Chapter 18: (former) first class soldier

hey guys sorry it took a bit longer than i said there was a lot of editing to be done. the next chapter is also in the process of being edited as well so hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or FINAL FANTASY 7 ...or it's abridged version either!


Back to the theater we see Slayer typing away at the console that controls the screen before he turns back to his guests with a smirk on his face.

"Okay what is it this time?" Ruby asked in a concerned tone as the others began to look at their host.

"Oh it's a fun one." slayer said calmly

"Alright then, but does anyone else want to leave, speak now or you'll have to wait till after this world is done playing" Slayer asked the group. But no one gave an answer.

"So what are we watching this time?" Sun asked the deity.

"Well it's funny but Jaune doesn't appear in the part we're watching, so whoever we focus on is a toss up for this world." Slayer said, with a sly grin. They looked at one another as the light began to dim and the screen began to flare to life.

The screen begins by showing a train pulling into a station near a large factory. On the station's platform stood two guards dressed in red uniforms.

"Isn't there usually a conductor or something?" one of them asked as he looked at the empty train.

"AVALANCHE!CQC!" a male voice shouted out as a man jumped from inside the train and tackled one of the guards to the ground. The man in question was dressed in olive shirt and green three-quarter trousers, brown boots with silver fasteners round the ankle, brown gloves, and two belts: one black and one brown, the latter of which has a pouch on his left hip. He was relatively young looking with greenish-black hair and a dog tail.

"Is that marrow?" Winter asked the general.

"It appears so." the general responded looking dumbfounded

"Forgive me for asking general but who is this marrow lad?" Port asked him.

"Marrow is a member of the ace operatives. A small group of specialists under my direct command." Ironwood responded with a hint of pride in his voice.

"And in this timeline he is an eco-warrior/ terrorist. Other than being a bit more snarky not much else about him has changed." Slayer said getting an annoyed twitch out of the Atlassian military members.

"AVALANCHE! CQC!" a very slurred female voice shouted out. Out pops a blond and brown haired and tan skinned young woman wearing a red headband, a blue shirt underneath a metal breastplate, metal pauldrons, brown gloves, knee-length green capris, and armored boots. She takes out the other guard with little effort before moving on with her mission.

"Harriet, did the dentist give you a root canal or a punch to the face?" asked a very muscular woman. She has brown hair held back with a red bandana, and wears a beige shirt, blue shorts, brown boots and shoulder pads, with a bandolier across her chest and grenades on the belt of her trousers. The final one off the train was a white man standing about 6'6". He had black hair and blue eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. He was wearing a black tank under a brown vest and had visible chest hair. A leather bracer with small metal plates strapped on top of it. The bands around his waist appear to be some form of back brace. He wears cargo-style pants, and his boots are zipper-back styled. He also has a skull tattoo on his left arm. The most striking thing about him is the fact that he has a large rotary style gun for a right arm and hand from below the elbow.

"*whistle* damn Jimmy. You actually pull that look off" Qrow said, slightly impressed by his friend's new look.

"I look like a thug! Just what the hell am I doing there. And why do I have a gun for an arm?!" James shouted in an angered tone.

"You are the leader of the Eco-terrorist cell known as 'Avalanche'. The other two members of your group are Elm Ederne and Harriet Brie. You however hired on a merc to join you in this attack." Slayer said to the general.

"I'm going to guess the other two are also members of this ace-ops?" Glynda asked only to get a nod from an annoyed Winter.

"Alright ya merc, it's showtime!" James called out to someone still on the train.

"Showtime huh? Then I guess I'd better perform." a male voice said as a dark haired man flipped over the side of the train. The man was wearing indigo pants with a sleeveless shirt, and a belt. He wears brown boots, gauntlets with a pauldron over his left shoulder and a SOLDIER band in his left wrist. He also wears a junky gear-like armlet on his left forearm, and He has a silver earring in his left ear. On his back was a large single edged broadsword with two holes just above the hilt that had two green gems inside them. He had black spiky hair and pale red eyes, though the edge of his iris was tinted green.

"Oh look its uncle qrow!" Ruby said with a grin on her face.

