"In your universe maybe but not in others. Anyway, let's not waste any more time, as the first viewing I present to you World War 1!" Kamil said before the screen came to life.
"Wait what's World War 1, is it similar to the great war?" Ironwood asked, he like everyone was curious what this world war 1 was. There has never been an event like that on Remnant so it was obvious that it was from one of those different universes Kamil talked about earlier.
"It's kind of like your great war just much, much worse. It's called World War because nearly all countries in that world took part in it. It happened in my universe on the planet Earth." That got everyone in the audience excited. Truth be told they all wanted to see some of these other universes. General Ironwood and Winter were interested in the military capabilities, while Cinder, Salem and Tyrian wanted to see the destruction that could be caused in these other worlds, and if possible recreate them on Remnant.
"So we are going to watch something from your world? And when you say World War 1 do you mean that there was more of them?" Penny asked having caught on to that piece of information.
"Oh, yeah we had a second one not long after, and that one was even worse." Kamil said with a frown on his face, shocking them all. They couldn't fathom how they could've had two wars that were worse than their own great war.
"But, enough of that, let's actually start watching shall we?" Kamil said before snapping his fingers and making buckets appear in front of all of them.
"Why did you give us all buckets?" Ruby asked. They were all confused and a bit nervous, considering they were about to watch something way worse than their great war and they just got buckets.
"Trust me, you'll need them." Kamil said not easing their worries.
A soothing jazz then started playing. It then showed an African American man sleeping, his face constantly shifting as if he was having a nightmare. A woman placed a hand on his shoulder then he suddenly woke up from the touch. The scene then cut to him waking up but instead of being on his bed, he was seen lying on the muddy ground of a battlefield before being pulled up on his feet by a soldier. All around him, his comrades and enemy troops were killing each other savagely and the landscape itself was hellish. An enemy was seen rushing the man from his left, but he dodged just in time before pulling out his knife and stabbing the enemy in the side, effectively killing him. Throughout the slaughter, the soothing song kept playing in the background.The killing continued. A soldier was smacked in the face by a soldier who was holding his rifle like a bat, before being stabbed through the hand by an enemy. The African American man from before looked around him, still trying to get his bearings straight before the scene cut to a soldier pushing his enemy to the ground before pounding on his face continuously, with soldiers stabbing each other in the background. Around the African American soldier, screams of pain, hatred, and anguish rang loudly, as he held his rifle and stared directly at the audience before the screen cut to black.
Everyone was staring at the screen in shock and horror. Some gagged while others teared up. Ruby covered her face with her hood while Velvet pulled her ears over her eyes not wanting to see the massacre with Yang and Coco comforting them although they weren't doing much better themselves. Neo was clinging onto Roman's arm desperately, the man himself looking at the screen with a disturbed expression. Saphron and Terra were covering Adrian's eyes and ears while trying not to throw up themselves. The General, Winter, Ace Ops, Ozpin and anyone else who experienced war before were staring at the screen with saddened expressions. Taiyang went over to comfort his daughters while Qrow started drinking with Junior doing the same. Even Salem and Cinder were disturbed at what was happening on screen. Mercury, Emerald, Adam, Sienna and Ilia were horrified, sure they've all killed people before but it was always quick and painless not this. The rest of the students were about ready to throw up with some starting to shed tears. Ren and Nora got flashbacks to their village making Ren unknowingly activate his semblance. Tyrian was already crying although his tears were of joy rather than sadness.
Raven and Vernal frowned. Their tribe did horrible things but it never got as brutal as this.
"Dear Lord…" Glynda covered her mouth in shock.
"This is so much worse than the great war." Port said already holding his bucket at the ready.
"Why are they going down so easily? Do they not have their Aura's unlocked? And what about the Grimm?" Oobleck who had been paying more attention asked confused. "And why are they not using their guns?"
