Volume 1

{Keoth's perspective}

Ugh my head.

That plane crash did me no favors.

Pretty sure some piece of it sent me to the shadow realm.

As I opened my eyes through the blur I saw a light over me, I honestly thought I was in heaven until I heard some nurses talking outside my room, something about a 'cute fox Faunus' I'll assume they're talking about someone else… Wait, did they say faunus… Am I in RWBY?

With my vision clearing I saw I was in a hospital room when one of those nurses came in. She saw I was awake and came up to me.

"Good morning," She greeted "You've been out for a while. You're lucky to have survived out there in the tundra."

The tundra? "What?" I asked her.

She tilted her head as she grabbed a clipboard from the desk to my left "You don't remember? You were out in the tundra for what appears to be at least an hour or more. You're lucky to only have a few frostbite marks."

I looked down at my hand as she wrote something down. Sure enough my hand was covered in black spots on the tips of my fingers.

"Don't worry, they're just second degree so there isn't any permanent damage, but you're going to have to rehabilitate." She assured me. "Anyway the doctor will be in here soon." She said walking to the door. "He'll fill you in on what happened. As well as the one of the Ace Operatives that saw you face down in the snow." She then left, leaving myself to my thoughts.

I sat up and looked out the window, sure enough, I noticed I was in Atlas, I saw the Schnee manor from where I was. It's really that big? Someone is compensating for something. I hope that later on I can do something about when Jauque Schnee decides to join Watts. Well I guess I won't be moving for a while, Might have to ask a few questions.


[Days later]

Well I'm out of rehab, and I also discovered I was that 'cute fanus' that those nurses were talking about.

I found out I had fox ears.

I would have preferred a tail but I'll take what I can get.

General Ironwood had asked me a few questions.

And I'll be honest I have no idea if my friends are even here.

I did hear rumors of Schnee Dust products getting stolen so I think I know when in the story I am.

But anyway, the questions Ironwood asked me were as followed: "Where do you come from?" He asked.

Now I know he's not to be trusted, volume 7 showed us that in spades since his semblance makes it so that he can shut his humanity off so-to-speak. But I've never been good at winging it so I'll have to answer honestly "I'm from a world called Earth."

He stroked his double chin "Interesting, and can you tell me what this 'Earth' was like?"

I then told him about some basics of our world's history, leaving out some details like corrupt politicians and the fact that the rich ruled the government for a good few years. And making sure to put emphasis on 'no creatures of darkness roaming our world.'

He chuckled at me and asked "So how did you make it here then?"

I shrugged, I don't wanna tell him that I died. So I'll just pretend I don't know.

He looked at Winter who was writing something on a clip-board.

He then turned back to me "Well then Keoth, you'll need to learn your way around this world. How would you feel to join our academy?"

Winter looked at him in confusion "Sir, if I may?" She asked.

"Granted" Ironwood answered.

She looked at me coldly "He claims to be from a different world, so he has no background to go on. Not to mention he does not look capable of fighting, nor does he look ready for the creatures we face here. Are you sure he's capable of entering the academy?"

Ok that hurt a lot. She thinks I'm not capable of entering the huntsman academies? Oh I have never wanted to prove someone so wrong.

Ironwood shook his head at Winter. "Winter, it is our job to make sure the world is safe from the creatures of grimm. And one of those ways is to make sure to train those who seem capable."

Winter then turned back to me "Do you have your aura unlocked?" She asked.

I scratched the back of my neck "See in my world, we don't use Aura to defend ourselves, we have bullet proof vests for that."

She rolled her eyes back to Ironwood. And he was quick to shut down her thoughts. "Don't worry, we'll teach you to the best of our abilities. But first, we'll need to get you a weapon and something other than a hospital gown for you."

Oh right, they took my clothes. "Please tell me they just stored my clothes." I deadpanned.

Ironwood chuckled and said "The nurses told me they're bringing them up shortly, they needed to take care of the scorch marks on your clothing."

Right… the plane tore itself into an inferno. I nearly forgot about that. Next time I see Justin, I'll owe him some snacks. Because he was right to be afraid of this plane.

