Hey everyone toughguy2 here, now if yall are wonderin this idea came to me randomly. I saw a couple stories from different AU's and thought, why not do one on one of my favorite games, and thus RWBYfall was born. hope yall enjoy.

And yes, this is the second go around, my last account was lost to me (for reasons that will be left unsaid) I am about to start college soon, so updates will be spotty at best. And for that I do apologize, with how I am writing this, I have no end plan, no goal, and most likely shit tear writing ability. Yay. Please be nice and not kill me, I'm still new at this.

Pilots.

The best of the best.

They change the way the battle is fought. Shere walls become flaking routes. Technology not given out easily is at their disposal. Holograms, grapples, pulse blades, stim shots, phase technology, and booster packs. But what really sets apart the pilot from all the grunts and machine soldiers is but one thing.

The Titan.

The bond between titan and pilot is unlike any other. Man becomes one with machine. They form a bond that can only be broken in death. Recent years have caused the production of these machines to slow and their cost, great. So few are named pilots now. But even among the few pilots, there are elite groups, most notably the Apex Predators, who work as mercenaries to the highest bidder, no morals at all, and the 6-4, a family who fight as mercenaries with the goal of bettering the Frontier. These two teams were at odds with each other when the IMC invaded the Frontier in their conquest for power, wealth and resources. The Apex Predators were almost wiped out and so were the 6-4. They realized that their pilots were too green for combat, but it was all they had. Then when the IMC was defeated and forced out of the Frontier, they created the pilot schools. It was used to train pilots and when they graduate, they choose a side Apex Predators or 6-4, or they would create their own groups or join smaller groups of pilots like The Last Resort. But that's not all that happened. In wake of the IMC, The G.R.I.M. came. Generated Reconnaissance and Interception machines. Automated drones that have an unknown origin. Old model Reapers, but bulkier, are now called Beowulfs, are the most common. Ursai take the form of smaller chasied atlas model titans. The larger Grim are regular or larger chasied Titans or Behemoths. They came without warning, without mercy, and many planets were lost, some even destroyed in the beginning of the conflict. And so the 6-4 stepped up to defend the remnants of the Frontier. They donned the new title of Huntsman as they were no longer mercenaries, but the defenders of the Frontier. This is why Huntsman fight. They are what I strive to be. My name is Ruby Rose and I am a pilot training to be Huntress.

***RWBYfall***

Roman Torchwick is a renowned criminal. Also a very pissed off man at the moment. It was supposed to be an easy heist. Use the titans to ground the ship with the threat of blowing it out of the sky, transfer the money and D.U.S.T. from the ship to another that was landed close by, and get out. And everything was perfect. Until a female voice came from his titan. "Incoming Hostile Titanfall! Move now!"

While he was able to move in time, the titan next to his was not so lucky, being destroyed by the impact. Romans titan was an Ion class titan outfitted with a cluster missile launcher, extra thrusters, and an arc energy reactor that he used like a whip to stun other titans. It was white, gray, and orange with the words "Melodic Curdle" under the eye and a Jack-o-lantern nose art.

The titan he was looking at was a Northstar class titan with a plasma rifle that had the addition of a scythe blade at the underbelly tip of the barrel. It was painted red and black and had a red rose nose art and the words "Crescent Rose" under the eye. Roman was not happy.

"Well don't just stand there, get it!"

At that the four other titans with him rushed the northstar. Said titan quickly backed up and fired a shot into the hip joint of one of the titans causing its leg to fall off. Roman looked at the downed titan as its pilot climbed out the hatch. Sure they were old atlas models, but come on. They should be able to take more of a beating. Leave it to Junior to have shitilly maintained titans. One of his men closed the distance. The northstar swung her scythe blade into the titans arm joint and cut toward the cockpit. It cut through the metal like butter which revealed that the blade was as sharp as it looked. The next man charged in trying to use his sword to cut her down. The swing was met by the blade. It brought the sword to the ground and then swung up launching the titan backward with a cut in the cockpit. The last one took up a firing position with a XO-16 chaingun and laid down fire. The northstar used its boosters to weave around the bullets charging the railgun up. The northstar stopped, firing a shot that pierced the cockpit on the right side, disabling the titan, but miraculously sparing the pilot, but it did blow his arm off. The first pilot kept him from dying though. The northstar turned to Roman and through its speaker its pilot yelled out in a high-pitched voice that sounded like a young girl.