"Yeah and his edge is killing me here" Yang said snickering

"Yeah yeah. So I'm the merc they hired" Qrow asked slayer.

"If things go as planned yeah pretty much." slayer told the huntsmen

"Knowing you luck qrow. Safe to say you're not getting paid." Summer said with a small smirk on her face as Tai and Raven snicker slightly.

"Grrr...mother of god" he angrily breathed out. James turned to look at the swordsman with a glare.

"Okay the plan is you're going to hide the bodies and-" he started in a polite tone.

"I'm …. Sorry could you repeat that last part-" Qrow tried to ask only for James to cut him off.

"Not get into any trouble! That's right! Now biggity-bounce to it baby! Winter, your friend is killing me." he said to the swordsman, grumbling the last bit to himself.

"I'm going to take a wild guess and say I didn't tell Qrow anything, did I?" Winter said with a small smirk.

"To be fair this Qrow was unemployed and you, as his childhood 'friend', asked him to do you a solid for a place to stay. He, for some reason, trusted you." Slayer told her, getting her to snicker as Qrow glared at her in disdain.

"Like you guys killed these guards!" Qrow called after him only to stop as two more guards came out and attacked him, completely ignoring James who ran by them.

"Out of the way sir, that man killed two guards!" one of the new guards said to James as he ran past them.

"Oh, come on!" Qrow shouted as the two guards took aim at him with their assault rifles.

"Now I know this looks bad." one of them shot a burst fire of bullets that only grazed him.

"A little trigger-happy but okay … anyway as I was saying-" cut off by another round of gunfire.

"Could you not shoot me!" he asked only for one of them to hit him with their nightstick.

"Snap in 3 2 1." Qrow said before pointing at the screen.

"YOU MADE ME DO THIS!" Qrow shouted as he swung the sword off his back and cut the two guards in half with a brutal slash. He stares at his mess before deciding to walk away from it muttering self-defense as he climbs out of the station and meets up with the rest of the group. Marrow and Elm were keeping watch as Harriet worked the locked door.

"Hey uh... new guy, you take care of the bodies?" Marrow asked the swordsman.

"Yep all four of them." he replied in a calm tone

"Four of them?" Harriet asked, looking towards him.

"Yeah that's right you uh… 'You guys'" Qrow said, realizing he doesn't know their names.

"Wait, you don't know our names?" Marrow asked the blond man.

"To be fair he knows Harriet's name as the large one shouted it out earlier." Salem said in a snarky tone.

"Also why would you tell anyone your real name if you're in a terrorist organization?" Roman asked with a sarcastic grin.

"I mean when you're right, you're right. But I really wish you weren't." Winter grumbled out in annoyance with ironwood agreeing with her.

"Y-you never asked my name." Qrow stammers out in embarrassment.

"Well what is your name?" Harriet asked.

"It's Qrow"

"Qrow huh? Is that because your bad luck" James said to him snarkily.

"No those are ravens and no one likes those." Qrow fires back.

"Well fuck you too Qrow!" Raven said while glaring at her snickering family.

"Well he isn't wrong the raven does mean a bad omen while a crow means to change. At least that is what they symbolize in books and scriptures" Blake said, getting a nod from doctor Oobleck.

"Quite right miss belladonna." Oobleck said.

"Oh my god I got it" Harriet shouted as the doors opened, and she ran through.

"Brie was the alleyway dentist really worth what you saved" Marrow asked with his brow twitching slightly. Both him and the muscular woman followed after her. Qrow went to join them only to be stopped by James.

"Hey merc?"

"What?" Qrow asked.

"Don't fuck up. Cause if you do fuck up you're going to have to awnser to me and being winters' bestie will not save you from the wrath of James!" he growled out.

"Now hurry up. We have to take care of this place" he said gruffly to Qrow running after the rest of them.

"Why what's wrong with this place?" he asked, looking up a gigantic chimney stack with a sign that says 'eco friendly peace factory' surrounded by flowers. Before he ran after the others at the second gate.

"Qrow there is too much wrong with this place." Summer said, rubbing her forehead in annoyance.

"What is that place?" Ruby asked their host.

