Chapter 5 in da house! And an extra-long one too!

I apologize if this took a while, I had to attend my town's harvest supper and I was busy working on the fight scenes.

Review Time!

37: And it's only going to get thicker!

Foreteller of Three: Thanks for the constructive criticism.

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Guest #1: Many months, if not maybe years.

Big Smoke & Mastermind: You two have some amazingly good theories and I'm planning on making a backstory to all this sometime in the future.

Guest #2: I think the seizure part goes to Cinder and Qrow can help Ozpin on that liquor idea.

Red John: The Grimm version of the Hekaton will take the stage but i think there still might be room for the Grimm Dragon.

Iudex Gundeeeeee: I love Wolfenstein but I probably won't be doing any crossovers with that, I have too many stories to work on.

Wayward Son: That won't happen but I will find a way to keep Ishi from ever running out of power.

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Chapter 5

A New World

EMERALD FOREST-PLATEAU

Grayson slowly opened his eyes and was greeted with the sun shining brightly in the sky. He wearily got up and inspected himself. Aside from a few singed areas on his clothing, he was miraculously okay. He got up and was greeted with the sight of his ship in flames. Then, everything started to come back to him in the worst way possible.

His hands began to shake as he looked at them. He had just lost two of his best friends and by the looks of it; he had most likely lost Ishi as well. He shook his head as overwhelming guilt began to well up inside of him. Then he heard something behind him and turned around to see one of the werewolves, heavily wounded and trying to crawl away.

Grayson's grief was replaced by uncontrollable rage as he grabbed a nearby rock and ran straight at the creature! He tackled it to the ground and began savagely smashing it's skull in with the rock, each hit sending black blood and pieces of its bone mask flying everywhere!

CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK

Grayson continued to pound the werewolf's head into an unrecognizable mess even though it was already dead, grief and fury consuming every part of his soul.

"FUCK!"

CRACK

"FUCK!"

CRACK

"FUCK!"

CRACK

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!"

KA-SPLAT

Grayson began taking deep, ragged breaths as he got off the werewolf's corpse and fell to his knees. He angry punched the ground as his lips curled into an ugly grimace. It was all of his fault. His friends were dead because of him. All because of his drunken fit of rage and his vendetta against Serrano. They had all been through the worst that Sarrano threw at them and they became like small family of brothers. But now that was gone. He was now the last remaining member of Dead Echo.

After wallowing in his own guilt for several minutes, Grayson got himself up, composed himself and picked up Boneduster that was lying just a few feet away from him. This wasn't the time to be moping; this was the time for action. He would continue fighting and living for his fallen friends. It's what they would've wanted.

First order of business was to head over to the Ulysses crash site and make sure that Sarrano was dead. Once that was done, he would travel to the city that he and Rell saw earlier and maybe ask the inhabitants for a ship they could give him-

"Gray…" Someone croaked.

Grayson spun himself around to the source of the voice and was both shocked and relived to see that it was Ishi! The cyborg still held HeadHunter but then he slumped up against a chunk of the ship.

"Ishi! Thank God you're alive!" Grayson gasped.

"Help me…please…the pain…" He groaned as he staggered over to Grayson, his faced wracked with agony.

"Woah, hold on!" Grayson said as he rushed over and helped Ishi up. "Just take it easy. You're lucky to be alive, buddy."

"Luck…" Ishi began but then his eye suddenly turned blood red. "Luck is not relevant." His voice had become dangerously low and metallic sounding.

"Uh…what?" Grayson replied, a little disturbed by Ishi's sudden change in attitude.

"No-I'm- Gray! Somethings wrong! What's happening!?" Ishi babbled incoherently as his voice became more and more distorted. He finally collapsed to the ground, coughing and sweating profusely.

Grayson knelt down to his friend and broke the news to him. "You were seriously hurt in the attack. Doc had to replace your limbs with bionic prosthetics and had he had to patch up your brain with a bioprocessor along with our ship's artificial intelligence. You're going to have trouble getting used to it but….i-i-it's like an amputation." Grayson stuttered, trying to find the right word for Ishi's current state.

"But I'm not going to leave you like this. I'm gonna help you." Grayson assured him. But before he could even move a muscle, Ishi's cybernetic arm instantly clamped around Grayson's throat and lifted him up off his feet!

Ishi slowly stood up, his left eye now red and his features was one of undisguised fury. "You? You are going to help me? I'm having an extremely difficult time seeing how you of all people can help me. Your drunken thirst for revenge just killed our crew."

"You're…you're right." Grayson confessed, despite the vice-like grip around his neck. "You were right about warping us away from the Ulysses. If I had listened to you then all of this wouldn't have happened. I'm…I'm sorry."

Ishi's cybernetic eye reverted back to blue and his features softened, touched by Grayson's apology. His grip on his friend's throat loosened and he began to let him down slowly. Grayson felt relieved that he managed to get through to him but then Ishi's eye suddenly turned back to red and resumed strangling the life out of Grayson!

"You're sorry?!" Ishi snarled. He threw Grayson up against the ship and menacingly marched towards him in pure bloodlust. "YOU'RE SORRY?!" Ishi raged.

As Grayson struggled to get up, he began to realize what was going on with his friend. "Ishi! The AI is trying to take control of your mind! You have to fight it! You can't let it-URK!" Grayson's pleas fell upon deaf ears as Ishi grabbed him by the throat again and slammed him up against the hull of their ruined ship. The cyborg raised his fist, ready to put it straight through Grayson's skull.

"I am going to kill you, Grayson Hunt. I see no logical reason not to-"

Boop Boop Boop Boop Boop Boop

Ishi looked down at the beeping device on Grayson's hand and released him. "That is a Final Echo Instinct Leash." Ishi identified, his AI persona gone.

"Yeah. So what?" Grayson said as he got up, casting a cautious look towards Ishi.

"The communication line. Open it but mute the mike." Ishi instructed. Grayson tapped a couple of buttons and it activated its communications function.

"…Repeat, all Final Echo survivors report positions." Came the voice of a tough sounding woman who had no doubt been through her fair share of several battles.

