Chp. 42: Red vs. Blue
Remnant
Mountain Glenn, Vale
Daniel Air Force Base
Hangar 5
June 5, 2020
It was the morning of the next day, everyone was gathered in the hangar. Keaton stood on the stage, behind the podium.
"Tomorrow, we will be leaving for Atlas. So tonight, make sure you're all ready to go before we depart. But today you are all wondering what we're doing today," Keaton said.
"Yes, you did say you got something planned for us today," Weiss said.
"That we do," Keaton replied.
Steel and Alex walk upon the stage, wearing paintball armor and carrying paintball guns. Alex's armor was all red and Steel's was all blue.
"Paintball?" Robert asked.
"Their might come a time where you may have to fight without aura and or with other weapons." Keaton said. "So today, as a test, we're having a paintball tournament."
"You'll all be split into two teams; Red and Blue," Keaton said.
Kelly snickered as Jacob shook his head in amusement.
"You ever wonder why we're here?" Ricky asked with a smirk.
Team GRMA, and Yang, Ruby, Nora, Jaune and Rebecca all broke down into laughter.
"Yeah, we know. Very funny. The guys of Rooster Teeth wanted us to do this as a joke," Steel said.
"Now we'll split you all into two teams," Keaton said.
The holographic screen appeared above the captain's head. The left side of the screen was titled Red, as the right side was titled Blue. The teams' names and other names appeared upon the screen. The Red side's names were RWBY, GRMA, NDGO, ABRN, SSSN, The Happy Huntresses, Qrow Branwen, Oscar Pine, Penny Polendina, Coco Adel, Fox Alistair, and Neopolitan. The Blue side's names were JNPR, CFDT, BRNZ, FNKI, CRDL, The Ace Operatives, Taiyang Xiao Long, Cade Hudson, Velvet, Scarlatina, Yatsuhashi Daichi, and Ilia Amitola.
"The teams have been made. Steel and Barker will be your team captains," Keaton said.
"So what are our goals in this paintball tournament?" Jaune asked.
"It's capturing the enemy's flag. Here are the rules. The team that gets the opposing team's flag to their post wins, but your flag must be at its post or else it won't count. If you get hit, you're out. And you can't use your semblances or other abilities," Keaton explained. "Now both teams follow your captains."
Alex and Steel walked off of the stage and out of the hangar as the two teams followed them behind them.
Mountain Glenn Ruins
Red Camp
An hour had passed and within the ruined city, a large red tent was pitched in the middle of a street with a red flag next to it and several barriers all over the place. Inside the tent, Teams RWBY, GRMA, NDGO, ABRN, SSSN, The Happy Huntresses, and Qrow, Oscar, Penny, Coco, Fox, and Neo all wore red color-schemed paintball armor. Alex stood next to a large map of Mountain Glenn.
"Okay team listen up, the Blues have their tent set up three blocks southeast from here. We're gonna be split into two teams. The first team will go on the offensive to capture the enemy's flag, while the other will stay behind to guard our flag," Alex said.
"Entonces, ¿quién se irá y quién se quedará? (So who will be going and who will be staying)?" Penny asked.
"What did she say?" Yang asked.
"Why is Penny speaking spanish all of a sudden?" Kendra asked.
"I'm sorry. Penny requested to learn many of Earth's languages. So as we and Dr. Polendina were downloading stuff to have her speak many of these languages, there was a slight malfunction and now she's stuck speaking Spanish for the time being," Alex explained.
"Esto es bastante desafortunado. (This is quite unfortunate)," Penny said.
"So who's staying and who's going?" Sun asked.
"Teams GRMA, SSSN, and the Happy Huntresses will go on the offensive to capture the enemy flag. The rest of us will stay to guard our flag," Alex said.
"Right," Robyn replied.
"You all have your orders. Move out. Hooah!" Alex said.
The entire red team exited out of the tent and prepared to make their move.
Blue Camp
Meanwhile three blocks away from the Red camp, a large blue tent with a blue flag next to it, surrounded by barriers is set up. Inside the tent, Teams JNPR, CFDT, BRNZ, FNKI, and CRDL, The Ace Operatives, Taiyang Xiao Long, Cade Hudson, Velvet, Yatsuhashi, and Ilia Amitola all wore blue color schemed paintball armor. Steel stood next to a large map.
"Pay attention. The Reds are going to try to take our flag, which is why we must take their flag first," Steel said.
"My team can take a select few and attempt to take the enemy flag, while the rest will stay to guard the flag," Clover said.
"Right. You, JNPR, and CRDL will go for the flag. The rest of us will guard the flag. Now you have your orders. Move out!" Steel said.
Everyone began to exit the tent and begin to put their objectives in action.
A few minutes later, The Ace Ops, and Teams JNPR and CRDL were sneaking through the ruin city and heading to the Red camp.