"Well, you see, Earth doesn't have Aura, Dust, Semblance's or Grimm." Kamil said making them look at him in shock. "You, really don't know how lucky you have it. You have Aura which prevents you from sustaining tons of injuries, you have Grimm which prevent you from having full-scale wars like this, you have dust which allows you to do a bunch of crazy things, and you have semblances and crazy over the top weapons which make fighting so much easier for you. Unfortunately, we don't have those luxuries so this is what combat looks like, at least in this era." Once they came out of their shock they realized that maybe their world isn't all that bad, at least not compared to Earth. It also made them think about how their world would look like without the Grimm.
"Oh, and the reason they aren't using their guns is because they ran out of ammunition." Kamil added making them think. If they didn't have dust on Earth then how did they make ammunition?
More than 60 million soldiers fought in "The War to End All Wars".
"6-60 Million?! How could you possibly have that many soldiers?! What's the Earth's population?!" were all completely shocked, Remnants population was nowhere near that and those were just the soldiers.
"Well, during WW1 the world population was around 1.7 Billion but right now as of December 5th 2021 it's 7.9 Billion." The people of Remnant just kept getting surprise after surprise, they just couldn't imagine so many people.
"Wow. I guess not having Grimm made the population explode." Jaune said with many people agreeing with him.
"Maybe. But I would rather have the Grimm, at least then we would be focusing on killing them rather than killing each other." Kamil said, and many couldn't hep but agree with him. If it wasn't for the Grimm there would have been more than just one great war.
It ended nothing.
"War never ends anything, it only creates more pain, anger, fear and lust for revenge." Kamil said looking at Ozpin and Salem specifically. They knew why, they were both at fault for causing the war between them, and all the deaths of the people who unknowingly took part in it.
Yet it changed the world forever.
What follows is front line combat.
You are not expected to survive.
"Well, that's comforting." You could feel the sarcasm rolling off of Mercury. It didn't really help ease anyone's nerves.
Emerald slapped the back of his head. "Shut up, Mercury!"
The screen brightened up in the first-person view of a soldier looking down at his weapon, an M1909 Benét-Mercíe light machine gun. His comrade came up to him in a hurry and gave him an order before going back to his position.
"We're surrounded! We have to hold this line!"
The soldier then hefted his LMG and started making his way towards the rest. While he was going, a giant metal vehicle drove past him as well as a few soldiers who were busy dragging the dead and wounded comrades back to safety.
"What is that vehicle?" Pietro asked. The people from Atlas were quite interested, maybe if it proved useful they could replicate it on Remnant. Watts was already taking notes, this could help Salem in her war against Ozpin.
"That, right there is one of the first versions of a tank." Kamil said not trying to give many details, the people of Remnant didn't need any of the weapons we have on Earth.
"And, what is a tank, if I may ask?" Watts asked. If he got some of these tanks maybe he could prove himself to Salem. And maybe somehow "accidentally" injure that bitch Cinder. Actually, it was mostly for the second reason.
"A tank is a heavily armored vehicle with guns on it. Some may also be used to transport small amounts of infantry units." With the way things were going it looked like Ironwood and Watts might cause Remnant's second great war.
If Watts was taking notes that could make weapons against them then they needed to even the playing field a bit. "Winter, could you plea-" James said before being cut off by Winter.
"Already, on it sir." Winter said while furiously taking notes. Kamil sighed before smiling mischievously when an idea formed in his head.
When he finally met up with his allies, some explosions broke out all over the place as mortar shells rained upon them.
"They're coming!", a soldier yelled out.
One of the shells hit the tank and blew it to smithereens.
Nora curled in on herself. Normally she would be excited to see so many explosions, because whenever she caused them no one died. The explosions and the death made her think of what happened in her and Ren's village. Ren saw this and used his semblance to calm her down a bit.
"Ruby-"
"I-It's okay Yang. I-I can handle it. I-I'm a h-huntress in training after all." Ruby said with a watery smile.
As soon as the soldier took position at the window and mounted his LMG, an officer blew his whistle loudly, signaling that the enemy force was now attacking.
"Here they come! Fire at will!", an officer yelled.