"Trishka, this is Sarrano!" The dreaded General barked. His voice was shrill, hoarse, grating and betokened extreme sadism along with unnecessary cruelty towards baby animals. "I'm alive but stuck on some damned hotel rooftop! Shake that sweet little can of yers! Locals are congregating; I'm in the shit here and need some help!"

"To any other Echo survivors, switch to tracker and zero in on my location. I'm off to guard the General downtown."

Grayson turned off the communications in anger. "Sarrano…that motherfucker is here." And he was still alive. As Grayson fumed over his failed attempt to kill the man that ruined the lives of so many innocents, an idea popped into his head. He started to chuckle to himself.

"This changes everything, Ishi! Even if you don't want to rid the galaxy of that son of a whore, rescue jumpships will be here soon to bail his ass out of here. Jumpships that we can use as well. Process that chance of survival."

Ishi mulled this over for a moment before realizing what Grayson was getting at. "Can you track the woman?"

"Got it." He tapped a button and the leash located the woman known as Trishka. "If we can find that broad, we can track her to Sarrano and-"

"We use the General to get off-world. Killing him is counterproductive." Ishi interrupted, knowing full well what Grayson was really planning. "I know how important it is for you to 'help' me."

As much as Grayson really wanted to kill Sarrano, Ishi had a point. If they killed him before the jumpships arrived then they would be stuck on an unknown, uncharted planet at the very end of the galaxy. Ishi needed better medical treatment and the lingering AI had to be purged out of his mind. In order for that to happen, they needed to leave this world. His friend took first priority.

"Yeah, of course. I wasn't thinking of killing him." Grayson hesitantly admitted. "We get to him; we get you off-word. I know some ex-Confederate bioengineers that can you fixed up, Ishi. I swear it on my mother's grave."

Ishi didn't look hopeful. His expression soured and he narrowed his eyes at Grayson. "Then if I expire, you have failed you last bid for redemption." He huffed as he picked up HeadHunter and walked away from him.

"Guess so." Grayson glumly muttered. There was the very real possibility that their friendship was over but he wouldn't rest until he helped Ishi. Grayson noticed Ishi starting to stumble around a little as he held his head in pain. He quickly rushed over to him.

"What's wrong?"

"The battery cell within my bioprocessor is low. If I do not recharge it soon, I will die."

Grayson swore under his breath. The search for that Final Echo woman would have to wait. He toyed around with his Instinct Leash to see if it could locate someplace that could give Ishi a much needed recharge. It came through and Grayson's face lit up at the results.

"Good news, man. There's a large facility southeast from here with high energy readings. It won't be easy getting there with all these weremonster freakjobs attacking us but it's the only place that's gotta have some power cells."

"Then I will follow you…this one last time."

HIGH ABOVE THE EMRALD FOREST

Penny hovered high above the treetops of the Emerald Forest with a conflicted look on her face. Earlier, she had made good progress in her course to the 1st downed ship. She had combined her swords, Hephaestus, into a jetpack so that she could travel to the crash site as quickly as possible.

But then her sensors detected unidentified hostiles were attacking Vale City and she had stopped mid-flight. She looked to the thin column of smoke to her right and then looked back to the city where her auditory sensors could pick up the sounds of gunfire and battle.

Penny was now faced with a tough decision. Should she head back and assist Ironwood and the Atlesian forces or resume her mission? After meticulously running numerous calculations through her internal processors, she concluded that the Atlesian forces currently stationed there were more than capable of defending the city. With the addition of Beacon Academy's Hunters and Huntresses, along with others from the kingdoms participating in the tournament, their chances of survival increased. She had faith in General Ironwood and the rest of his forces and knew they could handle the situation.

As she resumed her flight towards the crash site, she began to wonder what the unknown hostiles were…

EMERALD FOREST-PLATEAU

Grayson and Ishi navigated their way through the rocky chasms of the plateau; most of which had pieces of the ship strewn about. The Instinct Leash had done a pretty good job steering them in the right direction to the facility. Grayson still had his eyes on the Leash but didn't notice some of the barrels from their ship were aflame!

BOOM

"GAH!"

The explosion knocked Grayson off his feet but he was thankfully unharmed.

"Stay alert. There are many volatile components amid the debris." Ishi advised.

"Roger." Grayson said but then noticed a dark shape hunched atop the rocks and then leap towards Ishi!

"DUCK!" Grayson yelled as he friend instinctively ducked down to avoid what just tried to pounce on him. Grayson and Ishi got a good look at the being that tumbled across the ground: it was a dinosaur-like creature with two hind legs, no arms and a long tail covered in spikes. But one distinct feature was that it looked just like the werewolves and werebears!

They began to hear the sounds of something running towards them and they turned around to see two more of them coming straight at them! The first one charged at Grayson but it never got the chance as it was blown into pieces by Boneduster.

BAKOOOOM

One of the approaching creatures jumped towards Ishi with its fanged maw wide open but the cyborg rammed his metal fist straight down its gullet and pulled out its dark colored entrails! The 3rd creature was almost upon Ishi but he backfisted it away from him and while it was stunned, ripped off the top half of its head!

"Damn! Nice job, Mortal Kombat!" Grayson commented.

Ishi nodded in approval but then snapped his head towards the rocky path ahead of them.

"I am picking up three hostile signatures heading towards us." The two of them readied their weapons and they saw three warthog like monsters round the corner of the chasm. They each had jet black fur, four eyes, covered in bony plates, rattlesnake-like fangs and two oversized, curved tusks.

"Fucking perfect. First wereraptors and now werehogs. This planet's just chock full of fucked up surprises." Grayson sarcastically complained.

"Let us dispose of them so we can continue-" Ishi's suggestion was cut short when the werehogs suddenly rolled themselves up and barreled straight towards them!

"What the!?" Grayson balked as the creatures smashed through the rocks and debris with the force of a speeding car! Grayson fired Boneduster at the nearest one but it swerved away from the shot and slammed into him! He was thrown to the ground as it rolled past him.

