Fred
People started flooding out of the doors to the landing pad and tried to find an atlesian military transport, since they'd probably not be waiting for civilians to get on, while silently congratulating Kelly on whatever she did to get people moving.
Fred spotted exactly what he needed, a small transport with a pilot, and two crewmen in the back that had just dropped off their load of robotic soldiers.
Fred walked up to the transport and jumped in, showing the credentials Ozpin gave him to the pilot and said to him, "I need to get to Beacon, I'm acting as a message runner,"
The pilot looked back at him as the engines spun up, "we can get you close, but you'll have to jump, I can't take the time to get that low with this many Grimm running around,"
Fred looked out the cockpit, and sure enough the streets below were being swept over by a black tide, and there were winged Grimm swarming the skies. Fred commended John, he was right again, things were coming together, and not in a good way.
Fred squeezed back into the open air transport area just as it was taking off and the other two crew members were slamming shut massive doors meant to be Grimm proof.
One of the two crew turned and addressed Fred, "you've got approximately one minute to drop, Red will let you know when to go," the man pointed to the pilot's seat.
The other guy walked over to the back of the cabin and opened a hatch, pulling out a backpack and handing it to Fred, "Parachute. Which I don't think you should be getting, as we're technically not supposed to give away military property for free, but—"
He was cut short as the other guy interrupted him, "look at the guy, do you seriously think it's going to matter if you give it to him or he takes it, and he just beat last year's champs, then went on to beat one of the best individual fighters in the current tournament scene?"
The man sighed and handed the parachute to Fred who quickly loosened the harness and strapped it on.
The pilot suddenly shouted back into the cabin, "Brace yourselves, evasive maneuvers and a few angry bastards of nevermores."
The other two crew members ran over to seats and strapped themselves in as Fred reached up to the ceiling and grabbed a bar with both hands, anchoring himself in place.
The transport tucked into a roll, then a fast curve flowing into a dive, the Gs started to rise as the pilot maneuvered the clunky transport, and Fred looked over to see one of the crew members had already passed out with the other looking woozy.
Fred heard the cannons attached to the front of the bird spit their flaming dust of death at the Nevermores flocking around outside.
The Transport shook and Fred heard shattering glsss as he saw a nevermore's feather flick through the cockpit. He ran up to the door and peered inside.
The pilot was still alive, but had a large gash cut across the top of his chest and shouting obseneties at the nevermores that had dared touch his precious bird.
The cannons fired again, and another nevermore turned to cracked bone and torn flesh,
Fred peered out the cockpit, and was shocked at the pure amount of tangoes outside the cracked viewport. This pilot was good.
Red must have noticed Fred standing just behind him and said, "As much as I hate to admit it, we don't have much time left in the air, I advise you get going.
I'm going down fighting if I'm going down though, grab the other two and jump."
Fred nodded, "Affirmative,"
Red added his condolences, "Fly fast and check six."
The cannons lit up another Grimm as Fred turned and ran to grab the crew. At first the harnesses weren't coming off, but Fred ripped them from the wall and put each man under an arm, took a deep breath and jumped out the back hatch.
Fred tracked Red and his bird through the packed sky, watching as he burned a fiery trail through the air and slammed into a massive dragon, knocking it out of the sky in an explosion of dust, metal, and flesh.
Fred silently commended the man, then turned and watched as the ground approached, pulling his parachute at the last moment to minimize his air time.
He landed in an alleyway not far from beacon, waking both men up with a quick shake, then directing them to find an atlesian unit, as they were scattered across the city, before moving towards the school and Ozpin.
Kelly
Kelly rode down from the stadium towards the harbor on the skid of an overpacked shuttle transport, occasionally taking shots at Grimm that slipped past the atlesian escorts as they took dives at the transports full of panicked civilians.
Streaks of fire and darkness lanced across the sky, burning into each other with machine guns and talons.
