Chapter 9
Over at the moon Apocalyptica, Team FAME (comprised of Cinder Fall, Amber Autumn, Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai) along with Winter Schnee fly pass the ship debris in order to head to those that might need help against the Black Box Hunter and whatever horrors they will unleash.
"So what are we gonna expect!?" Emerald asks as they approach.
Cinder responds, "Since this planet is called Apocalyptica, a lot! Probably mutant monsters, toxic wastelands, psychopathic raiders, unpleasant weather, possibly zombies!"
Amber just say, "Yep! Suits the name alright!"
"Then we must steel ourselves!" Winter orders before breaking atmosphere, "For whatever we face, we must prepare for whatever challenge comes at us!"
Once they made it through the atmosphere and pass through the clouds, they come across a feudal Asian-themed city with massive stone walls that surround it in the middle of the mountains, a river that pass through it from east to west and four railways that goes north to east. However, they notice a massive crowd that surrounds it and swarming in through a major hole where a gate used to be but torn down and they only got a few blocks in. As they approach, they noticed the smell of rotting meat in the air, the sound of a siren among the moans and groans amidst the screams of terrified people fleeing for their lives. When they see the masses that surround the city, they were horrified by the sight of them. They see many of them having pale skin, bits of flesh missing, and yellow eyes filled with frustration and an insatiable hunger for flesh as they try to reach out to them with clamy, decaying hands. They are up against zombies.
"Oh fuck me." Mercury says to himself. "It just have to be zombies."
Winter is disgusted by the sight of them. She's used to things that are a bit more clean and a little tidy. She prefers the Grimm over the undead. At least the Grimm smell better.
The zombies continue to moan and wail as many try to reach the five in vain despite some easy meals. Yet among the ranks of the damn, there is a special kind of zombie that springs into action and try to jump. These different zombies have cold grey skin, their veins seem to glow molten yellow, and their eyes blacken to the point where only their pupils gain a menacing red glow with their hearts radiate a bright molten color.
"What kind of zombies are those?" Amber asks.
Emerald pulls out her Thief's Respite and aims, "Whatever kind they are, they all die the same." She fires at the heads of the new zombies dead center.
However, blue sharp sparks are seen and no bullet holes. It is as if these new zombies have bullet proof skin or something.
"What the-?!" Emerald says in shock when her weapons have no effect.
"Okay, that's new!" Mercury is a little disturbed by these new zombies.
Cinder uses her semblance to create a bow and fire some arrows, "This might work."
She fires the arrows at the hearts rather than the heads. Two arrows got through the rib cage and pierced through. It keeled over and dies...for real. But two bounced off as if the rib cage is hard as iron.
"Now I see." Cinder says after testing. "The more force you apply, they get to die. Plus a few hours of playing some video games did payoff."
Mercury snickers a little, "Yeah, the glowy parts are always a weakness."
Yet as they note the weakness of the new zombies, fiery planes from World War II fly by them and nearly hit them.
"The hell?!" Emerald says as they nearly got hit by the planes.
Some of the planes fire their machine guns at some of the buildings as some kamikaze themselves right into some of the buildings.
"Were those...zombie planes!?" Amber says while freaking out that the zombies are capable of flying planes.
Winter says, "This is different from the last planet we were trapped on. Let's rescue as many as we can! Move out!"
They all fly in and try to help out.
A few of those super zombies try to attack a family dressed in Ainu-themed clothing while also having animal ears and tails of a cats and dogs as they cowered as they approach. But Winter comes in and stabs right through the molten colored hearts and uses her semblance to send some flying back at the horde outside.
Winter says to the family, "Get to safety! Hurry!"
"Thank you!" says the father. He appreciates what Winter did but is still frighten as he and his family get out of there.
Somewhere else, Emerald and Cinder take down a few zombies with Emerald shooting the regular zombies in the head and Cinder throws explosive spears that she created with her Maiden powers, which she still doesn't remember, at the hearts of the super zombies which causes them to explode. As she kills them, she notices that some are getting more angrier and angrier the more she kills. As if these zombies are intelligent and still have some human emotions underneath. However, one of them starts charging in with two tantos in hand and try to stab and slice Cinder. The tantos shatter when the super zombie try to kill Cinder. Cinder smirks before jamming a sword into its heart.
"Guess having a black box does come in handy." Cinder remarks the black box's invincibility capabilities. She look at her arm where the black box is embedded, "If it weren't for these, I would've died."
Emerald keeps on firing as she shouts, "Yeah, well, that doesn't mean we're invincible against others with black boxes!"
Many zombies drop dead for every head shot she fire. The regular zombies are slow, clumsy, and pretty easy to kill as long as you have plenty of ammo for the high numbers coming at you. Zombies are weak alone, but are terrifying in great numbers as they surround their prey.
Emerald jumps up on a lamp post before spinning in the air and gunning down the zombies as she goes, "Wooo-ooo!" She sticks the landing and shoots some more, "I love having infinite ammo!" Emerald fires a bunch more shots at the zombies and stabs the hearts of the super zombies.
