Chapter 2

Ruby is unconscious at some sort of hospital at Rooter Teeth after destroying a large section of what used to be the Harrower-class dreadnought. Thanks to her, the town is saved, thanks to some mysterious power of the black box. Ruby slowly opens her eyes and her vision clearing as she sees Dr. Grey and her mother in a room that looks similar to the medical bay of a vault from Fallout.

"Oh, she's awake!" the doctor says excitingly.

"Are you okay?" Summer Rose is worried.

Ruby slowly started to sit-up, "I think so." She feels a little throbbing pain in her head and a burning sensation on her left arm. "My head hurts a little."

"Not to worry!" Dr. Grey says, "I got some headache pills." She gives Ruby the pills. Ruby swallows the pills and Summer gives her some water. "Anyway, thanks for saving us from whatever the hell was about to hit us. I also want to thank you for saving all my experiments!"

Ruby shakes her head a little. The pills are kicking in and the pain went away. However, she still feels the pain in her arm where her black box implant is. "What did I miss?"

Summer explains everything, "After you destroyed the ship part, ash fall came a little later. Everyone stopped evacuating and got back to their daily lives. However, a meeting was called in by Ironwood and Branwen about leaving the planet. Or better yet, the solar system due to all the hazards."

"At least those two have finally agreed on something." Ruby is relieved to hear that. "But what about the Thanksgiving Dinner Party? Are we still gonna have that?"

"We are, but everyone decided to have it in the vault due to the ash fall."

Ruby giggled a little while looking down, "Sorry about that." But then she realizes something when she looks at her mother, "Wait, when does it start?!"

"Take it easy." Dr. Grey says. "The Thanksgiving Dinner Party doesn't start for another two hours. Also, I would like to know how you manage to destroy the ship."

Ruby tries to think about it for a moment as she tries to piece together on what happened. "Let me see... Yang and I were together in one of the thrusters... She suggested that we head back... Then I got smacked in the head by something... I was about to lose consciousness until I felt...something. Then I woke-up here."

"Something? Like what?" Dr. Grey is extremely interested now.

Ruby looks at her black box, "Something from this."

"Ooo." Now the doc is very interested.

But before they go any further, a knock is heard from the door.

Dr. Grey shouts, "NOT NOW!"

Summer rolls her eyes, "Just let them in."

The door slammed open with the rest of Team RWBY and Taiyang barging in with all of them asking questions about how Ruby is feeling and hugging her tightly.

Ruby groans, "Can't...breathe..."

"Alright, that's enough!" Summer says to everyone. "Give her some room." Then everyone backed away from Ruby.

Over at another moon, that orbits the same purple gas giant with orange stripes as the planet the Rooster Teeth characters are, there is a a building that seems to be Ancient Greek or Roman-style with lots of statues of goddesses and angels on it that looks like a some sort of gigantic tomb. However, deep inside, there are a multitude of different floors with different kinds of environments of their own along with having monsters that patrol the areas, mostly undead. In the 10th floor, there is a meeting room with a round table where shadowy silhouettes are having a meeting about the phenomenon that happened to their black boxes on their wrists. (Or in a case of a certain someone, somewhere else on their body's.)

The first person to speak up is wearing a fancy robe that wields a golden staff with seven serpents with jewels in their mouths. That, and he appears to have skeletal ribs and hands along with glowing red eyes. "Any idea on what happened to our boxes a few hours ago?" Beside him are other strange creatures.

One of them is some sort of goat with a top hat, another being some sort of slime creature, another being some sort of black ooze, a man in a suit of armor with insect antennae, and a humanoid bird creature with multiple wings.

Some man in a white robe holding some sort of staff and wearing glasses that reflects the light on the table speaks, "No one knows for sure, yet. But all the merchant guilds do have a few theories about what happened."

A little girl in a military uniform then speaks, "That mad scientist has been making theories of his own, but nothing concrete yet. However, one of our observatories reported about some sort of bright flash at one of the moons."

A teenage boy in a white coat is looking at his smartphone, "I got the reports. They say something about a ship getting turn to ash and dust in the upper atmosphere of the planet. There might be someone new on that zoo planet."

Another young man with white hair, black clothes and a mechanical left arm says, "Are you sure? Because we did search that world since we got here over a year ago."

A teenage boy in a tracksuit then asks, "But how?! How did these new people get there and what are they doing?!"

