This just a little something I wanted to do as a return to the writing world, I've had to deal with life and everything, but I am slowly coming back.
So why not mix in RWBY with one of my first and favorite comic book series my old man got me, turning me into a full-on Punisher fan.
I have been working on RWBY Death Battle on the side, it's still a slow but good progress, I'll be deleting the chapters here, but not the beginning chapter. The rest of RWBY DB will be uploaded to AO3, I've already posted season 1 up.
As well this is a different setting to "RWBY MC" that will have its own Ruby story line with her becoming part of the Corps.
Normal
Though speech
Fav or fallow if you enjoy and want to see things continue on.
Firebase Valley Forge, seven miles from the Cambodian border
Late October 1971
It was just another day in paradise, sun was just about up, it wasn't along as 2 AC cargo plane were flying and landing on base, the first made it down.
The other wasn't, as three trails of smoke shoot out from the dense green jungle, all three rising up to the plane's altitude, one shot missed while the other two both hit the left wing. Troops on the ground were in shock at the latest casualty hit of the war, but it wasn't over as the burning plane began to fall from the sky, along with flaming debris.
Several Marines are hit by the planes carcass and the unlucky ones are lit up by the fire and pooling fuel, a large explosion rocks the base as the ammo and fuel onboard light up. Some runaway while others try to contain the flames before they spared to the ammunition stocks.
Off in the distance several men chat among themselves as they witness the large fireball and smoke could rise from the ground
"Told you"
"Ha yeah, pay up motherfucker"
"Shit..." Man ruffles around in his pocket and pulls out a pair of $5's along with two cigs'.
"No way he was gonna make it with that wing all fucked up like that..." A collection of hum agreements and 'Yeah's' answer back towards him
One member, the youngest/newest gives asks out loud "We gonna go after them?"
"Nah Charlie will be long gone by the time we got down there" The African American Marine smiled while paying up his lost bet "Cap'n knows that"
"And we got bigger shits to fry" Another fellow Marine pats his friend's back.
In the meantime, one person continued to stare at the flaming inferno, blonde hair and blue eyes, after collecting himself he snapped a few photos though the clearing of brush.
"I will not die in Vietnam" He says as he zooms in as best as he can onto the flames and rising smoke.
My name is Jaune Arc and I am so short I can taste it. I am down to thirty-nine days and I wake-up, and on that magic day I will step aboard the big freedom bird and leave this place behind forever.
"I've been stuck here as a combat photographer, didn't have it in me to join the others and fight, despite most of my family fighting since the Great War" Jaune packs his camera and follows up with the Marines into the jungle.
"On the great silver craft that carries me home I will sleep and sleep, and be served by beautiful stewardesses dressed angels, I will smile with joy as i get a gold drink and a hot meal.
"I've made sure to not die here. I will escape these fields of slaughter"
After losing his footing a bit in a muddy puddle he brushes off being laughed at by some of the Marines "I will not re-up for a second tour, I'm not going to become a combat-junkie like so many of the others- forever hoping for their next sweet firefight, their lethal speedball of adrenaline and tracer are like a drug to them" He looks over at the battle-hardened fighters and the patrol leader.
"I will not fall in love with war like Captain Rose"
Up ahead of the unit is Captain Ruby Rose, under her Boonie hat her silver eyes scan the jungle cold and calculating, like some sort of killer robot, her hands hold on tightly to a scoped M14 rifle "Out of anyone of the others, she's seen the most around" He takes a single picture of her back facing him.
"Ruby Rose is the finest officer the Marines of Firebase Valley Forge have ever known. She is the reason I am sure I will survive this" Juane looks over to her
"Her dedication to her men is total. Not from love- ha... that word and her do not belong together - but from the same determination to do her job correctly that informs her every action"
"Since she arrived, six months ago, not one patrol that she led has suffered K.I.A., just the enemy" Jaune remembered several past patrol's being hit and well losing over 30 Marines in three weeks.
"Her first tour, so the story goes began with Tet in sixty-eight. The brass in Da Nang detected some dark promise in the young platoon commander, and Special Forces had themselves a new recruit" Jaune imagined this woman being in the field with the best of the best, Green Beret's and the men with green faces.
