Chapter 11

Back at the mock Jungle Canyon of Chorus on this strange planet, Church/Alpha heads over to the Temple of the Flags. An underground structure that looks very similar to the underground caverns under Blood Gulch. But the main temple is located beyond the cave behind the giant piston structure. Further in is some sort of underground stone structure. It has a high ceiling with a few stain-glass windows that depict the red and blue zealots on some sort of crusade with different colored flags forming a circle in this circular room.

A blue zealot comes in and notices Alpha. "Holy Flag Creator!" he shouts in joy. He runs up to him, kneels down, and lowers his head. "It is an honor to have you here in our temple!"

"Um...hey..." he says to the zealot. "Listen. I need you guys to hide something."

The zealot gets back up, "I am at your command."

"You might wanna get the others first."

The blue zealot goes around to gather all the other zealots into the room.

Church tries to clear his throat (even though he doesn't have one) in order to get their attention. "Alright everyone, listen up!" Everyone pays close attention. "Doc, Epsilon, and I found something on one of the wrecked ships that could destroy us all. I need you guys to guard it with your lives and don't let anyone know about it."

The zealots murmured to themselves about what kind of weapon Church found.

"That's right. Because there are some people I do know that wouldn't hesitate to misuse it or waste it. We need to hide it so we may one day use it in an event of an emergency. Which is why I am asking you, my followers, to hide this weapon until the day we need it."

One of the red zealots approach, "As you wish, Holy Flag Creator!"

"Good to know." Then Church make it appear in front of the zealots.

All of them go, "Oooo!" at what Church just did.

Church looks back at his followers, "In this box IS the weapon I told you guys about. I need you guys to keep it safe and never use it unless I tell you that it is an emergency. Can you guys..." he takes a sigh before finishing, "...swear by all the flags that you guys safeguard it and keep it secret."

A red zealot rose up, "Everyone, say the oath!"

All the zealots say in unison, "We swear by the flags and the Holy Flag Creators an oath that we will protect the weapon and never breath a word about it! If we break this oath, than we will take our own lives and go to hell!"

Caboose then says, "I swear I will go to hell if I... What are we doing again?"

Church looks at Caboose bewildered, "The fuck!? Caboose?! When did-?! How did-?! What the FUCK are you doing here?!"

"I was wondering where you were at, then I looked all over for you, then looked in that one dimensions I got stuck in one time, I checked the ships, checked red base, then I'm here."

"I-" Church then realizes that one thing he said. "Wait, what dimension? What do you mean again?"

Then Caboose starts to sound like a smartass, "I think we've already discussed this after we saved Chorus from Handguard."

"Oh right... Yeah." Church (Alpha) wasn't really paying attention since Caboose made some stuff up when the Reds and Blues were on Chorus.

Caboose then looks at the box that the zealots are taking. "Is that a birthday present? Are we gonna throw a surprise party?"

Church looks at Caboose, "No, Caboose. That is my secret box. Which means..." Church then comes up with a so-called brilliant idea. Then speaks in a sarcastic tone, "Which means REAL FRIENDS won't look in their best friends secret stuff. You are my real best friend, right?"

Caboose gasp and says in a happy tone, "Yes I am! I am your best friend!" Then speaks in an excited fast tone, "IamsohappythatIamyourbestfriendinthewholeworld! Thisisthegreatestdayofmylifethatyousaysuchathing!" He says this while jumping up and down like a puppy.

"Whoa! Calm down, Caboose." Now he starts to regret what he just said. But at least Caboose will keep quiet... He hopes.

Caboose stops, "Sorry. Got a little carried away. But what's in it?"

"Let's just say that it is best not to let anyone else have it. Because I'm afraid Sarge will use to to blow-up Grif or all of us in the canyon. Or Simmons would experiment on it that would involve the canyon getting blown-up by a simple mistake. Or all the women will use it to blow-up Tucker which will get us all killed in the crossfire. Or Doc will turn into O'Malley again which he'll blow us all up."

"That sounds like a LOT of blowing up."

"You have no idea. But wanna go out for a walk?"

"Sure, and I can bring Freckles!" Caboose is real chipper today after what Church says.

"Yeah, sure. Make sure he has plenty of batteries and what not." Then sees that Caboose has vanished right in front of him. "He was right there in front of me. How the fuck did he disappear like that? Guess Tex is right, he would be terrifying if Caboose was a Freelancer. Just how the fuck does someone break the laws of physics like that?"

