RWBBY: Bare Necessities
Volume 1
Chapter 1: Red, White, Black, Blue, Yellow (part 1)
Legends...
Stories scattered through time.
Man, born from dust, was strong, wise, and resourceful.
But an inevitable darkness-creatures of destruction-creatures of Grimm-
set their sight on man and all of his creations.
When all seemed lost, and it seemed man's brief existence might return to dust.
the smallest spark of hope brought forth a great light.
Once born from dust, man used his passion and ingenuity to discover a new power, appropriately called Dust.
Man thus lit their way through darkness and restored civilization.
Upon the golden sun in an clear blue sky over the tall grass and trees, In front of Summer's Gravestone is a young girl with a cloak billowing petals in the breeze. Hands clasped and hood up, Ruby Rose stands over the white stone memorial.
Ruby: "Hey, Listen Mom! Yang graduated from Signal academy and get accepted into Beacon Academy! Isn't that great? (looks down at the inscription: "Summer Rose – Thus Kindly I Scatter") Sis always said she wanted to be a Huntress, and it's really happening! (lowering her head a bit) Which is a little frustrating too. Of course I'm happy for her, but I want to be a Huntress too, and my grades at Signal aren't good. (she quickly shakes it off, and takes out her inactive weapon Crescent Rose) What can I do to be more like her? Anyway, when it comes to handling weapons, I know I'm as good as anyone else. I just gotta work harder! Someday, I'll fight to protect people from the Grimm just like you did, Mom!"
After giving a confident wink, Ruby than suddenly heard Yang's motorcycle Bumblebee approaching the gravesite. Ruby's older sister Yang Xiao Long soon stops to park Bumblebee, getting off, and taking off her helmet and sunglasses.
Ruby: "Oh! Yang!" (running towards her older sister, with great excitement, as she and Yang share a hug together.)
Yang: "What were you talking to Mom about?"
Ruby: "About your acceptance, I'm so happy!"
Yang: "Is that right? Thanks!" (smiling as she looks at their mother's gravestone, giving it a wink)
Meanwhile, in Atlas, The heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, Weiss Schnee was preparing herself with her rapier Myrtenaster outside of her mansion, as the family's butler Klein Sieben approaches her.
Klein: "The arrangements have been made, Mistress Weiss."
Weiss: "Shall we go, Klein?"
Klein: "Yes." (answering with a bow)
Weiss and Klein walked in the hallway, and walked by the family portrait. Clockwise they are Jacques Schnee, Weiss, Whitley, Winter, and Mrs. Schnee. Mrs. Schnee has a stern look on her face, Winter and Weiss are frowning, Whitley is smiling, and Jacques has a neutral expression. Weiss looked outside to see her mother Mother Willow Schnee, sitting on a chair facing only a fountain, drinking a cup of red wine.
Weiss: "You're drinking in daytime again, Mother?" (she said quietly)
Weiss and Klein soon see Weiss's youngest brother Whitley Schnee, standing in one of the dark shadows of the hallway.
Whitley: "Are you ready, Weiss?"
Weiss: "Whitley, do you think you're the one testing me?"
Whitley: "I'm worried about you. A test this dangerous isn't normal. I'm sure you would agree, sister?"
Weiss: "No. This is hardly enough to intimidate me. (she and Klein walk pass Whitley, as she than said to him) Shut up and watch."
Weiss and Klein were both approaching the end of the hallway, towards the door to the Schnee Training Room, as Whitley soon said to himself.
Whitley: "I've always watched you, my fearless, foolish sisters."
Weiss and Klein finally stepped in the training room, as the door slams shut behind them. Weiss steps forward towards the center of the stadium. From of the two corners of the stadium balcony, Weiss's oldest sister Winter Schnee and their father Jacque Schnee are going to observe Weiss's performance for her test. Weiss than bowed to them both.
Weiss: "I am very pleased to see you. Father. Elder sister. This is the final test, right?"
Jacque: "This is utterly pointless."
Winter: "Wasn't this your choice, Father? Weiss is prepared to do it.'
Whitley than arrived, standing next to his father, and also watching Weiss's final test.
Weiss: "Well, then, please unleash the Grimm."
Jacque: "Fine, but the instant I decide you can't do this, you fail. And that will be the end of your selfish behavior."
Weiss: "Understood."
Weiss turns to Klein, as he approaches a lever. Weiss gives him a confident nod, and Klein pulls the lever. a platform floor suddenly began to lit up, as it lowers down to a lower floor. Weiss placed her hand on the hilt of Myrtenaster, as the platform was rising up again, only for an massive suit of armor wielding a huge sword to now be on it, an Arma Gigas. Weiss now draws out her weapon, ready to fight.