"Stay close. The Red team may be close by," Clover said.
"Whatever," Cardin said.
"Just keep your eyes open kid," Harriet said.
"Look! Up ahead!" Jaune said as he pointed forwards.
They looked to see what Jaune was pointing at and saw the Happy Huntresses, SSSN, and GRMA approaching. They stopped in their tracks as they saw their opposing team.
"Get down!" Robyn shouted.
"Take cover!" Clover shouted.
Both teams began to shoot at each other with their paintball guns as they ran to find cover. Both teams hid behind some barriers and some debris as they continued to fire at each other. Cardin fires a paintball and hits Fiona in her chest.
"Stupid sheep," Cardin laughed.
Suddenly a paintball struck Cardin in the side of the head. As he dropped to the ground, the Blues turned their heads and saw Nora with her paintball gun aimed at the bully.
"Valkyrie!" Elm shouted.
"Ren did it!" Nora said, pointing at her partner as he facepalmed.
The Reds couldn't help but laugh at the scene in front of them.
"You shot Cardin, your team killing fucktard!" Ricky laughed.
"Oh, yeah?! Nora shouted.
She aims her gun at Ricky and fires a paintball at Ricky, hitting him in the crotch.
"My balls," Ricky said in a high pitched moan before he dropped to the ground.
"Keep shooting!" Robyn ordered.
Both teams began shooting at each other again.
"Jacob! Kelly! Sneak past the Blues and steal their flag so we can win this for the team!" Robyn said.
"Roger that!" Jacob replied.
Jacob and Kelly ran inside a building next to everyone before the Blue team noticed.
Blue Camp
A few minutes later, Jacob and Kelly were inside a building and poked their heads out of a window, looking at the Blue team's camp with the team patrolling around it. They see the flag next to the tent with Taiyang and Cade guarding it.
"There's the flag," Jacob said.
"But how are we gonna get it?" Kelly asked.
Jacob looked back at the blue flag and a few moments later grew a smirk on his face.
"I got an idea," he said.
Back down at the camp, Britney and Rebecca patrolled through the camp. Britney noticed that Rebecca had been staring at Ilia for a while. She elbowed her partner, getting her attention.
"What?" Rebecca asked.
"You had been eyeballing Ilia for a while now. Anything you want to talk about?" Britney asked.
"I'm gay for Ilia," Rebecca answered.
"Why don't you talk to her? I know you are pretty confident when you talk to girls. So why don't you confront her?" Britney asked.
"Normally I would, Britney, but she still might harbor some form of hatred for humans and still might have feelings for Blake," Rebecca answered.
"Well you won't know that if you stay silent and distant from her," Britney asked.
"That's rich coming from you. You're too scaredy cat to talk to Jacob," Rebecca said.
"I was planning to," Britney said.
"Well what do you think I should say to her?" Rebecca asked.
"Figure it out," her team leader bluntly answered as she grabbed her.
"What are you-" before Rebecca could finish, Britney pushes her right into Ilia's direction and bumps into her.
"Sorry. I-I didn't mean to bump into you," Rebecca said.
"It's fine. I'm sure it was an accident," Ilia said. "I never did get your name by the way."
"I'm Rebecca. And, well, I already know who you are," Rebecca answered.
"So your world really doesn't have Faunus from what I looked up?" Ilia asked.
"Yeah. Aside from only existing on TV shows and existing as myths, legends, and in some cases gods and goddesses, they really don't exist on Earth," Rebecca answered.
"Really?" Ilia asked.
"And there are some humans on Earth who wish to be Faunus, but there are some who wuld sexualize them. Those kinds of people are called furries," Rebecca said.
"...Huh?" the chameleon Faunus asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yep," Rebecca said.
Ilia glances passed Rebecca's head and noticed Kelly aiming her paintball gun at her from the corner from a building. Ilia tackles Rebecca to the ground just as Kelly fired. Rebecca tilts her at Ilia and sees that her face was on her chest. Ilia lifts her head up and looks up at Kelly.
"Red!" she yelled.
Ilia quickly gets up off of Rebecca and runs after Kelly with most of the blue team chasing after her as Kelly begins running away.
"Come and get me, you dirty blues!" Kelly shouted.
"Kelly, you vadge blocker!" Rebecca mentally yelled.
Rebecca quickly gets up and follows her team chasing after Kelly. As soon as the Blues were gone, Jacob poked his head out from a barrel. He sees Taiyang and Cade still continuing to guard the flag. He climbed out of the barrel and silently ran behind some walls and barriers as Tai and Cade failed to notice. Jacob hid behind the tent close to the flag.
"So... you're a robot?" Tai asked.
"Affirmative," Cade answered.
"Are you made by Atlas or...?" Tai asked.