"Within that strange Praetorian Guard her Star shine brightly. Her second tour is mostly a mystery, but I've heard talk of some wet work in Cambodia black ops, the company, and hearing about some N.V.A. General getting sniped just outside Hanoi... and other shit I can only imagine made the C.I.A very happy"
"Along with other horror stories too outlandish to even be positively true"
"But now the war in Vietnam is winding down, and no one knows quite what to do with the predators it has bred. Her third tour saw her sent to Vally Forge - because they had to send her somewhere, after all"
"A specialized assassin in command of infantry. The writing is upon the wall: America will soon be gone from here"
"Alas for Captain Rose, she is running out of war"
The Captain holds up her gloved hand and the rest of us stop dead in our tracks, pass some bushes the faint sound of voices can be heard along with rustling supply boxes, Rose signals out to her left and right and all sightly agree. The patrol quietly sets up around a nearby river clearing, most being the in the center while both machine gunners took the far flanks.
Further back was the rear guard and explosive experts. All grow quiet as ahead of them all several people were seen along with their cattle, carrying around their supply's. At this point all know that Rose is the first to shoot, she's made it this long to know that to do or not do.
Her silver eye takes aim and the only Cong on a buffalo was shot right into his heart, in an instant everyone back to fire away their lead
One Cong hid behind a tree near to the right flank. "Ah, you fuckin' cocktease" Gunner to the challenge and began to mow the thick tree up, it wasn't long until fear overtook and the Cong fled, gunner swung over and riddled his body into a bloody and shredded body, laughing after scoring his last kill as his belt ran out.
Everything fell silent after Cap Rose, rose up and waved off, all guns ceased. Everyone began to recheck their ammo along with is they took any hits, there were none. Everything changed when someone shouted, "Fucker's buggin' out" The lone survivor of the Cong ran from behind a dead buffalo, even though he was running no one raised their gun up.
"Valkyrie!"
One of the fire maniacs laughs "Hey Charlie!" She pulled the pin off a fresh grenade "Go deep!" Seconds went by as the frag landed just under the Cong and blow him up in a bloody mess
After taking a few breaths Jaune collected himself "I will have sons. When the big freedom bird takes me home, I will make love to the most beautiful woman, and when the day comes, I will marry her that very day"
"She will give me sons and they will grow up tall and strong as giants, and I will watch them grow, and sing with pride" From behind he got punched by Nora Valkyrie and he smiled back at her for a good toss.
"I will take them up into the woods and the mountains and show them the greatest country in the world: the Promised Land that is their birthright"
"The good America. The real America" Jaune watched as one man scalped some of the dead Cong "And not this tragic misstep into the darkness. In years to come the boys will learn their father went to war, and gaze on him anew, eyes bright with fascination"
"They will ask the old man what he did, and she he fought, and where he went, and what he saw there-" What looked Jaune stepped though some brush and felt something squish under his boot, looking under he saw crushed brain chunks "And I will never, ever tell them!"
Few hours after the patrol's firefight Captain Rose headed towards the command post and met up with the Colonel Ottman, the man in charge around here.
"Captain Rose. I suppose you want to make your report" Ruby stood in front of the base's Coronel, who was sitting back while pouring himself a drink
"Twenty-one Vietcong K.I.A.. Nil on our side" She took off her hat and wiped away some dirt and sweat "Recovered a hundred plus A.K.'s, six R.P.G.'s, four mortars- all chicom type fifty-threes, not the little popguns- and enough ammunition and grenades to supply a company-strength unit for a week. Booby-trapped half-a-dozen of the rifles and destroyed the rest"
"And we're all going to die when, exactly?"
Ruby let out a quite sigh as she watched the Col poured himself another full glass "This is the third supply run we've hit in two weeks. With our patrols as patchy as they are, we can't begin to guess how much is getting though. V.C. carrying N.V.A. equipment means one thing: offensive" Rose leaned back on a post "They're stockpiling for a push and when they do come it'll be straight though us. We're out here on our own, Colonel. We should be getting ready"
After taking a drink Col just looked on towards Captain Rose "General Padden will be here in an hour. Suprise inspection. I want you to give him a tour of the base"
"Me?" Rose questioned back
"Mhm"
"I'll be sick by the time he gets here. Malaria again. I just won't be up to it. I'm not up to any of this shit"
Rose did her best and knew she wasn't gonna break through to him "You going to pass my report on to Da Namg?"
"Just like all the others, Captain. You've got an hour before Padden arrives. You should see about getting the place squared away"
"Don't be so fucking stupid" Ruby answered back with a sigh as she left.