Everyone in the room started to murmur on so many questions about people on a different planet. They all try to discuss on what to do and one of them mention that they should tell this to everyone else that has black boxes on the other worlds to see what they think. The topic gets a little out of hand when everyone started raising their voices until the skeletal being slammed his fist on the table.

"ENOUGH!" he shouted out. "Here's an idea I'm sure you all shall agree with: We should contact the other black box wielders as well and send in a team to investigate. All vote in agreement?" The skeletal wizard raises his hand.

"Hold on a minute, Ainz!" says the man with the glasses and white robe, "Today is Thanksgiving Day. Everyone is already celebrating the holidays right now, so it is impossible for us to send anyone at this moment. I think it should be tomorrow."

"Yeah!" says a boy with a green mantle with gold trimming, "I got some turkey that is still waiting to be stuff back home!"

"Yeah!" says a girl with blue hair in a ponytail and a blue outfit, "I would like to eat some grub with some good wine!"

"We need to prep it first!"

"Alright, alright!" says Ainz. "Once Thanksgiving is over, then we send in a team to investigate! Along with sending messages to the other black box users across the solar system. Agree?"

Everyone voted yes and it was a landslide.

"Very well then. But we should also discuss what team should we send in before-"

BOOM! The doors are kicked down to reveal...The Red Team from Team Fortress 2. The scout says, "Does anyone need a team for this job?" Cue the TF2 music.

Back on the planet where the Rooster Teeth characters are, everyone is in the vault where there is a huge party in the gigantic cafeteria area (with Blake getting a new hairstyle). There are fake fall leaves around the rails of the catwalks and some of the columns. A few fall reefs next to some of the doors and a few window film decorations on the windows. Arthur Watts made an animatronic turkey for the kids. He thinks it is a waste of his talents but it does feel good to do some good every now and then. Team SSSN have just put up a 'Happy Thanksgiving' banner with some help from Sarge and Simmons. Church (as in Alpha) levitate a few heavy boxes full of decorations out of the way. Tucker and Caboose help out (by help, I mean Tucker keeps an eye on Caboose to make sure he stays out of trouble). Everything is all set. Even Whitley came out to help out by placing a few fancy chandeliers.

The tables are full of plates and utensils with little crane-shape napkins on the plates. Not only that, there is a huge amount of different foods on the tables. Finely cooked turkeys with a delicious scent of rosemary and thyme, big bowls of mashed potatoes, jars full of cranberry sauce, a few plates full of stuffing, pyramids of dinner rolls all neatly stacked, and jugs full of gravy. Grif wanted to get his hands on some of the food for 'taste testing', but Caroline threatens to break his jaw. Once the decorations are done, Ironwood tells everyone to take their seats.

"Everyone!" Ironwood says, "It is time to take our seats and say the blessing!"

So everyone takes their seats and wait for the blessing before eating.

Grif takes his seat as he tries to reach out for one of the rolls, but Carolina slaps his wrist.

"Ow!"

Carolina says threateningly, "You're supposed to wait."

"But I'm hungry!"

"Do you want to eat only green beans? Outside?"

Grif looks down, "No."

"Then wait."

Sarge clears his throat before he says the blessing. "Lord, we thank you for keeping us alive and well in these trying times. We all had a hard month or more since we were taken from our homes and forced to take part in some experiment on a remote planet which only you know where. Now we are here on another world which we have adapted to some agree and survive as well. Which I don't mind. As a matter a fact, I welcome the chance to fight in battle and-"

"SARGE!" everyone shout at him.

"Sorry, force of habit. And our dearly departed AI buddy, Epsilon Church. Where ever you are, like silicon heaven or regular heaven, I hope that you will watch over us and protect us like some holy ghost... Or something like that. In the meantime, send me a worthy opponent for me to-"

"SARGE!" everyone shouted at him again.

"Sorry, sorry. Anyway, we hope that you will keep a watch over us. Amen"

"Amen." everyone say. Now they get to enjoy the feast.

Everyone dine on some of the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner that the knowledge was provided by the Reds and Blues. Thankfully, they didn't get to do Sarge's idea of Thanksgiving, which involves hands and stuffing things into another thing. Grif managed to get a whole table to himself with turkey and everything. While everyone is enjoying the festivities, Arthur Watts asks the council members to see him in private along with Team RWBY.

All of them went out into the corridor to see what is going on.

