Chp. 10: The New Base

Mountain Glenn, Vale

An hour after leaving Beacon Academy, Team RWBY, Team JNPR, Team GRMA, and Team CFDT are all riding on an air bus with Professor Ozpin, Glynda, and Keaton at the cockpit piloting.

"I can't wait to see what they have done in Mountain Glenn," Yang said.

"I want to see all the cool weapons they got up close," Ruby said.

"I want to see the progress the U.S. military has made so far," Weiss said.

"Not to mention the new huntsmen they are training," Pyrrha said.

"Keaton did say that we get to train them at a few points as part of our punishment," Jacob said.

"So Keaton will give us the tour of the new base and then we get to work?" Jaune asked.

"That's what he told us," Robert replied.

"Attention this is your captain speaking," Keaton said over the P.A. "If you all look out the windows on you left, you will get an overhead view of the base."

Everyone got up from their seats and walked towards the windows. They all saw several bunkers, barreks, hangars, and tents all over the place. Some of the ruined buildings were now in the process of construction. The biggest thing everyone noticed was the runway and a watchtower that was placed where several ruined buildings were once placed.

"This... looks... AWESOME!" Ruby exclaimed.

"They certainly got a lot cleared out while managing to build all this," Blake said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Daniel Air Force Base," Keaton said over the P.A.

Everyone looked in awe as two F-22s flew past the air bus.

"Cool," Jaune said, watching the fighter jets passing by.


Airfield

A few minutes later, the air bus makes its landing on the airfield. Teams RWBY, JNPR, GRMA, and CFDT, Ozpin, Glynda, and Keaton all walked off the air bus as the captain's two teammates, Sergeant Cassandra Rogers and Sergeant Alex Barker, both walked up to the arrivals. Along with Cassandra and Alex is a man in a U.S military uniform. He has fair skin, green eyes, and black buzzed cut hair and a soul patch.

"Hey, hey, hey, look who's here," Alex said.

"Hey there, you trouble makers," Cassandra said.

"Hey guys how's it going?" Britney asked.

"Other than protecting this world and ours from this world's wicked witch of the west, we're doing okay," the soldier said.

"Who are you?" Ren asked.

"Private First Class Henry Simon of the United States Army, but you can call me Steel," the soldier nicknamed Steel said.

"He joined our team a few days after the battle of Beacon," Cassandra said.

"Steel has been a real help when we were in Atlas," Alex said.

"You all should have been there to see us in action while working alongside those Ace Op people," Steel said.

"Anyway, your base here seems impressive, Captain," Ozpin said.

"It is impressive. And we're still constructing the base and we are in the process of making plans to have this abandoned city rebuilt with the aid from Atlas," Keaton said.

"You're actually planning to do that?" Weiss asked.

"With the right deals and careful planning, Mountain Glenn will be rebuilt," Steel said.

"Now if all of you please follow me," Keaton said.

Everyone started following the marine captain as they all started to make their way towards the base.


Hangar 5

A few minutes have passed, and the party of students, teachers, and soldiers all walked into a hangar and noticed two dozen soldiers, sitting in chairs as they watched them walk over to them.

"Battalion, attention!" Keaton barked.

The soldiers got up from their seats and stood at attention.

"I've brought some students and a couple of staff members from Beacon Academy. They will be here for the weekend to train you all on what they can so that you all have a better understanding on how to be huntsmen," Keaton explained. "After we give them the tour around the base, you will all be left in their hands. That will be all. All of you be back here at thirteen hundred hours."

The soldiers then walked out of the hangar as Keaton turned to the Beacon arrivals.

"Now all of you please follow us, we have much ground to cover," the captain said.

Keaton and his team started to walk out of the hanger as the others began to follow them.


Unknown Building

A half an hour later, everyone arrived at a large eight story building that was under construction with a Cross Continental Transit (CCT) tower on top of the building and nine flagpoles in front of the building. Professor Ozpin, Glynda, and Teams RWBY, JNPR, GRMA, and CFDT all looked at the building and then looked back at Keaton.

"Captain, what is this place?" Jaune asked.

"Well, remember how Jacob and the others proposed that we all should form an organization that was determined to fight back against Salem and other threats and secretly recruit new members?" Keaton asked.

"Yeah, and we all agreed to it. Why?" Kendra asked.

"Well, kids this will be our new headquarters for the organization," Steel said.