The fleet managed to land at the port, and the cargo spewed forth, soldiers rushing to clear the area of Grimm ran from choppers side by side with the robotic knights. A few other huntsman had managed to snag a ride and were now directing people to various ships loading people to be ferried away.
Kelly pulled the door of her transport open and yelled for people to run for the boats, She then turned and readied her weapons, running to the approaching Grimm and blazing past the soldiers already on their way.
Kelly took cover behind a shipping crate that had been pushed in place to create a long corridor to force the Grimm into a choke point, she waited for the small charging Grimm to pass her hiding place, waiting for something bigger.
She sprung as an Ursa Major ran past, tackling it and bringing it crashing to the ground on one of its smaller comrades. She shoved her spear to its throat and blasted the head off the beast's shoulders, she looked up past the approaching horde and saw what she was looking for, a pair of alpha ursa moving towards the dock, wading through the smaller Grimm as if they were nothing but waist high grass.
Kelly smiled, pulling out a pair of twin SMGs, dropping the slides and jumping toward the approaching horde.
The first Grimm who encountered the flying Spartan felt surprise flow through its thick head as a boot descended from the sky, was firmly planted in its face, and crushed its already ugly face even more than its years of hunting things in the emerald forest and an unpleasant avalanche that had crushed its home and previous alpha.
Kelly ran across the horde of Grimm, carefully placing each armored sole while simultaneously unloading her SMGs into the onrushing tide, skipping across the sea of black.
Her guns clicked empty and she holstered them, pulling her spear and a grenade out, then pulling the pin on the grenade and silently counting, waiting till the last second and dropping it behind her, while also pushing off the back of a large Beowulf. Her back lit up with heat as the grenade went off, blowing her forward as she braced her spear and turned herself into a missile and pressurizing the gel in her suit.
The first alpha went to the grave of black dust having no idea it was even hit, and even less of what happened as 750 pounds blew through its chest cavity at almost 50 miles per hour.
Kelly twisted in the air, shaking the gore off her suit and landing spread out, sliding a few meters on the ground, bleeding off what little speed hadn't been transferred to the alpha.
She coughed and sputtered as the gel pressure returned to normal, pain flaring in a multitude of places across her body as she turned to face the second alpha only to hear a familiar sound.
Air support, it was different from a pelican or long sword, but the roar of a gunship's engines and the whistle of an incoming carpet bomb were ones she knew all to well from watching training tapes of war against the insurrection with her sibs and Deja.
She ran for the cover of a concrete wall and a pile of shipping crates, diving behind them as the corridor of Grimm lit up in a brilliant flame, she poked her head out and watched as more Grimm filled the place of their fallen brethren and the second alpha stood up looking more angry than ever. Kelly sighed, running back towards it silently, jumping and using remnant's reduced gravity to land on the back of its neck, quickly pulling two knives out from behind her back and driving them into the eye sockets of the enraged Grimm. Driving them as deep as possible before pulling them out and jumping away onto the nearest shipping container as the alpha roared and fell to the ground, finally giving into its injuries.
Kelly ran back to the emplacement of the atlesian soldiers, drawing looks of both admiration and adoration as she landed and continued to unload into the oncoming hoard.
John
John and Linda moved quickly across rooftops toward beacon. John signaled for Linda to take cover and ducked down between a rooftop access hatch and an air duct as he activated TEAMCOM, "Blue team report,"
Kelly spoke up first, "Blue two reporting in, I'm at the docks and holding back the Grimm with atlesian soldiers and some huntsmen in training. Get back here quick, there are a lot of Grimm and not a lot of us."
John responded, "you heard the lady, Blue team double time. Kelly set a mission timer for fifteen minutes, or wait for the last ferry, if we're not back, just go. We might need someone on the outside to organize an extraction if we get stuck."
Kelly almost voiced her disagreement with the plan, then just sighed, "Affirmative." She said.