"What is it, doc?" Yang asks.

"I checked the flight recorder that Ms. Belladonna found up in the upper atmosphere." Arthur says to everyone.

Blake rubs the back of her head, "Yeah, but it found me." Yang was about to says something but Blake interrupts, "Don't make any jokes or puns?"

"What was on it?" Salem asks.

Arthur explains, "Turns out that this solar system was a major trade hub between many different galactic governments. This planet we are on, was a zoo, or a menagerie if I do say."

"That would explain a few things." Raven says. "The large amount of creatures, the lack of urban settlements, etc."

"True..." Arthur's face starts to look a little sour, "But I'm afraid there is more."

"How bad?" Ruby asks.

"It turns out the sun is gonna go supernova in five years."

Everyone starts to worry with a look of dread on their faces.

"How do you know for sure?" Weiss asks.

Arthur explains, "According to the recorder, it has already pass 3,000 years and all the radioactive materials from the ships is causing the core of the sun to produce more heavy radioactive fusions which will cause the sun to go nova far sooner than expected."

AN: Okay, I know that's not how it works but deal with it. Let's not forget that people had a lot of crazy things about radiation back in the 50's. Stuff like radioactive spiders that create superheroes, or gamma radiation that makes people giant, green hulks. Either way, back to the story.

Prof. Lionheart says in a panic, "That's not just bad, that's incredibly bad!"

Ironwood says, "We should make ships to get everyone out of here."

"No need." Arthur says with a small glimmer of hope as he pulls out a hologram that shows three very alien ships. Protoss design. "These are the three Protoss Arkships that were buried on the surfaces on some of the moons. These ships maybe over 10,000 years old, but they're our only hope of getting out of here."

Ozpin takes a closer look at the ships, "Is there any sort of power source we could use? Without them, those ships are useless. But also, what's a Protoss."

"Solarite." Arthur replies. "As for Protoss, I don't have that information yet."

Yang then says with a more cheery attitude, "We get to travel through space?"

"Why, yes." Arthur replies again. "You seem to have a more optimistic approach to this, Ms. Xiao Long."

"I know, but trying to stay on the bright side. I mean, we get to use spaceships!"

Ruby then says, "Alright, that's enough." She sounds serious. "We can discuss this later in our next meeting tomorrow. We need to plan, we need to strategies, and we also need to keep everyone from panicking. Got it?"

Ironwood chuckles a little, "Now you sound like a general."

"Or a general." Doyle says.

"He already said that." Kimball says to Doyle.

Raven chuckles as well, "Or a tribe leader."

Ruby blushes a little as she rubs the back of her head.

Ozma says, "I think that is a good idea, for now. So let's head back and enjoy the festivities."

Everyone headed back to the cafeteria and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. Blissfully unaware that others are coming over to visit their little settlement.

"Man." Taiyang says while holding a turkey leg. "This is some really good turkey."

"I totally agree with that, dude." says someone with shaggy blonde hair, grey yet bloodshot eyes, has a hippie accent, wears a casual blue shirt, khakis, and brown sandals along with his shirt having a name tag that says, 'Hello, My Name is Wade'.

"Whoa!" Taiyang freaked out by the appearance of a strange next to him. "Who are you?!"

Everyone stopped and noticed this weird hippie-looking guy and are a little freaked out with some of them drawing their weapons and pointing at him.

"Chill, dude!" says the hippie. "I only came here because I hear about a party, man!"

"Who are you?!" Winter asks while pointing her sword at the man.

"My name is, Durnt." he replies with some sort of accent to his name.

Winter looks at the name tag, "But your shirt says, Wade."

"Yeah, everyone calms me that. I keep telling my dudes it is a brand name, but they just went with what's on my shirt."

Caboose says, "I had a friend name, Dirt, once. I had to bury him though. But dug him out later to see if he had any gummy worms." He looks down, "Only regular worms."

"Not now, Caboose." Church says to Caboose. Grif is still eating at his own private table. Church then says to Grif, "Now is not the right time for eating either, Grif."

"You guys can handle it!" Grif says before going after a few dinner rolls. Not to mention eating them through his helmet.

"Easy, dudes." Wade seems a little more relax. "Some of my friends and I just woke-up from some ice machine caused by some dragon with a drill for a face. That, and we followed a tunnel to find this place, man."

"Is he talking about my drillship?" Whitley asks.