"Now if you'll excuse us, we'll be in the lobby, awaiting you to come down." Ironwood said as he and Winter walked out of the hospital room.


Volume 2

Well I've got my weapon, I honestly would have prefered a sword and a gun but this is handy too, an M1 Garand with a maul on the stock.

Sure it makes aiming a bitch, but Ironwood suggested it so I took it. Besides, aiming is overrated anyway.

He gave me some lessons on how to unlock my aura and within a month or so I unlocked it as well as learned how to fight with my weapon.

So he then got me to work on my semblance, and that didn't take too long. Mostly because my semblance digs into my raging.

I will not go into detail but it's definitely powerful. But how I unlocked it is a different story, for now though I will say that it was during training with my team.


Present day

{Keoth's perspective}

"...And that brings up to now. With Ironwood telling me to join you guys on this mission." I said wrapping up my story.

There were some parts I had to leave out because Justin and Aaron told me a while back when we were guarding the entrance that they haven't told them where they truly come from, so I'll keep that illusion just for their sake.

Ruby was looking at me with interest, probably due to my weapon. Weiss seemed impressed, Blake and Yang smiled at me, that made my heart skip a beat, and JNPR was listening with intense concentration.

Jaune then said "So you all came from the same town that burnt down huh ?"

I looked at Justin for a lifeline.

He nodded and answered "Yep, though not a whole lot of us remember the town, I remember the name but it's been wiped off the map. So it's better not to go searching for it."

Aaron nodded after he said that. Aaron then added "Besides, it wasn't the best place, our local governor was trying to make it a new kingdom because it 'looked well protected enough to be one' as he put it. And look where that ended." He said as he exhaspertly slammed both his hands to his sides.

Justin got up and said "Right, well I'm feeling much better, my legs don't feel like jelly anymore. Thank you darlin', thank you Weiss, and thank you Jaune."

Jocelyn gave a half smile, Weiss had gotten up to help Justin and said, "You are welcome Achilles."

And Jaune gave a small chuckle as Pyrrha rubbed his back. Honestly they're adorable.

Justin then walked to the door "Well we ain't waiting on me." He then pushed the wooden box out of the door and was greeted by the evening sun. "Let's get going, now that we have an additional party member, it should be fine."

{Justin/Achilles' perspective}

Well that's good to know I suppose. But that does raise a few questions, more specifically to whatever god brought all of us here.

And his choice in placement for all of us. But that will be when I eventually come face to face with them.

For now, we have robots to disassemble forcefully.

Once we made it to the beach, Ruby tried to establish communications to no avail.

I looked off into the distance and saw a tower. "Hey maybe that will help us up ahead." I mused.

Ruby looked where I was looking and nodded "That sounds like a plan, let's go guys!"

As we all walked down the beach I heard a familiar metal clanking.

I called out "Dodge!" and everyone moved out of the area as a red robot with a two bladed spear sword slashed where I was.

And then another, and another.

Soon we were surrounded

Protect Merlot One of them said as the others repeated.

I sighed "This is gonna be like the droids from Clone Wars isn't it?" I accidentally said out loud.

Ruby looked at me confused "What's that?" She asked.

I quickly answered "An obscure show that is no longer available."

I could hear Aaron mumble under his breath "Dumbass."

{Going Under- Evanescence}

Rose drew her blades. "Hey less talking, more fighting." She demanded.

I rolled my eyes as I drew my blade "Fine, but don't blame me if you start falling back in love with me." I chuckled.

"More like you will." Rose retorted as she walked up to one of the robots like a supermodel. She stared down a robot, there was a moment of stillness before it attacked as if to confirm she was a threat.

Rose blocked it with one of her blades and decapitated with one of her other blades of Rose Thorns. She then transformed the other into its crossbow form and loaded a bolt quickly and shot it at a group of reinforcements.

It then exploded causing the tunnel they were coming out of to collapse. "That should hold them for now." She stated before transforming her crossbow back to blade form.

She then proceeded to cut down one right after the other.

She kicked one towards me and I kicked it back and made it look like a tennis match.

To which she eventually stabbed through it and threw the bot into the water.

