Chapter 13
Over at Apocalyptica, the train has arrived at a large fortress city at the eastern tracks. The large walls of the city are over 200 feet tall and forms a large circle around the city. Not to mention over a mile thick. At the center, there is a large tower that seems to be producing magical rings over the city and provides protection against anything. Inside is actually comprised of two different layers. The first layer is where all the denizens, housing and other things you expect from an urban area. Yet the top of the buildings are comprised of farms and agriculture in order for the city to support itself during times of war and supply lines are getting thin. The city is entirely surrounded by a large trench full of spikes and barbed wires with the only way to get in is through five different draw bridge gates with three of them have train tracks on them. The train approaches from the eastern gate as it slows down and cautiously enters to the city as the sun sets over at the horizon.
Inside, Winter notices the change in speeds while having tea in the throne room. Team FAME, Nicholas and Hakuoro alongside Elulu serving the tea noticed it as well.
"We have arrived." Hakuoro speaks.
Mercury looks out the window and whistles, "Damn! Now that's one hell of a fortress!"
Emerald, Cinder and Amber stick their heads out the window and sees the gigantic walls before them. Winter checks it out and see the gigantic wall with her eyebrows perk up. Nicholas gawks at the size of this city.
"Impressive, is it not?" Hakuoro puts his tea down. "This is Yamato. Or should I say New Yamato. The original city was destroyed by falling ship wrecks. This new one is far more defended and far more advance in defenses than any other fortress city on this world."
"More like compensating for not having something." Mercury jokingly says as he gets his head back in.
Emerald gets her head back in, "I thought our defenses back at Rooster Teeth were overcompensating. But that thing there takes the cake and probably ate it."
"Impressive fortress." Cinder is impressed by the defenses of the fortress as she gets her head back in. "Yet the place may become a giant tomb if there were any earthquakes."
Amber gets her head back in, "Unless that thing has some way of compensating for the earthquakes."
"It does." Elulu says.
"But that is confidential." Hakuoro speaks. "Soon, we will meet Empress Anju and tell her about the growing situation. Just hope she's available."
"Who is this Empress Anju?" Winter asks.
"Empress Anju is the successor of the late Emperor Mikado after the original Yamato was destroyed eight months ago. Despite the fact she looks and sometimes act like a child, she is much older than you think and a lot stronger."
"Like how strong?" Emerald question.
"Strong enough to destroy this train with a single swing of her sword." Hakuoro speaks with a straight face.
Nicholas laughs, "That's a joke, right?"
But when Nicholas notices that Hakuoro still has a straight face and not a single smile, that's when he knows that it is no joke.
"Seriously?" Nicholas' joyful smile just dropped.
"I'm afraid it's true." Elulu says, "Despite being empress, she travels around her empire to provide aid to those in need. She even destroyed a rock slide that prevented a river from flowing, wiped out a horde of creatures called Deathclaws, and threw a massive boulder into a volcano to stop it from erupting and destroying many farming villages."
"Holy shit!" Mercury is surprised and a little scared, "I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley."
The train cart they are in is finally inside the walls and seem to be heading deep under ground as they noticed that the cart is curving towards the left. The Hayajiro slowly creeps in before coming to a complete halt. The steam and pressure from the engine exhausted from wherever the steam comes out.
Oboro comes in the cart, "Brother, we're here."
"I noticed." Hakuoro stands, "Now then." he addresses the six off-world guests, "It is time to meet with Empress Anju."
Everyone got off the Hayajiro. Among the passengers, some of them meet up with relatives that are glad to see them alive. Yet some people fell to tears when they heard the news that some never made it out alive. Eren and his squad reported to one of the Eight Pillar Generals of Yamato, Munechika. A woman with long white hair and blue eyes along with a white tiger tail. He reported about the attack and Emperor Hakuoro is safe. She eyes at Hakuoro exiting along with Team FAME, Winter and Nicholas.