"Wait, really?!" Nora asked in excitement.

"Would you all like to take a look inside?" Alex asked.

"Yes!" all the Beacon students answered.

"Alright, then we go," Cassandra said.

Everybody walked up to the building and when they walked inside they saw a huge lobby with a large desk in between two sets of stairs leading up to a balcony up on the second floor.

"This is so cool," Ruby said.

"This way please," Keaton said as everyone walked up the stairs.

After a few minutes of walking, they all came up to double doors. Steel and Cassandra opened the doors as everyone walked inside and looked all around them. Inside was a huge laboratory and saw some scientists working inside.

"Here is one of the more important rooms in the entire building," Keaton explained. "This is one of our labs, more specifically, this is Lab 3. In these labs, we study everything that we have acquired all over Remnant and see what makes them all tick."

Suddenly two soldiers came into the lab, carrying a crate with a brand of a hexagon shape with the letter M on it. The crate's logo captured everyone's attention, especially Ozpin and Team RWBY's. They all then looked at a couple of scientists and noticed that they were appearing to be studying an android with the same brand on it. Everyone then turned to Keaton.

"That crate and that android... that's all Merlot Industries property. Where did you get this?" Ozpin asked.

"Some of it was from the Merlot Industries facility here in Mountain Glenn, while the rest of it was all confiscated in a raid in Atlas," Keaton explained.

"Raid?" Jacob asked.

"A couple months before you guys showed up, me and my team, alongside the Ace Ops and the Happy Huntresses discovered a secret facility several miles west from the city of Atlas," Keaton said.

"We encountered some mutated Grimm and some androids within the facility and met the mad scientist himself," Steel said.

"Doctor Merlot,"Weiss said.

"Yes, and to make it worse, that nut job somehow managed to acquire some of the teleportation Dust and he was real close to finding out its capabilities if we hadn't intervened," Cassandra said.

"But Merlot escaped right before we could apprehend him," Alex added.

"And what about the Dust," Pyrrha asked with worry.

"Relax, we have it all confiscated," Steel said.

"As for the facility, it became a new base for the Canadian military," Cassandra added.

"Anyway, on with the tour," Keaton said.

They all left the lab and continued to walk throughout the building. Eventually, they came up to a pair of double doors and all stopped as Keaton turned to them.

"Through these doors is where we are going to have our meetings. We're not going to go inside because it's still under construction. Now let's press on," Keaton said.

An hour had passed, and everyone outside the building now completed their tour of the building.

"So what do you guys think?" Alex asked.

"It looks perfect," Glynda answered.

"It would certainly get James' attention," Ozpin said.

"Speaking of James, he's actually coming here tomorrow to check out the base," Steel said.

"I'm sure this whole base will give him some ideas," Glynda said.

"Anyway, we should get back to the hangar and prepare the teams' punishment," Keaton said as he turned his head to the Beacon students.


Farm, Mistral

Meanwhile in a farm somewhere in Mistral, all was peaceful and quiet. walking out of the barn was a boy carrying a blue bucket.

The boy is short in stature. His skin is tanned and he has a faint, perpetual blush and freckles on his cheeks. His hair is black and his eyes are hazel, the main iris being forest green, with accents of burnt orange and yellow around the pupil. He is wearing a dirty and scuffed white shirt that has laces across the chest. The sleeves are rolled up to his elbows, and there is a pocket on the left tricep. Orange suspenders hold up his olive pants, which are tucked into worn, brown boots. The pants are patched over the knee, and a quilted cloth hangs loosely out of his left pocket. He wears orange gloves, with green straps overlapping across the back of the hand in an X shape, and around the wrist. His neck is wrapped with a torn bandage. This is the farm boy and Ozpin's soon-to-be next reincarnation, Oscar Pine.

Oscar walks up to a water pump and puts the bucket under the faucet, then starts to pump water into the bucket with a smile. As Oscar was pumping the water, he was unaware of a crow with red eyes watching him from atop the barn.


Author's Note: I understand that some of you are not happy with the real life political views from the last chapter, but as this is a crossover between RWBY and today's real life Earth, it was unfortunately necessary to add this in this fanfic. You will see many different political views in this fanfic, but I promise you that this kind of stuff will not be mentioned until much later on in the future. So to any of you who are or will be offended by these ideals depending on your political views, I apologize for the outcome.