The soldier scanned the barren wasteland for targets as enemy infantry started charging his and his comrades' position with deafening war cries. Since the enemy's uniforms helped them blend in with the grim landscape so perfectly, the machine gunner resorted to open fire on anything that was seen moving instead.
"How does he even know who to shoot?! I can't see anything!" Harriet was trying to tell the difference between the soldiers and failing miserably.
"It looks like he's just firing at anything that moves." Pyrrha said making them all dawn looks of horror and look at Kamil for confirmation. "That's because he is."
"Maintain your position!" One of the officers barked.
Switching position, the machine gunner spotted a small group of three infantrymen charging up towards him. He instantly mowed the three men down in a hail of bullets without even properly aiming the gun, just unleashing death by firing from his hip.
"He's not even aiming." The killing was so bad Ruby couldn't even get excited about all the different weapons.
"You, know I'm actually kind of glad that I can't see anything." Fox said not knowing that he would regret saying that out loud.
"Oh, yeah I forgot about that. Here I'll give you your vision back." Kamil said and with a snap of his fingers, Fox could see again.
"Fox, can you see me?" Coco asked. "Yeah. Yeah, I can see you. Thank you, for giving me my vision back." Fox said in gratitude.
"No problem, but just to warn you, some of the things I will be showing in the future will make you wish you were blind. That goes for all of you." That made them all worried. How much worse could it possibly get?
"Hold in place!"
The soldier kept shooting and killing the enemy soldiers that came into his vision. After a while of shooting and reloading, he noticed that his ammo is running dangerously low, while the enemy just keep coming.
"Stand fast!"
The officer's order was overwhelmed by the sounds of battle. Bullets landed near the machine gunner's position, with one almost hitting him as it embedded itself into the ground, kicking up mud. Enemy infantry started flanking his and his comrades' positions while firing their guns wildly. All around him, his comrades were being shot at and killed one by one as they fell down, which made it harder for him to defend his position.
"Hold, men!"
"Why aren't they retreating?! They're being completely overrun! What is that officer doing?!" Jaune shouted with a lot of the students agreeing with him. The more experienced members of the audience knew that retreating wouldn't work.
"Tell me Jaune, what do you think would happen if they retreated?" Kamil asked him almost as if he was challenging him, daring him to say something wrong.
"They would reorganize and counter-attack the enemy." Jaune said with confidence.
"Sounds good on paper, but won't work in the field of battle. If they retreat now the enemy will take their position and gun them down while they're running away. If they stay and fight they will eventually get overrun and the enemy will take the position unless reinforcements arrive. It's a lose-lose situation, they'll die either way. Besides, they're not meant to survive." The adults agreed but the students weren't too happy about that last sentence.
"How could you say something like that?! They're living human beings!" Yang said her eyes turning red from anger.
"They're a means to an end. They're soldiers fighting for things that they don't care about or don't believe in. A lot of them didn't even want to fight but they were forced to. I'm going to tell you something that applies to every war: "The ends justify the means." The truth is that Generals and the people in charge don't care how many people die as long as they win." No one said anything after that, they knew what Kamil said was right even if they didn't want to admit it. The Ace Ops and Winter were curious if Ironwood would do that. The villains were thinking, did they really want to fight for Salem? Did they really believe in what she did? Salem could see that her puppets were deep in thought, she did not like that one bit. Ilia was thinking, could the White Fang be wrong about humans?
After loading his last ammo strip into the LMG, he started firing at as much enemy soldiers as he can before the weapon ran dry. He then switched to his pistol, an M1911, and continued to fire. He started going around looking for another weapon to replace his now useless LMG before spotting an M1907 SL rifle lying next to the corpse of his comrade. Picking it up along with the spare magazines, he ran and took cover behind some sandbags before engaging the enemy.
"Stand fast!", his officer roared again, but the sound from a grenade's explosion completely overwhelmed the order. Regardless, he still stayed firm and his shots still hit the targets.
