{Redacted} Notice.
To the Atlas base in Argus. We have received your information of the events occurring in Argus, and for the most part would like to congratulate you for the defense of the city. As for the information pertaining to the culprit, we have gotten the downloaded information from it as you said, including the schematics. Unfortunately, with the events occurring here in Atlas with countless missing individuals, along with the election and embargo, it has been decided that for now, we will not pick up the parts remaining of Ganeesh.
Instead, we will simply ask you to keep the remaining body safe while we look through the memories of this unknown machine. Thank you for your time.
Traveling to other worlds is by no means an easy feat.
Not just because one needed the knowledge and knowing of the other countless worlds itself, but also the scientific or magical ability to understand them. Even if one is aware of the other adjacent worlds beyond the known universe, it didn't exactly matter if you had no way of getting there. You'd need coordinates, something to help anchor yourself to the other world, energy.
Even someone such as Van Kleiss, who knew of the other worlds, couldn't reach them unless he had something to aid him. In this case, a portal. There were other methods though aside from the crude tech Van Kleiss made, which damages it's surroundings. Such as the Portal Scissors for one matter, or perhaps a transcendent being who could create doorways to other realms, without damaging the multiverse.
One such being, is about to do such a thing.
"Now then," Sammael turned to the person nearby him. "Do you have what I need?"
"I do." While not exactly inside his ship, speaking to him through an hologram is none other than Wile E Coyote himself, who sent information to Sammael. "This should tell you where that blundering fool Ganeesh is at. Though I question how you will even get to him. Unless you have a dimensional portal yourself."
"Nothing of that sort, and quite frankly, I'd rather not bother with the workings of other worlds unless I have to." Not that Sammael hated the other realms beyond his own. It was just that he'd rather focus on his goals in this world before other realms that had their own headaches. "Still, I have my own way."
"Sure." Wile E. Coyote didn't really care much about what Sammael would do. Just that the money Sammael sent him will be perfect for buying parts for his own plans. Which reminded him of something. "Out of curiosity, I've been meaning to ask you something."
"Do go ahead." Sammael said as he looked at the information Wile E. Coyote sent him, nodding that everything seemed to be in order.
"I'm uncertain if you've heard, since you've been rather busy. However, on the news I saw a certain…Grimm of sorts being shown." Sammael chuckled.
"Ah yes, the Hound." Sammael knew what the mobian wanted now. "No, it isn't mine if that's what you're asking."
"...I see." It seems Wile E. Coyote had some plans that involved the Hound. That man had always been interested in many things to satisfy his curiosity, especially when it came to things that defied common sense. A faunus/Grimm hybrid was certain to have caught his attention. Along with others probably, since while some might say it's just a Grimm possessing a man, in truth it's just an unsightly hybrid.
'Would be interesting to see how she did that.' Sammael thought of the other dimensional Fallen, slightly pondering how she even managed it. 'But for now, I have other business.' Sammael then focused back on the task at hand. "In any thanks, the money has been sent to you. Our business is done until next time."
"Of course." Like that, the conversation is over with Sammael then looking forward. His hands were emitting mass power as he concentrated a bit. To break through and enter another dimension in fact.
'According to Coyote, he managed to use a drone to analyze the remaining residue energy the portal left behind before it closed.' With that same energy, Sammael can then use it and his own power to open a portal to where Ganeesh is at. However, it would have to be a quick trip. Opening a portal to another world naturally took massive amounts of energy, with Sammael himself risking to drain himself if he overdid it. So he may as well make this trip quick.
With that in mind, the Fallen then released his power a few meters away from himself, and from there a portal formed. Now then, time to see an old colleague.
"I see. So all of you managed to delay that troublesome thing. Even…the faunus?" While Ruby didn't like what this lady is referring to Blake, she said nothing to ensure everything went well.
"Yep." Ruby nodded as she and the others were with her. Even that old lady who grinned at that Cordovin lady with the former snarling when she looked in her direction. "We all faced him and beat him down, while Oscar here informed you."
"Yeah." Oscar nods. "I figured why not have a massive robot help with the strong but smaller one."
"And a good plan that was kid." Qrow grinned. "It was like seeing a person rip off the head of an action figure. Hahaha!" The look on Ganeesh's face. Worth it. "What's happening to the bastard anyway." Qrow stepped forward. "Seeing as we were the ones who helped ensure that thing didn't hurt anybody, surely you can tell us this much, right."
Cordovin growled at the Huntsmen, however couldn't refute his words either. "Currently his body is being put into custody until Atlas can pick it up."
"Hm, what for exactly?" Jaune asked.
"Isn't it obvious leader!" Nora then laughed. "They wanna make more of Ganeesh!"
"Woah, what?" Yang didn't feel so sure about that. "Isn't that dangerous. I mean, we saw how unstable that guy was."
