NOT THAT BIG BUT KINDA BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! PLEASE READ!
Hey guys, back again! I'm tryna catch up to RWBY now and I've realised that this will be MUCH MUCH harder than I thought. But it's still completely doable and I will continue doing this Story.
However, I will be making one slight change to this Story:
I will be changing how Dust is found. Instead of what I had written before, I will be changing it to another Byproduct of the Traveller's last Breath. However, it will only be mined on Earth(Remnant); not elsewhere. This is just so it's easier for me to handle.
That will be the only change so far. Enjoy!
"Yang! Got another Exotic for you!" Ruby called out from her room, as Yang walked by to her room after a training session with Shaxx. She turned back to Ruby's room.
"On my desk," Ruby told her from where she lay on her bed; where she was currently reading a Gun magazine.
"Thanks, Sis."
"You're welcome."
"I mean it, Sis."
Ruby looked up down from her magazine; that she had been holding up to look at. Yang had a genuine smile on her face.
"I know, Yang."
"Good. Dad said you should move your lazy ass and go get training with Cayde & Qrow done." Yang said as she left the room.
With a moan, Ruby got up and went to take a shower. After, she changed back into her normal attire and went downstairs. Shaxx was sitting at the table, reading a hologram that had the news across the City. Seeing her, he went to the kitchen and came back with a bowl of her favourite cereal. She always had light breakfast on training days.
"Thanks, Dad."
"Your welcome. What took you so long to get out of bed?"
"Just a bit more tired than normal. I'm fine."
"If you say so, Rubes."
Shaxx got up, patting her head lightly as he passed her. "Have fun out there. I know you will anyway."
"Sure Dad."
He left her sitting there, heading back upstairs; probably to take a nap. Tapping the table a few times, the main hologram generator in the middle of the table lit up.
"And now, we have the General James Ironwood of the Atlesian Military & Headmaster of Atlas Academy. what do you think of the Atlesian droids you have created and how will it affect Guardians' duties?"
The General cleared his throat before taking the microphone.
"Firstly, thank you for the opportunity to be here. Now, to answer your question, the Atlesian Knight-200s are simply normal Frames combined with slightly tweaked Vex hardware in order to make them combat-efficient. They also each hold a Spark of Light, in order for them to have a sort of semi-sentience. However, they are not ready to take over the duty of normal Guardians. They are built primarily for the purpose of defending our cities from the Darkness we face."
"Then do you think that later versions of this combat-ready Frame will take over the jobs of Guardians?"
"I believe that they should be able to work together for the greater good. Now if you'll excuse me, I have quite important work to get back too."
The News Reporter nodded and with that General Ironwood left the scene.
Ruby had been sneering the entire time. She did not like that man; just as much as her family did not like the man. He prided himself as being someone who had trained under both Zavala & Shaxx, but once the Atlesian Military had scouted him out, he betrayed them immediately. Ironwood was a cursed name among their family and handing his soul to the Traveller on a golden platter was something that Zavala & Shaxx both agreed on.
It was actually one of the only things they still agreed on.
"Damn asshole didn't even answer the fricking question."
She placed her bowl in the sink and left the house, shouting goodbye to her sister and Shaxx. Hopping onto her Sparrow, she joined the main road and headed off towards the Tower.
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"Hey uncle Qrow, Hey, Cayde! Sorry, I'm late!" Ruby huffed, having finally arrived at her destination. Cayde-6 & his companion Qrow looked towards her.
"You finally made it Rubes! Was wondering if you were going to skip out on me today. Guess not." Cayde replied, taking a drink from a cup of liquid. After he gulped the rest down, he threw it over his shoulder, letting it smash somewhere. A cat squealed. "Now you've given me more work to do."
"You know I wouldn't do that! Training's fun anyway."
"Yeah, yeah, we know," Qrow said, taking a Sword out of his inventory. Ruby equipped her knife as she got in position to attack.
"3."
"2."
"1."
"Start."
With a crackle of Arc energy, Ruby burst towards her Uncle, launching a kick towards his face. Qrow gave a look of surprise and blocked before attacking back with a swing of his Sword. Ruby was already gone through, having jumped away into the air. As she blinked in and out of existence towards him, she threw more knives his way. Qrow held up the Sword to deflect them all and attacked again, causing a shift of air as he moved. Cayde finally got out of his bored look as he noticed.
