Hello everyone, its maus. Yep I'm back. Boy has it been a wild ride during my semester's finals. Too much projects were needed to be completed and submitted which further induced my writer's block. Anyway, here is the new official chapter like I promised. I may be posting the next chapter next year because I want to spend my short Christmas break just free and spend the Holidays with my family, but still I present to you guys the new chapter of this story. Hope you enjoyed it.

Anyways, I hope of all of you are doing good and Happy Holidays!

"Unidentified aircraft, you are entering Vale airspace with no clearance from Vale or from the other Kingdoms" a voice from the prowler's radio sounded. The ship the Reds and Blues were flying in was currently approaching the city of Vale. JD set the radio frequency to communicate with the Air Traffic Control.

"What do we do Wash?" asked Tucker. The crew were currently at the bridge formulating plans on what to do when they set foot on the city. Some were excited getting to check out the sights to see while the others were a bit more cautious due to the events which happened earlier. "I'll think of something" answered Washington. "JD would you mind handing me the comms?" The ODST nodded and handed the radio to the grey Freelancer.

"Unidentified aircraft, please respond-"

"This is UNSC-?" JD pointed to a sign. The ship's name is the UNSC Voyager.

"Control, this is the UNSC Voyager taking off from Atlas and heading into Vale National Airport."

A pregnant pause followed with Washington slapping is forehead and cursing.

"Damn it, why did I have to mention the UNSC" Washington groaned. "We're screwed.". "Aw, don't worry Washingtub, you did your best. They'll just probably consider your answer correct and give you an A+" Caboose tried to reassure his friend. Before Carolina could say something, the air control cut her off.

"Please properly identify yourself Voyager, we have not heard of this UNSC whatsoever and we have received no flight transmission from Atlas. Again please properly identify yourselves or you will be listed as hostile. You are entering restricted airspace." The group were unsure of what to do.

"Again please properly identify yourselves, we have two escort aircraft inbound to your location and will guide you to sector 2B where you will land, be apprehended and interrogated. Please respond Voyager." JD then cuts off the radio transmission and sets the prowler in stealth mode to be invisible from the radar and also in sight.

"Or, we could just do that." added Simmons.

"Alright, so since we now have our so called "identities" set-up, are we ok to now explore the place?" asked Donut.

"It should be fine now. Just remember to act normal and, not get into trouble. Can you do that Caboose?" Carolina said to everyone while also reminding the blue dimwitted soldier. "Uh yeah, I didn't manage to hear all of that so I'm just gonna nod and say yes." replied Caboose.

Doc then joined the conversation. "About the part where we explore around the place, how are we going to do it? Will we be wearing our armor? Because people will be giving us stares."

"Just try to not attract attention too much." replied Carolina.

"Yeah, that's gonna be impossible. How are we supposed to act low-key when all of us are wearing brightly colored armor." Grif deadpanned. Simmons interrupted his buddy. "Do you have a better idea fatass?

"..."
"Well?"

"Shut it" Grif retorted. "Ok" said Washington "like what Carolina said, try not to draw too much attention. Be on your best behavior." The whole crew went into an agreement. After a good hour of flying, the Voyager landed in a secluded area in the outskirts of the city, just outside the walls.

As everyone prepared to check their equipment, Dr. Grey grabbed everyone's attention. "Excuse me, everyone."

"What is it doctor." Carolina asked.

"In order to procure some items that we may need, me and Simmons managed to create some counterfeit forms of their currency." Dr. Grey then showed to the guys a plastic card with a letter L with two lines in the middle. "This little guy here is called Lien, which is Remnant's form of money."

"Nice" muttered Donut. "Great work you two." complimented Doc.

"Simmons, did you make sure that what you and the crazy doctor here crafted is not some playing cards from monopoly?" Sarge questioned his trusted underling.

"Don't worry sir. Even though what we're doing is illegal, it's the only way we can get some stuff we need."

"Hot damn, the IRS better not be crawling up our assess when we go ahead and pay our bills with these."

"I'm sure there is no trace of that agency in any part of Remnant."

