Chapter 1: a new journey
Author's notes: I want to start the story with disappointing news. I don't have much writing experience, this was the last school year and I hope my exam results will be good enough. I decided to write this fanfiction because I want to be useful in any way and not to be a burden in life. Also, then I must choose university and my specialization in life and I don't know what I should do in life. There's also the current geo-political situation in my country and there is a possibility that fanfiction. net could be banned if things get completely terrible, though I'm not certain about it. And you probably can already guess my nationality based on the last sentence. And the second language that will be used in this story will definitely show which country I live in. So, if this story gets abandoned you may freely make your own story using my framework. Also, I'm not depressed. I'm just not optimistic.
I decided to write this story because, as I stated, I want to be useful, but there is other reason. NMS fanfiction is almost non-existent, even in my own country. And the ones that exist are long abandoned. So, I decided to make one. To make it even more interesting I decided to make it a crossover with RWBY. I had this idea for a while. Also, I may have philosophical problems with writing and in life in general.
I don't own RWBY nor NMS
And finally, here comes the story
How did existence come to be? How can nothing turn into something? How does life appear? These questions torture those who think of them too much. Are we in computer simulation? Then who made it and why did life appear? Is there a God? Then how did he appear? Are we living in some sort of jail? Could it be that we are all sinners and made deal with the devil and got lives we got because of that? There are too many theories on these questions to count
Perhaps these questions will forever be unanswered.
What is known is that life can be very interesting and very uncertain. VERY interesting and VERY uncertain. There are many stories with each being individual in it's own way. And one of them will soon begin. There can so much outcomes in this story, so much unpredictability. And so, it has begun.
Whiteness. Whiteness is everything he can see at the moment.
"Снова это происходит" (It's happening again) Traveler said to himself. "Сделал ли я верный выбор? Где я окажусь? (Did I make the right choice? Where I will end up?)"
As the whiteness began to disappear, he could see the blue skies, mountains, and dry terrain. And as the whiteness disappeared, he noticed one thing: he is going to roll over because of the hill, that he will soon land on. The height, that he will fall to the hill, thankfully isn't that high: only about 40 centimeters. But it is the hill that would be unpleasant. And so, whiteness disappeared and his unpleasant trip towards flat surface began. Thankfully his trip lasted only 8 seconds.
As he got up, he said to himself: "Либо мой спуск был просто случайностью либо это какая либо другая причина (Either my descent was just an accident or some other reason).
After that remark he began to study the area more. The terrain is rocky, there are barely any plants and where there are some, they have brown, dark colors. There are no animals nearby which is obvious because animals need to feed on something and here plants don't appear to have much calories in them. He then looked up. The sun is in the sky, so that means there's time to move around before visibility becomes an issue. His helmet does have night vision but moving in the daylight is more preferable than during night time
Speaking of tech. He wore an exposit. So was called this piece of equipment from where he comes from. His suit consisted of blue, orange and some other colors. His helmet looked like it was developed in certain nation on this planet. It had a blue visor. The visor offered quite a good of view of what he was seeing. On the right side of the helmet is an antenna for communications. There was another on the left side of his helmet but of lesser quality and being far smaller. There are also tubes of sorts in the lower part of the helmet. Over time he added more modifications to his helmet. One of them being a camera on the right side of the helmet in shape of a cylinder. He also added lights on the "cheeks" of the helmet. He had also a chest piece, pauldrons which were a smaller version of the ones used by a certain race, supply belt with ammo and other things, a backpack, armored gloves, and armored legs and a few more things. if someone saw him, they would definitely say that he is from a certain technologically advanced nation on this planet or that he likes looking cool.