Ishi ducked down to avoid the 2nd one but the 3rd werehog rammed right into him, sending him crashing into a rock. The werehogs swiveled themselves around launched themselves at the duo again! Grayson rolled out of the way to avoid the first one but one of its fangs sliced across his thigh, making him shout out in pain.

The other two went for Ishi again but he lifted up a jagged slab of their ship and stabbed it in front of him, forming a makeshift ramp. The werehogs rolled across the ramp and soared through the air before landing back to the ground. This did not deter the beasts as the once again rolled towards them once again.

Thinking quickly, Grayson leashed the slab of metal and swung it in a horizontal arc. The razor sharp debris sliced through the werehogs like a hot knife through butter! The last one was nearing Grayson but he flung out the slab and deactivated his leash at the last second so that it speared right into the werehog and impaled it into the chasm wall!

"Sweet dreams, Porkchop." Grayson smiled. The werehog squealed in pain before mercifully expiring. He grunted in pain as he sat himself down on a rock. The cut on his thigh looked bad and Ishi tore off a chunk of his shirt and wrapped it around the wound.

"If we ever get off this rock, I'm tellin' everyone to stay as far away from it as possible. This planet's a fuckin' death world just like Regulus 6." Grayson hissed as he got up. He noticed Ishi staring at one of the dissipating corpses of the monsters. He dipped his finger into a puddle of its black blood and rubbed it between his thumb and index finger. It was unnaturally thick.

"I am unable to get a scan of these creatures." Ishi observed. "It's most likely due to their strange biology."

"Let me try." Grayson suggested and he leveled his Instinct Leash at the bodies. A wide cone of light emitted from the tip and it moved up, down and across the corpses. It disappeared and a big red "ERROR" sign popped up on the holographic display.

"No luck." He commented. They instantly heard numerous growling noises above them and they looked up to see 10 of the wereraptors perched on the rocks above them! With a load roar, the wereraptors jumped off the rocks towards them but Ishi aimred HeadHunter at them and pulled the trigger.

SKAPOW

A fifty caliber, anti-material round shot out of the rifle and ripped straight through the head of the 1st wereraptor. But it didn't stop there! The bullet swerved through the air, piercing the skulls of the creatures like an angry wasp covered in Teflon! Ishi continued to look through his scope as the targeting systems guided the remote controlled round through the rest of the monsters. The wereraptors were all dead before they even hit the ground.

Grayson whistled as he looked as the disappearing corpses, every one of them had a clean hole through their skulls. "Looks like your aim's gotten better!"

"I suppose some good did come out of my condition." Ishi admitted.

"Speaking of which, how are you holding up? Is the pain manageable?" Grayson asked.

"It is not. I am left to endure it regardless." Ishi huffed as he wiped the sweat away from his forehead.

"We're going to get you the hell out of here, Ishi. Just keep it together." Grayson reassured him. The duo continued through the rocky chasm for a good 20 minutes until they finally came upon a large, barred gate with barbed wire at the top. This was a clear sign that there were actually people living on this planet.

But their main focus was on the strange, cylindrical object that had a hole in the middle which glowed blue, made odd beeping noises and had a small crater around it. They took note of the numerous tools scattered around it. The inhabitants must've been trying to dismantle it. But was it, anyway?

Grayson lightly tapped the object with his foot. "Looks like it fell from the Ulysses. You got any idea what we're lookin' at here?"

Ishi silently scanned it. "No. But it is Confederate, though. The markings date to operation logs from over two years ago on a planet known as Stygia. The rest of the information has been automatically deleted."

Grayson scoffed. "You just know Sarrano was up to some shit there." He had only heard of the name but he never knew anything else about the planet. He took a closer look at the object and noticed that his Instinct Leash was starting to light up. That's when he saw words starting to appear in his vision.

} DROPKIT DETECTED- PLEASE REGISTER IMMEDIATEY.

Grayson raised an eyebrow and looked at the dropkit. He remembered the Leash informing him to do so back when he first put it on. Hoping that it wasn't a trap, he pointed it at the dropkit and the energy leash shot out and slotted itself into the hole. Grayson's world went into a hazy blue just like last time. The only difference was that there was no pain involved.

} DROPKIT #1375 ACTIVATED.

} CONNECTION ESTABLISHED.

} REGISTERING NEW USER…

} RESETTING EQUIPMENT DATABASE…

} ANALYZING USER ATTRIBUTES…

} SCANNING WEAPON-WEAPON APPROVED.

} UPLOADING SKILLSHOT DATABASE…

} COMBAT SKILL ANALYSIS ACTIVE.

} 3D HEADS UP DISPLAY ACTIVATED.

} REGISTRATION COMPLETE-DROPKITS AVAILABLE FOR USE.

"Son of a mother-this tech is wild!" Grayson said in amazement. A holographic menu popped up on his Instinct Leash. There was a small counter with a button that said, "REARM" at the bottom. Grayson was both confused and intrigued. Could this dropkit give him more ammo?

He pressed the button but nothing happened. A message popped up that said, "INSFFIECENT SKILLPOINTS."

"Insufficient skillpoints? This cocky leash is grading my performance!" Grayson complained.

Ishi suddenly turned his head over to the gated entrance. "It will have further opportunity to mark your efficiency. I am detecting movement nearing our current position."

Grayson yanked the Leash out of the dropkit and reloaded Boneduster. He took note that he now had only 8 shells left in his bandolier. He had to find out how to make this dropkit work. Fast.

"What do we got? More weremonsters?" Grayson asked as he stood next to Ishi.

"Not sure." He answered. They readied themselves for another fight but then they started to hear the sounds of people talking to each other!

"This is nuts, man. First a ship crashes though the freakin' moon and now we can't get into contact with anybody!"

"Will you just calm down? We'll probably get a messenger from the lieutenant in a few hours. He and Adam wouldn't just leave us hanging."

"In the meantime, let's see if we can crack open that container. Maybe we can find something useful."

The footsteps got closer and three people (two men and one woman) rounded the corner. They wore black and white uniforms and wore pointed, silver-colored masks covering their eyes as well as most of their face. They wielded assault rifles of an unknown design and wore what appeared to be animal accessories (cat ears, horns).