The fight starts as the Arma Gigas stands up and swings its massive sword down at Weiss, which she narrowly evades by back-flipping out of the way. Weiss then draws her rapier, Myrtenaster, and darts forward, landing a hit onto the Armor before briefly twirling and landing.
The Arma Gigas swings again, but Weiss darts behind her opponent, landing several slashes on her foe as she spins. The Arma Gigas responds by swinging its sword horizontally at her, but she manages to block the attack, bringing Myrtenaster up just in time. She is, however, unable to prevent herself from being sent sliding back.
Upon recovering from the attack, Weiss looks up just in time to see her foe in the air preparing to strike at her. As the Grimm swings, she quickly dodges, but it persists in its attack, sending her tumbling back. With white energy gathered on her fingertips, Weiss makes a downward motion to the ground, and a white glyph appears underneath her.
She then dashes forward with inhuman speed, preventing the Arma Gigas from landing a blow, and seemingly teleports around it several times with the assistance of her glyphs, striking it many times in the process. However, when she had Myrtenaster glowing red, deflecting a heavy blow from the sword, she was about to strike at it, but is caught off-guard by the subsequent punch, which sends her flying and landed on the floor, wounded.
Whitley: "Aww..." (said smugly)
Jacque: "Now you understand, correct? We're finished here."
Winter: "No, It isn't over."
Weiss then stands back up and faces the Arma Gigas, blood flowing down the left side of her face. She then assumes her combat stance.
Elsewhere, in the Forever fall Forest, Blake Belladonna and Bloo Belladonna both siting on a rock outcrop watching red leaves drift down in the Forest together.
Adam Taurus walks up to them.
Adam: "Blake, Bloo, it's time."
She slowly turns to Bloo, greatly concerned, than toward Adam.
Blake: "Okay."
The trio started running through the forest, with Bloo barely catching up with the other two.
Blake: "Adam, are we really doing this, alone?"
Adam: "The only guards will be Atlas toys. The Human fear the White Fang too much to face us. But... Are you both scared?"
Bloo: "Well... This is my first mission together."
Blake: "Do you think I'm the type to scare easily?"
Adam: "I'm very aware of your bravery."
Blake and Bloo doesn't response to Adam's complement, both wanting focus this mission. They've reach a cliff, and stopped by the edge of to see a train rushing through the forest along some tracks.
Adam: "That's the Company's train. The entire cargo of Dust is ours."
Adam, Blake, Bloo slide down the hill and jump onto the top of the train, digging their weapons into the roof as they land. Upon boarding it the three jump onto another car, Adam slashes at a hatch before lifting it as they enter a car full of AK-130 Androids.
Adam: "Well, this is going to get pretty messy."
The Androids activate and circle the trio.
Blake: "Try not to have too much fun." (looks to Bloo) "You sure you can handle this Bloo?"
Bloo: (Takes a deep breath) "There's a first time for everything."
An Android activates the guns on its arms.
Android: UNABLE TO COMFORM I.D. PLEASE STATE AFFILIATION AND PURPOSE.
Adam pulls the trigger on Blush, firing Wilt out of the sheath into the head of the robot. He then dashes forward, catching the sword mid-air before slashing the robot, cutting it clean from neck to under its left shoulder as Adam resheaths Wilt.
Adam: "We're Thieves."
The remaining robots switch their arms to a blade mode and begin charging at Adam, Blake, and Bloo. One ran up to Bloo, but quiclky kept the two bladed arms back by Polaris Ursae in it's hatchet form. Testing each other's strength, but Bloo managed to push and toss of the robot, colliding with another. Bloo than suddenly had his axeblades engulfed in blue flames, than ran to leap upside down to their heads to soon both be decapitated.
Two come up behind Blake, but she jumps backwards and uses Gambol Shroud to split them both at the chest. She leaps forward to cover Adam's back as he slices at several advancing robots. Adam uses Blush to fire at the robots as Blake backflips to evade another robot.
They've cut down several more robots before one switches its arms into a minigun mode. It fires rapidly at Adam, Blake, and Bloo but Adam is able to deflect the bullets that get too close. After Adam sheathes Wilt, Blake charges towards the robot and it resumes firing. She is able to deflect the bullets and gets close enough to decapitate the robot. She immediately slices down another robot and cuts off another's legs. She rapidly unsheathes Gambol Shroud to begin dual wielding the sheath and the katana before striking another robot, then leaps into the air and slams it into the floor.
Blake and Bloo charges towards the remaining robots and begins cutting them down rapidly, slicing off one's arm and shoving her sword through another, while Bloo hacking and slicing through some as well with his heated axeblades. Blake reaches the last robot in the train car, knocks it into the air, then proceeds to slice it several times before landing on the floor. The robot is still in the air when Adam leaps up and kicks the robot out the door of that train car and onto the flatcar ahead.