The soldier kept firing until his rifle ran out of ammo. Before he had the chance to even pull the spent magazine out, a soldier wearing a gas mask and a large metallic backpack while holding a strange pipe made his way towards him.
Cinder didn't know why but she felt something when she saw this soldier.
The soldier, upon seeing the masked individual, suddenly panicked and drew his pistol before dumping all eight rounds towards the masked man. Three bullets hit the metallic backpack and it suddenly burst into flames. The masked man, upon realizing his back is on fire, flailed around while screaming in panic before the backpack exploded, killing him instantly.
Everyone was horrified at the fiery death. Most of the deaths were quick but this was long, painful and the screams, the screams were the worst. All of the students were making use of the buckets provided to them by Kamil. Neptune thought that maybe water wasn't that bad.
Cinder grinned while Emerald, Mercury and Roman shivered in fear. They remembered all the people that Cinder killed the same way that soldier died.
"It's so beautiful." Tyrian was crying tears of joy at all of the destruction and killing on screen.
"W-What kind of soldier is that?" Weiss decided that the cold temperatures of Atlas weren't all that bad.
"That right there was a flame trooper. The thing that he was carrying was a flamethrower, a weapon that can spew fire at medium distances. It was mostly used to clear out bunkers and other defensive positions like the one you just saw on screen." Everyone was glad that flamethrowers didn't exist on Remnant, although they were worried when they saw Winter and Watts taking notes.
However, it seemed like the former machine gunner's luck had run out. Despite backing away from the flame trooper before he exploded, the soldier still got burned quite heavily. Not only that, enemy troops had already overrun their line of defense. Before he could reload any of his weapons, however, two soldiers bayonet charged the man from both sides while yelling their war cries. He immediately drew his shovel and swung it directly into the neck of one of his attacker, killing him instantly, but he couldn't dodge the second one as he drove his bayonet deep into his side and twisted the blade, thus killing the soldier.
Some could be heard crying while others were throwing up at the gruesome kills.
The screen then slowly faded to black before turning back on, only this time the view was from above the soldier who was slowly falling to the ground. White letters then appeared in the center of the screen.
Harvey Nottoway
1889 – 1918
"Rest in peace, Harvey." Ironwood said while saluting the soldiers on screen with Winter and the Ace Ops doing the same.
Qrow, Junior, Roman, Neo and surprisingly Ozpin summoned some alcohol and took a shot for the soldiers.
"We came from all over the world, so many of us thinking this war would be our rite of passage, our great adventure. Let me tell you, it was no adventure."
"That's something many future hunters and huntresses don't realize. They think it'll be an adventure, and then the harsh reality of the situation hits them." Glynda said remembering all the students who thought it would be all fun and games until they went on their first real mission.
The view then flew up higher in the sky before landing at the perspective of a soldier manning a stationary heavy machine gun, a Maxim MG. He then rained fire down upon any enemy soldier that managed to make their way through the trenches below.
"Airship incoming!"
"More coming in on the right!"
It started off quite easy to identify the targets as there weren't that many soldiers to take out but as the number started to rise, it was getting harder and harder to tell who's friend and who's foe.
"I'm guessing that's what an early version of an airship looked like?" Oobleck asked Kamil who nodded in confirmation. "Fascinating."
"Looks like an easy target to take down." Sun thought it looked like a giant balloon that would be easy to blow up.
"You'd be surprised at how durable it actually is." Kamil said.
"Open fire! Keep shooting!"
The soldier didn't care anymore and just shot at everyone down at the trenches. As he was firing, the giant airship from before finally got into position and rained heavy artillery strike down onto his position as well as the surrounding area.
"Shiiiiiiit! Shiiiiiiit!"
He was knocked back when a round landed on his position and destroyed the machine gun he was wielding just now. Quickly turning to his right, the man picked up a pump-action shotgun with a bayonet attached before getting back on his feet.
"How, did he survive that!?" Most of the audience shouted in shock.
"Must have gotten lucky." Raven said. That man must have had the luck of the devil.