However, there is a twister made of ice comes in and started blowing and/or freezing zombies in the way.
"What the fuck?" Emerald says right before looking at the direction where the twister came from and sees a man wearing what looks like a suit with fans, ac units and a slushie machine strapped onto it.
The man waves as he shouts, "Come on! Get to the trains!"
Cinder walks up and notices the man in a strange outfit, "What in the world was that?" she asks Emerald.
"It looked like someone with a robotic suit made of fans, slurpy machines and some air conditioners with a cannon on it that somehow made a tornado of ice."
A super zombie tries to attack by jumping from above. But without looking, Cinder just throws some kunai with her Maiden powers and pierced its heart, causing it to drop behind the two girls.
Over at some other district, Mercury decided to arm himself with a light machine gun and mow down all the zombies coming at a crowd of people running in terror. Mercury smiles as he guns down all the zombies that he sees.
"Now this is more like it!" Mercury says while firing, "To think I was worried for a moment because I had to fight these things in close range and worry about getting bitten! But this black box is awesome! Including infinite ammo!" He laughs like crazy and continues to gun down.
However, one of those super zombies came out and seem to be unaffected by the bullets. So Mercury uses Talaria on the guy's chest and fires a round right though the rib cage as it falls dead on the ground. Then he fires some more. While he enjoys gunning down the zombies, a zombie in a Nazi uniform prepares to fire at Mercury with an old submachine gun about to fire. However, a sniper snot was fired and took it down. Mercury looked at the dead corpse of the zombie and looked at where the projectile came from. Up on one of the roofs, he sees Karl from Zombie Army armed with a sniper rifle, waves at him. Mercury smiles and gives the thumbs up and proceeds to kill the zombie horde.
Over at the destroyed gate, Amber made a large stone wall to stop the zombies from coming in and burns them to ashes. Then proceed to call forth lighting from the sky to electrocute some of them and call forth the wind to have pebbles fly around, covered in ice to look like comets, and use the tail ends to stab them right in the foreheads. Then unleashes an explosion of fire that scorched everything in the area and reduce organics into ashes. She scorched about twelve to fifteen feet of land that is covered in black and some smoking. Then she created a massive chasm that many zombies fall down to at least three miles below before closing it up. Crushing all the zombies that fell in.
"Whew." Amber wipes her forehead with her right arm. "This is a lot of work."
But just in the south of the horizon, she sees a major dust storm coming in from over the mountain sides. Amber flies up and spawns in a spyglass to see what is. As she peers through the spyglass, she gets a better view and see what is actually creating the dust storm. It is being caused by a swarm of zombies running in fast. But not just any zombies. World War Z zombies.
Amber radios in, "Guys? We got a problem. There is a massive horde of fast moving zombies heading towards the city."
"Goddammit!" Mercury swears over the radio function, "Those are the worsts!"
Winter speaks, "We'll assist with the evacuation, immediately. Move!"
"I'll see about deploying some defenses to buy us some time."
Cinder says, "Emerald, Mercury and I will take care of the undead that are in the city before heading to the train station."
"Wilco." Winter says.
Amber asks, "What does that mean?"
"It's short for 'roger that'."
"Got it."
Amber immediately get to work on making some makeshift defenses such as junk turrets, some mines, and a few magical traps before wiping out the rest of the slow moving zombies and a few super zombies.
Back in the city, the four take down some of the zombies in the city with their range attacks while Winter summons some white Grimm with her summoning glyph and take out lots of them. However, one of the super zombies tries a surprise attack from behind.
One woman shouts, "Look out! A Kabane!"
Cinder turns around and throws a spear right through the creature's heart and it explodes. She looks at the woman who warned her and it is Clair Redfield from Resident Evil. "Thanks!" she thanks her.
"I don't know you guys are but thanks for saving us." She points at the northeast, "Just make sure you head towards the train station before the trains leave."
A few zombies try to sneak up on Claire, but she pulls out her pistol and fires at them. But out of nowhere, clouds start to swirl and wind blows in a circle right before lighting strikes. Once the sudden lighting strikes fade, a man who appears to be elderly and wearing armor that is reminiscent to the Arma Gigas from RWBY White Trailer with a black shirt and pants underneath, a red fur-trimmed cloak which was held by a gold chord and wielding some sort of hammer and having blue eyes and white hair.
"Where am I?!" says the man as he looks around at his surrounding. Then he looks at his left arm, "What is this?!"
A Kabane tries to lunge towards the new figure in armor but he bashed its head in and drops dead.
"Grandfather?!" Winter says in shock.
That's right, Nicholas Schnee has arrived and has a black box.
"Winter!?" Nicholas is just as shocked, "What is going on!?"
Mercury says, "Can we do this family reunion some other time!? We got more on the way!" Mercury fires his machine gun to gun down the zombies.
Winter shouts over the gunfire, "For a quick report, we're trying to save the people from the undead and we're on some moon doing it!"
Emerald shouts as she fires, "For the long story, wait till we get the fuck out of here!"
A loud whistle is heard which signals the first train leaving with many refugees. The sound of the train's engine and wheels can be heard amongst all the noise and chaos that is happening throughout the city.