Back to Weiss Schnee, who is on her knees, alone in a snowy courtyard, facing an ornate fountain that features the Schnee snowflake. The full moon remains broken, snow gently falling down, and a practically cloudless sky... Winter is not pleased as she's approaching her sister.
Winter: "Your Aura can only take a direct attack once or twice at the most. The moment you're hit, you're finished. The powerless return to dust. That is the law of this world."
Winter leaves Weiss after saying this to her. This was Weiss's memory as a drop of blood falls to the floor of the Schnee Training room, as Weiss still assumes her combat stance. The Armas Gigas proceeds to charge at Weiss, she quickly changes to another slot on Myrtenaster's revolver and stabs the blade into the ground, which sends a wave of ice forward. This freezes one of the Grimm's feet in place, immobilizing it. Weiss than turns the revolver to the red Dust and releases the Dust onto her rapier's blade. The Arma Gigas swinged his sword at her, only for Weiss to quickly jump and landed onto the flat side of the sword, with Weiss now charging towards it's hand. Klein was barly able to dodge the sword, which stuck at a wall with the Arma Giga's hand still held onto.
The Arma Giga become now furious and start to charge at Weiss once more. Only Weiss had created a glyph on the ground, as the Arma Gigas, stepped onto it, and causes the glyph on the ground to explode, launching her foe into the air. Weiss then sends six beams of blue energy at the Grimm, locking it in midair. With one final glyph-augmented leap into the air, Myrtenaster glows with white markings along its blade and Weiss creates yet another glyph, which she uses to dash at the Arma Gigas, cutting right through it. As the Grimm falls through the air, some sort of white energy is emitted from its joints and helm. Weiss lands in a crouch, but stands up as the suit of armor hits the ground and shatters into ice shards.
Klein: "Mistress Weiss, You did it!"
Weiss stood back up and looked at her father.
Weiss: "You will accept my enrollment in Beacon Academy, won't you?"
Jacque was furious and snarled to see that Weiss had succeeded in her final test. Winter turns to him.
Winter: "Father..."
Jacque: "Have it your way!"
Jacque than walked away, while Whitley just grinned. Weiss turned Klein, and smiled and she than basked in the bright sunshine from one of the windows. She relieved and happy to be have been strong enough to go to soon go to Vale.
Onboard the Schnee Dust Company train, A number of other robots run towards them from the other end of the flatcar.
Adam hits a couple of robots up into the air, Blake and Bloo leaps up towards them to slice them up, and Adam partly unsheathes Wilt to knock them away with the hilt. Blake switches Gambol Shroud to its kusarigama-pistol form, throws the sickle part past one of the robots, and pulls on the ribbon while using the pistol shot to launch the blade back towards her, cutting the robot in half. Bloo also switches Polaris Ursaeto it's Uzi-gun form, and started shooting down the robot of father distance, kicking some off the car, falling into trees.
Adam jumps forward and kicks the upper half of the robot away while it is falling as Blake swings her sickle around to cut down another robot. Blake jumps in the air and swings the sickle blade around in a spherical motion several times using its gunfire, cutting down three more robots and getting the sickle wrapped around the neck of a fourth. Adam leaps forward and slices the fourth robot as Blake fires off the pistol, pulling the robot's upper half into the air.
Rushing forward, Adam slices up six more robots, causing five of them to explode. Blake charges up from behind, cuts off the sixth robot's head, and then knocks another robot up into the air using Gambol Shroud's katana form. She lunges forward as Adam takes down another robot, using the kusarigama form of Gambol Shroud to perform a continuous pinwheel attack that launches two other robots into the air. Adam then fires a shot from Blush to send one of the robots flying back.
Adam jumps up and slices the other robot further up into the air as two robots approaching from behind are kicked into the air by Blake. The three robots are then sliced repeatedly by Wilt, keeping them in the air until Blake jumps up and slices through all three, with one going further up into the air with her. Blake kicks the robot down, while Adam slices another as it is falling then shoots it with Blush as it falls behind him, and the three enter into a second freight car.
Adam opens a box and examines the contents inside, seeing many vials containing blue dust.
Adam: "Perfect. We'll run the train into the ravine."
Blake: "It isn't on autopilot. There are human workers riding, too."
Adam: (examining the Dust) "Just human. They aren't Faunus like us."
Blake: (looking disheartened behind Adam) "Right..."
Bloo turns his head around and sees a Spider Droid climbing down from the ceiling of the car.
Bloo: "Guys?" (getting their attention)
Blake (anxiously): "Adam."
The Spider Droid swiftly attacks, using its quartet of cannons to shoot at Adam, who either deflects or dodges every shot, using Wilt and Blush. Blake then lunges forward, launching her own attack, only to be head-butted by the massive robot.