"Fred, meet Linda and I at rally point alpha once you update Ozpin, we're extracting,"
Fred
"Affirmative sir," Fred said as he ran up to the elevator to Ozpin's office, and was surprised when it opened on its own, divulging Pyrrha and Ozpin.
"Hello Frederick," Ozpin said, unfazed by the 7'2" figure directly in front of him. Pyrrha seemed slightly more taken aback, but remained fairly calm, at least as much as one could when the city you are in is under assault by both gangs and monsters.
"Professor, scrolls are down because of a hit on the CCT tower, it was destroyed by a female saboteur using exclusively glass weapons, other than that Grimm populations have exploded out of nowhere all over the city, seeming to congregate around the ports because of current evacuation efforts."
"It's worse than I honestly expected," voiced Ozpin, "Miss Nikos, Fred, come with me." Ozpin motioned Fred into the elevator, popped a panel out and typed a furiously long passcode into a number pad which Fred memorized as well as recorded with his helmet cam.
The elevator felt like it lost power as it plummeted into the depths of beacon.
Thirty two seconds later, the door slid open into a giant hallway, and the group ran down the hall, Fred popping a small camera on the wall to cover the elevator and linking it to his helmet.
The group reached the end of the hall and Ozpin spoke, "Miss Nikos, we've already gone over this, so if you could please step into the tube,"
A tube looking like a cryopod opened and Pyrrha took a deep breath before stepping in and the hatch closed behind her.
Ozpin looked to Fred, "we are attempting a power transfer of sorts," he then quickly explained the story of the maidens and their powers.
Fred raised an eyebrow behind his helmet, and was about to say something when the camera by the elevator picked up motion.
Fred spun, bringing his rifle to bear on the end of the hall, saying to Ozpin, "something just cut through the door of the elevator and came down the shaft, tango is in a red dress, not carrying weapons and floating.
Ozpin's face darkened, "She's here, Cinder."
The figure moved off the camera, and a few seconds later into Fred's field of view.
He fired a quick burst at the approaching figure who was now running, and simply let it hit her aura.
Ozpin shifted, pulling his cane out and readying for combat.
The woman stopped, making a shield of glass out of thin air to block another burst from Fred, then her arm appeared to reach out flying towards Fred with the speed of a viper.
Fred's arm whipped up and deflected it, sending it slightly to the left of the intended target, when Fred realized it wasn't heading for him, but the fall maiden still in the tube, instead of hitting the unconscious maiden, it impacted the machine connecting the two tubes.
Four things happened all at once, the machine started to spark and fiz, Ozpin lunged forward yelling at Cinder, Pyrrha screamed in the tube, and Cinder's eyes lit with an orange fire as a cruel smile spread across her lips.
Ozpin was stopped mid lunge by a blast of fire, but he quickly turned himself in the air and hovered there, floating with a green shield surrounding him.
The chamber Pyrrha was in was sealed shut, and when he broke the glass, he couldn't feel a pulse.
He decided to just get out of there, as he saw Cinder and Ozpin floating a few feet off the ground blowing fireballs and magic at each other.
Fred sprinted forward and jumped with knife outstretched making a large slash at Cinder's aura across her back.
Cinder whipped around and looked at Fred, she nonchalantly flicked a sword towards Fred, and it flew towards him on a wave of fire, and slammed into his gut and sending him flying back.
Fred barely registered as Cinder turned back to Ozpin through the various warnings blaring through his helmet
Internal temperature at dangerous levels
Suit punctured
Gel pressure exceeding recommended levels
Fred felt everything start to stabilize as he tried to look around. He was stuck to the elevator wall by the sword that had pierced his gut near where Mercury had shot him. He snorted, "right where I need to go," as he reached one of the elevator buttons and sent himself to the ground floor as he tried to pull the blade from the wall.
The elevator dinged and it opened to reveal a squad of atlesian soldiers, all with guns pointing at him.
He yanked the sword out of his chest with one last heave, dropped it on the ground, and walked past the soldiers.