Both Ruby & Qrow seemed to move faster than the eye could see; with the only sounds being the ringing of metal as they clashed. Sure enough, others within the training fields had begun to watch them fight each other. Cayde sat against a tree as he got out a bottle of another liquid and started chugging it down.
Ruby & Qrow stopped and became visible with another blast of air, causing the ground below them to crackle with energy and a small crater to form. Neither seemed to be giving each other the upper hand.
"You're doing pretty well squirt," Qrow grunted, pushing harder. Ruby began to try and match him, "Seems I can get a little more serious."
Qrow suddenly vanished; catching Ruby off-guard. She instantly rolled as she gained her bearings, dodging a large swipe from Qrow's sword. The swing caused another giant shift in the air and even cut right through a fully grown tree.
The same tree that Cayde was leaning on.
"Hey!" Cayde said, raising his bottle in annoyance. "Watch it, you punks!"
The two guardians didn't seem to hear as they continued their fight. Ruby was now much more on the defensive; no longer attacking as her Uncle grew more aggressive towards her. She saw an opening as she darted out of the way of a powerful sword swing, conjuring a golden gun and blasting him in his side. Qrow was taken by surprise and faltered slightly; placing a hand to the bleeding hole in his side.
More than enough for Ruby to make a comeback. Cayde's metallic mouth twisted slightly as he smirked.
She slammed a knife into his stomach and countered with a roundhouse kick to his neck when he swung his sword randomly. He faltered once more; stumbling to the side. Ruby vanished a few more times, stabbing him more times. Finally, she rushed forward to stab him once more in the chest.
Qrow raised a hand. Ruby couldn't stop and she gave a look of shock.
The knife passed straight through his hand to the complete hilt. ruby backed away quickly but gave a hiss of pain soon after. Qrow had taken out the knife and thrown it straight back at her; stabbing her thigh. Although it didn't really hurt because of her Aura, it didn't mean she didn't feel pain at all.
She pulled it out; not noticing that Qrow was on his way towards her again. Distracted, she was thrown to the side as Qrow slammed his sword into her and slid across the grass. She continued rolling and paused when Qrow stabbed the ground where she had stopped. Getting up, she tried to gain some distance, but to no avail. Qrow vanished and appeared to her right; giving her a sharp kick to the head.
Violently, her head snapped to one side and smacked against a tree. Her surroundings darkened...
"Wha-?!"
Ruby awoke with a shout; smacking her forehead into Cayde's. Ruby rubbed at her sore head as Cayde gave a blank look.
"I told you to be careful with the damn horn." He reprimanded. As the pain for Ruby subsided, she looked down and screamed.
"W-W-W-What are you DOING?!" She stuttered, crawling away from where he knelt. "Pervert! Asshole! Degenerate!"
"I did nothing except lay a wet towel over your head. Now please lie back down and stop cursing." Cayde replied gruffly.
"You finally awake Rubes?" A voice shouted from above them. Qrow was drinking while relaxing in a tree.
"Uncle Qrow, you bully!"
"Whaaaaat?"
"You said you would only go a little harder on me. Not completely outmatch me!"
"But you went up a level too. So I had to get even with you."
"Ugh, I can't deal with you. Whatever."
"Anyways, time for your analysis," Cayde interjected. Ruby turned her attention to him.
"So you've gotten faster and your accuracy is a lot sharper than before; heck you were keeping up a slightly less suppressed Qrow for a good while. However, you have to be able to expect any scenario from your opponent. You thought that Qrow was most definitely a goner, but we both know he's way stronger than that. You underestimated him; even knowing he was only suppressing. You did well today. I'll give you a B+ for the record."
Ruby gave a large smile as she hugged Cayde. He hugged her back with a sigh.
"Training's over, thankfully. You can go home now."
Ruby pulled away from him, running off. Cayde & Qrow simply watched until Qrow broke the comfortable silence.
"It's great seeing your kids grow up, isn't it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about Qrow. I don't have kids, remember?"
"Yeah... Right..."
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"We're going on a trip in our favourite rocket ship!"
"Shooting through the skies!"
"Uuuuh... I forgot the next line."
"Oh come on, Ruby!"
"Sorry, Yang! Hey, we're here."
After their training and a little rest, it was now afternoon. Neither Yang nor Ruby had any Patrols for the day so they instead decided to look for the only part missing from Ruby's new ship:
A Warp Drive.