She looks at Eren and says, "Thank you for the report. Head over to the barracks and gear-up when the worst comes."
"Yes, ma'am!" Eren salutes along with Mikasa and Armin before heading off.
Munechika approaches Hakuoro, "Greetings, Emperor Hakuoro." she bows in respect before continuing, "I have just received the report on what happened to your city. You have my deepest sympathies."
"Thank you, General Munechika. Everything happened so fast that the troops weren't able to react in time. The undead seemingly appeared out of nowhere and I had to do what I can with my black box." He looks at the six, "Yet if it wasn't for these six along with those that have experiences with the undead, things would've gotten worse."
Munechika looks at the strangers, "Really?" She takes a good look at them and notice they have black boxes as well.
Winter gives a military salute, "I'm Winter Schnee. Former SpecOps of the Atlesian Military and representative of Rooster Teeth in this rescue."
Nicholas gives a gentleman bow, "Greetings. I am Nicholas Schnee. Winter's grandfather and former miner."
Cinder introduces herself, "I'm Cinder Fall. Leader of Team FAME."
"Mercury Black."
"Emerald Sustrai, and I love what you did with your hair."
"And I'm Amber Autumn. Love the dress."
Munechika blushes a little from Emerald and Amber's compliments, "Thank you." Then gets serious, "But where are you from? I never seen any of you six before. Nor have I heard of a settlement called, Rooster Teeth."
Winter explains, "It was set up around a month ago on the planet Menagerie. We were transported here from parts unknown and have no idea what to do next. Yet situation has gotten dire."
"I see. But we need to speak with Empress Anju at the Barrier Tower."
"So the tower is a palace?" Cinder is curious, "Interesting."
"Well, let's-"
Before Munechika takes them to the Barrier Tower, an alarm is sounded along with sirens. Some of the people are freaking out and getting worried, others are scared. Everyone can hear some major rumbling as if they are getting hit by artillery.
Someone on the speakers speaks, "WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY! WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK BY AN UNKNOWN ENEMY FORCE! AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVE ZOMBIES WITH THEM!"
"Ah shit!" Mercury swears, "Seems we won't be able to enjoy ourselves."
Munechika looks at the six, "I'm sorry to ask since you've arrived, but can you help us?"
"On it!" Winter agrees, "And we'll discuss the situation once things settled down!"
They head top side to see what is happening. As they made it to the top of the walls, they already see members of the Garrison from Attack on Titan along with some of Yamato's own forces as they fire cannons at the huge horde outside. They look at the horizon and see not just zombies, but something even more devastating. They see the members of Nurgle's armies from Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy. The artillery strikes are coming from the Plagueburst Crawler siege tanks as they fire their cannons at the walls. Yet the walls are completely undamaged. Some scorch marks yes, but undamaged. Some try to fire at the top of the walls but the barriers stops them. Back to what is on the ground, there are Plague Marines, Chariots of Nurgle, Noxious Blightbringers, Foul Blightspawns, Plaguebearers, Palaquins of Nurgle, Plague Hulks, Poxwalkers, Pestigors, Slimehounds, Plague Toads, Plague Ogryns and many, many, MANY more. These units and creatures surround the entire city alongside the Kabane and Nazi Zombies as the land around them started to rot, decay and die. The moans and groans from the undead can be heard all the way up to the top. Yet the cannons back on top drown out most of the noise as they fire at the hordes below. Many of the charred body parts are scattered along with boiled infected blood and destroyed bones and searing flesh. The servants of Nurgle ignore these blasts as they try to break down the wall. However, they are unable to make any sort of scratch, dents, or whatever sort of damage they can try.
"They won't break through." Empress Anju appears behind the six. For those that played Utawarerumono: The False Faces game, you might already know what her combat outfit is and carrying a giant sword. They look at her, "You see, I made the walls out of that special bedrock material that is unbreakable thanks to the denizens from Overworld. I had each and every block painted to appear like regular stone. Even have the underground made of bedrock."
