Chapter 22

Year 1 Month 2 Day 15

After two months of testing, the Menagerie project has proven successful. Now the 122 legion has to return to battle.

Major Pixi entered the meeting, a bit later than everyone else. Commander Allusis started after she came in.

"Major Pixi, thank you for joining us. As you all know, our project has proven successful. We have made ten more miles of habitable land here. Now that we proved it successful, we are going to be leaving and going to trying to stop the Empire from advancing southward. There is a mountain passage that leads to a series of Cities. We'll have to fight them at the base of Mount Glenn. We've confirmed that they are advancing. If the Black Fang arrive, we'll have a three way fight. There are no civilians in the city, so we all weapons are allowed. Any Questions?"

No one asked any.

"Alright. Major Pixi, get the ship ready. We head out soon."


Pixi saluted. Everyone started to leave the room. Pixi went to the ship. She gathered her division.

"Everyone, we're going to Mount Glenn."

She noticed the people didn't seem to like that.

"Listen. We all know what happened there. We all know that it's one of the few areas left with Grimm. We many have lost people we loved. I understand all of this, but we need to keep the empire from advancing, and Mount Glenn is the perfect choke point."

"It's just… seems so disrespectful." One of the squad captains said.

"Would you rather have the empire move farther south? Make their way into Vacuo, and take out one of our allies?"

"That's not what we want. It's just going to take some time to take it in."

"I know."


Everyone arrived at the ship. Karel walked up to Pixi.

"Are we ready to take off?"

"Yes…"

"Anything wrong?"

"The men don't like going to Mount Glenn. I don't either."

"I know, I know, but it's the most defendable position. If we are to stop the empire from getting past us, we have to stop them there."

"Is everyone going to be on the ground?"

"It has to be like that. This is going to be a sneak attack."

"We'll lift off when ready." Pixi said.

After a few minutes, Commander Pixi lifted off, and started them on their way. They got over Mount Glenn when they got orders.

"Legion 122, land in the forests."

They landed and marched to the destroyed city.


Karel met with the commanders for legions 87 and 204. Pixi gathered captains.

"What state are the bombers in?" Pixi asked

"We lost half at Pare, but since then we've been rebuilding our numbers. We've got enough."

"Good. Even though we may not use them, having them will help us more than not."

Commander Bora stepped up behind Pixi

"Can I borrow you?" She asked

Pixi turned around.

"Of course."


They started walking together. "What is it?"

"We're getting ready for the attack, as you know, but this matter needs a more… womanly touch."

Pixi almost laughed at the thought she was the best person to talk to about this.

"What is it?"

"What colors should we go with?" Bora pulled up a few paint samples.

"What's this for?"

"My wedding. It's going to be in a few months. Karel and I just got finished with what we're going with. Now we've got to deal with the small stuff."

"I don't know. I like light colors, but shouldn't we be more focused on the battle?"

"We have a while. The Empire's a few days off."

"Right, 87 is recon right?"

"Yeah, and they spotted the main force a few days ago. We've got… four days I'd say."

"Then I guess we have time to do this."

Pixi and Bora sat down at a table in a destroyed building looking at colors. "Maybe I should get some other eyes."

Major Violet came up.

"Sir, we've found what you were looking for."

"Good. I'll see you later Pixi."

Pixi went back to doing what she was.


Month 2 Day 17

The signal went out. The Empire was ahead of schedule.

Winter got her squad ready. She counted how many shots she had in her pistol. She gathered her men and stationed them at the front lines. Her troops got ready. Scout droids crossed into the city.

"Wait." She said. Winter felt her sword. The droids looked around, but they didn't see anything. They kept moving until they were surrounded. Winter called out

"Fire!" Everyone came up and fired at the droids. They were destroyed quickly. It was a mistake. Cannon fire was heard and it ripped thought the front lines. The droids were a distraction. The cannon fire hit buildings, causing more rubble to fall. Winter got out of sight with her men.