Fred almost ran into general Ironwood on the way out the door, and the general took a look at the bloodied wound saying, "get this man on a medical transport, he can evac with us."
One of the soldiers saluted, but Fred started to protest, before he simply slumped over on the floor and passed out.
John
It had been ten minutes and Fred still wasn't back, he was reluctant to leave his teammate, but Fred's FOF tag had moved beneath beacon, then back up, saying he was injured, but then it continued moving, and eventually took off with some Atlesian transports, so Linda was finally able to convince him to leave.
Even with the transport they had acquired, Linda and John weren't going to be able to get to the harbor in under a minute, at which Kelly had been ordered to leave, so he gave her the order to get going, and Kelly reported the last ferry as away.
The two Spartans had grabbed as many weapons ammo and supplies as they could fit into the atlesian combat truck they had stolen and modified and without doors and with the gun they had mounted on top, it looked remarkably like a warthog.
Instead of trying to find a ship, the Spartans opted to follow the remnants of teams RWBY and JNPR, which had boiled down to Ruby, Yang, who had lost an arm, and was passed out, Jaune, Nora, and Ren, but they weren't sure how to approach the grieving huntsmen and huntresses, so they simply followed behind out of sight,
The two Spartans camped half a mile from the Xio Long residence, and before Linda nodded off, John said to her, "Sam would've gone after Fred, and made it back to Kelly in time."
Linda sighed, and leaned her helmet on his armored shoulder, "We'll get them back, and get back to reach. We won't leave anyone behind."
"I hope so, I hope so." He said, shaking his head, but she was already out.
Meanwhile, somewhere deep below beacon something stirred.
AN: Sorry for the long wait again, I'll do my best to keep a more consistent schedule.
Either way, I hope you enjoyed.
Also the next three chapters I have planned each follow a member of Blue team (or two in the case of John and Linda)
Leave a review or comment if you want a specific one first, as I don't have a specific order planned.
Review Responses:
CT7576rules: Sounds cool, I will keep that in mind, but honestly that was a joke, what I think would be cool though, would be a CQC specialist with a SPAS 12 and a Vector, though if I were to pick an assault rifle, maybe a SIGM400 TREAD, which is a 5.56, modified for full auto and a larger mag of course, with anything else you want to slap on it.
RedOctober700:
Glad you enjoyed, I tried to make Ruby as Ruby as possible.
And am glad you appreciate those little interactions that are in there, ie the chair, they are very fun to write
Fred's quest for a corn dog will continue, he will not give up, he is a Spartan after all.
I don't know what others think, but mercury never seemed to be an amazing direct fighter, he seemed to rely on dirty tricks and gimmicks, not that he is a bad fighter, he just fights like a rouge, that's his character.
I don't know if you can tell, but Linda is my favorite, though Fred is awesome too, (they are all really cool, they're Spartans)
You can't just demonize everyone who isn't super friendly to the main characters, it's a gray scale.
The tech cult, I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with them, but I have ideas, they will come up later.
Fred and Kelly vs Pyrrha and Nora, I tried to make it both true to RWBY and Halo, while also making it interesting.
The ship will continue, and I am interested to see where it goes as well, (I have a general idea, but not totally sure)
I agree with you on RT and v6 and ships, there was so much potential for stuff, then they just dropped it, but oh well, that isn't what I watch RWBY for, (I used to watch for Pyrrha among other things, but that ended badly)
I'm terrible at names, at least for people, so I usually just copy from somewhere (arinda price comes from a SW book)((she's the lady they rescued))
Idk about Lucky Rose, but maybe when I finish this I'll do some one shots and I can fit that in somewhere, no promises.
The weapon would be cool, I just hope in halo infinite they keep up the great weapon design from the other games, and maybe even add more.
Flying is always cool, and Ace looks awesome, I might have to try it.
Once again, glad you enjoyed and thanks for the review