Over at the new Red Base, made by Simmons, Simmons made a bio dome for him to make his farm. He hums a tune while planting a few seeds in the bins he had just made.

"Simmons!" Donut yells from the hallway.

Simmons got startled and dropped some of his seeds. "God dammit, Donut!" he says in a angered tone before looking at Donut near the hallway entrance. "What is it now?! Can't you see I'm busy farming so we can have some food? You scared me to the point I dropped my seeds."

Donut approaches Simmons. "Sorry for spilling your seeds all over. Speaking of, can I have another ball?"

Simmons looks at Donut immediately before picking up his seeds, "Wait, what?!"

"I just need another for my house."

"First of all, Donut, it is a dome. Second, why do you need another dome?"

"Because I need room for guests. Oo, I also need a radio tower between them as well."

"Oh for fuck's sake."

"Simmons!" Sarge yells from the door.

Simmons stands in attention, "Yes, sir!"

"What the Sam hell are you doing in here?"

"Farming, sir!"

"Farming? Why the hell are you farming?"

"So we can grow our food, sir."

"Growing food? Simmons, if you want food, you should go out and hunt down the biggest animal that you can find. Kill it, then roast it to sweet, meaty goodness."

Donut then says, "Couldn't agree more. Especially with sausages!"

Sarge looks at Donut, "Donut, get out!" he ordered.

"My pleasure!" then Donut leaves.

Then Sarge looks back at Simmons, "As I was saying, hunting is the best way to get food. It is to prove nature that you are the ultimate killer that ever walked the Earth! Then you eat every single animal that you've killed. Like that giant snake we had for dinner last night."

"Wait, what?!" Simmons feels a little ill after knowing that part. "That's what we had for dinner?!"

"Yep. And you have to admit, eating the thing you fear taste good. Am I right?"

"Just because I'm afraid of something, that doesn't mean I want to eat it. But farming is important in case some of the animals near the area migrate."

"Then we follow them to the ends of the Earth...or whatever the hell this place is. So we can eat them and absorb their strength!"

"But farming is the cornerstone of civilized society."

"No, hunting is!"

Simmons then raises his voice, "Anything can hunt you big dumb fuck! We are human beings that are intelligent enough to grow food so we wouldn't live like savages you barbaric, dumbass, REDNECK, SIMPLETON, TERRIBLE EXCUSE OF A LEADER THAT I HAD TO PUT UP WITH FOR YEARS AND STILL ARE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING YOU FUCKING HILLBILLY BASTARD!?"

There was a moment of silence after what Simmons just said.

Simmons realized what he just said and tries to apologize. "I am so sorry, sir. It just that-"

"It's okay Simmons." Sarge interrupted. "I'll just...go to my bunk for a bit..." then turns around to face the door, "...and try to think about...things." Then he runs out the door.

Simmons sighs as he looks down, "Smartest man here yet still a dumbass. Way to go, Simmons."

Over at Blue Base, Tucker is outside and looks like he is just taking a walk while holding his DMR.

"Man, this sucks." he complained. "I should've never peeked at Carolina bathing. But it was worth it. Bow-chika-bow-wow. But now I'm stuck on patrol duty all day and tossed out of the base. On the bright side, I get to have my own place with one of those inflatable dome kits. Sadly it is too small to be considered a man cave. Good news is that I still try my luck with Sister." Then he stops walking. "There sure is a lot of middle ground I keep finding."

Then someone in red armor on the mongoose starts zooming by.

Tucker looks at the person on the mongoose and says, "Wait a minute. Was that-"

"SPRIIIIGGGGSSSS!"

Tucker looks at the direction of the aggressive yelling and sees someone in yellow armor armed with a rocket launcher.

"DIE YOU SON OF A BITCH!" then the man in yellow armor fires a shot.

Tucker ducks and goes, "Whoa!" as the rocket pass by him. Then gets back up, "WATCH IT YOU DIPSHIT!"

AN: Spriggs and the guy in yellow is Willy who are from a Halo 3 Machinima called Spriggs. Give it a watch on Youtube.

Then Willy runs past Tucker while screaming, "I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Hold it!" Tucker says to Willy.

Willy turns around to face Tucker then speaks to him in a normal tone, "Yeah, what is it?"

"Why are you trying to shoot that chick on the mongoose?"

"I-" then Willy noticed what Tucker said, "Wait, Spriggs is a woman?"

"Well yeah, she is. You didn't noticed?"