The sim troopers equally divided each amount of money among them and headed into three scout warthogs in which four people can sit in each one. JD made sure the ship was set in both lockdown mode and stealth mode to be safe. After doing so they drove their way towards the wall where the outskirts of the city was situated.


Two guards were busy doing sentry duty until they saw some vehicles approaching towards them.

"Halt" one of the guards from the wall gestured for the vehicles to stop. Another one made his way down to inspect them. As he made his way towards the vehicles, he sees strangers completely covered in what seemed to be soldiers with some sort of advanced power armor. The guard and the passengers stared in silence until the guard saw two more of the vehicles with more of the armored strangers riding them.

There was an awkward silence until the guard spoke up.

"Uh, verification please." He said.

"Here you go sir." one of the armored people, a female in cyan colored armor spoke up and handed him the ID. The grey one in the driver's seat did the same along with the aqua and blue ones in the back.

"Ok, all of these check out." I'll be doing the same to the rest of your friends back there."

"Yes sir." replied the grey with steel trims colored person. The guard made his way to the second vehicle which also has soldiers but with armor with different shades of red. All of them appear to be bickering at the moment. All of them stopped what they were doing and handed to their IDs to the guard when they noticed him. The same goes for the third vehicle in which they also handed their IDs.

The guard returned to the first vehicle and said "Ok, all of you are verified. Welcome back to Vale. Have a nice day now."

"Thank you sir, have a good day too." replied the cyan armored girl.

The guard nodded and motioned for his partner to open the gate to let the vehicles drive through. Once they were all in, he returned back to his post which his partner asked him "Who were those people?"

The guard replied "They probably must have been Huntsmen and Huntresses in training. All of them sounded young enough to pass for teenagers."

His partner just nodded in return.


"Ok, so, where do we go first?" asked Washington.

"Well, people are going to give us some stares since we all are wearing armor. I say we buy us some civilian clothes first since we only have military BDUs back at the ship." replied Carolina.

Tucker then radioed the rest. "Okay guys, looks like were up for a little shopping, we'll be heading to the mall for some supplies." This got squeals of excitement from Donut and Dr. Grey.

As they continued to drive by, they took notice to the buildings around them. Plenty of the buildings and houses they passed by look like they were built during the Victorian era of England and some European influences while also having some modern ones. There were also some unique looking ships flying about. They also drove by along the docks and saw a big cliff in the distance with a big castle structure situated on it. That will be researched by them when they return to the Voyager, which currently served as their current base of operations. People were also just strolling about, both Human and Faunus alike.

"Looks like not every Faunus is part of the White Fang." said Doc

When they reached the mall, they hopped off and went to the entrance. Before they could enter however, a security guard stopped them.

"Woah now, what's with the get up?" asked the guard. "Do you happen to be Huntsmen and Huntresses in training?. Huntsmen and Huntresses? Looks like another term that they will be researching later.

"Don't worry sir, we are just here for supplies." Carolina said to the security guard.

"Ok then, well, how about you take your helmets off so I can be reassured, please don't take any of this personally."

The reds and blues did what they were told and removed their helmets. The guard was then reaffirmed when he saw that they were just teenagers hiding under all that armor. He then took notice of two individuals who didn't do the same thing with the others.

"What's up with those two?"

Sarge spoke up. "Oh, this right here is our resident robot slash mechanic Lopez."

"Hola" Lopez greeted.

"A robot huh, impressive. Did you build him?"

"Sir yes sir." replied Sarge.

The guard gave an impressed nod and turned his attention to JD.

"And what about you sir?"

A weird humming sound out of nowhere came along with the Rookie's stare.

"HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM"

"What was that?" asked Grif.

"Hehe, nevermind you get to keep yours" the guard nervously said. "Since you happen to be carrying weapons, please drop them off over by the counter over there." The guard pointed as he let the crew in. The metal detectors blared as each one of them passed through achieving the stares of others who were in the vicinity.