"Oh uh, I know that look" From behind Ruby felt an arm wrap around the back of her neck "Colonel Ass giving shit again"
"As always Yang"
Nearby Jaune took a quick snap of the Captain along with her supporting sister Yang Xiao Long "Yang, now there's a gal with Marine written all over her, she came along with Captain Rose and the rest of her unit" One snap Jaune swears he saw Rose smile, a genuine smile.
"Only thing I know from her background is that she didn't even wait to be drafted like so many, she preictally signed her name in and became a grunt"
"Most of the guys around here are scared of her, mostly since she broke a guy's arm during an arm-wrestling contest, far as things go she's also famous around for using only Dragon breath shotgun shells" Jaune remembers back to his first time seeing her using her scorched shotgun "I swear she was smiles and laughs while watching the VC burning and screaming"
Yang let go of her little sister from her head lock "Well don't sweat it, if we shoot him ourselves, I doubt any of these junkies will even know as well as care" Ruby looked over at some Marines taking drags from weed cig's, along with others taking stronger drugs.
From behind Jaunes hiding spot, out came a white-haired woman.
"Of course, it doesn't surprise me, that idiot doesn't have what it takes to pick this place up, most of the men are high out of their minds"
"Well look at it this way princess at least the jungle still feels like home" Yang playfully punches her friends' shoulder "What's your gut say sis?"
"I still got a bad feeling" Ruby stepped in front the two and looked out into the jungle "They're out there like ants"
"Armed with the best Soviet weaponry, pray they don't have any heavy artillery" Weiss remembers back to the early days of the war.
"Weiss Schnee, heard only rumors about her, some say she comes from a house of money, and somehow even with all her family wealth either couldn't stop her from enlisting or she took it no matter what" Jaune got a snapshot of the Lt, scar over her right eye in full view.
"Some also say she got her scar during the Tet offensive; rumor go she was bayoneted by some Cong and she clawed his eyes out as payback"
"Make sure to get some sleep tonight, I'm going to take everyone I can on patrol tomorrow"
"You got it, I'll route up the usuals and set up everything" Weiss and Ruby shakes hands and head off in different directions
Ruby along with Yang watched on as a Huey flow in and landed, Cap Rose met up with a single man. Both were too far from Jaune's ear along with heading away from his spot.
"Something about them makes for one hell of a story, can't imagine anyone would believe me if I told them everything about these girls"
A part in Jaune's mind made him realize one thing "One of them is missing, that's no surprise, heard Blake felt right at home in the dark" He looked out beyond the base and into the thick jungle.
Outside the Base
A black-haired woman was washing up her bloody knuckles in a nearby stream "Lần cuối cùng, chỉ có bao nhiêu là ngoài đó!"
She turns back to a Cong hanging upside down from a tree "Tôi ... tôi không thể vui lòng thêm nữa!"
"Well guess I shouldn't be too surprised" She quickly slashed his neck up and left him to bleed out, she looks over to two other VC while wiping her knife clean "He wasn't talking, but tôi cảm thấy may mắn"
Back inside the base
"Somehow, she scares me the most... hell I never know I could be so scared of a bunch of women" Jaune laughed it off before grabbing his notebook "Or a set of demons in human suits, at this point unit RWBY is a total mystery"
"At least things sure got exciting since Captain's unit transferred here" Arc started writing down the events of the latest patrol firefight, along with any side notes for his photos.
After some time, the sun was about to pass the horizon and deep night coated the base and Jaune decided now to hit the sack, that was until he noticed several men carrying a dead body on a stretcher.
"H-hey what happened?" Jaune questioned one of the Marines carrying the body.
"Couldn't even read a god damn sign, some General huh" From behind Jaune spotted Captain Rose, who just as she lights her cigarette.
"No couldn't be" Jaune tried his best to bury that though from his mind, but it kept bugging him.
That's it for the time being, more coming soon.
I've tried my best to keep some from the comic while mixing in RWBY. Don't expect the same from the comic as well, I've made some changes to make things more exciting for later chapters.
Translations
Lần cuối cùng, chỉ có bao nhiêu là ngoài đó! - Last time, only how much is out there!
Tôi ... tôi không thể vui lòng thêm nữa! - "I... I can't please more!
tôi cảm thấy may mắn - i feel lucky
Till the next chap