"The main source of power for that section of the city. Run by incompetent morons and trigger happy dolts" Slayer said in irritation. Getting some sheepish looks from the schnee family.

"Is it run by?" Weiss began asking

"Yes, your father runs it . but neither you or winter are his kids. So deal with that idea." slayer said gruffly to her.

"Okay so can you guys fill me in on what's going on here?" he asked as he caught up to them.

"Let me ask you something, merc. Do you even know what this factory does?" James asked him in a sassy tone.

"Uuuh.. provides zero-emission,eco-green energy." Qrow stated in an unsure tone.

"Oh yeah really! then what is that green smoke coming out of the chimney stack?" James fired back towards him.

"Well that obviously the zero-emission- ah uh uh aw shit." Qrow said with a deadpan glare at the stupidity of his previous statement.

"That's right blondie! We are gonna make schnee pay for his transgressions against the common people, polluting the lower city to make a quick buck. By god almighty there will be an AVALANCHE OF JUSTICE!" James shouted proudly

"And uh how exactly are we gonna-"

"We're going to blow this motherfucker up" James stated plainly

"Oh y-yay" Qrow stuttered out nervously

"Winter did fill you in on this right?" he asked the blond boy

"All she said was 'hey Qrow can you do me a solid it will be super easy'" Qrow said with gritted teeth.

"To be fair all we have to do is hack into the doors and plant a bomb in the reactor core" Marrow said calmly

"Yeah that does sound SUPER EASY" he grinded out sarcastically, his eyebrow twitching in anger.

"And guess who's planting the bomb?" James asked

"Ahhh me." Qrow groaned out

"And guess who's coming with you?" James asked again

"Oooohhhh you" Qrow groaned out even louder.

"That's right! I'm going to be like a spirit animal giving you advice. ask me what you should do." James said in a snide tone.

"Spirit animal what should i do-"

"Don't fuck up" he said as the doors open the next few minutes were just the group making their way deeper into the factory. They even get to a section of collapsed walkway over a deep drop.

"Woah you sure you have to blow this place up couldn't you just leave it the collapse in one itself like it seems to want to anyway? Also how do we get down?" Qrow asked jumping the gap before he saw Harriet and James jump onto a pipe as they climbed down it.

"Like this!" Harriet shouted up to him.

"Or we could go another way"Qrow shouted back looking hesitant

"No other ways" Harriet shot back at him. Qrow took a deep breath before jumping onto the pipe and climbing down with them muttering about being afraid of heights.

"The man has no problem killing someone with a giant sword but is afraid of heights?" Salem asked in honest confusion.

"Yeah I don't get it either. He's half decent swordsman, half wuss. But for some reason it works." Slayer said in a plain tone.

"I just love that he's just saying fuck it and doing the solid even after he found out it was terrorism." Mercury said with a grin.

"It's less saying fuck it and more he knows that James will probably shoot him if he doesn't help" Summer said with a scowl on her face. Getting a snicker from the general.

"Okay I'll be on guard while you plant the bomb." Harriet said as they reached the bottom section outside the reactor core.

"Okay I don't know you very well, but those guys are right, you really need to get that checked out." Qrow said as he walked away down a flight of stairs alongside James.

"Get what checked out!?" she asked, confused by his words.

"Whatever is making you sound like you choking on someone-" Mercury started only for Emerald to smack upside the head.

" Shut up Mercury." she said simply getting him to glare at her and Cinder to rub her temples in annoyance.

"Okay now set the timer and plant the bomb, then we bounce like titties baby" James said to Qrow as they reach the core.

"Speaking of titties, when I get back me and winter are going to have a serious conversation- HRK!" Qrow cut off as his body began to seize up.

"Hey uh Qrow don't do that whole planting the bomb thing. That's a bad." a voice said to him.

"Wait is that Tai's voice?" Summer asked.

"Yeah I think it is, what are you doing inside qrows' head?" Raven asked the man before looking at their host when Taiyang shrugged in response.

"He's the voice of a friend Qrow knew from soldier." Slayer said casually.

"What is soldier?" Weiss asked in curiosity.