Grayson's face lit up in relief. "Finally! People!" He got up and rushed over to the gate.

Ishi on the other hand, didn't share Grayson's relief. Something didn't feel right. "Grayson, wait!"

But it was too late. Grayson banged on the gate, earning the attention of the three masked people. "Hey! Could you guys lend us a hand? My friend needs help-"

"Humans?! How they hell did they find us?!"

"Kill them! No one can know we're here!"

BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA

Grayson and Ishi dove for cover behind some rocks as the assailants opened fire on them.

"SHIT! Who the hell are these douchebags?!" Grayson yelled over the gunfire.

"I do not know but we have no other options, we must fight back!" Ishi responded.

Grayson growled in frustration and readied his Instinct Leash. "Alright. You act crazy, you get crazy."

Grayson flung out his leash at the nearest mook and roped around his waist. Before the poor bastard could even register what was happening, he was yanked back so hard he soared over the barbed wire and down to the burly looking man! The last thing he saw was the man aiming a large, four barreled weapon at him.

BAKOOOM

The man was blown clean in half, his lower body landing onto the ground with a wet splat while the upper half flew straight into the barbed wire and became tangled within the multitude of razor sharp edges. The man let out a final pained gurgle before dying; his guts spilling out all over the gate. The masked people stared in horror while Grayson smirked in amusement. Then, he began to see words pop up over the mangled corpse, along with points next to them.

}TOPLESS{ 25sp

}PUMP-ACTION{ 50sp

}VOODOO DOLL{ 100sp

'Sp? As in skillpoints?' Grayson thought. His internal musings were interrupted when they masked people began to fire upon him once again, making him retreat back to the rocks.

"KILL HIM! FUCKING KILL HIM!" one of them yelled in fury. They continued to unload their clips at the rocks the men were hiding behind but then and to stop to reload. Seeing his chance, Grayson popped up from behind the rock, shot out his leash and it went through the bars of the gate before wrapping around the other assailant's neck. He screamed in pain as the whip burned deep into his skin. He was then dragged forward straight into the gate where his head got stuck between the bars!

Grayson rushed over but then noticed the masked woman had finished reloading her weapon but she never got the chance to fire as Ishi's sniper round tore through the side of her head. Grayson then kneed the last masked soldier in his face and then violently twisted his neck; an audible snapping sound filling the air.

}CHIROPRACTOR{ 55sp

"Phew…what the fuck was their problem?!" Grayson asked Ishi as he caught his breath.

"Your guess is as good as mine." He answered.

Grayson looked to the dropkit and wondered if he had enough of these 'skillpoints' required to rearm. We went over, leashed the port and the holographic menu popped up on his device. He pressed the rearm button and a light began to shine out of the dropkit and onto the ground. To Ishi and Grayson's amazement, it began to 3D print a pile of shotgun shells right before their eyes!

"Incredible…" Ishi breathed.

"Hot damn! Looks like we won't have to worry about running out of ammo!" Grayson said gleefully as he grabbed the shells and stuffed them into his bandolier.

"Provided you eliminate your enemies skillfully. Can you produce ammo for my rifle?" Ishi inquired.

"Yeah. Let me see HeadHunter." Grayson said, holding out his hand. Ishi gave Grayson his weapon and the dropkit began to automatically scan it. Grayson pressed the rearm button and the dropkit printed out 3 drum magazines for HeadHunter.

"Ask and ye shall receive." Grayson said with a cocky grin. After slinging the mags across his back, Ishi went over to the gate and pulled it down with his bionic strength. The two went through the gate and began to inspect the bodies of their masked attackers.

Grayson flipped one of the bodies over and looked at the insignia on the back of the uniform. It depicted a snarling animal with three claw marks behind it, all colored red. "All things considered, that's a pretty badass lookin' symbol. Do you think they're pirates?" He asked Ishi.

"Probably. But their insignia does not match any known pirate faction. Also, their guns are not Confederate weaponry." Ishi informed as he showed Grayson the weapon they were using. Grayson took it and began to inspect the weapon. It had a sleek, bullpup design with a silver and red finish.

"You think they made these themselves?"

"Highly unlikely. Weapons made by pirates are shoddy and ramshackle at best."

"Maybe they had someone else make it for them." Grayson mused as he tossed the gun over his shoulder; he was already comfortable with Boneduster. He knelt down an inspected the one of the bodies. "What do you think all that 'human' crap was about? And why the hell are they wearing these goofy animal accessories?" Grayson pondered as he tugged one corpse that had cat ears.

But the he noticed something…disturbing. The ears were stuck on pretty tight but they felt too real. Grayson removed the mask, pulled down the hood and jumped back in surprise when he saw that they were literally a part of his body! Ishi was just as surprised as well and went over to the body of the woman he had just neutralized earlier. Pulling down the hood, he saw that the horns growing out of her head were real!

"What the fuck…!?" Grayson blurted out.

Ishi scanned the corpses for a moment. "Their genetic code…it contains traces of animal DNA!"

"Carter! Audrey! Sid! Come in!"

The duo was snapped out of their stupor when the heard someone. They looked down and saw the source of the voice came from a walkie talkie-like device near one of the bodies.

"We heard gunfire over by the entrance! What's going on!?"

Grayson rushed over to it and spoke into it, pretending to be one of them. "Uh, this is Sid! Nothin' to worry about! We were doing a…um…weapons check! Just some good ol' target practice! Everything's perfectly okay!" Grayson winked to Ishi and gave him a thumbs up.

"You're not Sid! Who the hell is this?!"

"Err….." Grayson drawled as Ishi smacked his head in frustration.

"Get some of our guys over there! Our position's been compromised!" The walkie talkie went dead.

"What made you think you could possibly fool them?" Ishi asked rhetorically.

"Shut up!" Grayson snapped in embarrassment as he checked the tracker on his Instinct Leash. "The energy signature is just a little bit ahead but we're going to have to fight our way through."

"Very well." Ishi said.