Bloo: "Blake!"
As the Spider Droid advances upon her, Adam and Bloo suddenly unleashes a flurry of blows, each only momentarily stunning his enemy. When they've finishes their attacks, Adam takes a moment to glance over his shoulder at Blake. The Droid then kicks Adam away, distracts him with a barrage of cannon fire before moving to crush Blake beneath one of its massive feet. However, Bloo quickly moves in, grabbing Blake and fleeing to the other end of the car. After he sets her down,
Blake: "We need to get out of here!"
Bloo: "I second that motion!"
The Droid quickly combines its cannons to unleash a massive energy barrage, which sends the trio crashing through a metal bulkhead, and out onto a flatbed car. the Droid begins to close the gap between the three.
Adam: "Blake, Bloo, Buy me some time!"
Blake: "But That's- Are you sure?"
Adam: "I just need a second. Do it!"
As Blake and Bloo rushes the Spider, while Blake more ahead than her brother, it continuously launches barrages of energy at her, which she swiftly dodges. She then uses Gambol Shroud to divert one cannon, while embedding the blade into the thick armor, allowing her to launch herself far into the air, before swiftly coming back down with two furious slashes from her weapon. She then equips both the sheath and katana form of Gambol, as Bloo manages to finally reach Blake before they've start attacking two leg joints and the head in rapid succession, forcing the Spider Droid to stumble. This gives Blake an opportunity to slam her katana into and through the base of the Droid's skull and rapidly open fire, causing no effects other than slight disorientation.
As Blake and Bloo regroups with Adam, the Droid combines its cannons again.
Adam: "Move!"
Just in time for the barrage to be launched at Adam, who absorbs all of the energy fired at him using his weapon's blade. Adam laughs as his body's red colorings glow intensely, along with a sinister laugh. The Droid leaps at Adam, and when it comes mere inches from impact, Adam unleashes all of his energy in one blow, causing the Spider to slowly recoil and disintegrate.
The droid fires a powerful beam. Adam catches the beam with Wilt. As his body starts to glow, the droid jumps toward him. Adam chuckles then slashes out with his sword, disintegrating the droid and even affecting the trees in the Red Forest causing their leaves to fly into the air.
As Adam walks back towards Blake and Bloo, he finds them both on a separate train car standing near the coupler between the cars. As he reaches out to her...
Blake: "Goodbye, Adam."
She severs the coupler and lets the released cars slow down as she lets the rest of the train continue en-route, as they leave.
Adam: "Blake! Are you betraying me... Betraying the White Fang? Both of you?"
Blake: "We have to find our own path."
Bloo: "Adam. It's important that White Fang... ...Not lower itself to bloodshed."
As the train was getting farther and farther away from Adam and released cars, disappearing from their sights now.
Bloo: "Blake... I'm so sorry that-"
Blake: (Blake suddenly hugged him tightly, trying to hold back her tears) "I was scared, Bloo. So scared. Scared of what Adam was becoming. You getting hurt. Leaving him and White Fang. What Adam would have done next. But you were so brave. To come all this way for me. Staying with me. Even leaving White Fang with me."
Bloo (surprised, but hugged her back): "Yeah, well... I just could never see through Sienna's and Adam's lends, but you... I just... Didn't want to lose to that path, they've took. You're my big sister. No matter what. But right now, there's no going back to those ways anymore. So why not start this new path together, and see where it'll take us both!"
Blake: (looking at her brother, she wipes a tear from her eye, nodding) "Of course... Baby brother."
Blake and Bloo soon both throws out their White Fang flags as a sign that they are no longer part of the organization.
Later as the released cars finally comes to a complete halt, more members of the White Fang start to appear, some running on the top of the cars, rendezvousing with Adam.
White Fang Soldier: "Should we follow Blake and Bloo?"
Adam: "Leave them be. Once she and that traitor learns more about the world, She'll know we're in the right."
End of Part 1
Author Notes
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While working on this first chapter, I've made some changes from what I've originally wrote down on the summery. I've later though of Bloo being trained by Ghira and Sienna Khan as well, Bloo would be able to befriend Sienna and she would the one who sent him to accompany Adam and Blake later on, instead him somehow finding way to Vale all on his own. Adam would be surprised that Sienna sent Bloo, as while he does not despise or hate Bloo, but find him too soft and compassionate towards humans, often bulling him at times but not too much in front of Blake, like Gaston would really. Sienna Khan would also play are larger in the future, mostly in Vol 4 and 5, I'm considering having Bloo some reach the White Fang Headquarters to save Sienna Khan from her canon death.
Also considering the wonderland theory for Vol 9 Bloo would be considered the Bandersnatch creature.