"We've got to be careful." She said. She looked out the window and saw white fang troops enter the city. They started going into the buildings. Three entered the building Winter was in. Once they got to their level, one of them deployed a personal shield. After the bullets didn't work, the one behind him jumped over. She brought a flute to her mouth. Her two allies covered their ears. One of Winter's troops placed headphones over her ears. He fell to the ground. As Winter rushed forward, she was stopped by the third member. They didn't have a weapon. They hit Winter in pressure points. She fell down to the ground, unable to move.

He took off the head phones. Winter heard the song. It made her feel tired. How could she feel tired on a battlefield.

The one with the shield took off his mask and went down to look at her.

"Commander, we have our target." Winter, with the last of her strength activated the tracker on her. She fell asleep. The three tied her up and dropped a grenade in the middle of Winter's squad.


Karel looked at activated tracker. He saw it was Winter, and knew immediately that something was wrong. He got squad 7.

"Commander?" The captain answered the call.

"I need you to follow Winter Schnee's tracker. Get her back here safely."

The Captain took the devise and saluted.

"You'll have her back soon."


The Captain got his squad together and told them the mission.

"Captain, we're going to have to go through the battle." Said Private Maro. He was the newest member of squad 7. He was a human from Atlus.

"That's what we do Private." Sargent Ross said. He was a human from Vacuo.

"We've got our orders." Corporal Pico said. She was a faunas from Menagerie. She joined before the battle of Menagerie.

"If we're done, let's move out. Masks up everyone." The Captain said.

Maro put up his mask and followed the rest of his squad.


Karel moved up his troops after getting reports of the tanks.

"Major Pixi, it looks like we're going to need those bombers."

"Already on it sir." Karel saw the bombers flying overhead. They dropped their payload then flew back.

"Major, we're picking up signals. Looks like they were ready for us."

"Send in the fighters." She said.

The Pilots jumped in the ships and launched. They had to do some maneuvers to avoid the ships coming right at them. The squad was named after a legend. The mythical Lightning birds that destroyed a city ruled by a wicked leader, that's what the squad was named after.

"Lightning birds, prepare for battle." Pixi said.

"You got it." Said L.B leader


Maro looked up and saw the ships fighting. He saw the explosions as the ships started to crash to the ground.

"Keep moving Private." Pico said.

They got to where Winter was stationed and saw the battle raging. Their forces were holding back the empire. The captain ordered everyone to get ready to fight.

"We need to get past the enemy. If we see them, we're going to have to take them out. We can't go down the center of the town." To add an exclamation that point, a mortar round landed in the middle of the ground. "Because that would be us. We've got to use the buildings. Sargent, what do you see?"

Sargent Ross looked and saw an opening.

"Follow me." He said. Squad 7 followed him avoiding most of the enemy fire. An imperial ran towards their direction, and stopped. He didn't last long. Ross took care of him, then tossed him back into the main road. Squad 7 got behind enemy lines through a hole in the walls. Private Maro got behind cover.

"I don't think the enemy noticed."

"If they did we'd be under a hailstorm of bullets. That was the easy part private. Get back up." Pico said.

Private Lisa took a sniping position. She was a human female from Vale. She's a huntress in training, from the year below team RWBY.

The Captain took note of everyone.

"Sergeant Reggie, stay up here with Private Lisa. Everyone else with me."


The three white fang troops who took Winter were stopped. A man appeared out of the shadows.

It was Reolin Brans. He got out four Kunai.

"Looks like my mistress doesn't want you to kill Winter just yet. So I have to kill you now."

"Black Fang, right?"

"Yeah." Two more black fang troops appeared. Reolin threw the Kunai, then rushed towards them.

The first one created the shield and blocked the Kunai.

Winter woke up, and saw people fighting around her. She found a Kunai on the ground. Her hands were bound in rope. She started to cut the rope before anyone noticed. She noticed six alliance troops coming up as she finished cutting the ropes. She noticed they were squad 7. White Fang and Black Fang alike stopped fighting and turned to the Alliance troops. More Black Fang troops appeared from the shadows, with White Fang matching them. Six verses six verses Seven for Winter.

The Captain handed Winter a pistol.