"And stupid." The old lady chuckled, making the Atlas commander grind her teeth.
"I'll have you know, the might of Atlas are doing this for the betterment of Remnant." Blake didn't seem convinced.
"More like to get a new toy." She smirked with Weiss doing the same.
"Regardless, contrary to what you think, we are doing what we can to safely secure the rogue machine." Placing the head in a room while ensuring the body is a great distance away and analyzing for any nasty surprises. "Besides, we're also checking to see just who made it. Our tech mods already attempting to gather the information in his memory storage."
"Hm. Personally, I don't think Atlas needs something dangerous like that." Qrow said allowed, having little respect for Atlas and for good reason. "But, I admit, getting information from that nut job is a good thing."
"It's unlikely Atlas made it, or an official company anyway." Ren agreed. "Seeing who made Ganeesh could be helpful." His eyes narrowed. "Especially with what he…knows." Everyone on the in of what Ren said understood. The Relics.
While the heroes were glad that Atlas would at least try to see who made Ganeesh, and maybe stop who made him, there's another problem. Mainly, if others aside from those like them knew about the Relics and the war with Salem. Something Ganeesh probably knew, and that Cordovin and her group will soon learn. Nothing good can come of that, as others gaining such knowledge could either help out, or cause problems.
Oscar stayed silent, though inside he spoke to Ozpin. "So then, what should we do about this?"
"Uncertain really. Quite honestly, it would be bad if more people learned of Salem's existence. However, it's not as if we could just barge in and explain why they shouldn't get the downloaded information." One could say the best thing to do is bust in and stop the reviewing. However, that'd make them enemies of Atlas and probably cause future problems.
Before a decision could be made though, suddenly Cordovin received an alert.
"Hm?" She then grabbed her scroll and checked to see who's calling her. "What is-" A yell then came out. One that everyone could hear.
"Cordovin! An intruder is here! T-They're taking the-" Suddenly the line cut off, and an explosion is heard.
Boom!
One that made a hole in the Atlas base that everyone could see.
"What!?" Cordovin shouted while the Atlas personnel on the ground ran to get their weapons or evacuate the personnel who couldn't fight. As for Ruby and the rest, they instantly took out their weapons preparing for the worst. An agent of Salem? Ganesh somehow getting back up again? Just what caused this?! Whatever it is, it didn't stop Ruby from making her move.
"Ruby!" Weiss then shouted as she saw her partner turn into numerous petals and going towards the hole in the building. Weiss following her along with a transformed Qrow while the rest entered the building despite Cordovin's attempts to stop them. Ruby then reverted to her normal form and used Crescent Rose to fire her way up thanks to the Gravity Dust all the way to where the hole was.
She then landed like so, to see just what was occurring. Pondering if maybe Ganeesh exploded, like those shows that dissipate the villain robot doing that just out of spite. So when Ruby landed with her weapon ready, it became a surprise when she saw not Ganeesh making some final move, but someone else.
"Oh. What's this." Someone that gave the feeling of darkness as her silver eyes met sinister red. One who grinned, commenting, "Those…are some interesting eyes."
Moments ago…
"Alright then, everything is set." An Atlas worker said as they typed down on the computer. The system is isolated, so anything that could be harmful will only affect the servers here and nothing else in the base.
"Excellent. In that case, Rojo, do it." A man then called out to a woman inside the room who nodded. She then turned, where she then saw none other than the machine that caused so much damage.
Ganesh.
"Get me out of here, trash! I'll kill you! Kill you!" Still screaming and denying he lost, the head of the robot could only shout and complain at them. In a way, he is certainly amazing that he could still function, and had a clear personality in him. However, right now all he is is a beaten foe that could do nothing to harm them.
'How can this be!' Ganesh thought as these lowly humans began connecting him to their computers and cables, knowing that they would try and take everything from him. 'How could I have lost?! I'm someone that could easily take on Rank 4 Huntsmen. I've killed countless Grimm! Beaten down anyone who ever tried to go against me. So how? How?!'
It just made no sense at all. If anything, those bastards who fought him played a dirty trick. Getting help from some massive machine. Pathetic cheaters. They couldn't win at all, so they went to get help showing how pathetic they are.
"Alright then sir, the cords are in place and I believe I found the hard drive or whatever it is." The woman Rojo then said as she made the last connections. "This should allow us to see what this thing knows and more." Ganesh gritted his teeth. If he could, he would smack this insolent bitch with his mighty fists.
But he can't. His body had been torn apart, and taken away elsewhere leaving just his head. The people who made this body, were quite advanced for their time. Having made this body to heal up. However, that healing had limits, such as limb removal. If Ganeesh put the limb on the spot where it was ripped, it would heal even if it took time and repair itself. However, it's not as if this body could remake new limbs from nowhere.