As he was looking around, his Hud delivered new information. First thing was the temperature: the temperature is 45C and his environment protection system could protect him for about 9 hours (9 hours of the planet he started his life not this planet's time). "Чтож, у меня достаточно времени на передвижение но вечером будет холодно так что надо будет найти укрытие (Well, I have enough time to move, but during night it will be cold, so I have to find a shelter) said the Traveler to himself. But he understood that there is a possibility that night doesn't exist on this planet. The next information was that the planet is unknown. That startled him. "Это не хорошо (This is not good). Либо я случайно сюда попал, либо это что-то другое и лучше уж первая альтернатива (I'm either got here by accident or by something else, and better it be the first alternative). But he knew that it was probably the second alternative because of where he was not long ago and considering the recent unpredictable nature of what he interacted with. But he still had hope that this was the first alternative because the first time he interacted with he got send somewhere completely random. So why couldn't it send this time somewhere random too? "Или же мне надо просто найти лучшее соединение (Or I just need to find a better connection)". He paused." Мне надо отдохнуть (I need a rest). Вот, что давление делает (This is what pressure does)". To free his mind for at least a little while from those thoughts he decided to look at the status of his armor, shields and health and other systems. His shields were currently at normal non-combat level, he sat them up before all of this. Since he wasn't expecting going to war, he changed them to the level at which it would only protect him from minor damage. Also keeping shields constantly on full power wasn't the best idea. When it came to health, he expected to be normal and he was right. And then the armor. As he looked from his helmet, he could say it's in normal condition. As he was checking his armor, he saw his rifle and his original pistol strapped to his right and left hip respectfully. He knew that they were all designated "multitools" but it was easier to call them that way. As he was done inspecting his armor, he decided to check his weapons just in case. First was his rifle. It was currently in the "boltcaster" mode. And now he needed a target to check it on. He found his target in a shape of a rock size of a football ball that was higher elevated than the other rocks. But he didn't fire immediately. First, he needed to check the atmosphere to make sure there wasn't anything explosive or something else. He activated the scanner. After a few minutes came the result. 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon and then came other gases. He decided to check this composition with his breathable air because it reminded him of that. It did match almost perfectly. The difference was so tiny that it didn't matter. "Чтож, этот день становится все необычным и необычным (Well, this day is getting more and more unusual)." After that remark and rechecking the atmosphere components he's finally going to get some target practice. He disabled the lock of the rifle (since he has been in many environments in his life, he has gotten a lock that would close the multitool barrel completely in order for multitool to not malfunction from extreme environments) aimed and fired. The result was instant: the rock had a burning hole and the bolt's track was nowhere to be seen becuse of it's speed and vaporazation. The rifle had a few other modes, but he decided not to use them since he already knows that his rifle can fire and one of the functions was damaged before his arrival here. Then he locked and attached the rifle back to his hip and went to his pistol. He switched to "boltcaster" mode found a new target and fired. The result was the same. He then locked and reattached it to his left hip. Unfortunately, the same mode that was damaged in rifle, was damaged in pistol before he got here. Thanks to one incident.
There were still a couple of things to check but he decided to do one other important thing that he now could do because he checked his surroundings and his weaponry. He turned his head left towards the always moving scanner. And the scanner looked to him. He asked the scanner:"Ты еще там? Если да, то кивни если нет. то помаши…эээ… своим сканером (Are you still there? If yes then shake your…ahhha… your scanner". The scanner "nodded". "Надеюсь это правда (I hope it's truth)" said the person to himself. And then more questions came to the scanner. "Ты знаешь где мы? Был ли мой выбор верен? (Do you know where we are? Was my choice correct?). Which was responded by a "no" and then the scanner tried hard to make a sign that said "I don't know"." Второе неизвестно тогда? (then the second is unknown?)" To which the scanner nodded. The other question was"Какие новости еще есть? (What are the other news?) To witch scanner finally managed to say words:"Экзокостюм не синхронизирован с Атласом (Exosuit is not synchronized with Atlas) "The person was now in confusion with hints of panic. He does want to be free and just live his live but he knows that there are too many problems from where he comes from to simply peacefully live.
The entity in the scanner also knew it too well and tried to find an explanation to it. And the entity in the scanner knew that it's presence from far away from there would mean only trouble because of the nature of it's existence. But the scanner did have more knowledge. As they were "arriving" on this planet he noticed that he was losing his computing powers. It knew that there is always a decay but this was like redistributing power. And It managed to find that Atlas was taking away it and doing something with that power. Before He could find what Atlas was doing, they arrived here.
After a minute the person asked about his ship. Expectedly the situation was the same. "Чтож, по крайней мере корабль не украдут (Well, at least my ship won't be stolen). Then he sighed, found a rock to sit on and started talking to his scanner again. "Я часто себя спрашиваю сделал ли я верные выборы и из-за этого как ты знаешь часто себя спрашиваю свою полезность. Из-за всех моих путешествий я уже не знаю, что реально, а что нет. Я надеюсь, что ты меня поймешь Тэл (I'm often question myself if made the right choices and because of that as you know I often question my usefulness. Because of all my travels I don't know what is real and what's not. I hope you understand me Tel.) Tel was a shortened name of Telamon. The person uses the shortened form because it was faster and during his life, he understood that he must watch his words. Then he looked to the skies. He wished he could life a simpler life and not constantly think about philosophy and hard choices.
But he had to focus on the moment. He was in a mountainous terrain with high temperature ,so he needed a better place to be and then continue his self-criticism and philosophical thinking. Also, there was Telamon to take care of. Telamon was there since the beginning and since he had a lot of computing power, he often times is bored. So, Traveler had to explore things and show them to Telamon in order for Telamon not to go insane of boredom.