Holliday had done complete wonders on the ship; fixing it with spare parts, giving it a good clean and wipe down, even enhancing some of the engines for a smoother lift-off and flight. Ruby had given her many thank you's for her work. Holliday had merely laughed it off and said that Ruby owed her a favour for it.
They transmatted off the ship and on top of a hill in the Cosmodrome, first taking in the sights of the terrain. It wasn't long before some unwelcome visitors came to interrupt the view.
"Here comes the welcome wagon," Yang mentioned dryly, equipping her gauntlets and jumping into the fray. She pounded the floor as she landed and caused a ripple, throwing over the smaller Dregs and destabilising the Vandals behind. Ruby equipped a Sniper Rifle for herself, quickly dropping their bodies to the floor. A Vandal screeched loudly just before it was killed; alerting Ruby & Yang's presence to others. Reinforcements were coming.
"Time to go!"
Ruby hopped on her Sparrow and quickly sped off, Yang following suit. The Fallen continued to chase after them, even though they knew they had no chance of ever catching up. Soon enough, they gave up on it altogether, only hurling their insults at them.
"So what are we exactly looking for, Rubes?"
"A crashed ship. The Guardian who owned it marked it on the Patrol Map, so hopefully, it's still got an intact Warp Drive."
"Hopefully?"
"Yeah, it's been crashed for three hours. More than enough time for Fallen to scavenge from it and tear it apart."
"Oh, right. Then we better hurry."
Hurry, they did. They met some opposition along the way across the Cosmodrome, but it was nothing they couldn't run over if they were going fast enough. Soon they reached the ship; where a bunch of Fallen were still looking over the remains of the ship.
"Dammit!"
Ruby sped up and did a U-Turn; knocking over the Fallen Dregs. They flew away, bouncing across the ground before skidding to a stop. They got up; disoriented and confused but quickly bounded back to Ruby when they realised they were under attack. The rest of the Fallen began to equip their rifles and daggers, attacking with everything they had.
"Woohoo!"
Yang raced through the opposing Fallen; smashing into them like a battering ram and scattering them. She got off the Sparrow and attacked the nearest Vandal, killing them with a single punch to the face. Ether splattered everywhere. Ruby helped, slicing through the necks of the other Fallen and making short work of them fairly quickly. It didn't take long to be done with them.
Ruby let out her Ghost; Scarlett; who scanned over the ship. They waited a few minutes before the Ghost gave its verdict.
"Scarlett said the Warp Drive is gone; taken to be more exact. But, we can trace it and get it back."
"Then let's go. We might as well, seeing as we've already gotten this far. Who even has it?"
"Well considering where we are, it would be the House of Devils."
"Great..."
So they trudged onward, blasting down any Fallen that came there way. They found a few loot boxes, scavenged from a few Dreg & Vandals and even picked a few materials from the nearby plants. They would hopefully be able to upgrade their weaponry slightly. They entered into a Fallen infested building; still continuing to completely decimate any of the teams sent their way.
Soon enough they entered a clearing, filled with robotic devices called Shanks; small, flying robotic drones equipped with blasters, as well as a few Vandals keeping watch. The Vandals seemed to be quite relaxed in particular; leaving their drones to take care of the patrol. They were huddled together, conversing within their language.
Ruby ended their conversation with a headshot. The Vandal fell to the ground and the other Vandals panicked, screaming at the Shanks to scurry around and find the intruders. Yang grabbed a drone while it passed, attacked her grenade to it and threw it at one of the Vandals who were clearly panicking more than the others. He exploded with a burst of fire. Yang fought to hold back a laugh as she continued to hide behind a pillar.
Ruby took down another Vandal and the Shanks began to analyse the trajectory of the shot; closing in on her. Yang decided it was time to finally stop hiding. Jumping out from behind the pillar, she grabbed another Shank which squealed in confusion and threw it at the last Vandal. They both exploded once more.
The rest of the Shanks began to shoot at her which she blocked and shot back. They all fell to the ground dead within a few seconds. Ruby also comes out of hiding, inspecting the dead Vandals.
"Guess we're gonna have to look harder for that-"
"Yang look out!"
"Huh?"