"I was manufactured by the United States government," Cade answered.
"Aren't you supposed to be guarding that Amber girl?" Tai asked.
"She is being monitored by our own Huntsmen." Cade replied.
Jacob grabs a rock and tosses it at a wall far away from him. The sound of the rock hitting the ground got Tai and Cade's attention.
"What was that?" Tai asked.
"Wait here. I'll go check it out," Cade said as he ran off to the wall to investigate.
Jacob ran out from his hiding place and grabbed the blue flag as Taiyang didn't notice him. Just as he ran several feet away, Taiyang turns his head and spots Jacob with his team's flag.
"Gotcha ya, Red!" he shouted as Jacob froze.
Tai fires a paintball at Jacob but misses. He fires again and misses him. Jacob stood there giving a confused look as Taiyang fired at him and missed once again. He shrugs and runs away with the blue flag as Tai fires and misses once more. Cade runs up next to Tai and notices Jacob getting away with the flag. Cade turned his head facing Tai as he turned to look back at the American android.
"What?" Tai asked.
"You're not really good with that thing are you?" Cade asked.
"Shut up! This paintball gun is busted!" Tai shouted.
As Jacob continued to run, Kelly run up from out of a building and approached next to him and ran beside him. Following behind her was the rest of the Blue team.
"Come on, before they get the flag back to their camp!" Cade said.
Cade and Taiyang began to chase after Jacob.
Red Camp
Meanwhile back at the Red camp, Teams RWBY, ABRN, NDGO, and Qrow and Penny patrolled the camp, while Neo and Oscar guarded the Red flag. Penny walks up to Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
"Saludos, Ruby. ¿Estás emocionado por el mañana? (Salutations, Ruby. Are you excited for tomorrow?)" Penny asked.
"I'm sorry, Penny. but I have no idea what you just said," Ruby said.
"Esto es bastante lamentable. Pero afortunadamente dijeron que pueden arreglar esto cuando esto termine. (This is quite unfortunate. But luckily they said they can fix this when this is over.)" Penny said.
"Hopefully they can fix you so we can understand what you just said," Ruby said.
Suddenly the sound of yelling and popping noises were heard from the distance.
"Protect me, cone!" Neptune's voice cried out in the distance.
"Fall back!" Robyn's voice shouted.
Running out of the corner of a building was Robyn, May, Sun, Sage, and Allen as they were shooting behind them. Following out of the corner of the building was, the Ace-Ops, Team JNPR, and Russel chasing the running Reds.
"They got Neptune!" Sun shouted.
The Reds aimed their paintball guns at the invading Blues and opened fire. Russel gets hit by three paintballs as the Ace-Ops and JNPR run for cover. They hid behind some barriers and fired back at the Reds. A few moments later, Jacob and Kelly ran down the street making a run for the Red camp as the rest of the Blue team chased after them.
"Ahhh! Run!" Jacob screamed.
"Oh the irony!" Kelly screamed.
As they ran, Jacob glanced behind him and saw that the Blue were gaining on them.
"Kelly, take the flag back to the camp! I'll buy you some time!" he said.
" But, Jacob... Kelly tried to speak.
"That is an order!" Jacob said as he handed Kelly the blue flag.
Jacob stopped and turned around facing the charging Blues as Kelly continued to run with the flag. Jacob began to fire paintball rounds at the Blues and managed to hit Yatsuhashi, Robert, Kendra, and Brawnz. Cade aimed his paintball gun at Jacob and fired, hitting him directly in the forehead. Jacob drops to the ground as the Blues run past him chasing after Kelly.
Kelly sees Team RWBY taking cover behind a barrier and quickly approaches them. Just as she confronts them, several paintballs hit Kelly in the back and stumbles to the ground.
"Kelly!" Ruby cried.
Kelly glanced over to see who shot her and saw Jaune and Pyrrha with their paintball guns aimed at her. Yang drags Kelly behind the barrier as Blake grabs the flag from Kelly.
"Get... the flag... to camp... Herk!...Bleah..." Kelly said as she passed out.
"Kelly! Don't leave me! Nooo!" Ruby cried.
"Come on! We need to get the flag to our camp," Weiss said.
RWBY began to sprint their way to the Red flag as the Blues tried to shoot at them, while the Red provided cover fire. They finally made it to the Red flag and Blake placed the Blue flag next to it. As soon as it was done, a loud buzzing sound went off all around the area.
"Reds win!" a man on the PA announced.
The entirety of the Red team cheered as those who got shot started to get up from the ground. Jacob approaches Kelly who's finally got up.
"What happened?" Jacob asked.
"Felix and Agent Carolina shot me, but I managed to give the flag to Ruby and the others who won for us," Kelly explained.
"We better catch up with the others and celebrate our victory," Jacob said.
Everyone slowly gathered around the Red camp.