Claire says, "Sounds like the first train is leaving. We better hurry before the last and fourth train leaves and that's the one we need to board. Hopefully before the next wave approach."
Then they hear the sound of airplanes above. Hell planes...or demonic planes depending on which you like, from Zombie Army 4. They all look up as they try to make another run. However, people with white-feathered wings are seen soaring through the skies as they use some form of magic to stop them by firing a gust of wind and fire shards of light at the wings to take them down and have them destroy the zombies outside the walls.
"What are those?" Mercury asks.
"Those are onkamiyario." Claire explains, "A race of winged people from some post-apocalyptic future version of Earth that replaced humans." Claire looks at the five, "But lets focus on the ground. There are still people that still need help."
"You got that right." Frank West from Dead Rising appear in his slushy and fan exo suit along with Karl of the Zombie Army series.
"Frank. Karl." Claire says to the two, "Where is everyone else?"
Karl explains, "The rest of my squad are busy defending the eastern station."
"You're brother, Chuck and his daughter are boarding on the third train. Best you go meet up with him."
Karl says, "We'll stay put and help out the civilians."
"Got it." Claire leaves but says, "Don't die on us!"
Nicholas just says to everyone, "This is the strangest situation I am stuck in."
Mercury says, "Better get used to it. We have."
Amber shows up after flying, "I got the defenses set up at what remains from the gate!" She lands on the ground, "I didn't see any more..." she notices Nicholas Schnee and asks Winter, "Is this guy a relative of yours?"
"My grandfather."
"Oh. Anyway, I didn't see any more zombies in the city. But the ones that can run are approaching very fast."
Frank says, "I wouldn't worry about that. Emperor Hakuo with his black box is setting up the traps before he leaves."
Karl makes a joke, "Wish the presidents from the United States of America in the future would do that."
"We should help out." Emerald suggests. "Set up traps at choke points to slow them down a little before they reach the train station."
Frank says, "About the 'fast zombies', were they running or on some vehicles?"
"They were running." Amber answers.
"Shit." Karl swears. "Those are Solanum Zombies. Almost as bad as the Kabane Zombies. Those zombies can build pillars of themselves to get to high areas and smart enough to play dead to surround their targets along with creating a big tidal wave with their bodies. These guys will only go after people that have no illnesses or health problems like cancer."
After hearing that, they are more creeped out by the fact that zombies, originally slow and dumb, can run fast and make pillars of themselves to get to their prey on higher ground.
"We should help out with the traps." Amber suggests and still a little freaked out.
Winter shows her black box, "Does this Emperor Hakuo have a black box?" and being serious.
"Yeah." Frank nods. "He has those."
"If you see him, warn him that there are beings hunting down anyone that have black boxes. They might be responsible for all this chaos here on this world. Specialize in the undead probably."
Karl just gives a sarcastic, "Great."
"Oh fuck me." Frank slouches back a little while facing the sky. "That's the last thing we need."
"Let's move!" Winter orders and everyone started to get to work...and Winter teaches Nicholas on how to use the black box.
Mercury and Cinder headed to the southeast to set up some defenses and traps that involves mines, turrets, some magical glyphs from Elder Scrolls and Two Worlds II, and some special zombie traps their team invented that involves a scarecrow covered in human flesh (that they spawn from their black boxes) while covered in explosives underneath. Winter and Nicholas do the same in the south while Winter try to fill in on everything that has happened for the past two months, and Emerald and Amber do the same to the west.
But from the peak of one of the mountains, there is a strange, crooked old man whose head is covered in black boxes, a wrinkled face and has the mark of Nurgle on his forehead. He is completely hunched back and wearing dirty, green and brown clothes that are tattered and have a lot of stains on them (best not to question what they are). He has some skinny arms covered in boils and warts with tiny black boxes on them yet larger ones under his arms and long, yellow nails that are four inches long. He is wearing a necklace that is made of barbed wires that have noses, eyeballs, tongues, fingers and teeth. He has a large, bulbous nose that you get to see his gray nose hair, black eyes with irises and pupils that are more dead than the zombies', and his mouth only has ten teeth that are crooked, nasty, some being pointy, one has a hole in it, and a black tooth where one of his incisor (the four front teeth on the upper gums and where one of the buck teeth should be) should be. the man cackles as he hold his decaying oak staff with a moose skull on it with dead, mummified cats being hung by shoe laces on the antlers. This new Black Box Hunter cackles at the sight where his undead minions try to destroy the city.
AN: What's up bitches!? Hope you enjoy this new chapter and the story so far. I'm gonna be camping for a bit to get away from all the...you know. While I'm at it, here is the schedule for what is coming up.
For this week (as in now) we have Shokugeki no Saiba: Food Wars! and Survival in a Strange Galaxy.
Next week we have From Remnant Huntresses to Pokemon Trainers and The Rising of the Post-Apocalyptic Shield Hero.
An Isekai in RWBY will appear whenever I post some new chapters as always.
Until then, stay safe, stay healthy, and best of luck.