Meanwhile the rest of them were holding them off to the best of our abilities.

Jaune and Pyrrha doing their Arkos thing.

I slashed quite a few of the bots to pieces.

I lost track of Aaron and the others after a while.

I guess it was due to my blood- or should I say oillust… no that doesn't sound any better.

Anyway, so while all of that was going on Joce was being an absolute badass. Which slightly turned me on, not gonna lie. She slashed one after another in a flurry of slashes and bolts.

Eventually the waves died down only to have those robots that Jocelyn blocked off earlier to explode through like Kool Aid man.

And Rose charged at them and hacked and slashed her way through.

With robotic limbs flying everywhere and I was mesmerized. I've never seen her train before. So seeing her with her own fighting style… it puts me in a trance.

The way she maneuvers through the attacks, the way she slashes through, the way that she smiles as she dismembers robot after robot. It's just like a dance to her, which she did take dance lessons so I would suppose that has something to do with it.

But besides that. She managed to clear all of the robots and walked up to me with a sinister smile.

She then closed my jaw and said "You'll attract flies." She then walked past me.

I looked back at my team to see that they were just as shocked by her display.

Neo was signing something to Moon, I can only assume it was something sassy because his response was "Well you do have more combat experience there Neo."

Ruby was still pouty about this whole thing. I patted her head and reminded her "We need to get to those towers, remember?"

She nodded "Yeah yeah, let's go." I nodded and looked ahead of the coast to see more robots… great.

I unsheathed Porfyrós Drákos and struck my gauntlet to ignite it. I then slashed towards the horde of robots which cleared a path but also alerted them to our presence.

Everyone readied their weapons as we hacked and slashed our way to the towers. The horde died down after we got there which was perfect. I walked up to one of the terminals and pressed a button. Which allowed us to hear a very static-y Oobleck

"Doctor, Are you there?" I asked.

Students! I'm so glad to hear from you! I thought you had all died. Glad I don't have to have that parent-teacher conference. Regardless, whatever you did keep doing! I might be able to pinpoint where you are.

I nodded as everyone else got on to the path to the second tower. I looked down to see Ruby and Neo in a tug-of-war with Aaron as the rope.

Welp better break this up. I jumped down and walked up to Ruby. I then unwrapped her arms around Aaron, picked her up by the waist, and put her down away from Aaron, I then patted her head.

"Thanks man." Aaron said.

I turned to him and replied. "Any time mate."

We then proceeded down the path to the next one dispatching robot after robot as well as a few grimm.

And soon enough we reached the second. I pushed a button as Keoth collected a relic.

Very good, I'm establishing better communications with you- Oobleck said before he stopped abruptly What's that? The then asked seemingly no one in particular Oh no, Students stop- He was then cut off.

"Doctor? You there?" I asked to have no response.

I looked at Aaron and Keoth and they both nodded. Seems we're on the same page as to what may be going on.

Ruby then asked "What's going on?"

I then pulled out my scroll, no reception, someone is messing with our frequency, And I think I know who it is. "Something, or someone has interrupted our call to our good doctor. I think we need to get to that third one to re-establish communications."

Aaron shot me a warning look that said 'Are you sure we wanna do that?'

I nodded at him and continued "Otherwise we may not know where we are on Remnant. So if everyone wants to quit questioning my decisions let's go."

My team exchanged uneasy looks. Nonetheless we marched onto the last tower while also hacking and slashing our way through the robots and grimm. We got there, activated the button and then were greeted by Dr Merlot. "Ah that's better. Sorry, the reception here is always so bad. I hope you're enjoying your stay on the island. You're the first visitors I've had in… Well you are the first."

And like that, the plot thickens.

Honestly Merlot was more or less a footnote in the grand scheme of things.

However, I do wonder what Salem would think about someone trying to control her grimm.

Probably murder… yeah definitely murder.

"What happened to Oobleck?" Blake asked.

Merlot chuckled "I cut him off. Oh where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself. My name's-"

"Dr Merlot, scientist and mad genius, yada yada." I interrupted him, stealing his thunder.