"I think so." Oscar tilted his head left a little.

"Wait." Kimball says, "What do you mean, 'we'?"

Wade turns to a door to the west wing and says, "You dudes can come out now!"

The door opens and a bunch of people start to come out. The first is a man with brown hair that is well kept and wearing glasses.

The man says to everyone, "Sorry. We were kinda lost."

Another man comes out and seems to be and elderly African man comes in that is bald with some white hairs on his chin and a red sweater vest and blue shirt. The man seems upset, "Seriously, Wade. How am I gonna get everyone's refrigerator for my giant hoagie? Humph. I mean, really. Humph."

A woman with blonde hair in a bun behind her, a tiara, and a white sweater then comes in, "I am not getting paid enough for this. This was not part of Strangerhood."

Then some hispanic dude wearing an outfit that is all a bluish color. He speaks in a silly accent, "Evening, ladies! My name is Tovar! I am young, single and extremely sexy!"

Then another man that is dressed in a black suit with white stripes comes in. "Konnichiwa." he says in a happy idiot demeanor. He may seem charismatic with a fancy suite like a Yuppie, but not too bright. "It is fantastic to meet you, ya lovely audience, fantastic."

Then a military looking guy with face camo, a white tanktop, and military pants comes in. He doesn't seem friendly. "Okay, which one of you is working for the stupid government?! I'm gonna punch ya!" And sounds unfriendly too.

"Cool it, dad!" says a black haired teenage girl with a blue baseball cap, a black shirt with a few buttons, and tan cargo pants. "I don't think these guys are with any government. At least on this world."

The 'normal' guy introduces everyone and himself, "I am Sam. This is Chalmers."

Chalmers interrupted, "That's Dr. Cornelius Chalmers Esq. III, PhD! Humph."

Sam continues, "This is Catherine."

"A pleasure to meet you."

"This is Tovar."

Tovar starts dancing and sings, "Aye yai yai yai!" He tries to impress the ladies, but none are interested.

"This is Dutch."

"This place could use some redecorating. How about some Japanese feng shui?"

"This is Griggs."

"Who do I have to beat to get something to eat?" Griggs cracks his knuckles.

"And this is Griggs daughter, Nik-kay. It may spell Nikki but it is spelled Nik-kay."

Nikki smiles at Sam, "Thank you, Sam. Saves me the trouble."

"And you guys already met Wade."

Wade takes a look around and goes, "Oh man! If I ever known I would be in Comic-Con, I should've worn my D&D elf costume, man!"

The characters of RWBY and Red vs. Blue look at each other and he does have a point. They all look like they are from Comic-Con. I mean space soldiers, people that have animal traits, people dressed like they are from a science-fantasy show. You get the point.

Sam says, "So, we're sorta out of place like the last place we went." Then shows the ARK implant on his left arm, "Also this. Do you know what these are?"

Everyone else shows theirs and Ruby shows her black box.

Adam speaks, "We got these from an experiment on another planet in another galaxy. These things actually help us build stuff and makes crafting a lot easier."

Sam looks at Ruby's black box, "What is that? It looks different."

Ruby lowers her arm, "This thing was a gift from a friend of ours that allows me to make infinite resources." But she looks down while looking a little sad, "Who is no longer with us today."

"I'm sorry." Sam sympathizes.

"Hey!" Chalmers says, "Can we eat!? I'm starving!"

Everyone agrees and enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner. While eating dinner, Sam explained the situation to the council members about The Strangerhood, their memory loss, and somethings that happened. However, Catherine & Dutch's baby doesn't exist and the Scientist Sam is nowhere to be found. If you guys watched the original Strangerhood, you'll get it. The council members also tell them about how they ended-up on that strange planet, how the implants work, how they got here and among other things.

"You guys must've seen a lot." Sam says.

Ghira states, "For the most part. Yet there are things that we haven't seen."

"Like all those other worlds that are just above our heads." Ruby says.

"We hope to find out more when we get there." Doyle says. "But now, we're focusing on the festivities and getting used to this new world we are on."

Robyn Hill then approach with a wine glass in her left hand and joining the conversation, "Plus we also decided to establish a government. A democratic council one. Unfortunately, I got out voted." Robyn takes a few sip from her glass. "But there is next time."

"Uh." Sam said while scratching his chin, "We never thought of that. Usually we act like average people along with making some weird winter holiday mix-up. The only thing that acted like some government was the scientist that was eyeing us all and use some omnipotent voice filter."