Traveler stood up, checked other remaining system and his other tech. That tech being his welder, binoculars and a few other things,and they were fine. After all of this he started to move out. His compass in helmet said that there were two magnetic poles. So, he had a standard for him directions: north, south, west and east. But the problem was that he didn't know in which direction better climate is, if it even exists. Each planet has different angles witch cause different climates. But he knew a couple of ways to find better climate. One of them being wind. Wind can contain moisture and the bigger the moisture percentage the closer body of water is. And wind exists here, and the current analysis of atmosphere showed that there is water. But he was in the mountains, so it would be harder to find. He needed to get to higher ground: there isn't mountain blockage there, so it would be easier to find where wind comes from. And so began the long journey towards finding the high ground. "Надеюсь поиск возвышенности не будет слишком длинным (I hope that finding the high ground wouldn't last too long)" said the man in his head. To speed up this process he used his jetpack. The thrusters opened up from his backpack and then came the thrust. Also rocket boots activated. And now he saw more mountains. The highest was north west. So north west it was. He landed back marked his arrival place just in case and moved out.
By the time he got there 2 hours passed. As he got up the place where he could stand on, he started searching from where wind comes from. He found that there are two sources of wind: one from north and one from south. He activated the scanner to analyze the moisture in the wind. In both cases there was roughly the same amount of moisture. Which meant that there are two bodies of water and that he is far away from them. Which meant a long walk towards one of them. He decided to check his time. He was currently on this planet 2 hours 23 minutes and 46 seconds. He then looked at the sun. It was still high in the sky. He then looked at his marker where he got there. After some calculation and use of data he has at the moment, he found out that the sun is moving west. And he got maybe 8 hours of sunlight. Which is quite enough to move around. As he looked to the horizon, he remembered one smart korvax's calculations. Once he was on a planet where there was water, animals, plants and so on. And when he was in his free time his coworker korvax showed him an interesting way of finding out time cycle of a planet. He used a well, distance from the trade hub and an the sun. This method did work perfectly. Then Traveler searched up and found that in many cases time on some planets is calculated that way. You don't need some fancy technology to do all the work, sometimes it can be done by more simple means. But in this case, he couldn't build a well since water would be vaporized, but well could be replaced by other objects and here was no point of distance he knows of here ,excluding his current position and his starting place and those two places aren't the best for calculations. And in this case, technology did all the work faster. "Чтож, порой технологии нужны (Well, sometimes technology is needed) said he to himself.
Then he returned to the present. He needed to choose north or south He also needed a place to rest. He also didn't have infinite supply of food. Water thankfully could be recycled. Which added pressure. He looked at Telamon's scanner and asked "Север или юг? (North or south?)" To which Telamon made a sign "I don't know" with the scanner. So, he had to choose by himself. Traveler is an independent thinker but sometimes he asks for suggestions.
He decided to find shelter first. While he had plenty of time to move around, walking during night tired isn't a good idea. He decided to see from here if he could find some sort of cave. He took his binoculars and started looking. As he was looking, he noted to himself: "Стоило припаять бинокль к шлему (Should've welded the binoculars to the helmet)". The results were expectable: from this height no cave could be seen. He sighed and moved on.
After 5 hours he finally found a cave. The cave, of course, wasn't perfect: having just enough room for him to fit in and be protected from the environment. His height without armor being 1 meter 83 centimeters and with 1 meter 88 centimeters. There were also stalactites. But the cave held stable so rocks wouldn't fall on him. But he decided to do one thing. Not being excited to sleep in this condition he took his welder unlocked it and began getting rid of ceiling stalactites. There was one mode in his weapons that could change terrain a little, but it was damaged in the rifle. He had two damaged modes in rifle and one in pistol.
As he finally "redecorated" his cave, he was setling in there. Despite the removal of stalactites, he would still need to sleep while half-sitting and half-lying. Well at least it was something. He saw that the sun was almost set and saw a shattered moon, which startled him because of possibility of a meteor falling while he was sleeping and then killing him. But he couldn't do much about it, so it's better to sleep. As he was settling in his cave, he hoped that when he would be sleeping, nothing interesting would happen.
As he was about to fall asleep, he looked to Telamon"s scanner and said "Если что-то произойдёт, то сообщи (If something happens, then tell me)" To which Telamon nodded with a scanner.
Traveler still doesn't know which direction to go. Such is life of a Traveler. He will do it tomorrow. But for now, he thinks he should go …
Authors notes: Originally, I planned this chapter to have 10k words but as you can see the amount is far smaller. I will try to update the story, but don't underestimate the power of my laziness. Also, I was asking myself a question. Can the protagonist of NMS be considered an OC or as Traveler or last Traveler in fanfiction? Because everybody has a lot of imagination of what their character is and so each version is far different from other. I also decided to choose a secondary language in this story because why not. Also, the second language can make the story more interesting. I also hope that there won't be too much hate comments because I decided to choose this secondary language and because of my nationality. In other news due to my social isolation, I'm not always able to tell what I mean. Translations of dialogue that I made are in most cases normal but there can be mistakes. The mc looks almost exact in this story as in the photo besides a few differences. As you noticed our duo didn't start in places where other fanfictions start. There will be some alternations to some things in backstories in both universes, but everything will mostly stay the same. Also, the story of measurement of time with a well, sun and other location is real. You can check it out.
So, let's see how far will this story go.