, should I patch him through?"
"Patch him through" Ironwood finished, and a familiar face to Ozpin appeared on the screen.
"I am terribly sorry to bother you, but is this the leader of the airship force? My name is Steve and I am requesting a clear three-mile radius airspace." Steve finished, Ozpin noticed he was wearing a white outfit with a spherical glass structure over his head.
"And why should I do that?" Ironwood asked, glancing at the mountain where several of his airships were stationed.
"Because first of all you're illegally trespassing in my airspace," Steve paused, Ironwood looked slightly indigent, and Ozpin looked slightly amused. "and unless you want collateral damage with your airships from my launch, then you'll have some problems." Steve said, looking dead serious at the general.
"Fine." Ironwood started, "You'll have clear airspace from now on, Atlas will station their ships in another location."
"Thank you, for the record General, in the future I should have an airship port." General Ironwood nodded in recognition and sent out the order, the airships retreated from the site and were stationed above the Emerald forest near Beacon.
Both Ozpin and Ironwood watched, anticipating the launch. Night had just descended, a loud roaring sound started, and a rocket ascended out of the tower, and was rising through the sky. Ironwood and Ozpin looked on in stunned silence, as the rocket kept ascending leaving a brilliant trail of light in the sky.
"What was the point of this launch?" Ironwood asked, looking toward Ozpin.
Ozpin smirked, "Let's just say I asked him a favor. He's setting up a system he invented, it's like the CCT, but our enemies will never be able to touch it."
Ironwood looked slightly amazed, "Well let's hope he set's it up quickly." He turned toward Ozpin, "I'll let the higher ups at Atlas know the technology we have now is obsolete. I'll see you later Ozpin. We have more things to discuss, but that can be done later." Ozpin nodded, and Ironwood cleared the room quickly, getting an incoming call from specialist Schnee about the launch.
Ozpin looked up at the trail and smiled lightly, hoping for a better world.
-Time skip-
Team RWBY and Team JNPR were relaxing outside, enjoying the nice weather, it was about two weeks after the major launch Steve underwent, everyone was still in shock and unsure about what was going on.
Suddenly, there was a buzzing on all of their scrolls.
A familiar face appeared on the face of their scrolls, that of Steve wearing a white helmet, with a black background, dotted with lots of white dots, that twinkled like stars. The teams had a sneaking suspicion that those were stars...
"Hello Remnant, My name is Steve, and I have some news for Remnant. The Cross Continental Transmit System was one of the greatest inventions Remnant has ever seen, but now, I have some exciting news. All the data is going through a satellite system orbiting above the planet. The functionality of the system will always work as long as the satellites are orbiting."
Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief.
"He actually went into space..." Jaune said, trailing off as Steve was continuing his speech.
"And to show you the technological achievements of Remnant, I am going to show you one of the most amazing views of all time."
Steve turned the camera around, and everyone around them let out exclamations of shock, Steve said nothing for the next few minutes, as everyone took the image in, still remarkable in it's appearance, no one could possibly imagine the view from such a place. He then turned around and showed a flag, showing all of Remnants continents on one flag, completely static.
"This flag signifies the advancement of faunus and humans everywhere on the planet. You are all survivors, and I hope one day, I might be able to assist in wiping out the menace known as Grimm forever. Thank you for your time, and I am sorry for the brief interruption of the CCT."
The scroll videos cutoff, and a cacophony of sound returned to Beacon Academy, as everyone was completely caught off-guard with that announcement.
-Time skip-
Team RWBY and Dr. Oobleck were looking around the underground portion of Mountain Glenn, looking at all the Grimm around them, suddenly, they heard an explosion, and looked toward the source.
At this point, none of them were surprised when Steve came through the wall.
"So none of you thought to call the guy who mines all the time for this mission?"
Next time on Minecraft Remnant:
"Damn that bastard!"
"We need a place to regroup"
"What do you mean you found an artifact on the moon?!"