They ran forward through the winding chasms filled with cacti until they came upon large mining facility that had the hybrid people's symbol emblazoned on a flag hung on one of the silos. They had already begun to see the hybrids mobilizing for an attack and knew that this wouldn't be easy. But Ishi needed to recharge and this was the only path to get there.

Ducking behind the valley wall, Grayson and Ishi spotted metal crate that had a flame symbol on it nearby. Grayson looked to Ishi with a big grin on his face. Ishi nodded and overcharged HeadHunter.

Grayson popped out from cover casually went over to a group of the hybrids clustered near the main entrance of the complex. "Howdy, motherfuckers! How's your health plan?"

"Intruders! Open fi-"

(Party Party Party- Andrew W.K.)

"APPARENTLY IT'S GREAT!" Grayson leashed the crate and flung it towards the group while Ishi dove out of cover and fired at the crate just as it was about it hit the group. Just as the bullet hit its mark, Ishi tapped a small button near the trigger which activated the bullet's detonator.

The effect was both instantaneous and devastating.

BWAFWOOOOOOOOSH

The force of the bullet's explosive payload instantly ignited the dozens of vials containing fire Dust within the container creating a massive explosion which bathed the unfortunate White Fang soldiers in searing flames while blowing the gate back so hard, it gruesomely splattered 3 other White Fang members who just so happened to be unlucky enough to be standing behind it. The other members caught in the blast were either blown to pieces or died a slow, agonizing death as the fire literally cooked them alive.

}ENVIRO-MENTAL{ 50sp x5

}PANCAKED{ 50sp x3

}TOASTY{ 150sp x5

The hybrids began to open fire from positions along the walls that surrounded the facility at the duo. Grayson ducked behind a disassembled vehicle while Ishi had one of them right in his crosshairs. "Taste my fury!" Ishi yelled.

He pulled the trigger and the round ripped through his target's head but the swerved around and pierced through the skulls of 5 other soldiers who just so happened to be in a line! The attacker stopped shooting as the heads of several of their comrades was suddenly ventilated for no apparent reason after the intruder had fired only one shot. Their weak Auras offered no protection against their weapons.

Grayson took advantage of the enemy's stunned state and targeted the nearest hybrid (one with rat ears and buck teeth). He whipped his leash towards the soldier and it wrapped around his neck before the idiot could even react. He yanked the leash back so hard that it ripped off the hybrid's head off with his spinal cord still intact!

}POP-TOP{ 500sp

The horrified soldiers gasped and yelled out in terror as the headless body of their comrade spurted out blood like a firehose before falling over!

"HOLY SHIT! MICK!" One of them cried out.

"OH, OH, OH! WAS THIS YOUR FRIEND?! DON'T WORRY; HE DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED! BEING A DUMB FUCKING RAT!" Grayson manically taunted as he dangled the head from its spinal cord for all to see.

"HE WAS A MOUSE, YOU SICK BASTARD!" Another yelled as he fired upon Grayson. Grayson ducked behind the vehicle again and spotted another container above them hanging by a small crane. This time it had a lighting symbol on it which gave Grayson a pretty good idea on what would happen if it fell upon his foes.

He leashed the container downwards at it popped open, releasing dozens of vials containing a yellow substance. The hybrids tried to scatter away from the vials but as soon as they hit the ground, each one released volts of electricity that shocked them all fatally.

}KILL-O-WATT{ 200sp x7

With the attackers on the walls down for the count, Ishi and Grayson stormed through the gate and prepared for another firefight…only to see that the interior was vacant.

"It would appear that we have dispatched them all." Ishi said, stating the obvious.

"For a second I thought there was going to be more." Grayson said as he slung Boneduster across his back.

The two of them observed their surroundings. The mining equipment and the facility itself were unlike anything they had seen. It all felt so alien and different; like it was made by an unknown manufacturer. They looked at the bodies of the hybrids and saw more of their apparent animal features: scales, fangs, tusks, feathers, tails, horns, antlers and more animal ears. All of which were part of their biology.

"It's strange. I didn't think there would be people this far out in the galaxy." Ishi mused.

"If you think that's weird, earlier me and Rell saw a city when we were looking for that fusion cell." Grayson revealed.

Ishi turned to Grayson in surprise. "There are more people on this planet?"

"Most likely but we don't know for certain…damn it, this doesn't make any sense! We're all the way over in the side quadrants. The literal ass end of the Milky Way Galaxy. There's no way anybody would be crazy enough to wander this far out into unexplored space!" Grayson reasoned.

"Yet they were able to establish a colony far away from any known Confederate outposts." Ishi added.

"So what do you reckon'? We've stumbled upon some kind of secret pirate uranium mining colony and they've 'enhanced' themselves with animal DNA?" Grayson guessed.

Ishi gave him a perplexed look before thinking it over for a few seconds. He shook his head. "I don't think it's that simple. As brazen as pirates might be, they would never risk traveling into uncharted territories. I've done some more scanning of their DNA; it shows no signs of genetic tampering or manipulation. And the designs of this facility are too skillful to be built by pirates. This is no back world operation."

"What about the weremonsters?"

"I do not have an explanation for them. They are a mystery."

Grayson let out an exhausted sigh." Just keeps getting stranger and stranger…" He went over to one of the broken open containers and picked up a vial that was inside it. Within the vial appeared to be colored sand. It certainly wasn't uranium. What the hybrids were doing with these and how it was able to emit fire and lighting was beyond him.

"Say, Ishi. Why did you warp us all the way out here in the first place?" Grayson asked. It was a question he had been meaning to ask him for a while.

"It was never my intention to warp us out this far. Our position had been compromised when our ship's sensors detected incoming Confederate corvettes. I accidently typed in the wrong coordinates into the navigation systems when I activated our warp drive. When we came out, I saw the Ulysses within the planet's orbit." Ishi explained.

"Well, at least that brings everything up to speed-" Grayson suddenly stop mid-sentence when a stunning realization hit him like a truck. "Hold up a sec…you said that the Ulysses was there when you arrived. What was Sarrano doing all the way out here?"