"As for you sir, let me just check your bag." The guard asked for JD to remove his rucksack to check for contents that may be banned in malls. Once it was over he rejoined the rest of the gang. The mall was a big place filled with different types of stores. Donut could barely contain his excitement and had to be restrained by some of his teammates. As they try to find the department store, they received curious looks from other mall goers, mostly kids and teens who thought they were cosplayers or something. A young boy dragged his parents and pleaded to them that they could get a picture of the soldiers. The family kindly asked them to which the troopers reluctantly agreed to.

Before more people come to ask for photographs they luckily found the department stored and ushered their way in. The gang found the clothes section and searched for clothes of their choice.

"Man, I can't wait to try all of these out. I really need to see if which clothes can properly match my overall look." Donut said.

"No time for that pinky pants. We quickly choose the best ones, and get out of here on the pronto. Just because we're here to shop doesn't mean we- Blazing blazes of glory, I need to get me some of those boots!" Before Sarge can continue what he said to Donut, the red colonel got easily distracted by military styled casual wear. Everyone then chose what they wanted to purchase.

Washington settled for something simplistic. He chose a gray polo shirt with two yellow buttons on the middle. He also bought khaki cargo pants with white casual sneakers.

Tucker purchased a black shirt with an unzipped teal hoodie. He also has some jogger pants with green running sneakers.

Caboose chose a rather childish sort of outfit given his mentality. He chose a blue shirt with the kitten and puppy on it. He also bought faded jeans and black canvas sneakers

Sarge chose what he wanted from the combat outfit area of clothing. He chose a military jacket with a red tank top underneath. He also bought some combat pants and boots to go along with it.

Simmons decided to be formal by buying a red dress shirt with gray pants and brown canvas sneakers. He also wore a maroon flat cap.

Grif chose a baggy orange hoodie with a picture of a burger and soda in the middle. He also bought brown baggy cargo shorts and has orange mid top basketball sneakers.

For Doc, he bought a plain white shirt with a purple jacket since he dons purple armor. He also bought some blue jeans and purple running shoes.

Donut decided on something flamboyant. He bought a black sweater and a pink trench coat to match. He also bought some designer pants some leather boots.

JD also chose something unique. He bought a grey jumpsuit with a black hoodie and some white golf gloves, with a black balaclava and red tinted aviators to cover his face. To go along with his outfit, he bought a pair of high top sneakers. (For reference of the jumpsuit, check JABBAWOCKEEZ's choreography of Dababy's Bop. Those were cool.)

His outfit got curious looks from his friends.

"Estas usando eso en serio?(Are you seriously wearing that?)" asked Lopez.

"I agree Lopez, JD now looks like some sort of mugger." Donut mistranslated what Lopez said while also judging the Rookie's choice of clothes.

JD shrugged and shook his head in disapproval.

Tucker proceeded to ask. "Dude, why hide your face man?"

A weird tribal drum pattern sounded while JD stared at Tucker.

"Ok ok, I see your point. Man, where did that music come from?" Tucker asked exasperatedly.

"Guess I'm not the only one hearing things." Simmons agreed.

After waiting, the girls returned.

Like with Washington, Carolina also chose a simplistic look with a cyan colored shirt, plain jeggings and some light blue canvas shoes while Dr. Grey bought a purple Sunday dress with a doctor's coat and some slip on shoes.

"Well, it seems everyone already has theirs. Ok, let's quickly pay for these and head out." Carolina said. The group followed after her and made their way to the cashier.

"You know what" started Grif "this kinda feels just like back home. Only with less advanced things and no UNSC and colonization whatsoever."

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with you dirtbag." Sarge said.

After paying for their clothes, they placed it in bags and retrieved their weapons from the counter. They exited the mall and made their way to the warthogs until screams of civilians are heard and explosions.

"What the blazes was that!?" exclaimed Sarge.

"Well, we aren't gonna find out just by standing here. Come on." ordered Washington.

The crew quickly hopped in and drove towards the noise.

And there you have it. I hope you guys enjoyed this. Happy Holidays to you all!

Also, even though unrelated to the story, who do you think will dominate the 2020-21 NBA season? I kinda feel the Lakers will have a repeat and will be the top seed in the West but who knows.

Anyways, maus69420 signing out. Adios!