"A super soldier unit. Highly skilled in using firearms, melee weapons, and of course magic. There are several types of soldier members, from grunts to first classes or specialists in a sense. Like taiyang who was a first class soldier. Before the schnee corporation shut them down for good" Slayer explains to the heiress. Getting nods from a couple of people. But Taiyang narrowed his eyes at a bit of info.

"I 'was' a member. So that means I stopped being one before it got shut down. I wonder what happened to me in this world." Taiyang thought to himself.

"Why?.. Who are you?" Qrow mentally asked the voice.

"Well I could tell you…. Bye!" the voice said as Qrow regain control of his body

"Blahahah" he said, shaking his head loose from the seizure he just had.

"What do you mean 'blah'?" James asked, not caring about his episode.

"I heard a voice in my head just now." Qrow told him.

"What'd he say?" James inching away from Qrow a little.

"He told me to.. Not blow this place up" Qrow said in a shaky tone.

"Hmmm… You're making it up and you're lying, or you're crazy." the terrorist said.

"Ah-"

"Really crazy like I don't trust you with the bomb crazy!"

"Well it's a good thing I'm not crazy hha haha" Qrow nervously said as he walked towards the core.

"Good now do as I told ya and don't fuck up!" James said cheerfully. Then alarms blared around the room.

"SCHNEE SECURITY BREACH: FOUR BODIES FOUND IN THE MAKO FACTORY TRAIN STATION"

"Did you fuck up?" James asked in an angry tone.

"DEPLOYING MAKO FORCE SECURITY DEATH LAZER ROBOT"

"I might have fucked up yes." Qrow admitted as he spotted a giant robot coming right at them. The robot in question was huge with six legs, a long spiked tail, and two large arms on its upper body.

"Alright merc show me what you got!" James shouted to the former soldier.

"Time to cut this bucket of bolt down to size" Qrow said in a cocky tone as he rushed the mech with a few sword strikes, Before finishing the combo with an overhead strike. This did nothing but some bug bite damage to it.

"Wow" the terrorist says sarcastically, watching him from afar taking pot shots with his gun arm.

"Yep my skills are one of a kind!" Qrow says rushing in for a few more hits to the mechs legs still barely doing much to it.

"Are they really?" James asked snidely.

"What not sold then check this out!" he said as he jumped off the wall slicing the robots upper torso doing slight bit more damage but nothing major to it.

"That will not work! That does not work!" James shouted at him as he rushed in for a few more hits.

"Trust me I was in soldier!" Qrow said as he drew back for a breather.

"Right now that fact is scaring me. And these robots- they can literally sense fear!" James said as the robot scanned him before focusing a red laser on him.

"A change of strategy might be in order here instead of beating it till it dies." Ruby said with a deadpan stare.

"Hey it works for me." Yang said nonchalantly.

"Yes it totally worked against Neo, didn't it?" Roman asked in a teasing tone as Neo smirked at her. Yang simply flipped them both off earning her a smack to head from summer.

"There you see it knows i'm afraid!" James shouted at qrow.

"Uhhh alright maybe this will work! Thunder!" Qrow shouted as one of the gems on his sword glowed and a bolt of lightning struck the robot.

"So they have their own version of dust?" Weiss asked

"Sorta, It's called materia. Green materia are spells, Red materia are summons, yellow materia give access to new skills, blue materia can enhance other materia, and purple materia increase your physical or mental attributes. Some can be upgraded through use in combat but otherwise they are just like dust." Slayer told her and the rest who were listening in.

"Attributes? Like strength and speed?" Raven asked him.

"That along with luck, your healing factor, your defense against both magical and physical damage, and how fast you improve your fighting skills. Though there is a major downside." Slayer replied.

"And that is? Because so far these things sound better than dust in every way!" Roman shouted at him.

"Well to create materia they need to siphon off the lifeblood of the planet to condense into a sphere the size of a tennis ball. So the more materia is created the more you kill the planet leading to its inevitable destruction." Slayer told him with a blank stare. In return, he received horrified stare and jaw drops.

"Please tell me you're joking?" James asked desperately.

"I wish I could make this shit up." Slayer responded to the general who just shook his head in disappointment.