Ishi was about to answer when he instantly snapped his head towards the entrance of the mining complex and readied HeadHunter. Grayson knew what that meant.

"Oh for fucks sake, now what!?" He growled as he got out Boneduster.

"We have over 65 hostiles incoming! They match the signatures of the creatures!" Ishi gravely assessed.

"Shit! You got the high ground; I'll handle the low ground!" Grayson urgently told his friend.

EMERALD FOREST-PLATEAU

Jaune climbed atop of a large boulder to see if he could get a better vantage point of the crashed ship. It proved to be beneficial as he could finally see their objective a distance away.

"Guys! I can see the ship! It's not far from here!" Jaune announced to his friends who were catching up.

"Finally! I was starting to get a little bit tired beating up all those Grimm." Yang said.

"Didn't you say that Grimm bashing never gets old?" Nora inquired.

"It doesn't but when you're trying to get somewhere and they keep hounding you, then it starts to get a little annoying." Yang replied.

"Good point." Nora agreed.

"How does the ship look?" Pyrrha asked Jaune as Ruby climbed up to the boulder.

"It doesn't look good. At all." He confirmed.

"The whole ship's on fire!" Ruby gasped. Everyone urgently ran as fast as they could over there in the hopes that there might be survivors amongst the wreckage. They arrived at the crash site but most of the ship was a twisted heap covered in and surrounded by flames.

"I can't see any place where we can enter." Ren said as he backed away from the heat.

"Hold on a second! Let me try something…" Weiss suggested as he unsheathed Myrtenaster and switched to ice Dust ammunition. She pointed her weapon at the ground and a white colored Glyph appeared. Thrusting the tip of Myrtenaster into the center, a wave of ice billowed forth and froze the flames into brittle icicles.

"There. That should be sufficient enough for us to get inside." Weiss concluded.

"That was pretty clever thinking, Weiss." Blake complimented.

"I'm too modest to boast." Weiss smiled. The group climbed atop the wreckage to find an opening where they could enter the ship. While Pyrrha used her Polarity Semblance to move away the pieces of sharpened metal debris, Ruby spotted a good sized hole at the top where she could see the interior of the vessel.

"I found a way in!" Ruby announced to her friends as they went over to her. They suddenly felt the ship dangerously lurch with a loud creaking sound.

"That didn't sound good." Nora fearfully pointed out.

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They groups saw a section of the plateau beginning to crumble, threating to send the ship and them over the edge!

"DEFINETLY NOT GOOD!" Jaune panicked!

"MOVE!" Yang yelled as the teams rushed to get off the ship! They all managed to jump off of it just in time as it slid over the side and plummeted to the ground. Everyone went over to the edge and peered downward just in time to see the vessel slam into the forest below, creating an explosion that caused them to flinch.

Everyone felt a sense of dread wash over them. What if there had been people still inside it? Did they fail? Pyrrha gulped. "Do you think someone was able to make it out in time?"

"We can only hope." Weiss said.

"B-b-b-but maybe there's someone still in there, alien or human!" Ruby reasoned, her voice breaking a little. "We could still-"

"Ruby…it's too late." Yang sadly told her. She too didn't want to believe it and it hurt to tell her that but it had to be said.

"We don't know that yet!" Ruby desperately shouted.

"Ruby, we have to be realistic. You have to be realistic." Blake sternly told her. "We can't save everyone."

Ruby looked like she was on the verge of tears and the rest of them could understand it all too well. Ruby was still younger than them and that meant she hadn't been fully exposed to the harsh, dangerous reality of being a Huntress. Even in the direst of situations she still had her head in the clouds. Weiss, Yang and Blake had hoped that her experience with the White Fang and Roman Torchwick would teach her that but it seemed to do no avail. Ren was about to offer his input to Ruby but then he spotted something on the ground out of the corner of his eye.

"Wait." Ren said out of the blue, garnering everyone's attention. He pointed to the ground and they saw a trail of footprints. They went over to inspect the trail. "They lead away from the ship and by the looks of it; there were at least two people." Ren observed.

Blake knelt down and ran her fingers across the imprint. "They're recent." She looked up at the trail that leads into a rocky chasm. "They've headed southeast not too long ago."

"So then there are survivors!" Ruby exclaimed, overjoyed that their mission wasn't a failure.

"The footprints seem normal enough. It appears your alien theory is now null and void." Weiss told Ruby, earning the heiress a pouty look from her.

"But they could be wearing human disguises to blend in and fool us!" Nora all but blurted out. Ruby gasped in shock and realization.

Pyrrha was really starting to get tired of all this alien nonsense. "Nora, can you please just try to act-"

"Say, does anybody else hear that?" Jaune asked, unintentionally cutting Pyrrha off. Everyone stayed silent and listed closely. It was faint, but they could all hear the sounds of gunfire and the roars of Grimm echoing in the distance.

"It sounds close…I think that has to be them!" Pyrrha said.

"We gotta help them!" Ruby yelled as she instantly activated her Speed Semblance and blurred through the chasm faster than the eye could see.

"Ruby, wait!" Weiss called after her.

"C'mon! We can still catch up to her!" Yang said as she and everyone gave chase.

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The werewolves were blown away into chunky little giblets by the sheer force of Boneduster's buckshot. They had made the unfortunate mistake of trying to mob Grayson but they were clumped together, making them easy targets. But it didn't make everything lease easy in general.

They just kept coming like an unending tide of snarling horror with an instable bloodlust for fresh meat.
Grayson retreated back into the complex as Ishi continued to provide fire support from the walls of the mining complex. Despite scoring multiple kills, they had swarmed the entire perimeter and Ishi had to fall back. He never got the chance to do so as a werebear climbed atop the wall and swatted him straight into a steel column like a fly!

Grayson tried to get over there and help Ishi up but the werebear climbed over the wall and barreled straight towards them! Grayson ducked underneath its swings, slid underneath its legs and blew them clean off with a well-placed shot from Boneduster. As it roared in pain, Grayson went over, shoved some new shells into his weapon and pressed it up against the werebear's skull. Needless to say, it was reduced to a black smear on the ground with just one trigger pull.

