Chapter 6
Close by a lake, Blake is at the edge of a lake a little further away from Camp...whatever they call it. She prepares a spear as she eyes a school of Coelacanth just swimming around in circles. Blake carefully takes aim and throws the spear and manage to not just catch one, but five in a row. She smiles in delight with her ears twitching as she jumps and and gets the fish she caught. Once she gets it, Blake raises her spear above her head in the three foot deep water with drool dripping from her mouth and four-pointed stars for eyes. Blake then runs as fast as she can so she can cook them.
And an added bonus, she leveled up to 39!
On the way back, Blake passes by the new wall being constructed at the edge of the cliff's edge made of castle walls and a giant gate known as the Behemoth Stone Dinosaur Gateway with no gate. But in the front of the castle walls, are wooden spike walls that act as a layer of defense against any large dinos.
Nora is carrying some of the materials needed for the wall in her inventory, yet is less than enthusiastic.
Ren, in an engineer's outfit from Life is Feudal and a blacksmith's hammer, which he uses to ensure the walls are well built. He looked at Nora and asks, "Can I get some more mortar, please."
Nora's left eye twitch a little with a bored expression that is about ready to explode in anger.
Ren then starts to worry and gulp before saying, "Are you okay?"
"Am I okay?" She said it calmly at first before exploding, "AM I OKAY?!" Then starts to rant, "We've been stuck here for eight days now! EIGHT! And I haven't gotten a single slurp of pancakes since we arrived! Pancakes are the backbone of my diet, mister! If I don't get any pancakes soon, I'LL EXPLODE!"
"Aren't you doing that already?"
"SHUT UP! Either I get pancakes, or I'll..." Then Nora gives a smile to Ren. A very disturbing smile that sends shivers down Ren's spine. "Or I'll have to take YOUR batter to eat then use it to put a bun in MY oven."
Ren winced as he raised his right eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Nora then leans closer to Ren's face with the same smile, "I'm not talking about baking."
Ren's eyes widen in realization on what Nora was talking about. "I'll check my engrams and see if I can find something." Ren dashes as the hammer spins in mid air before dropping.
Nora then clasp her hands together close to her right cheek, "You're the best, Ren!" Nora found out that she can get what she wants from Ren by threatening him with pregnancy.
Blake then pass by what appears to be an inn with the smell of food being cooked inside, provided by the Malachite Twins. The two are in the kitchen and prepping for lunch.
Miltia prepares an appetizer for lunch for anyone that comes in while using some medieval oven. She looks at her sister who is using a cauldron, "You know what?"
"You're glad we get an easy job that doesn't include dirt or shit." Melanie says while stirring her cauldron.
"Exactly!"
"But the hard part is feeding a flood of boys with ravenous appetites once they get back."
"At least things are calm right now. So we should enjoy the peace."
Blake then runs by a bunch of adobe houses until she passes one in particular that is T-shape. Jaune just added the finishing touches and claps his hands.
"All done!" he says with enthusiasm. He steps back to admire his hard work on a T-shape adobe house.
Pyrrha, on the other hand, looks a little worried. "Are you sure it is stable?"
Jaune looks back at Pyrrha, "Relax. I'm pretty sure this place follows video game logic so we should be alright."
However, a Pelagornis started to perch on the left side of the T that later crumbled down the tower Jaune worked so hard on. Jaune turns around and sees his hardwork come crashing down as he looks at the destruction.
His mood switch from pride to upset as he throws up his arms, "Or real world logic comes crashing down on me and make me look like a dumbass again!" Jaune then starts to look like he is gonna cry.
Pyrrha then touches Jaune's right shoulder, "Cheer up. We still have plenty of resources to build our house. But let's make sure that it won't collapse again when a bird perches it."
Blake also pass by Team NDGO and Team ABRN with Arslan and Nebula arm wrestling with their teammates cheering them and Oscar as the referee. The two struggle as they aren't showing any mercy towards each other. After a few seconds more, Arslan won. Later, Blake passes Amber, Flynt, and Neon carrying a few resources into the warehouse with Ciel supervising.
Ciel points out, "Rocks go to the crate close to the corner. All metals are organize near the big doors there. Wood goes right here next to me in this box."