"Hmph, you need to teach that man some manners, it's not polite to interrupt someone you know." Merlot said condescendingly. "No matter, soon you and your friends are going to fall. I am thrilled you're all here, you may be what I need for a very important… experiment."

Suddenly grimm appeared left right and center as Merlot said "Though I am curious as to who that little cutie is next to the messy man in a beanie."

Aaron took exception to that "HEY! At least I don't hide behind a monitor and fail to insult someone!" He retorted as he slashed a grimm to pieces.

"Oh but it's so much more fun to see your reactions. And now for my test, this should be no problem for students such as yourselves. This should be an easy test." Merlot Retorted.

I honestly do not like the sound of that. And sure enough, grimm. I looked at everyone and nodded. I then drew my blade and pointed it at a grimm "Let's do this team!"

Everyone battle cried and charged at the grimm.

Aaron and I are facing off against some alpha creeps and beowolfs.

Meanwhile Ruby, Yang, Blake and Weiss were all doing their team attack, eventually one of them called my name.

"Achilles!" Weiss yelled.

"What?!" I yelled back.

"Icedragon!" She yelled back.

I nodded and used a grimm as a footstool like in Smash Brothers and leaped over to Weiss as she made an ice circle, I then slashed at it with my flame attack and made a smoke screen allowing us for easy hits on the grimm.

Once the mist died down we heard Ozpin over our intercom he started "I thought you had perished in the Mountain Glenn disaster, a tragedy you played no small part in."

It's good for the lore to know the cause behind Mountain Glenn, Hell Lusus Naturae pretty much explains all of his plans.

"So he was one of the driving factors in Mountain Glenn. That explains how his 'totally not compensating for anything' tower was mostly untouched." I said out loud by accident.

"YOU WATCH YOUR TONGUE, OR ELSE I'LL HAVE IT REMOVED" Merlot said to me. "As for you Oz, t'was a small speed bump on the superhighway of scientific progress. You couldn't possibly imagine the ramifications of my latest research." He then said to Ozpin

I simply turned to Aaron and said "For a guy who claims to be a 'genius' that line was rather dumb." I said.

Aaron nodded in agreement. "Yeah he could have phrased that better."

Soon more grimm started appearing as Merlot said "Alright, I've had enough of this guy. Time to let the grimm do their work."

I twirled my blade unimpressed "Wow, I figured you would have sent some mutated grimm or something. Tsk Tsk" I said with a shrug.

Aaron looked at me with wide eyes "Are you trying to get us killed?!" he asked.

I looked back at him and winked.

He then hung his arms "Yep, he's trying to get us killed…"

Fortunately for him it seems Merlot is unable to hear us so I think we're good. In any case we fought through a second wave of grimm and robots where Merlot chimed in.

"You're calling me the reckless one? Sending students to their execution like this? He taunted

"Hey at least we go outside." I sassed.

"QUIT PISSING OFF THE MAD SCIENTIST!" Aaron yelled.

I gave him a sly smirk "But it's so fun to piss him off."

Ozpin seemed to be in shocked silence before saying "Well… they're more than a match for your mindless robots. What are you doing here is wrong, Merlot."

Another wave, more grimm to slay. Honestly this is just getting annoying having waves instead of a proper boss, like a nevermore or something would be more interesting than this.

Anyway blah blah hack, slash, shot, etc etc. Honestly I could go into detail but at this point it's getting repetitive. Just know we kicked absolute ass and Merlot said something about making the world a better place and other generic Mad Scientist trope bs. Yes I sassed him a lot, and he threatened to cut my tongue out. Oz told us to move on after we finished. And so we did.


Author's note

Well this was a trial and a half. It's hard to write a boss battle that is literally waves of enemies. With that said though sorry that I couldn't deliver an action packed boss battle, at the time of writing this I was running out of time and had been working five days in a row so yeah, Regardless, I will be taking a little hiatus during the week of Christmas and New Years so that I have more time to think about what I want to write. Writer's block is the worst. Anyway thank you for reading


Reviewer session:

Ghost in the trees: Aw thanks man, glad I could warm your heart. I have to say that is quite the username you got there, it reminds me of when my grandma's ghost traveled to mine and my sister's tree we swung on.