Emerald asks, "Are you the Empress Anju?"
"I am." Anju sounds serious and unlike her game or anime counterparts. She is less childish and seem to have matured, mentally speaking. "I am Empress of Yamato, Anju."
Winter salutes, "Greetings, Empress. I am Winter Schnee, representative of Rooster Teeth and I would like to report of a dire situation that is connected to this attack."
"I see." she says with the cannons continuing to fire, "Best to talk inside."
Inside the Barrier Tower, Winter explained the greatest threat there is in the throne room above the generator room. As expected, it is similar to the throne room of the original Yamato palace with Japanese-style decor, and stairs that lead up to the throne. A lot of stairs. Winter explains the Black Box Hunters and looking for more black boxes to add to their collection. She even told her about the sun is going out and their people are looking for Protoss arkships in order to escape from the calamity and gave even worse news, the more Black Box Hunters they destroy, the faster the sun will go out. Anju finds it hard to believe, but after seeing a massive army outside her gates, she has to.
Anju grips tightly on the arms of her throne, "I see. Then we must deal with this problem immediately."
"I'm glad you understand." Winter may not show it, but she is relieved.
Yet someone comes bursting in, "EMPRESS ANJU!" and sounds like he's in a panic, "THERE'S A PROBLEM! THE INVADERS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THE GATES WITH A PLAGUE!"
At one of the gates, a few of the Plagueburst Crawler tanks fire at them and at the drawbridge. Yet instead of firing explosives, it fires shells full of corrosive mists and some sort of infectious disease that hit anyone near the gate. Many of the guards started to develop green spots on their skin, hacking up blood, the scalera of their eyes are bloodshot and have yellow veins, and some of their flesh has started to rot. The chains of the drawbridge have started to rust, wood rotting, and the levers that keep the chains in place started to break with the thick iron bars starting to corrode away. The six and Anju make their way to the gate and see people suffering as the gate slowly falls. Thanks to the black boxes, they are immune to the disease that is effecting the guards. Emerald and Amber try to get the guards out of the way so they wouldn't suffer anymore. The others prepare for the worse as the defenses are about to fall.
Winter's black boxes started to go off with Ruby's voice, "To anyone available, we need reinforcements! Like NOW!"
Then Qrow voiced, "We have a situation that is getting out of hand here!"
Winter tries to radio, "We need reinforcements here immediately!"
Ironwood speaks, "Everyone! We found the arkship!"
Winter look at her black box and is shocked to hear that Ironwood found the arkship.
Mercury is surprised, "Did I hear Ironwood finding the arkship!?"
Back on New Pandora, Ironwood overlooks where the arkship is as he radios, "Didn't exactly find it, but these bugs sure did."
High in the sky, Ironwood watches as the insects dig up the arkship and the mantis thing watches as the rubble is slowly being removed.
"Might need some assistance."
Over at Isekai, a raging battle is happening in an open field. Well, the place looked like it was bombed, scorched and suffered from an earthquake with parts of the field opened up and cracked. A massive battle is raging as the people of Isekai are using everything they got.
Ruby fires from a boulder with her Crescent Rose as she radios, "That, and we're under attack!" she fires two more rounds, "And we got ugly baddies!"
Screaming, laughing, moaning and screeching from one end, hordes of daemons and marines storm the battlefield. The daemons of Slaanesh are wrecking havoc as many have captured a few people that they torture before killing their targets.
"REALLY UGLY BADDIES!" she freaks out right before Yang pulls her down to take cover from bolter rounds along with the rest of Team RWBY. Even though she is invulnerable, they can still sting.
Weiss radios, "Might need some help here! We got a major battle happening!"