Even worse though, is that Ganeesh didn't have any internal system defense to stop these people from poking around his memory storage unit. After all, when this body had been made, it's not as if there were actual hackers back then. As such, there is very little cyber defenses inside his systems. Not that it was a problem as the only way to affect his systems is through connecting any attempts physically as the body had no wireless connections.
'But with my current state!' Suddenly, Ganesh then felt it. The humans at last now checking his memories with Ganeesh unable to stop it at all. Only screaming to get them to stop for their actions.
"Man, this thing is loud." A man said while shaking his head. "Maybe we can mute him or something from here."
"Maybe." Another person agreed. "But for now, I have to say this thing seems to have so many memories. Like…years of it."
"Oh! Look at this though." Another person excitedly said, her eyes growing wide. "There seems to be schematics for the machine's design." Many instantly looked amazed as they pulled up the design, showing the blueprints and everything.
"Send this to Atlas, we'll transfer the memory to them later." The person in charge said. "It seems this thing has a lot of stuff inside it." So many things that could be useful. Whoever made this machine, must have been a genius. To find more, everyone inside kept on observing and copying all the data Ganeesh had, who felt more and more of his memories being observed and all he kept secret.
"Damn it." Ganesh says with anger. "What else could go wrong?"
"Many things, actually." Then, a voice came from nowhere. One Ganeesh sadly knew as he then felt fear.
"No." He whispered. "It can't be."
"But it is." The voice said with a clear joyful tone, as suddenly a portal opened up with everyone behind the glass windows all shocked.
"The hell!" The leader then said as the Atlas personnel watched as someone came out. Someone that looked…inhumane.
"Hello Ganeesh." Sammael grinned. "I must say, you have clearly seen better days."
"S-Sammael." Ganesh yelps, where if he had a body, he would have jumped back. However, an idea then came into mind in that instant. "Hu..H-Help me out!" Ganesh then yelled out. "T-these worthless scum have taken me down without honor! And are observing my memories which could end badly for all of us!" Ganesh figured he could get Sammael to save him. Have him then capture his body again, and later on, give some excuse and later escape him somehow to get the Staff of Creation another time.
"If you fell for their tricks, then that just makes you the pathetic one." Sammael however, wasn't one to offer such mercy. Let alone to someone he knew was treacherous. "Honestly, I can already see what happened here." Sammael loomed over the broken head of Ganeesh with a sadistic grin. "You came here, to this other world, thinking you could abandon the mission I gave you and likely decided to make a name for yourself here. Believing you could escape me while ruling with that body of yours."
That had been Ganeesh's mistake. There's no denying the body Ganeesh had stolen was a powerful one. With it, Ganesh accomplished many things when he was under Sammael's command back then, and defeated many foes.
"However, let me guess." Sammael ignored the shouts of the humans on the other side of the window. Dealing with them later, as he placed a hand on Ganeesh's head. "You found resistance here. People you looked down on, thinking you could defeat them because you were oh so powerful. Only for the tables to have clearly been turned on you, as it is now."
Ganesh said nothing, however everything Sammael said is true. Ganesh had been too overconfident in his ability to beat others. Truthfully, the other reason Sammael never bothered with him is because in the current age, Ganesh would lose to the Huntsmen to the present, who have trained themselves to face those stronger than them. Whereas for Ganeesh, he never once bothered to truly improve himself.
'And now he's been compromised.' The one thing Sammael could agree on with Ganeesh, is that it would be dangerous for these people to look any further inside Ganeesh. As such, with a raise of his hand, Sammael then sent a red energy beam towards everyone who had been downloading all the information Ganeesh had.
"!" Realizing this, the Atlas personnel in charge quickly turned, knowing they were about to die. Instead of running though, he just pushed a simple button down. The blueprints on Ganeesh's body, quickly sent to Atlas along with other weapons found in his system. Where the man also had all the memory they could download, sent to another server in the building.
BOOM!
Then like that, everyone in the room was killed and a hole made outside. Sammael then gave a slight sigh, knowing the humans probably got some decent information since Sammael didn't know how long they'd been downloading what Ganeesh knew. Still, at the very least they won't be taking anymore. Though that did leave just one matter at hand.
"Now then," Sammael's eyes glowed towards Ganeesh who winced. "I'm on a schedule here, and because of you this world probably has information they shouldn't have because of your arrogance. As such, you need to pay the price."
"H-Hold on Sammael! Wait! Give me another chance!" Ganesh started shouting in fear. Knowing things won't end well for him if this keeps going on. "I-I can still help. Just get my body back, and I can resume working for you! I-I even have good knowledge of this world."
A hand slammed onto his forehead, with Ganeesh then feeling himself growing into despair as those red eyes looked down at him. As if he were nothing but a bug. "Yes. Knowledge." Sammael's grin became much wider. "I think I'll gladly take that."