"The rest of us are around making sure we have a clear way back." The Captain said.

"You're not going anywhere." The White Fang leader said. She made sure her gloves were on secure. The tips of the fingers were made of Dust.

The Black Fang troops got out their weapons.

Winter glanced back and forth.

She lifted the gun up and fired. It was blocked.

Corporal Pico was watching for the Captain to come back. He sent back the signal that they found her. She sent the message to the Commander that they found Winter, and they got ready for the fight to get her back.

She looked to where the signal came from and saw that there were more people than expected. She decided that it would be best if they got Winter out of there before the rest of the empire arrived. She got the smoke shots ready but before she fired, she got found. She ducked behind a tree, which got shot immediately. She pulled out a shock grenade and tossed it. She pulled out a pistol and took a quick look. Only one of them were a droid. She sighed, the fired her first shot. She was pinned down.

Winter used her Glyphs to make the enemy slow down. She went behind him, and shot him in the head. His body started to dissipate. He was Black Fang. He dropped a sword. It wasn't the type she used, but beggars can't be choosers. She grabbed it and spun around. It was caught by the woman with the dust gloves. She crushed the blade in her hand.

"Luckily for you, we need you alive. You'll get us quite a few troops back." She said. Her glove came down and scratched Winter. Her face was freezing. Her hand met her face and knew that it was ice dust. The blood was freezing to her face. Winter had little more than a broken knife to fight with. She jumped back and used her glyph to make an enemy she fought. Out came a large Sphinx Grimm. It roared and charged forward. She jumped on its back. She fired her last bullets, then used the pistol as a club like weapon. She got blasted off the Sphinx by a stray fighter shot. She was flung into the rock wall.


L.B 10 was going to crash. He knew it, but he couldn't eject. He was falling towards a twist in the rock face. It was going to be a choke point for the battle. He saw fighting on it. He saw imperials, so he fired. An imperial ship was behind him. It hit him, blowing up the cockpit, sending out the wings of the ships flying towards the battle. Another bolt hit where Winter was, killing the Sphinx. The wing hit the ground, Private Maro.

Maro got hit by a burning wing of the Atlesian fighter. He was slammed into the rock wall, with metal puncturing him. Sargent Ross came rushing over.

"I'm a goner." Maro said. Blood covered his face.

"You're squad 7. We beat death time and time again."

"Not this time." He raised his pistol and fired. A white Fang troop dropped to the ground.

"Thanks." Ross said.

"Give these to my mother." He coughed up blood. "Tell her I went down with Honor."

He handed Ross his dog tags. He faded, and Ross closed his eyes.

"You got it." Ross stood up and found the nearest enemy. He punched them, then slammed them in the ground. He fired six rounds in their head.

"Get Winter. We need to get out of here!" The Captain said.

Ross moved forward, with a Sargent Violette Next to him. They rushed and got to Winter. She was holding onto her leg.

"I think it's broken."

"Then we have to careful." Ross said.

Violette got her Crossbow out, and fired it at the ground. There was a wall of Ice created.

"Looks like that's all we were needed for." Reolin disappeared, but not before killing two white fang troops.

"Call the Commander. We need a drop ship to get us." Ross called out.

"I think that's wise." The Captain said.

Karel got the message. He authorized a dropship to get them, then went back to fighting. The Empire was starting to slow.


Karel was getting reports that the Grimm were fighting the Empire. He wondered why Salem wanted to attack the Empire.

Pico fired her last bullet. She was bleeding hard. She lost the use of her left arm. She was surrounded. She breathed heavily, and went for her explosives, but saw a ship coming. It shot at the imperials pinning her down, and landed. It was Squad 7. She got up and got on the ship. She took her seat and almost fell asleep. Eventually they got all of squad 7, and got back to the base with Winter with them.

Karel fought off the last push. Soon, the battle was over, and the empire had to retreat.

"Where's Winter?" He asked.

"With the rest of Squad 7, in the infirmary."

Karel turned off his lightsaber and went to the infirmary. He saw Squad 7 hurt. He even saw one of them dead. It was the first death in Squad 7 in the War so far. Winter lost her whole squad. She just found out.