Over at Muthattan, the Scion Shredder, now known as the Ultimate Shredder, leads the charge with not just his army, but also the daemonic hordes of Tzeentch by his side. The Ultima Shredder is also accompanied by the Foot Mystics as the Steel Mystic and Earth Mystic make a new bridge that leads right at the city. Blue, purple and pink fires hit the buildings that are being fire from the artillery and siege weapons along with daemonic magic. Cementoss tries to create as much of a protective shell to prevent any more damage over the buildings yet the relentless barrage breaks through. Everyone sets up a firing line as those with range attacks try to take out as many of the monsters they can. However, some of their barricades get crumbled away by the bolter weapons. Many try to fire with everything they got.
Qrow takes cover behind one of the metal barricades and radios, "Well, Ice Princess, we got a major battle on our hands too!"
Sarge is on the radio, "Did someone say two major battles!?" he sounds excited, "Yee-haa! Finally! I'll get the Crew and head over to wherever the battle is fiercest!"
Simmons screams out, "Oh fuck NOOO! I mean, can I stay here and provide tactical support?" He sounds like a complete coward.
Qrow yells over the radio, "If you don't help, then we're all dead!"
"I don't wanna die!"
Raven radios, "My team and I are heading over to you! Plus, I'm bringing in some back-up!"
Then Oobleck radios, "I'm bringing in some back-up over at Isekai."
Carolina radios, "Some of the Jesse's and my team are heading over to Isekai. Lysette will head to you, Qrow."
Cardin radios, "Team CRDL, Team NDGO, Team BRNZ, Team JNPR and Team ABRN are heading to the Ice Queen's. Team FNKI and those who can fight are heading over towards Ironwood. I think he might like something the boys and I made in our spare time."
Qrow smirks, "Thanks. Make sure the arkship is intact while you're at it."
"Will try."
Somewhere on the sun, three of the Black Box Hunters watch with grinning faces as they watch the battles unfold with their respective runes glowing. Filling them withe powers if the immaterium. The Ruinous Powers of Chaos.
To Be Continued...
InterWarp Chat Room
Spikes_8-Blood (Khorne): HEY! HOW COME I DIDN'T GET TO HAVE A PROXY WITH THOSE BLACK BOXES!?
7-Days-0F-Plagues (Nurgle): That's because there are only three of them, Khorne. The other two were killed off.
Spikes_8-Blood: DAMMIT!
SixSex (Slaanesh): Oh come on now big boy. How about you take hold of that Shredder boy? He has some fabulous spikes I would love to have it skin deep.
(9V9)/ (Tzeentch): Nope! That man's soul is mine! It's a limited edition.
7-Days-0F-Plagues: Oh come on now. Why don't you let him have that guy?
(9V9)/: Maybe. Maybe not. *creepy sinister chuckle* Shame about that Blake Obsidian guy. He seems like your type.
SixSex: How about that sexy bug creature?
(9V9)/: Listen, Khorne. War has been brought back to this pitiful universe, so why not enjoy the show?
Citizen-Khaine: Indeed. It's been ages since a good war has been brought to this section of the universe.
Spiked_8-Blood: Khaine?! How long have you been here?
Citizen-Khaine: I had nothing better to do since almost all the souls of sapients are gone. So I waited.
Mother's Tears (Isha): You've been waiting for someone to chat in the chat room the whole time?
Citizen-Khaine: Hello, Isha. And yes, things have been boring when all the finest warriors and soldiers have been taken.
Spiked_8-Blood: That I agree with.
Gork_1$_Bestest: Oi! Wot's go'n on? An' how do yer use dis interwarp?
Mork_1$_Bestest: Ya're already us'n it, ya goint.
Bringer Of The Night - Ooo-Ooh (Nightbringer): I need friends.
Colorful Angel, Slayer of Undead (Meridia): What's happening? I sense sentient life-forms again.
Tricky/Devil (Clavicus Vile): And I didn't even have a chance to do my deals!
(9V9)/: Everything is going just as plan.
AN: He-ey! Hope you guys are enjoying this story so far. And boy we got some major battles ahead. Let's see what will happen in this epic clash. Later!