Chapter 23

Team RWBY, Team SSSN, Qrow, Team CRDL, and Team SAFR are on a Protoss ark shuttle that is being piloted by Agent Washington. Along with them is Senku Ishigami as the scientist, Dr. Emily Gray as the doctor/medic/surgeon, and the Blue Team from the Reds & Blue for extra muscle...as in heavy lifting. This includes Tucker, Caboose, Carolina, and Alpha Church. Doc is there too as a back-up medic. Ginro is also there to be a pack mule as he press his hands and face on the windows as he looks out into space. Nikki Hanada is there as she is awestruck by all the stars despite her second time seeing them before they head out to light speed. She's there to make sure Ginro does his job. So that's pretty much everyone on this ship even though the ship is huge as they head out to find a ship orbiting a jungle planet while everyone else is heading over to the second marker to find the Grand Paradise System.

Ginro's eyes sparkle as he sees how space travel is amazing, "This is awesome! AWWEEESOOOOME!"

"Yeah." Nikki says as she looks out the window. "You know, Lillian Weinberg was on a space station when it all went down. But traveling through space? This is something different. ...huh, Ginro?"

"I need some help." Ginro is stuck on the window as he panics, "My eyes are stuck on the window!"

Nikki sighs in disappointment, "This is gonna be a long trip."

In the lab, Arrastra Skye is checking out some of the equipment alongside Dr. Gray and Senku. They see what does what and what exactly is what while checking out the holding pens.

"Are these stasis pens?" Arrastra asks as she pokes at one of them.

Senku takes a closer look, "Washu did give us a guide about Protoss technology and they should be. I am a thousand percent certain." He smirks at Arrastra, "Wanna test it?"

Arrastra pushes Senku into it, backs away and press a button that activated the stasis field that freezes Senku in place.

"Oh hey, it is." She presses the button and releases Senku.

Senku drops to the floor, "Ow."

Arrastra then look away as she giggles.

Washington says over the PA system, "Is this the right button? Fuck it, I'm gonna give it a try. *clears throat* Attention everyone, we're about to arrive in ten seconds. Everyone brace yourselves because I have no idea where the breaks are on this- Oh wait, I think I found it."

The entire shuttle jerks as they entered out of warp space (as in the StarCraft warp space, not the WH40K one. If they did, they would be dead.) as everyone tumble over on the floor. Everyone groans in pain and are frustrated with Wash's driving of a giant shuttle.

"Sorry!" Wash apologizes, "Too soon! ...ow!"

After getting reoriented, they look out the side of the shuttle and see a very large ship that looks to be the size of the UNSC Infinity from Halo with four rings on it. Actually, four and a third. The back of the ship looks like it was hit by something with much of its debris floating just above the jungle planet.

"What happened to that ship?" Tucker asks.

"Possibly had an accident and that's what happens if you don't use the toilet." Caboose makes a theory. "You explode on the inside if you have your butt hole clogged."

Everyone give Caboose weird looks after they hear is theory.

"I don't think so." Senku says as he points at the ship, "See some of the rock debris at the end with some of the scorching? It was hit by a meteor that hit the thrusters and engines that caused an explosion. That's what caused it."

Wash looks at Senku, "And you're supposed to be a high school student, right?"

Emily shows up, "Who cares! I wanna use the teleporters already!"

Asher whispers to Carolina, "Is she always like this?"

Carolina asks, "Ask the guy she dismembered and reassembled at a nature reserve research facility in order to get the information out of the space pirates."

Asher gulps. Fenix overheard the conversation thanks to his lion ears as he gulps.

Emily does some button pressing over at a teleportation room, "Just let me try to cross reference some of this stuff and add my own splash of razzle-dazzle and viola!" She turns to the people heading in, "Before we begin, is anyone allergic to shellfish?"

The away team looks confused and are a bit nervous.

"Any peanut allergies? Allergies to animals, pollen, mold, dozens of electrical pulses through your bodies?"

Cardin asks with a scared expression, "What was that last part?!"

"Too late!" and she presses the button.

The teams and Qrow got teleported into the ship. They all ended-up in the cargo hold of the ship. Ruby looks around in her surroundings and realizes she's upside down and falls on top of her uncle. Some of the other members were upside down and fall on top of everyone else as they groan and complain.