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Grayson helped Ishi up but then the rest of the creatures piled into the facility and surrounded them. They roared, hissed and clawed the ground as they inched ever so closer to their prey. Grayson and Ishi ground their teeth in frustration and hopelessness. There was no way out and they couldn't possibly take out all of them at once.

This was the end.

They were going to be eaten by a horde of monsters while Sarrano would get away scott-free. Grayson couldn't believe that he was going to go out like this: stranded on a hostile, unexplored planet teeming with weremonsters.

They both looked at each other and nodded. They reloaded their weapons and got ready to fight. They might never get off this planet but if they were going to die, they would take as many of these things down with them.

As the weremonsters prepared to pounce upon them, something began to plow straight through the horde while knocking them into the air like ragdolls! Grayson and Ishi blinked in confusion as more of the creatures were literally bowled over. A red blur shot out from the pack and landed next the two, a cloud of rose petals blocking their view.

The petals fell to the ground and what Grayson and Ishi saw now and afterwards would be one of the strangest things they ever saw.

A young girl, no more than 15 years old, wearing a black and red blouse/skirt combo with black boots stood where the red blur landed as the petals danced around her like a figure from a fantasy movie. She had black hair with red highlights and had, interestingly enough, silver colored eyes.

As the duo stared in bewilderment, they noticed the weremonsters beginning to recover and were now all royally pissed off. Grayson was just about to tell the mysterious girl to run when she reached behind her back and got out what appeared to be a metal suitcase with a black and red finish.

It then instantly transformed into the biggest fucking scythe they had ever seen! It was twice her size!

"Holy-"

(Bad Reputation-Joan Jett)

Grayson never got to finish as the girl launched herself at the monsters, instantly bisecting the nearest werewolf in one swing! The weremonsters instantly shifted their focus from Grayson and Ishi to the young girl in red and charged at her. Undeterred, the girl began cleave her way through them like a walking blender. Parts of the werewolves flew about everywhere as she swung her scythe with graceful efficiency despite its size. The girl ducked, weaved, dodged and danced around the monsters attacks all while decapitating, cleaving, bisecting and bifurcating them with her massive implement of death.

Grayson and Ishi watched with their mouths agape. It was hard to believe that what they were witnessing was actually happening.

The girl transformed into the red blur and again, this time scaling a crane before turning back. They saw the scythe change into some kind of rifle and the girl opened fire upon the beats, revealing it to be a high-powered, bolt action sniper rifle! Heads exploded into a shower of black ooze left and right before the girl reloaded a new clip into her weapon and fired again but this time the bullets set the creatures on fire! Another werebear sauntered over to the base of the crane and began to shake it in an attempt to tear it down. The girl jumped off the crane and began to spin her body downward with her weapon in its scythe mode, turning her into a human buzz saw. She cleaved right through the werebear, splitting it straight down the middle.

An explosion caught Grayson and Ishi's attention and the turned to their left to see more weremonsters knocked aside. As the mob began to disperse away from the cloud of smoke, they saw seven figures emerge from it and engage the monsters! The duo took note that they were older than the girl in red, probably 17 years old, and they all had fantastical weapons and powers just like her!

The 1st newcomer could only be described as a literal bombshell. Beautiful blonde hair, violet colored eyes and an impressive bust. She wore a tan jacket that covered a yellow t-shirt (which also showed off a little bit of cleavage), Black shorts with a belt, knee high boots with orange stockings, fingerless gloves and an orange scarf. She also happened to be freakishly strong as she clobbered werewolves left and right with an honest-to-god smile on her face. She used a pair of yellow colored gauntlets that were apparently powerful enough to completely cave in their heads. Her gauntlets were also wrist mounted shotguns that blew apart any creature stupid enough to attack her. A werebear attacked her from behind but she smiled as she slammed her fist into its gut with so much force it caused it to stagger. She then followed up with an uppercut and its head flew straight off! A bunch of werewolves came after her but she fired a barrage of explosive shots that sent pieces of them flying all over the place! The girl was like a freakin machine!

The 2nd one looked like she was ripped straight out of a Disney movie. Graceful white hair tied into an off-center bun with a small tiara, an elegant white dress, high heeled boots, pale skin and shimmering light blue eyes. Ishi noticed the crooked scar running down her left eye. At first, she didn't really have the look of a fighter but all of that changed when she withdrew a rapier with a revolver like mechanism installed into the hilt. They saw the mechanism rotate as the girl took up a fighting stance against several wereraptors that were charging towards her. When she swung her blade, a swath of flame erupted from it, bathing the monsters in fire while slicing and thrusting through them with little to no resistance! A crowd of werewolves surrounded her on all sides but then she pointed at the ground and a white, snowflake like symbol appeared and the girl was propelled into the air just as the monsters pounced! More of the symbols appear in the air and the girl rebounded off them like a pinball. She pointed her sword at them while making quick gestures with her free hand and multiple symbols appeared underneath the werewolves, but this time they were colored yellow. Bursts of electricity coursed through them as they shook and convulsed. But the girl wasn't done yet as she twirled through the air like a ballerina and summoned four symbols that spewed out razor sharp icicles, perforating the creatures as she gracefully landed on her feet.

The 3rd girl was quite…mysterious-looking. Amber colored eyes, jet-black hair, purple eyeshadow and a black-colored buttoned vest with a white undershirt and shorts, along with low heeled black boots and stockings fully flushed out her ensemble though Grayson thought she would look more intimidating without the oversized bow on her head. She proved to be the most nimble of them as she weaved through her foes and hacked them apart with what could only be described as a large cleaver. One of the werehogs barreled toward her but she jumped out of the way, leaving behind an exact copy of her! It turned to stone just as the werehog crashed into it, causing the monster tumble through its brethren and straight into a rock where the girl had landed on. The girl hopped off the rock and separated the cleaver into a katana with a pistol built into the hilt and stabbed the blades downward into its head while scoring accurate headshots with her pistol. The threw out the katana, now attached to a long ribbon, to the scaffoldings above and swung from them like Tarzan before summoning another clone that plummeted downwards towards the monsters and exploded into fireball, incinerating most of them while hopping back down and slicing her way back into the fray.