Amber then asks, "What about logs?"
"Logs go in the log holders in the back."
Over at the RWBY adobe house, Ruby places the finishing touches of her oddly shaped house with the bottom being a square while the top part is a rectangle with two pillars supporting the outward side of it.
"All done!" Ruby says with pride as she admires her build with Weiss standing next to her.
"Are you sure it's stable." Weiss asked. Unsure if Ruby's work is suitable to live in.
Ruby then turns to face Weiss, "Don't worry, I have Yang testing it by jumping up and down on the top floor. Which is gonna be our bedroom!"
"It's good!" Yang shouts from the inside of their new home.
"I'm back!" Blake shouts from a distance. She runs up to Weiss and Ruby and shows the catch of the day. "I caught lunch!"
Weiss groans, "Fish again." She has gotten sick and tired of eating fish. "What I wouldn't give for a frozen blueberry yogurt right now."
Ruby then starts to look down, "What I wouldn't give for chocolate chip cookies."
"Oh come on!" Blake says to the two downers, "At least we won't go hungry! Plus I got one for each of us."
Zwei snuck-up behind Blake and snatched one of the fish from Blake's spear. He runs off as he tries to eat it.
Blake snickers a little, "At least Zwei loves eating fish." Then she heads inside and gets to work cooking.
Ruby, Weiss, and Yang aren't exactly happy about having fish everyday so Yang suggest, "Wanna eat over at the Malachite Inn before she comes back?"
Weiss and Ruby say in unison, "Yep."
As they are about to leave, Penny comes up to the three and looks a little upset.
"Hey, girls." Penny says nervously, "I need some help with something. Can we talk inside?"
The three look at each other right before Ruby looks back at Penny, "Sure."
The four went inside the adobe house and on the inside is a four by four area with a campfire in the left corner of the building where Blake is cooking fish. There is a ladder close to her that leads up to a small two by two bedroom with four simple beds in it. On the right side of the small adobe house are four storage cabinets where they store their items and resources.
"Come in." Yang says as she invites Penny in. "It's small, but we're gonna work on renovations later so we can have a table and chairs."
Blake looks at the four coming in, "Oh hey! Lunch is ready!" Then she notices Penny. "Hello Penny, how have you been?"
Penny is feeling a bit uncomfortable as she steps in and rubs her left arm. Blake then gives her teammates their cooked fish as the sit in a circle.
"So what's the problem, Penny?" Ruby asked.
"Does it involve Oscar?" Yang asked.
Penny then looks at them and says, "Not really, but..." She closes her legs up and looks down, "...for some reason I have been bleeding in a certain area, but I feel embarrassed about it for some reason."
"Bleeding?" Weiss tilts her head.
"Where exactly?" Blake asks before taking a bite from her fish.
"Between my legs."
"Oh." the four say in unison. Then do it again when they realize what she is talking about, "Ooooooohhh."
Yang then scoots over next to Penny. "Penny, listen." she wrapped her arm around Penny. "What you are experiencing is called a period. But I'm guessing that it is your first one."
Penny nodded.
Ruby then jumps up and says, "I'll be outside!" Then disappears, leaving some rose petals behind.
Weiss then gets up, "Blake. Yang." she says to each of them, "I'll make sure Ruby stays out of trouble while you talk with Penny."
Blake tries to reach Weiss in vein as she shouts, "Hold on!" But she already went out the door. Blake then retracts her hand, "Guess they don't want to hear it again."
Yang laughs a little, "When she heard about it, Ruby ran away crying."
"Guess having her purity destroyed may be a bit of a shock." Blake smiles.
"You have no idea."
"Excuse me." Penny interrupted. "But can we get back to the topic at hand."
Yang then looks at Penny and goes, "Right, *clears throat* now then. The reason why the you're bleeding is because your body is a certain part of your body gets thicker to prepare for the day you start having a baby."
"Oh, I know what that is. I think my father called it fertilization and pregnancy, right?"
Blake then says, "Close. But I think we should get you some cloth to stop the bleeding."
"She's right." Yang agrees, "It should help, but we really need to get something that actually works to prevent you from getting pregnant."
"Besides, we're not ready for that yet. We're still young and students."