"Whoops!" Dr. Gray says over everyone's scrolls and radios, "Sorry! Still working out some of the bugs. Oh wait. There was some interferences and the coordinates got screwed-up... Or is it just me? Oh well, just report what you see."

Pyke lifts his head, "That woman's gonna kill us."

Everyone got back up and get themselves organized.

Carolina says in military fashion, "Listen up! We're splitting up and search the ship for clues about what happened here and learn about the location of the Grand Paradise System. Figuring out what happened to the people is also one of our main objectives. We don't want any more surprises."

Sky raises his right hand.

"Yes?"

"How do I get out this chicken shit outfit?"

All members of Team CRDL giggle.

Wash quietly giggles and whispers to himself, "Awesome reference there."

Carolina approaches Sky and kick him right in the balls. Team CRDL step away and are scared of Carolina.

"As for Team CRDL's assignment, check the crates in this cargo hold. Let's move!"

Team CRDL try to help out Sky get back on his feet after a crushing blow to the sack. Everyone else headed out and enter into a section of the ship. What they see are rows and rows of stasis pods as far as the eye can see with the lights on.

"What kind of ship is this?" Yang asks.

"It's a colony ship." Carolina says, "Judging by the amount of stasis pods. And they're still active."

"If they have this many people," Blake states, "I'm guessing that many didn't survive in the back of the ship." She looks back and remembers that huge hole at the end where the engines and thrusters were.

Qrow asks, "What's keeping this ship powered?"

Senku says over the radio, "The rings have solar panels on them. This ship was design to have artificial gravity because of those rings while able to absorb the energy of the sun as a power source. Yet the scanners aren't picking up much. Keep an eye out. I'm a billion percent certain that there's more to this than meets the eye."

In one section of the ship, Team SAFR checkout one section of the ship to see what else is on this ship. Yet surprise, more stasis pods as far as they can see.

Asher says in a less enthusiastic tone, "Great. More pods." He walks up towards one, "Just what kind of people are they keeping in here?"

Asher turned to the pod next to his left and rubs the dust of the glass to see what kind of person is inside. The lights are still on in the pods so he has a very good clear view. What he sees inside is a woman inside. A young woman brown hair and small pointy ears with her eyes closed.

"Whoa!" Asher went, "She's naked!"

"Asher!" Arrastra scolds Asher before throwing a small stone at him.

"Ow!" he ended-up with a bruise on his forehead.

Fenix laughs, "Now that's funny."

Pyke looks at the holo display, "Let's see here. Name: Nowa. Species: Half-Elf. Chipped."

"Chipped?" Fenix tilted his head and raised an eyebrow, "What does that mean?"

"And what's a half-elf?"

Arrastra explains, "It's someone that is half-human and half-elf. You've guys seen some of those elves before."

Pyke then checks the next pod, "Name: Melona. Species: Slime. Chipped." Then the next pod, "Name: Rias Gremory. Species: Devil. Chipped." Then he moved on to the next, "Name: Moka Akashiya. Species: Vampire. Chipped."

"So all these pods are women?" Fenix asked. "But what about the whole chipped thing? What does it mean?"

In another section, Tucker peeks in one of the pods, "Oh yeah! Naked hotties!"

"TUCKER!" Carolina yells at him which scares the hell outta Tucker.

"Okay! Geez." Tucker joins up with the rest of the team.

Caboose asks, "Why are the ladies naked?"

Alpha Church says, "That is the most reasonable question you've ever asked, Caboose." he looks back at the pods, "Why?"

Ginro is rubbing against one of the pods with a devious smile with sharp teeth and a forked tongue, "Woo-hoo! I get to have my own harem!"

Nikki clobbers Ginro in the head and left a lot of bumps stacked on top of each other.

"My bad..." Ginro starts crying.

"Pervert."

Tucker asks, "So why exactly are we exploring this city-sized ship with fewer people from a shuttle when we have a ship a size of the Death Star's equator with an abundance of people, resources, and technology?"

Church answers, "The reason being is because a ship this size with possible contaminates could infect half the ship in a matter of minutes if not under certain quarantine guidelines. Something smaller, like a pod is more easily manageable."

"So this ship is too big too handle. Like me, bow-chika-bow-wow."

Church turns to his left, "God dammit."