The 4th was quite easily the most recognizable to Grayson and Ishi since she looked like something out of 300. Her bronze armored top complete with black shorts, opera length gloves, greaves, metal tiara and short sword/buckler combo made her look like a Spartan Wonder Woman. Her emerald-colored eyes and scarlet hair tied up in a ponytail only made her look both beautiful and intimidating. None of the werewolves stood a chance against her as her short sword made quick work of them as she shielded herself from their attacks with her buckler. Her short sword switched into a spear and she flung her buckler at an incoming werebear, stunning it while she ran her spear through the creatures. She shot her hand out and her buckler started to float off the ground with a black aura around it! The buckler began to strike the werebear in the face, chest and knees as it dropped to one knee and tried to shield itself with its paws but the girl threw her spear at the werebear and it speared into its throat and right out the back of its head! She ran forward and pulled out her spear just as the werebear's body crumpled to the ground, jumping off of it and decapitated another werewolf just as her weapon transformed back into a short sword. The wereraptors surrounded the girl and leapt at her but she flung her buckler out at them, rotating in a circle around her while knocking them all down or bisecting them. Her short sword transformed into a rifle resembling an M1 Garand and nailed any weremonster that attacked. She then outstretched her arms to the pieces of debris scattered around the facility and they all started to levitate and shot towards the monsters, turning them all into horribly mangled pincushions!

The 5th and last girl was odd to say the least. She looked completely out of place with her short orange hair, turquoise eyes, sleeveless black vest with a hammer symbol on the back, white shirt with a cut-out heart shape, multicolored armor covering her midsection, pink skirt, pink fingerless gloves, and pink/white shoes. Honestly, she didn't really look all that intimidating to the duo but all of that changed when she whipped out a giant war hammer and began playing a game of Whack-a-Mole with the monsters and they were the moles! The girl was just like the blonde: she was having the time of her life ad she knocked around werewolves with a huge grin on her face. She smacked aside an incoming werehog and her war hammer transformed into a grenade launcher and fired a volley of grenades (Ishi could've sworn he saw heart symbols at the tips) blowing them apart with a series of explosions…all of which were colored pink. A charging werebear thundered towards her but the girl smiled, planted her war hammer on the ground, stood on it while striking a pose and the end of the hammer exploded! She was sent hurtling towards the werebear and swung her war hammer downwards so hard that its head was shoved straight down into its chest! A pack of werehogs rolled towards her but she switched her war hammer back into a grenade launcher but this time the barrel had be replaced by the end of the war hammer with multiple grenades sticking out at the end. With a simple pull of the trigger, 6 grenades launched out of the tube and hit the mob dead on, causing weremonster chunks to rain down from the sky. The girl giggled excitedly.

The other two were boys but the first one Grayson and Ishi saw was rather…normal. He was an average sized blonde with blue eyes, wore white and gold armor over his black hoodie, as well as wearing blue jeans with black sneakers. He didn't have any fantastical weapon that changed into a firearm just a regular sword and shield. He was quite proficient with them as he blocked any blows with his shield while following up with precise sword swings that felled his foes but other than that, there wasn't really anything that stood out. Grayson was a little bit disappointed.

The final newcomer was a step up from the blonde and looked much more interesting in comparison. This one had black hair with a streak of magenta colored highlights on the left side, his eyes just so happened to be the same color. One thing that stood out was that his choice of clothing resembled that of Chinese culture: a dark green long sleeved tailcoat with black and gold trimming along with pink cuffs. The last articles of clothing he wore were white pants and black shoes. Ishi initially presumed the boy to be of Chinese descent but he didn't appear to be of that nationality. The boy's choice of weapons was a pair of fully automatic pistols with sickle-like bayonets mounted underneath the barrels. The way the boy fought was similar to that Ultraviolet movie Grayson saw (the story made no sense; he was only in it for the action scenes). The way he flipped over the wereraptors while gunning down werewolves from the side was friggin impressive. Every time he sliced through the creatures, he fired a quick burst of his pistols at them as an effective means of crowd control. He dodged them with the grace of an acrobat and gunned them down with the precision of a gunman while cutting them apart with the lethality of an assassin. They saw him stab his blades downward into a werewolf's eyes and when a wereraptor jumped over it to attack the boy; he pointed his pistols upwards and blasted it straight out of the air. He somersaulted over the dead werewolf; ventilated two other during his flip and then killed two more werewolves by swinging his blades straight through their throats.

Grayson and Ishi continued to watch this display of one-sided ass kicking with completely stupefied expressions. They had a hard time fighting these things yet these multicolored teens were literally mopping the floor with them! This continued on for several minutes with their young rescuers bashing the seven bells out of the monsters while the duo continued to share with their jaws and eyes wide open. Finally, the last of the werecreatures was slain and the teens stood amongst the disappearing corpses. They all looked impressed with themselves as the blonde girl and the red/black haired girl high-fived each other.

They all turned to the two men standing a few feet away from them and both parties eyes met for the first time. What Team RWBY and Team JNPR didn't know was that their meeting with these two would have profound, world changing events for everyone and everything on Remnant.

To be continued…

There you have it folks! They finally meet for the first time!

The reason why this chapter took so long to get out was that I'm trying my absolute hardest to emulate both universes fighting style. I hope it can appease some of you but don't expect anything that matches the quality of Rooster Teeth or Monty Oum (God rest his soul). But what better way to showcase their combat than fighting to the kickass tunes of Andrew W.K and Joan Jett?

One major change I made to the Bulletstorm weapons was having Headhunter's functionality similar to Abigail Black's Ghost Bullet ability from Jericho and Rip Van Winkle's enchanted musket from Hellsing.

One thing I should mention is that this will follow the Bulletstorm storyline very closely so it will probably be a while before Grayson and the others ever get to Vale.

I will be going on break to do some more chapters for my Samurai Jack/Akame ga Kill story.

Don't forget to review but please don't flame.