"Well he, I mean she, always talk with the mongoose horn. Maybe I was too busy trying to kill her to noticed after all the horrible things she said about my mother."

"Oh dude, that sucks. Maybe she is trying to say those things to get your attention."

"Or drive my fucking gears."

Then they hear a mongoose horn honking at them.

Willy then goes, "Ak tck tck! I'LL KILL YOU!" Willy turns to the direction of Spriggs and fires both rounds from his rocket launcher as Tucker ducks for cover. Willy misses of course.

Somewhere close by, Washington tries to fix the radio tower in the canyon. He does some wiring with a few fusion coils stacked close by.

"Okay that should do it. Now to power this baby up with the 16 fusion coils I managed to scrape up the past few days."

A rocket from Willy's rocket launcher hits the fusion coils that caused them all to explode. Luckily they didn't explode close enough to Washington. He looks at the exploded remains of the fusion coils and is highly upset. Not only the fusion coils exploded, but fried some of the parts of the radio tower.

"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!"

Not too far, Lopez and Sanchez are putting the finishing touches on their own robot squad.

Lopez says as he looks at eight brown robots, "¡Ahí! ¡Terminado!"
Translation: "There! Finished!"

Sanchez then looks at Lopez, "Tem certeza de que colocar bombas dentro deles é uma boa ideia?"
Translation: "Are you sure putting bombs inside them is a good idea?"

Lopez looks at Sanchez, "En caso de que encontremos un problema que pueda ...
Translation: "Just in case we come across a problem that would-"

Then Lopez notices the rocket heading towards them. "¡MIERDA! ¡Bajar!"
Translation: "FUCK! Get down!"

The two robots duck for cover as the rocket destroyed and setting off their bombs that causes them to be completely destroyed.

Lopez looks at the scorched remains of the robots he and Sanchez worked so hard. Both of them stand up as some of the charred robotic parts come down from the air.

Sanchez says to Lopez, "Bem, de volta à prancheta."
Translation: "Well, back to the drawing board."

Lopez takes a sigh at the disaster.

We cut back at Red Base for a bit as Simmons knocks on the door to the barracks.

"Sarge?" Simmons says as he knocks. "Can I come in?"

"Go away!" Sarge yells at Simmons through the door.

"I'm sorry. It just that I was in a lot of stress. You're not that bad of a leader."

Sarge then makes a more angrier yell, "I said go away!"

"Oh come on, Sarge. You usually give a shotgun court martial."

"Oh yeah!" Sarge opens the door with his shotgun and blasted Simmons arm.

"OW! My cyborg arm!" Bang! Simmons fell to the floor. "OW! My cyborg ass!" Bang! "OW! My cyborg arm again!"

Sarge takes a relieving sigh, "I feel better." Then looks at Simmons on the floor. "Apology accepted, Simmons. See, killing things make you feel superior than anything else. Now let's get you patch-up."

Now we cut towards Team CRDL who are in a bit of a pickle. Cardin is infected by an unknown disease and is now locked up in the observatory that they built. He does have a vending machine so he won't go hungry and is wearing a stillsuit so he can drink some of the reclaimed water. He even has a radio set up near the door so he can communicate with his teammates.

Dove looks into his PDA to see what type of infection Cardin has. He checks until he found something interesting.

"I got it!"

Sky and Russel gets close to Dove.

"You found out what it is?" Russel asked.

"I did. It is something called the Kharaa Bacterium."

Sky then asks, "What's that?"

Dove shows the first page about it

'You have been infected with a previously unknown, waterborne bacterium. It is currently multiplying in your bloodstream. Estimated incubation time: 2 weeks.

Your immune system is currently combating the infection at low efficacy. You may already be experiencing flu-like symptoms and skin irritation. These will likely be exacerbated as the bacterium takes hold.

Your immediate priority should be abatement and eradication of the infection.

Recommended steps:

Salvage further alien research data on a possible vaccine. Investigate the mechanisms which have enabled the indigenous ecosystem to inhibit the symptoms of the infection.'

Then Dove shows the next page.

'Discovery: First encountered during routine network expansion on outer worlds.

Pandemic Development: Network error resulted in routine quarantine procedure failure. Contagion was uploaded to, and spread quickly through, the core worlds. Confirmed deaths: 143 billion individuals.

Bacterial Mechanisms: Attaches to healthy living cells and mutates the basic genetic structure.