"I think we should wait for like a few years or so. In other words, you can't have sex with Oscar."
Penny looks a little confuse, "You mean intercourse, right?"
Blake and Yang look at each other before looking back at Penny. Yang then says, "I think you need some proper sex-ed."
Outside of the house, Weiss and Ruby walk their way towards the Malachite Inn (an unofficial name) to see if there is something they can snack on. That doesn't include fish.
Ruby then turns her head to face Weiss, "How do you think the others are doing?"
"Probably doing just fine."
It is around one-o'clock in the big grasslands north of this strange land. Team CFVY are driving four UNSC elephants all filled with some supplies they got from Crash Site Alpha along with a few other things. Yatsu drives one elephant with some of the weapons they found along with some kind of fabricator along with plenty of strange cube shape materials. Velvet is in one that has most of the food supplies and a few ghosts stacked up in the bottom front and two mongooses. Coco is driving one of the elephants that has a UNSC Falcon being tied down on top of a few more crates that are filled with alien weaponry and a few more ghosts. Fox has the elephant that has two warthogs stacked on top of each other. One is a troop warthog while the other is a regular warthog with a machine gun turret. There are also some teleporters that they are planning to use in the future.
Yatsuhashi then stops as he sensed something.
Coco calls over the radio, "Something wrong?"
Yatsuhashi then presses the radio button, "I think Team SSSN is coming over here. Look to the east."
Everyone gets out of their driver seats and look towards the east once they exited. From the distance, they see a bunch of robots coming their way.
They see Sun on top of one of the robots waving at them while screaming, "HHEEEEEEYYY!"
"Well how do you like that." Coco says with her arms crossed and a grin. "They better've found something worth while."
Sun went inside Coco's elephants since they are both team leaders. Scarlet is going in Velvet's, Sage is in Yatsuhashi's, and Neptune is with Fox's.
"So what happened to your horses?" Velvet asks Scarlet.
"Some big monster just slaughtered and ate ours while we retreated." Scarlet answers. "What happened to your unicorn?"
Velvet is a bit upset, "I don't want to talk about it."
"Oh come on!" Coco shouts through the radio. "I said I was sorry! Just how many times do I-" Click.
In Coco's elephant, Coco is shocked on what Velvet did. "She hanged-up on me!"
Sun laughs right before Coco gives him a swift kick to the stomach.
"Ow!" she says after getting knocked down. He press his hands on his stomach, "Okay, I deserve that." Then he gets back up, "Just what happened that you got Velvet mad?"
"I accidentally killed Peter by driving a super fast up a ramp that caused an explosion that caused some debris to fall down."
"Debris?"
"Yeah, we found a cluster fuck of spaceship wrecks."
Sun then gets excited, "You found spaceships?! Awesome!"
"What about your team? Where did you guys get the robots?"
"We got ours at an abandoned amusement park with a soda theme where we found some gas station where we found some work station that help us build these robots." Then Sun approach Coco to show off his Pip-Boy. "That is when we found these things that give us some sort of boost."
Coco looks at the Pip-Boy but is unimpressed, "Looks like something out of an Atlas museum." Then focuses on driving.
Then Sun pulls back his arm, "Yeah I know, but at least they are functional. Yet we also found something interesting."
"Like what?"
Then we cut to Fox's elephant, "Like what?"
Neptune then says, "We found a calendar that says October 2077." Then he looks at his Pip-Boy. "But the date on this thing says 2301."
"So you guys found an amusement park that has been abandoned for over 200 years?"
"Not exactly abandoned. We discover some strange, large, green men that are dumb as rocks. Yet they were armed like they are prepared for a war."
"Did you fight them?"
"No, we had a few weapons that I highly doubt that will kill them. Especially the one with a minigun."
"One of the guys had a minigun!?" Coco shouts through the radio.
Fox then speaks through the radio, "Coco, would you please stop eavesdropping?"
"Well I am team leader. I am supposed to check to see how everyone is doing." Click.
Back in Coco's elephant, "Oh come on, Fox!"
Sun is doing his best not to laugh. But he got kicked in the stomach again.
Now we cut to Yatsu's elephant.
"You know." Sage starts a conversation, "I kinda like this thing. It is a lot easier to travel across the terrain."