A Grimm then appeared behind Sammael. A Seer. One that had for some reason, a USB drive in one of it's tentacles which launched itself at Ganeesh and connected to him.
"Gahhhhhh!" Where in an instant the USB drive as it hacked into Ganeesh's memory systems began taking away everything Ganeesh had and knew. The former human turned machine screaming in agony as he began losing so much within him. Another connector on the Seer then flew towards a section of the wall where it then began downloading the entity that is Ganeesh to send him elsewhere so that the humans can't question him further.
As for Sammael, he would observe the information later while satisfied that the humans won't be able to ask Ganeesh any questions he might give answers to. By the end, all they'll have is an empty head and nothing more. Although as the Seer kept on copying,the Fallen then looked out the hole and felt two things. The first, is that there seemed to be…many Grimm around. As for the second, well, he felt a dormant yet great energy heading his way.
Where suddenly, a mass of red rose petals came in and reformed into a human. A human girl in fact had silver eyes. One his own red eyes stared deeply into as the girl herself looked at him.
"Oh. What's this." While he couldn't get a complete grasp of everything, Sammael suddenly knew what those eyes were. Or at the very least, understood that those eyes held a power very similar to the power of another certain man. "Those…are some interesting eyes." A power that he assumed only the Gunslinger had, and those chosen by the humans paragon.
The Seer then came to him, having everything it needed while also informing Sammael that he needed to go now. Otherwise he'll be stuck in this dimension for months until he could recharge the energy needed to open another portal back to his world. 'What a shame.'
Sammael then turned around, slightly disappointed he couldn't stay further to get a good analysis of the girl. Plus, this world felt…more negative for some reason. 'I suppose Ganeesh's memories will help me out if he really did learn anything about this place. Plus…'
"Hold it! Wait!" As the girl then tried to move towards him, Sammael gave one last look at the girl. He never met her at all before. Let aside even knowing her. Yet…
"Ah." Sammael smirked. "Now I remember." Remembering the time he and Moloch went into the cave of the renegade Fallen, Umbra, who had gathered all sorts of things. But the only thing that survived, had been a small seemingly useless piece of paper showing just the silhouettes of four women and the words R-W-B-Y. A silhouette that matched the girl's own form.
Sammael stepped through the portal alongside his Seer, but had one last thought before he left this world and back to his own. 'Those magi drew her and three others for a good reason. Who knows, maybe we'll meet again.'
Then like that, the Fallen of another world left the planet Remnant. Leaving just Ruby herself as she could only ponder, just who had that been.
GrimmFall: Troll Hunters had Sammael and Moloch find a paper with the words RWBY and their picture and nothing more. Guess it has relevance now since Sammael just saw Ruby, and is right about his instinct that they may meet again. Either way, things kinda ended on a good note.
While some people did die sadly, Sammael just left and nothing more than that. Though now he has all the knowledge that Ganeesh knows, and as such that means when he has time, he'll review it and know just what Remnant is. Meaning he'll know about the Relics and the army of Grimm that he wouldn't mind having.
On the brighter side, Atlas will now have the schematics of Ganeesh himself and other weapons that jerk knew of. While also learning that they themselves aren't alone, with Ruby and the others learning as well as we continue onto the next chapter here in Remnant.
Oh. As for the fate of Ganeesh, we'll…let's just say he got exactly what he deserves.
"So can you believe it. Some guy killed off everyone inside the upper quarters." A man told a woman who gave a sorrowful look.
"I know. I knew a few people there. That sucks." She responded.
"On the bright side, it seems we got some neat stuff from that wacko machine." The man then tried to change the mood. "Though, it seems he's off or something. Some guy saying the storage is now all wiped."
"Huh. Weird. Maybe the bastard wiped himself." The two then stopped, where there is a bathroom door for the men.
"I'll be right back." The man told his friend. "Just need to use the john."
"Sure, sure. Whatever." The woman said as the man entered the restroom. Where he then opened a stall which showed a rather unusual toilet.
'Oh yeah.' The man then remembered. 'Some new toilet made by Atlas with some techy stuff. Prototypes if I recall.' It could tell the news, and had some AI thing that spoke. Though the toilets were discontinued because too many people found them weird. Still, a toilet is a toilet.
As the pants fell the toilet, which had a camera, saw it all and the lights on it blinked. To the man, it was just some tech thing that probably did something. Like he would know, he didn't read the mannel for this crud.
However, unknown to everyone the basic AI of the toilet had been replaced by something else.
"No." Something that finally woke up, and realized he was trapped and unable to escape. Karma at last coming for all his crimes. "Nooooo!" With the sentience of someone who would now spend the rest of his days forced to see butts and other stuff for as long as the systems ran. Unable to do anything but provide 'service' while silently screaming with nobody to hear at all.
A well deserved fate for the former threat known as Ganeesh.