Yang flew and smashed straight through the brick wall on the other side of the clearing; raising dust everywhere. A roar was heard and the dust cleared to show Riksis, the Devil Archon standing before them. Ruby ran as the Archon took out his Shrapnel Launcher and began firing upon her. She evaded the shots easily.
"You fucking Fallen bitch!" A voice screamed, who turned out to be Yang ready to send the Archon straight back to meet its maker.
She shot through the sky in a blaze of flaming glory, delivering a fiery punch to Riksis' face that sent the Archon careening across the room and smashing through another wall. As it tried to shake away its daze, it called upon reinforcements. Fallen began to drop from the ceiling around the room.
"You messed up my fucking hair, you asshole!"
Ruby couldn't help but roll her eyes at her sister as she shot down the reinforcements. Imagine thinking about hair right now, when fighting an Archon for the House of devils? Only her sister could get angry at that. Yang shot towards the Archon who was still barely able to stand and gave it another earth-shattering punch that sent it skidding. It got up faster as if the second punch had seemed to stop the confusing it once had. Riksis continued to shoot at Yang with his Launcher, yet she continued to weave between the shots.
She jumped forward aiming another punch, but Riksis was ready for her this time. Dropping his gun, he met her punch with his own fist. Both bounced away but continued to meet each fist for fist. However, there was still a problem.
While Yang only had two arms, Riksis had two extra: making it four against two. Yang found herself being pushed back more and more until she remembered something that Shaxx had once taught her. She held her ground as she tried to recall the memory.
"When two opposing sides clash against another, of course only the smaller side would be flung away. However, if you utilise the strength of the land where you stand..."
Yang smirked as she dodged a punch and grabbed the arm before it could be pulled back. She twisted while pulling the entire weight of the Archon off the ground.
"You will truly become a Pound-For-Pound Fighter!"
Riksis smashed straight into the ground, bouncing slightly and dropping once more. He couldn't believe it. How could a mere Guardian lift and drop him like a toy? What was the sorcery that the Great Machine had given her?! He, the great Devil House Archon, who had killed hundreds of Guardians and sacrificed their skulls to his god, was being thrown around like a ragdoll?!
Ruby had long since killed the reinforcements and was watching the intense battle. She knew her sister was strong but, damn, this really put it into perspective.
Yang relaxed and entered another stance, a fist held back and another arm extended.
"Seems I forgot an important lesson, dad. Thanks for reminding me." She whispered as Riksis got up one more time. "Come and get it, Fallen bastard."
Riksis screeched and threw another punch. Yang somehow deflected the punch away from herself, grabbed the arm and began swinging him round and round, speeding up faster and faster.
"Huuu-m-can! Sht-op Thisss!" Riksis spoke in very distorted English, such that Yang didn't even hear it.
Having reached maximum speed, she threw him straight into the sky and he quickly disappeared with a last scream of terror. Light glowed as he faded from sight in the sky.
"That's for my hair, you Fallen cunt."
"Yang, WHY?!"
Yang looked towards her fuming sister who was very angry for reasons unknown to her.
"Wh-What did I do? I just killed the bad guy!"
"You didn't need to throw him off-planet!"
"why not?"
"Because he had the Warp Drive!"
"You mean this?"
Yang held out a hand and a Warp Drive materialised in it. Ruby couldn't help but be amazed.
"When-"
"I knocked it off him, but he never seemed to notice. His dumbass was still trying to beat me."
Ruby hugged her sister tightly as she squealed, knocking them both over in the process of the bear hug. Yang laughed and hugged back, but soon found out she was about to die of suffocation
"Ruby. Oxygen. Please."
"Oh right, sorry."
They both got up and Ruby called down her ship to collect them. Yang stretched and yawned, the ship finally arriving on top of them.
"Hey what should get dad to cook for dinner?"
"I wanted some Noodles."
"Meh, what about Pizza?"
"Oooh, Pizza sounds good, haven't had that for a while now actually."
"Then let's get some!"
"Okay, sis!"
... Later, an unidentified flying object would crash into a Guardian's ship coming out of Warp flight. It would soon be identified as Riksis the Archon from House Devils, but it was still a mystery how it almost ended up on the moon.
Aaah, thank you all for waiting for this chapter, I really hoped you enjoyed it. I don't know when the next chapter will be because Half-term is nearly done, but I once again beg for your patience.
Until next time, BYE!
~ScourgeTheBoss