"Or unlucky." Roman would have rather gotten blown up by that artillery strike than some of those other weapons they had.
"They're getting through, rally at the church, we have to hold there!", an officer ordered.
Rushing towards the church, or what's left of it, he saw that enemy infantry was pouring inside.
"Watch the windows!", a random soldier yelled.
True to that man's words, as soon as he snapped his attention towards one of the windows, he saw an enemy soldier was in the processing of vaulting over the structure. He pulled the trigger and the his enemy instantly fell to the ground.
"Coming in through the window!"
The number of enemies pushing into the church was growing steadily. Just as he turned around a corner, he met face-to-face with a flame trooper, and he started pumping shells at the threat while at the same time trying to gain as much distance as possible. But before he could get to a safe distance, the flame trooper exploded and the soldier found himself caught in the flame, his uniform was drenched in some of the flammable liquid. The soldier screamed as he tried to put out the flame but to no avail, before eventually succumbing to his horrific death.
Orville Jefferson
1885 – 1918
Everyone cringed at hearing the screams of the soldier they were watching being set on fire. Ruby nearly threw up again but held it down this time.
Cinder didn't really mind the screams, it's not like she hadn't killed people in the same way before.
"What a horrible way to go." Neo showed her scroll to Roman who nodded.
"Hats off to you Jefferson." Roman said taking of his hat to pay respect.
"New killing machines, like the tank, changed the shape of the war overnight. Luckily, they were mostly on our side, mostly."
The perspective then changed to that of one of the two gunners inside a tank.
"Looks like we're finally going to see what these tanks can do." Vernal said with morbid excitement. Kamil thought Winter's and Watts' hands were going to break from all of those notes they were writing down.
"Our boys in the church are overrun, we need to push through!", the tank commander ordered the crew. The tank then started moving towards the front line while staying closely behind another tank.
"PBI are counting on us!"
They drove past their allies who were seen dragging the dead and wounded back to base.
"Use that Emma Gee! Sweep the ground!", the commander ordered.
The tank's gunner swerved his cannon machine gun combo towards the church from before and unleashed a hail of fire towards the soldiers inside, killing everyone including two flame troopers.
"Keep going, driver!"
As they were going, they caught sight of a large squadron of aircraft that flew overhead.
"That's our flyboys up there!", one of the crew cheered before being scolded by his commanding officer. "Keep your eyes on the ground, son!"
"How can he even tell which planes are on his side?" Oscar asked.
"He must know from experience." Winter enlightened.
The tank then stopped next to the lead tank as they both took positions facing the wasteland in front of them.
"They're moving in from the trenches!", the commander said and less than a second later, enemy infantry started pouring out from the trenches in front of them. "Use that machine gun! Mow them down!"
The gunner then opened fire at his targets without a second thought. When the enemy soldiers saw what was cutting down their compatriots left and right, they instantly turned around and ran back to where they came from.
"We've got them on the run! Push on!"
The two tanks then started moving forward again. "Forward! For King and Country!", the tank commander cheered.
The gunner keep on firing at any enemy soldiers he could see. All while he was shooting, his commander cheered again, which further helped boosting the crew's morale. "We'll chase Fritz all the way back to Berlin!"
"I'm guessing that 'Fritz' is their enemy and Berlin is an important city or base." Clover said.
"Yup, Fritz is what the British called the Germans and Berlin is Germany's Capitol." Kamil replied.
"So the Germans are the bad guys?" Ruby asked.
"In WW1 there were no bad guys. I'll show you a video about why the war started after this." Safe to say they were all pretty curious as to what could have started such a terrible war. I wonder how they'll react when they find out it was because some dude got assassinated.
The pair of tanks suddenly stopped in the middle of a clearing for some reason. Swerving the gun around, the gunner saw a German rifleman with his shoulders sagged, walking very slowly while dragging his rifle next to him, totally oblivious to his surroundings. Not far away from him, another soldier was seen sitting down on the ground while curling himself up and holding his head in his hands, as if he was crying.