"Yeah, you had that one coming. Bow-chika-bow-wow."

Ginro asks Tucker, "What does 'bow-chika-bow-wow' mean?"

As Tucker explains, Alpha Church says to Carolina, "But to be honest, more like laziness. Something that Grif would pull."

"But you gotta admit, there are a lot of people on board the Spearhead of Hope. And if we learn anything from the past, a massive amount of people means an increase of infections."

"True that."

At the bridge of the ship, Team RWBY are trying to access some of the logs to see what was the purpose of the ship. Weiss is trying to gain access to the black box, but is having a hard time figuring out the password. Blake already has access to the navigation computer and tries to pinpoint the origin of the ship. Ruby and Yang try to see how many people are on the ship while also trying to get some answers that everyone else is already asking.

"I got it!" Weiss managed to unlock the black box.

Ruby leans over, "What was the password?"

"It was...really dumb."

Yang leans over, "It was 1-2-3-4-5, wasn't it?"

"Yes." she says in a deadpan tone, "Yes it was." she types in, "Let's see what was the purpose of this ship." After some digging, they find out. "OH GOD!" Weiss sounds disturbed and disgusted at the same time as she looks away.

"What?!" Ruby asks Weiss, "What did you find?!"

Yang checks the computer, "Let's see here. According to this, this ship was meant to help repopulate the galaxy by giving women 'Lust Chips' and have them..." her eyes widen, "...rape the men and populate the planet?! The hell?! They all seek and find a man, share a man with other women that want to have sex, and breed non-stop! What the fuck, man!? Oh wait, we have none chipped, normal people in the...oh. They're in the back of the ship. Well, most were."

Blake found something on the computer, "No way." She is completely stunned by what she found, "This ship is from, the Grand Paradise System."

The rest of the team look at Blake and go, "WHAT?!"

It is a complete and total shock that the ship full of lusty, man-hungry women with sex inducing chips in their brains are from the Grand Paradise System. The same solar system that they are trying to get to. A new home for all to settle in this new and bizarre galaxy. Yet now they found a clue to that system. They all huddle around the computer.

Ruby shoves Blake over, "Where is it?!"

Weiss shoves Ruby over, "Is there any to it?!"

Then Yang shoves Weiss over, "What 're the exact coordinates so we can get there?!"

Blake gets everyone away from the computer, "Hang on, hang on! I'm looking at it now." She does some typing as she checks the navigation data and cross-reference with the data from the black box and the galactic map. However, there is a problem, "The data is corrupt. I only got some partial data. If the pod the Spearhead of Hope contain some data we need, we should have a complete map to plot a route to the Grand Paradise System."

Ruby radios in and is in a really cheery mood, "Senku, Dr. Gray, Doc, Wash, everyone! We have some data about where the Grand Paradise System is!"

"Holy shit!" Doc says over the radio, "For real!"

"Yes, but some of the data is corrupted. We need to find the other markers and hope their data is good."

"ALRIGHT!" Dr. Gray shouts through the radio waves that nearly caused everyone to be death. She starts to talk really fast, "GIVEUSTHEDATAANDWE'LLSEEABOUTWHATTHEYFOUNDONTHEPOD!"

"Hmm?" Yang notices something on one of the monitors. She takes a look and sees something in the ventilation and its moving. "There should be twenty-three of us, right?" she looks back.

Ruby counts with her fingers.

But Weiss goes, "Of course. Why?"

"Because the ship is detecting twenty-four life signs. There is someone lurking around in the vents."

In the vents; someone short, with very short dark purple hair with four large ball-shaped clumps resembling a mohawk, wearing a very simplistic, consisting only of a purple shirt and mask with a yellow cape, boots, and gloves. His pants are white with a lighter purple trim, and they stick out quite a lot around his waist. Peering through the vents is Minoru Mineta as he has a lustful look in his eyes and starts drooling non-stop that is leaking through the grates.

"So many boobalicious, bountiful and beautiful girls on this ship." she wipes his mouth while making a slurping sound, "And I want them all. Don't worry my sweets, I'll set you loose." and does a creepy, perverted laugh.

AN: Hey everyone! Hope you guys are doing okay with news about the new variant of COVID running around. Now to answer a question from Guest.

No. Sorry, I won't do any Frostpunk.

Until then, stay safe everyone!