Yatsuhashi smiles, "And the best part is that it isn't running on gas."
"How does that work?" Sage asks. Just how is it that the vehicle they are in isn't running on gas?
"Don't know how, but it is easier than hauling them across the grasslands and hills." Yatsuhashi pointed out.
"That, I have to agree."
The two teams just have conversations as they tread through the savannahs of this alien world back to their settlement. Which may take a day or two since the elephants are one of the slowest vehicles from Halo.
Back in the oceans, Team CRDL have made some progress in the shallows where they are safe from the giant monsters that dwell close to the ship. They created a seabase with two stacked on top of each other that is connected to two other seabases, a moonpool, a scanner room, and an observatory. The whole place is reinforced with a few solar panels on top.
Sky makes a radio in the scanner room so he can communicate with anyone that has a radio.
"Hello?" Sky says to the radio. "Can anyone hear me? Sunbeam? Are you guys out there?"
Cardin tries his best at underwater farming by planting creepvines, eye stalks and jellyshrooms with the last two being lights and fancy decoration.
Russel and Dove are harvesting enough materials by scuba diving through the shallows.
"So any idea on what half the shit is?" Russel asks through the radio.
"Some of this stuff is coral which can be used to make other stuff." Dove replies. "We could use some of this stuff to craft a submarine."
"Yeah, but I would like to get off this rock and back home. Where the only things we had to worry about are Grimm."
"But we do have regular sharks back on Remnant."
"Yeah, but I prefer the kind that doesn't sneak up behind you while buried in sand."
"Hey guys!" Sky speaks through the radio and sounds excited, "The Sunbeam is coming! Listen to this!"
Sky then plays the Sunbeam's message through everyone's radio, "Aurora, we're approaching the planet now, and we have a landing site for you that's... well, it's better than the alternatives. We've sent you the coordinates. It'll take us a couple of days to align our orbit, we should be able to establish direct contact with you during that time, then we're coming in to get you. Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. Sunbeam out."
"But it hasn't been a week yet." Cardin says over the radio.
"Who cares, we're getting off!"
Their goggles start to show the coordinated of the site where they are supposed to be when the Sunbeam arrives. Dove rises to the surface to check the PDA.
"Hmm." he went as he looked at the map.
Russel then rises to the surface. "What is it?"
"According to this map, these coordinates are right exactly at the Mountain Island."
"That's great." Cardin says over the radio. "But do you have anything on it?"
Dove then looks at any information on the map. "Nothing. There is no data." Dove is looking at any information on the island, but the whole thing is blank.
Sky then calls over the radio, "I suggest we move now. We have 10 minutes to get there."
Team CRDL get their seaglides and move as fast as they could to the direction of the island. They are traveling in diamond formation with their team leader in the back.
"You guys see it?!" Cardin shouts. Wondering if they are getting closer.
"Not yet, but I do see something!" Russel responded. "Something is shimmering!"
As they approach, they can see the island. They see the large mountain but they also see something else.
"What's that?!" Sky asked.
"Don't know!" Dove responds. "Maybe it might be a giant radio tower or something!"
They finally arrived with only one minute to spare. When they did they wait as they look up in the sky.
Then they hear a radio transmission. "Survivors, we see you! Man, I don't know how you guys held out down there! We've broken atmosphere and we're descending towards the landing site."
Team CRDL cheered as they see the ship.
"Is that a building down there?! What do you mean you can't identify it? Hold on, no turning back now."
As they try to get the ships attention, Dove noticed the structure is moving.
"Hey guys!" he looks back at his teammates before pointing at the structure. "Look!"
The structure started to point at the incoming ship.
"Positions everyone, touching down in 10, 9, 8- *Static* It's coming from the building?! Change course, set thrusters to full. *Distorted static*"
BANG! The structure fired a round at the ship which caused it to explode in mid-air. The team look at the flaming ship in horror as they're chance to leave have just blew up. Literally.
"No way." Cardin says in shock and horror. "This can't be happening." Cardin drops to his knees while the rest of his team look at the flaming ship going down into the ocean. "Just what type of place is this?"
/: Sunbeam Scenario successful and ahead of schedule by 10 minutes. Continue monitoring.