"It's over, surrender now!"

Roman was even more pissed. A fucking wet-eared girl in a titan beat his men in under five minutes. "Well Red, you have adequately ruined my day and I would love to stay and chat, but this is where we part ways." Roman threw up a smoke screen and fired a cluster missile at her. The northstar used its extra thrusters to fly to the side to dodge the missile. Roman took off out of the smoke screen to his rendezvous point where there was a large titan transport waiting for him. The northstar followed close behind with its added thrusters. Roman boarded the transport when his titan called out, "Incoming titanfall! Roman we need to leave!

"Working on it Melodic!"

Roman looked back at the new titan. It was a Vanguard class titan with a XO16A2 chaingun. It was painted purple with the words "Disciplinarian" under the eye. It had a vortex shield reactor, lock on rockets, and a free fire missile launcher on its back."

"Patch me through to the boss."

A female voice answered. " What do you want Roman?"

"We got a huntress!"

"Fuck, get in here and pilot the ship, I'll deal with her."

Roman ran into the ship and disengaged from his titan. His boss ran to her titan, a Vanguard class with a 40mm tracker cannon, missile barrage, and a thermal shield. She took up a crouching position as Roman lifted the transport. The huntress came into the clearing and let loose rounds from her chaingun. Cinder fired back and hit the chassis twice. She needed one more for the missile barrage. Then the northstar came into the clearing and started to fire at Cinder. Cinder changed targets and landed three quick shots on the northstar. She fired the missiles at it, but before they reached it the huntress stopped them with a vortex shield. The ship began to take off and as a parting gift, Cinder dropped some incendiary traps that were on the ship and when they landed, she climbed out of her titan and threw a firestar at the traps setting them off and causing the northstar to fly backward and the huntress to put up a vortex shield. They took off leaving them both there.

***RWBYfall***

Ruby was ecstatic, she destroyed four titans on her own! Granted the last one got away, but still an accomplishment. And she's standing next to a huntress with her titan! And better yet it was the famous Glynda Goodwitch! Sure the bad guys got away but look at the bright side, she saved the shipment. Ruby opened her canopy once the danger had passed as did the huntress.

"OH MY GOD YOUR A HUNTRESS! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH!" The huntress was less than pleased at this.

"Young lady do you know the situation that you are in! Reckless endangerment as well as unauthorized use of force! You and I are gonna have a talk after this. Now get onto the transport."

At that a titan transport ship landed. They both boarded with Ruby having a dejected look on her face.

'Could be worse, I guess, at least I'm not in an interrogation room.' Ruby thought.

***RWBYfall***

And she was in an interrogation room.

'I just had to think it.'

Ruby sat in an interrogation room in her lightweight grapple gear, painted red with her helmet on the table. It had a red rose painted above the right eye. "Young lady after what you pulled you are lucky to still have license to pilot a titan! Granted you did save the shipment, but that doesn't make it right. For all you know it could have been an armed receiver of the shipment."

"Well ma'am, they had sent a distress call before getting cut off so I-"

"Rose, I understand, and given the outcome will not fault you. Much. But even with the distress call, you were on a ferry shipment to Beacon headquarters, how the hell did you get authorization for a titanfall!"

"Well you see…...I…...didn't." Ruby said quietly while squirming in the seat and looking down.

Glyda's head snapped to look at her so fast it should have snapped her neck. "What?"

Ruby swallowed hard. She was fucked. "I-I d-didn't."

"You are telling me that you conducted a titanfall in a possible misunderstanding scenario that could have led to not only the death of yourself, but the shipment crew and a possible retrieval crew UNAUTHORIZED!?"

"Ye-yes." Ruby was beyound fucking terified at this point.

" ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! GOD DAMN IT! If it were up to me, you go home with a pat on the back, and a fucking bullet to your knees." At that she slammed her hand onto the table causing Ruby to jump very concerned for her knees and not understanding why she specifically said her knees. "But it isn't up to me. Instead, for God knows whatever fucking reason, someone wants to talk to you." At that a man with gray hair and an air of superiority around him dressed in a military service uniform with the rank of a One star general walked in a cane in one hand, and a plate of cookies in the other with a smile on his face. Ruby immediately stood up and snapped to attention in a salute. Pilots are still a part of the military after all.

"At ease Ms. Rose." Ruby sat down, leaned back in her chair and looked quizzically at him trying to act relaxed. Even though they are military, that doesn't mean pilots follow normal military procedures, they are free agents after all and besides, they have high ranks in military regards. "You have silver eyes. "

"Uh…" Ruby was completely confused and didn't know how to respond.

"Please, do not hold yourself back, they are very good." He said setting the cookies on the table. "You may be wondering why I wanted to talk to you, well it's because of this." He turned a tablet around and slid it over to her. "Where did you learn to fight like that?" The tablet had a recording of the fight shot from an overhead view.

"Signal pilot academy sir."

"Signal taught you to fight with a modified scythe gun that is rarely even seen. Interesting. I was not aware that they did combat titan training. It reminds me of someone though, a dusty old crow."

At this point Ruby had thought fuck it and started to devour the cookies. They were really good.

"Thaf mf unfl Fro." Glynda's glare became even scarier at that. She swallowed the three cookies that she had stuffed in her mouth. "S-sorry. That's my uncle Qrow sir, he taught me how to fight. I was complete fucking garbage when I started ya know and now I'm all like-"

"Rose." Glynda effectively shut Ruby up at that.

"I see, and why do you want to fight?" The man said after a small laugh.

"Well, I want to be a huntress."

"You want to fight monsters?"

Ruby nodded. "I want to protect people. Military service is great and all, but huntsman and huntresses get so much more action and get access to titans and-"

"Rose. Stop rambling." Glynda was not amused.

"S-sorry ma'am."

Ozpin laughed again. "Now Glynda, she's just excited is all. Now, by how you reacted when I walked in you know who I am?"

"Your Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon academy and a war hero."

Ozpin smiled at that. "Hello."

"Hi." Ruby grinned sheepishly.

"Well, I have a question for you." At that Ruby looked quizzically at him. "How would you like to come to Beacon?"

Ruby looked shocked. "Sir, it's all I ever wanted."

Ozpin smiled and sat forward in his chair. "Well then, I humbly welcome you to Beacon. But please, do not titanfall unauthorized again. We cannot be lenient again."

"I understand sir. So does this mean I get to keep my knees?" Ozpin nodded, smiling wider. Ruby was ecstatic, but she didn't let it show completely. She just smiled and replied, "Thank you sir. I won't let you down."

"Good, I know you won't, now you are dismissed."

"Yes sir. Thank you sir." Ruby got up, grabbed her helmet and walked out of the room. Once outside she let out a whoop in excitement and jumped in the air all giddy and shit, even doing a little dance. She was going to Beacon! Two years early at that. Her and Crescent Rose were gonna rock this show. She then heard a creak signifying that she did not close the door. She looked back into the room and saw Ozpin looking at her with a smile and Glynda with a frown. She blushed and smiled sheepishly walking away slowly.

***RWBYfall***

"Ozpin, are you sure about this?"

"Glynda, she has only small supervised recon missions on her record, yet she took down four titans in under six minutes. She has skill."

"But Ozpin, she went with an unauthorized titanfall! Her psych evaluation shows she rushes in blindly and has trouble working with others. She goes by whatever she feels and has a history of disregarding orders. She is not ready."

"Perhaps you're right Glynda. But answer me this. Would you trust her to watch you six in the field?" Ozpin said looking at her.

Glynda sighed. "That's the problem, I would. And that is what worries me."

Ozpin just hummed and stared at the doorway.

*** RWBYfall***

Hey guys, just wanted to say, if you see this, thank you for reading this far at least! If any of you have any tips or ideas, I am open to them, you never know, I may use it or use the basis of it. And if anyone is interested in beta-ing some of the chapters and what not, let me know. After all, this is my first RWBY story.

Peace out my peeps!