Symptoms: Stage 1: None. Stage 2: Gradual immune system failure. Stage 3: Unpredictable alterations to biological structure. Stage 4: Complete shutdown of executive function.

Emergency Steps Taken: Core worlds quarantined. Bacterial samples distributed to isolated disease research facilities for vaccine development.

Treatment procedure: Unknown.'

Russel then says, "Oh dude, that sucks. Just how are we gonna cure him?"

"Yeah." Sky agrees with Russel, "Just how are we gonna cure our team leader?"

Dove then looks back at his PDA, "According to this, there is a bacterium research facility that is...over 1450 meters underground."

Sky and Russel have no idea what that means.

That is until Dove explains, "That's almost a mile underground."

"Doesn't sound so bad." Russel says in his optimism.

"Unfortunately, it is surrounded by lava, volcanic activity, and fire spewing leviathans."

Now there is a sense of dread in the air.

Sky gulps before saying, "Is there a way down there?"

But Russel also asks, "But did the alien race or whatever made the cure?"

Before Dove can answer, something appeared in their heads again.

It is the same swirls from before with the shadowy figure that is using its telepathy that goes, "Come here, to me... I am...what you seek. Want to...help you four." Then it disappeared again.

"Hey guys?" Cardin says over the radio, "Did that THING appeared to you guys, too?"

Russel presses the button, "Yes it did. Don't worry, we'll find it and cure you." Then looks at his teammates, "We need to find that thing so we can get the cure."

Dove looks at his PDA, "I think I found a shortcut."

Sky then says, "Oh really?"

"Yeah, there is a portal that leads to this disease research site. And I even looked into what that thing is that has been appearing in our heads." Dove shows the picture of the creature to Sky and Russel. "It is called the Sea Emperor Leviathan. It's whats communicating with us the whole time. But unfortunately, only the juveniles can produce the vaccine needed to cure. According to this, we need to find a special enzyme called Hatching Enzymes to unleashed the babies so they can mature overtime."

Sky raises his left eyebrow, "Are you making this up?"

"No, it's here in black and white. Or bluish."

Russel slams his left fist on his right palm, "Alright, let's do this!" He is eager to find the cure. "What do we need?"

Dove looks into it, "The recipe is very easy since everything we need is closely up here on the surface. We're gonna need eye stalk seeds from a nearby kelp forest cave. A fungal sample from a mushroom tree in a mushroom forest. A bulb bush sample from the bulb zone. Sea crown seeds from the bulb zone as well or probably the dunes. And finally, a ghost weed seed from either the underwater mountains or the bulb zone. If we can't find any, then we may have to find some deep below in either the blood kelp zone or the lost river."

Russel looks at Dove, "What's the lost river?"

"Lets just hope we may never find out. But I should stay here to keep an eye on Cardin to check on his condition. And also to stay if anyone comes over from the camp."

Sky then preps his seaglider, "I'll check the kelp forests."

Russel then says, "I get dibs on the seamoth to check out the bulb zone and mushroom forest." Russel then charges over to the moonpool and gets in the seamoth.

Sky jumps into the water through the moonpool while using his seaglider. Now the two search the ingredients needed in order to cure their team leader.

In the observatory, Cardin coughs a little yet feels some pain. He tries to use his aura to slow down the spread of the disease, but it had the opposite effect. He looked at his hands and notices green crystals growing on his skin. Cardin freaks out and falls to the floor. He freaked out for 10 seconds then takes deep breaths to calm down.

"Okay," he says to himself as he tries to calm down, "using aura is a bad idea. Just don't use my aura then I'll be fine. Yeah."

/2: New discovery made. Entity known as Cardin Winchester seems to accelerated the Khaara Bacterium process by using aura. Test observation successful.

Probability of death: 63%

Probability of teammates finding cure: 97%

Probability of Cardin Winchester's survival: 99%

Good work. Any progress on the subjects from Remnant?

/2: Processing...

...

All entities using democracy to see which team will go to Dead Canyon. Here are the predicted results:

RWBY: 57%

CFVY: 10%

Atlas: 7%

BRNZ: 51%

ABRN: 49%

JNPR: 52%

NDGO: 54%

SSSN: 9%

Looks like the ADMIN was correct. Team RWBY does have the highest probable survival rate. Prepare for monitoring in Dead Canyon once Team RWBY enters.

/2: Affirmative.

AN: Hey guys, I'm back! Told ya' I would come back. Anyway, make sure to leave a review of what you think so far. Let me know on what you think and let me know if I may need improvements. See you all next week!