"And that's-" he began

"AND THAT'S HOW It's DONE!" James shouted, cutting him off. Both of them glare at each other before Qrow goes back to setting up the bomb.

"Now insert the wires."

"I know."

"Make sure the charges are set…"

"I know…!"

"Now set the timer."

"I don't need you micromanaging me!"

"OH REALLY BECAUSE AFTER THE EVENTS OF TODAY I HAVE TO RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE!"

"You know any other time I'd argue with you but no, this version of me is an idiot." Qrow said while chuckling at the James onscreen.

"So no different than any other version of you?" Ozpin asks snidely, getting a chuckle from Glynda and Ironwood as well as a glare from Qrow.

"Now set the timer." James said.

"I know what I'm doing!" Qrow snarled at him.

"That is an opinion you are having. Now set it for ten minutes!" James said with a glare.

"FINE!" Qrow shouts before some beeping sounds go off. They look at the timer to see it read 5 minutes.

"OOOooooohhhh…" James groaned in frustration.

"SH-hit." Qrow said before messing with the wires.

"Do not-!"

"I can fix this."

"DO NOT-!"

"I CAN FIX THIS!"

"TOUCH IT AGAIN" the timer now reads 1 minute. James took a deep breath before it began to count down. They both look at one another before bolting away from the reactor screaming. Qrow gets to the top of the stairs and finds Harriet stuck in a hole.

"Help me! My foot is stuck!" she yelled.

"I DON'T CARE IF YOU WANNA FUCK WE NEED TO GO!" Qrow screams at her as he frees her.

"She should really get that fixed before a mission." Yang said snickering as Qrow is facepalming at his choice of words.

"Question how volatile will the explosion be?" Weiss asked slayer only for Jinn to answer instead.

"I don't know. How volatile is a dust facility's explosion?" Raven asked Weiss who only shivered in response.

Harriet after being free'd jumps and does a flip over Qrow before running out the room.

"WHAT!" he screams as James just blinks in confusion before they both start running again. Before they make to Marrow and Elm they get attacked by two robotic turrets.

"No time for this!""NONE!" they both shouted destroying the turrets in quick succession before rushing out to the escape path.

"Hey guys, how the mission go?" Elm asked.

"I think something went wrong!" Marrow shouted, noticing the look of panic on the trios faces.

"Qrow Fucked up!" James shouted as he ran past them.

"I did nothing wrong!" Qrow shouted back before stopping to pick up harriet off the ground after she fell. They all rush down the tunnel as the camera pulls out to show the city of Midgar.

"That place looks horrible to live in." Blake said with a glare.

"It is. The city is broken up into sectors to separate the rich and the poor from each other even having the lower sectors be no more than scrapyards for the most part." Slayer said with disgust.

"So why are we looking at it then?" Port asked but he was answered quickly enough.

From the skyline view of the city they see 7 more reactors. Then the detonation happens creating a colossal explosion whose fiery plume was the size of an entire sector of the city.

"Holy shit that was awesome." Nora said with manic glee.

"Never mind, I think dust facilities explosions are a lot less volatile than what just happened there" Raven said in a bit of fear.

"Shit I hope you survived that." Tai said in a worried tone.

Camera then focused on a tunnel exit where Qrow flew out rolling a little before standing.

"Nailed it," he said with a smirk.

"Everyone okay?" James asked landing outside as well.

"Yeah/Yeah!" Marrow/Harriet respond.

"AHHH! My ASS! THE BATHROOM WILL NOW BE A TRIAL!" Elm Screamed as she ran around with her backside slightly singed from the explosion.

"Oooh. Thats gotta hurt." Ruby said in sympathy.

"If she had been a bit faster she wouldn't have to worry about it." Nora said with a bit of a smirk.

"So if you were a bit more careful with building maghild, then you wouldn't have gotten as hurt as you did?" Ren asked with a hint of sass. This got him a boop and a pout in return as the others snickered.

"Okay… Mission ...complete? … I guess?" James said in an unsure tone.

"Would call that far from a success. But you did blow up the building, so go for it." Roman said sarcastically.

"Okay, Whatever. Now you all know the plan. We meet at the rendezvous point." James said to his group who nodded in response.