Raven asks, "Was he doing some reality show or something?"

"Not really." Sam replies. "As a matter of fact, no ever thought about it until I brought it up. The people that sent us to The Strangerhood wanted new ideas for the entertainment industry. I'm pretty sure I told you about that."

Robyn then speaks, "In any case, you are in good company now." However, she gives a mean glance in the left corner of her eyes at Ironwood. "For the most part." Then her eyes focus on Sam, "But I'm glad that Jacques Schnee isn't here." She starts to sound really upset, "That man is the worse. He monopolize the Dust industry, always making shortcuts to his business that are against safety regulations, and... Gah! I need another drink!" Robyn finishes her drink with a lot of gulps and walks away to get another.

"Guessing that man must've had that effect on everyone." Sam says.

Ironwood replies, "You have no idea."

It is now the day after Thanksgiving as a spaceship that looks similar to Windfall from Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series with the Red Team from Team Fortress 2 loading up into the ship, all excited.

"Hell yeah!" Scout says as he finishes polishing his bat. "Finally some action!"

Heavy has his gun out, "Sasha really needs a good killing!"

Engineer heads towards the pilot seat, "Damn right we get some action!"

"Gentlemen." Spy goes to the co-pilot seat, "Please settle down."

"Oh come on, mate!" Sniper is just as excited, "We finally get to do something other than guarding an outpost in the middle of nowhere!"

"Hold on, my fellow Rottone!" Medic has Demoman's left arm over his shoulders with Pyro have the right. "Demoman has passed out because of a hangover...again."

Pyro speaks, but his voice is muffled.
What he is saying: "The idiot is always having a hangover."

Demoman looks asleep until he shouts, "LET'S DO IIIT!" He seems okay at first until his head starts spinning, "Bloody hell. Holy mother of dids. I must be drunk." And he passes out.

Pyro just shakes his head in shame for Demoman and Medic just groans before carrying the drunken, one-eyed Scotsman into the ship.

Soldier steps in with a fire in his eyes (despite his helmet) as he is about to make a speech. "Men! Today's the day that we-"

"Hang on!" Scout shouts in one of the corridors, "Heavy got stuck again!" Scout tried to pull Heavy from a tight corridor by his left arm. "What else did you ate last night?"

"The usual." Heavy replies as he tries to use his other arm. "Mashed potatoes, turkey, cranberry sauce."

"Feels like you drank it all in an oil drum." Scout pulls harder until Heavy got unstuck.

Once that is done, Soldier clears his throat to say his speech. "Men! Today's the day that we get to go on an official mission! A mission that involves hunting down any potential enemies and blow them up to smithereens! A chance for us to finally get some action and bloodshed! No more boring old undead or monsters! We get to fight a real army!"

Engineer and Spy look at each other with Engineer saying, "I thought this is supposed to be a recon mission."

Spy just shrugs.

Soldier continues, "We're gonna find them, then we're gonna obliterate them, and then we get to have barbecue ribs to celebrate our victory!"

Heavy made a hushed burp before saying, "I think I had enough for a while."

Scout pets Heavy on the back, "Hey, don't sweat it big guy. We could just have sandwiches."

"I love sandwiches." Heavy says with a smile.

Soldier points his finger at Engineer, "Prepare for take-off! And then play our favorite song."

Engineer gives a mocking salute, "Aye-aye, captain." and proceeds to get the ship off the ground.

The ship starts to take flight with Spy pressing a few buttons to play a soundtrack. Here are a few lyrics:

"America.
America.

America, fuck yeah!"

Medic pops his head out and says to Soldier, "Really?" with the music playing. He seems annoyed, "This scheisse again?"

Scout pops his head from the other side of the doorway, "I'm good with it."

Pyro pops his head under Medic and says a few things yet all murmured and muffled.
Translation: "Can we please get some other music on? We've been listening to this for a long time now. I forgot how long we've listen to it."

The Windfall takes off into space and carefully avoids all the debris and asteroids until they make their way to the planet known as, Menagerie. The place where the town of Rooster Teeth is.

AN: Okay, just to give you guys the heads-up. Now I am working on 4 stories. Well, five because I got more and more story ideas that just won't stop. So I'm gonna upload two chapters to two stories at random every two weeks. Things are gonna be chaotic considering my work schedule.