"Commander…" she looked away.

"I understand. You don't have to say anything."

Sargent Ross stood up.

"Sir, Private Maro gave me his dog tags to give to his mother."

"Than that will be your next mission. You all did well out there. We fought the Empire back. We proved once again that they won't always win."

"We don't need motivating speeches sir. We need time. We've gone back to back from one assignment to another. We're all exhausted." The captain said.

Karel sighed.

"I know. This isn't fair. I've put you all in to too much danger so often. I'll try to get us an easy station."

"No sir. We haven't seen our families in so long. We need to see them."

Karel shook his head.

"I see. Well then. We'll take one month off. The War will still be raging at that point. I may even have the perfect post for this team… the Hot Springs of Vytal are to die for." Karel said

"Thanks Commander." The Captain saluted.

Karel left and met up with Bora.

"What did you find?"

"The Black Fang was here. They were fighting for us to keep Winter."

"What's Salem's plan?" Karel asked.


Month 2 Day 18

The 122 legion arrived in Vale. The Men were authorized to go home for a month, then come back. Karel got back home and saw Ruby first, by accident.

"Ruby, how're you doing?" Karel asked.

"Good… Have you seen an old lady? She's got visors, a bit on the shorter side?"

"I just got back. Why are you looking for someone?"

"Because I'm supposed to meet her around here. She said she was going to train me how to use my eyes, just like my mom."

"No clue."

"Oh, yeah, master Roni asked me to tell you that they want to see you in the temple."

"Did she say what for?"

"No, but that was recently. I don't know." Ruby looked at her scroll and sighed.

"She just cancelled our lesson. She said she's got some eye troubles. So, you want to go to the temple now?"

"Sure, why not." Karel said.


Ruby and Karel walked together to the Jedi Temple.

"I'll wait for you in the Library. I found this cool book."

"Alright."

Karel opened the door and saw a young girl.

"Hello masters." He said with a bow.

"Hello Jedi Allusis." The Grandmaster said.

"I was asked to come."

"Yes, you were. It involves this girl who's with you. She was found shortly after the death of Professor Ozpin, and has been let into the Jedi order. She has meditated with us, and we have come to a single conclusion. You are who the force has called to be this girl's Jedi master." The Grandmaster said.

Karel was taken aback for a moment.

"Are you sure?"

"Would you like to confirm it?" Roni asked.

Karel closed his eyes, and saw her life story. Her name was Rouge. He opened his eyes and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"I have seen it as well." Karel looked at Rouge. She looked at him, and he saw a vision of her in the future. She was a fox Faunus, with red hair. She smiled at him, and he smiled back. She was fourteen, or fifteen. She must have gotten some jedi Robes from that robe maker, since she wasn't in regular robes. They looked much more comfortable.

"Well, that went better than I though." Roni said

"If the Force wills it, it happens. I've learned that much." Karel said.

"I'm Rouge, though you probably already knew that."

"Yeah, but that just means that we got the pleasantries out of the way. Come, I've got a friend outside who's waiting to find out what this was all about. Do you have a lightsaber?"

"No…" She said

"Well… I guess we're going to have to fix that at some point soon. Don't worry, you'll fit right in with my group of friends. Karel led her out of the chamber room.


Ruby came around and took a look at Rouge.

"Who's this?" Ruby asked.

"She'll be my Padawan. Her name is Rouge."

Ruby looked shocked.

"You have a padawan?"

"Yeah, I guess." Karel said while putting his hand behind his head.

"There's no guess about it. We're stuck together." Rouge said.

"Yeah… Come on, you need to meet Bora." Karel said.

Karel got to his house and opened the Door. Bora was starting a workout when He walked through.

"What'd the council call you for?" She asked.

Rouge stepped into the house. When she saw Bora she made a slight bow.

"I've got a new padawan."

Author's Notes: Got that one down. I wanted to focus more on the troops for this battle. I rarely do anything with them.

I'm going to make this one short. Keep reading my stuff please.

May the Force Be with You

-DragonZlayerx12