"Hey uh-h I don't know where that is?" Qrow asked in a concerned voice.

"Oh you don't?" James asks mockingly.

"Yeah so if you could …" Qrow began but James ran off before he could finish.

"And I have been ditched...god dammit winter your friends are killing me." Qrow mutters to himself before taking off after them. The screen fades black signifying the end of this world.

"That wasn't too bad." Glynda said with a bit of humor in her voice.

"Does he actually catch up with them?" Raven asked.

"Yeah, but he had to kill like a dozen more guards and then hop on the train they were taking from a bridge. So yeah they really hoped he didn't make it back either way." Slayer said, getting Qrow to give Ironwood the stink eye for a brief second.

"Hey do mind me asking where Jaune is in this world?" Pyrrha asked the host.

"Hmm let check." Slayer says as he pulls out a large file and starts leafing through it.

"Ah here we are let's have a look." slayer said as the screen flares to life once more.

On the screen they see a large lab with some scattered crates here and there. In the center was a large circular tube containing a large golden furred wolf/lion like creature, on its legs were golden bands, on his right shoulder was a tattoo of 'XIII', and finally his tail was alight with a fireball. It was currently consuming a large slab of raw meat off the ground… violently consuming it. Coming toward the container was a man in a white lab coat. As he walked toward the container, his back was facing the audience, so they could only notice he had gray shaggy hair tied into a ponytail.

"Hello subject 13. How are we today?" the scientist asked gleefully.

"Merlot!" Port snarled, he and the other adults, Roman included; glaring at the man on screen.

"But where is Jaune?" Jinn asked.

"You'll see" Slayer said calmly

The creature continued to eat ignoring the man's question.

"It's very rude to ignore someone who is talking to you subject 13." Merlot reprimanded the creature. In response the beast turned with a glare and growled at the scientist. Its eyes revealed to be a dark blue holding only hunger and fury in them.

"Oh well if you're going to be that way then I shall take my leave of you. Be ready for more experiments~ later. Subject 13" Merlot called out with a manic grin as he turned away. But when his back was turned the beast charged the wall, causing Merlot to jump at the violent shake it gave as the beast growled and snarled at him. The doctor ran away much faster than he intended, almost crashing into the wall outside the door.

"Pfft~, how does that feel ya quack?" Roman asked with a snicker.

"Why is that man so despised?" Salem asked.

"He is one of the reasons mount glenn had failed and became filled with your grimm. Because he believed grimm to be the superior species." Slayer answered the witch, who just stared at the man with curiosity.

Alone at last, the beast calmed itself and gave a small grin.

"That will teach you to interrupt my meal. I'm quite horngry today." the beast said as it went back to eating. The screen black for the final time.

"Wait, that voice, is that Jaune?" Pyrrha asked in shock.

"Yep!" Slayer responded

"Okay then… Um what is he exactly?" Weiss asked in confusion.

" I don't quite know. But I do know he is an almost extinct species. being one of the few survivors of his race." he responded.

"What does he mean by horngry?" Jinn asked with an innocent expression.

" The experiments Doctor Merlot performs are breeding experiments to see if he can revive the creature's race. Also, because he gets off on making monstrosities and then tosses them away like they're nothing." Slayer said with disgust.

"So wait this Jaunes whole existence is to fuck and eat? Sounds pretty good to me." Mercury said with a grin.

"Of Course you'd say that. You're a pig." Emerald said snidely, giving him a glare which he returned.

"To be fair he was only captured about 5 or 6 years ago. He is actually 48 in human years. But a teenager to his species. So no, his whole existence isn't sex and food." Slayer informed the assassin who shrugged in response saying he didn't care.

"Anyway let's move on to the next world shall we?" Slayer said as he went up to the device and began to align the screen to another world as the audience talked among themselves.


Hope you guys enjoyed it. If you have to question the roles I handed out. well lets just say doing the other way would have been too predictable so i decided to change it up a bit.

Again very sorry this took as long as it did .

Welp I'll see you next time if you still want to read this story.

NEXT TIME: "you can do more for him than me. For his sake, At least pretend you care about monsters this one time."