"What's wrong with them?" Jaune asked, honestly afraid of the answer he would receive.
"Combat stress reaction." Ironwood said sadly.
"Shouldn't have enlisted." Qrow said before taking another shot from his flask.
"Actually there's no guarantee that they enlisted, they may have been forced to join due to conscription." Kamil said which horrified them even more. They couldn't imagine being forced to join a war like this.
Without any hesitation, the gunner pointed the crosshair over to the German walking and gunned down the man, before killing the crying man on the ground shortly after.
"Why- Why w-would he do t-that?!" Ruby asked not even trying to stop the tears now.
"They were still potential enemies." Roman said simply.
"But they weren't fighting anymore!" Yang shouted eyes turning red.
Kamil sighed. "Look, this is war. There are no rules, no laws, no mercy. It's kill or be killed, so tell me why should they spare them." No one really had an answer for that.
The tank's gunner was busy cutting down the retreating soldiers when suddenly his commander yelled. "Incoming!"
Artillery fire then landed at their position. One of the shot managed to hit the other tank as it blew up, killing everyone inside.
"Field gun took her apart!", a crew member yelled. "We're just a big fat target for that thing!"
"Move driver! Go around!", the commander ordered and the tank started going moving. "If you get a clear shot on that blasted field gun you take it!"
The tank then made its way up a small slope before turning left, facing a wall of a long-destroyed house. "Hold on! We're pushing through!". Just after the commander said that, the tank smashed through the wall and crushed some German soldiers at the other side of the wall. After mowing down some enemy soldiers with his machine gun, he spotted the field gun just underneath a makeshift tent with a single soldier operating it.
"Field gun! Take the shot!", a crew member yelled. Switching to his cannon, the gunner fired a single shot at the field gun which created an explosion destroying the weapon.
"Good shot!", his commander complimented. "Let's open a path for our lads!". Another friendly tank emerged from their left. "Move up with the rest of the armor."
The tank kept going deeper and deeper into the barren land void of life, with explosions happened everywhere.
"Stay focused men!". Right after the commander said that, the tank that joined them just now got hit and destroyed, with pieces of steel flying everywhere.
"Push on dammit!", the commander yelled, although there was a slight hint of fear and despair appeared in his voice. Regardless, he tried to stay strong to keep the whole crew's morale high.
"We're almost through. Fire at anything that moves!"
The gunner didn't need to be told twice. He started gunning down any German troopers he could see with both his cannon and machine gun. "We're gonna make it!", a crew member shouted in joy as they were very close to the German line of defense. But their joy was short lived as the tank commander spotted artillery rounds flying down towards their position.
"Shit!", the commander yelled, "Incoming!"
Almost immediately, a shell impacted the tank, making it explode in a bright brilliant fire and sending pieces of metal flying everywhere. Another name then came up on the screen, although it was a bit harder to read because of the explosion in the background.
Bryan Brandt
1885 – 1918
"Wait, I thought there were more people in that tank?" Neptune asked, confused.
"Well, you saw what happened on screen. You honestly think they somehow recovered those bodies? Or identified them? They along with others were lost to history and forgotten. And that's the harsh reality." They all imagined what it would be like for the families of the soldiers and grimaced. That couldn't have been easy for them.
"Instead of adventure we found fear, and in war the only true equalizer is death."
Roman puffed on his cigar. "Ain't that the truth."
The perspective then switched to that of a soldier fighting in the trenches with an Automatico M1918 SMG in his hands. A cloud of green gas slowly made its way towards the soldier as he promptly put on his gas mask and charged into the fight.
"What is that gas?" Scarlet asked.
"I'm not completely sure but I think it's mustard gas. It's a gas that kills you by blistering your throat and lungs."
"Jimmy?" Qrow was scared of the answer he would receive.
"Qrow I can assure you that the Atlas military doesn't have any kinds of poisonous gas." Ironwood assured the huntsman.
All around the soldier, screams, war cries, and the sounds of whistles being blown intensified as he sprayed his weapon at any German soldier he came across. However, his life was cut short when a flame trooper lit him up with a concentrated torrent of raging flame, burning him to death.
William Sumter
1894 – 1918
The view immediately changed to a nearby rifleman. As he was picking off his targets, he saw something in the corner of his eyes.
"Airship coming down!"
True to whoever said that, he turned his head and saw the giant airship that rain fire upon his comrades a while ago was burning intensely and falling nose first into the ground.
They looked at the destruction in fright and awe. "It's like their world is coming to an end." Oobleck said.
The rifleman then snapped back to shooting at his targets. After a while, he finally ran out of ammo but instead of pulling out his pistol, he bayonet charged an enemy and embedded the blade deep into the poor soul's chest. Unbeknownst to him, in doing so he accidentally exposed himself and became an easy target for the enemy. He then received a bullet to the chest, two to his left leg, and one to the head before falling down and dying.
Alfred Carlisle
1892 – 1918
The perspective then switched one more time and everything was being in slow motion. As he was taking aim and firing at the enemy troops in front of him, one German soldier wearing a gas mask came up from his right, spun him towards the man, then hit him in the head with a shovel. The man fell down, and just as the masked German was about to finish him off, explosions happened extremely close to him.
"Artillery!", his comrade shouted before the screen turned black.
The soldier from before then regained his consciousness and got back on his feet, wobbling a bit while doing so. He turned his heads around, seeing bodies of his friends and foes littered everywhere, and the ground and trees were charred or were still burning from the artillery strike just now. Turning to his left, he spotted a German rifleman slowly stood up while holding his rifle. The two stared at each other for a moment before tiredly lifting up their rifles and aimed at each other.
"They push – we push."
"Don't do it, it's not worth it." People were whispering to themselves and hoping that it would finally be over. Except for Tyrian ho was disappointed at the lack of killing.
The faces of both soldiers showed clear hesitation and uncertainty as they both absentmindedly lower their rifles just a tiny bit. The rain that had been pouring throughout the battle then finally stopped as the first rays of the sun appeared.
"Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds-".
The two scarred souls' gazes softened as they further lowered their weapons. The African American soldier gave a light nod and the German soldier pointed his weapon towards the ground, tears began to appear on his eyes as he squinted his eyes a bit to contain the tears.
"-so the world beyond the war glimmers-"
Finally, the African American soldier's shoulders slummed as he held his rifle in his right hand while closing his eyes and sighing tiredly.
"-just out of reach."
"Thank God they didn't kill each other." They were all relieved that the killing finally stopped. Meanwhile Kamil was thinking. If their reactions to this were so bad then what would it be like when he showed them The Holocaust, death camps, etc. The people of Remnant were in for a rough time.
The screen then shown a female warrior pulled out a sword while riding a horse in the middle of a desert.
"The war is the world and the world is the war."
It then cut to soldiers climbing out of their trench and running forward, while a squadron of fighters flew overhead.
"But behind every gunsight is a human being."
A soldier was seen wearing a gas mask and holding a spiky club while charging towards the enemy's position, bullets whizzing passed him.
"We are those people."
An old man wearing a hat with the brim flipped up slowly looked up towards the screen. Then it cut to an armor train slammed through a barricade made with two cars. Various scenes of people participating in the Great War and battles then played out as the narrator continued.
"We are the jaded and we are the naive."
"We are the honorable and the criminal."
"We are the bound-for-legend and we are the lost-to-history."
"We are the knights of the sky, the ghosts in the desert, and the rats in the mud."
"These are our stories."
And the screen finally turned black.
"It's finally over?" Ruby asked shaking.
"Yup, next up is going to be something different than I originally planned. Instead of showing you how WW1 happened I'll show you something educational."
The students were glad to watch something normal while the villains groaned "Well, this will be boring."
"But don't get too excited, just because it's educational doesn't mean that there won't be anything brutal like what you just saw." The students visibly deflated while the villains perked up. "Or not."
"Next up is 'We Become What We Behold'"