Chapter 12

We cut back to the Remnant Settlement where the entire population is at the bonfire tonight to decide which team is gonna go check out Dead Canyon. There is a chest where people can cast their vote on which team gets to go and all votes are anonymous of course.

Ciel looks at everyone that has gathered, "Alright. Time to cast your votes."

Everyone lined up in front of the chest with little pieces of paper in their hands. The whole camp cast their votes to see who gets to go. Team CFVY and Team SSSN did not nominated themselves because they already went on their missions. The teams that nominated themselves are NDGO, ABRN, RWBY, and JNPR. After everyone casts their votes, Ciel counts all the votes. Team ABRN has 7 votes, Team NDGO has 7, Team JNPR has 6, but Team RWBY has 9.

Ciel then says, "Team RWBY gets to go."

"Yes!" Ruby jumps up with her arms in the air.

"Darn." Weiss mutters to herself. "I was hoping for Team NDGO to go so I won't."

Blake then says with a blank stare while holding a tiny stone fork and knife while saying, "I want to eat a new kinds of fish."

Yang stretches and cracks her fingers, "Welp, best to get ready for tomorrow."

"Wait a minute." Ciel looks a little confused as she counted all the heads. "There's one extra vote. Who voted?"

"Bark bark!"

Ciel looked at Zwei with a charcoal stick in his mouth.

Ciel then says to herself, "Why am I not surprise."

Coco then walks away with her hands behind her head, "Guess I should check the Falcon and get ready for tomorrow."

The next morning, Team RWBY got their gear together. Yang is wearing chitin armor while armed with her flak gauntlets and M90 Shotgun. Blake is armed with a sword and a M6C/SOCOM Magnum while wearing hide armor. Weiss is wearing flak armor without the helmet and armed with a sword and TranStar PPN-8 Silenced Pistol. Ruby is wearing hide armor as well while armed with a SRS 99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle with a lance tapped onto the bottom of the barrel.

Coco checks everything on the Falcon to prepare for take off.

Ruby picks Zwei up and is ready for take-off. Weiss uses her whetstone to sharpen her sword. Blake packs some fish jerky as a snack. Yang is so excited that she started punching every boulder she could find before taking off.

Coco is in the cockpit and preps. "Okay, lets see here. This part helps out with altitude. This part here is for aiming." Then she tests the controls. "Okay I think we're ready."

"Let's go!" Ruby says while leaning forward with one hand in the air.

All the girls in her team go, "YEAH!" as they do the same pose as Ruby and Zwei jumps and does an excited bark.

They all hope aboard and took off with everyone on the ground saying bye. Everyone sees them off and wave at the Falcon until it disappeared over the horizon. Then they all stopped.

"I hope they're gonna be alright." says the worried Penny as she has her clenched hands close to her chest.

Pyrrha places her hand of Penny's left shoulder. "They'll be fine." she smiles at her to ensure that Team RWBY are gonna be alright. "Besides, there are worst things that can happen."

Penny turns her head towards Pyrrha. "Like what?"

BOOM! Something crashed right on top of one of the houses near the cliffs that has been reduced to rubble. Turns out that it was a brontosaurus that somehow stumbled down from the cliffs.

"MY HOUSE!" Oscar screams out. "MY HOUSE IS DESTROYED AND-" then he realizes, "Oh wait, that's Team CRDL's house. Nevermind."

Jaune sighs as he lowers his head. "Well. Back to work."

Nora pulls out a hatchet in excitement, "I'll get the meat!" and dashes towards the dead bronto."

Pyrrha then says, "Arslan and I are gonna try to translate the scroll again."

Team RWBY, along with Coco Adel, are flying their way towards Dead Canyon to the east. Weiss is still sharpening her sword as they make their way towards parts unknown.

"I think that sword is sharp enough." Yang says as she just lays back and isn't worried.

Weiss still sharpens her sword, "It is best to be fully prepared for anything."

Blake looks at Weiss, "But you'll wear it away if you keep doing that."

Weiss stops. "Fine." Then puts her weapon and whetstone away. Zwei then jumps on Weiss' lap and snuggles. She smiles as she pets him.

"Are we there yet?" Ruby asked.

"NO!" the three girls shout at Ruby.

Ruby starts to pout, cross her arms, and looks out the opening to her left.

Blake then asks, "So what do you think the people are gonna be like in this Dead Canyon?"

"Don't know." Yang answers. "But I hope the natives are friendly."

Weiss shakes her head, "I highly doubt that."

Yang then says, "Oh come on. There might be other people from who knows where that are in the same situation that we're going through."

"Maybe. But what if they've gone insane after being stuck here for a long time? Ever thought of that?" Weiss does have a good point. There might be people here that have lost their minds after being stuck on this planet for months to years to probably decades. Who knows what they are capable of.

Blake says, "We'll probably find out."

After three hours of flying, they see huge mountains over the horizon. Peaks that are extremely high and dense which will make it hard for Coco to navigate.

"Alright." Coco says to herself as she smirks, "I love a challenge."

Coco takes it slow and steady as she drives the Falcon through the rough terrain up ahead.

"Wow." Ruby says as she looks at the mountains. "That's one heck of the view."

"You said it." Yang agrees.

They pass by the mountain cliffs and rocky walls with many odd crystals sprouting from the ground. They are sparkling and many have different colors that give them an odd beauty.

"I want some of those." Weiss says when looking at the strange crystals.

"You're not the only one." Coco says over the radio. "Hang on. Things are gonna get...hairy."

Coco does her best at flying the Falcon through the ragged terrain until she sees an opening up ahead. She piloted the Falcon through and made their way towards what they believe is Dead Canyon.

"Holy shit!" Yang says as she notices something from her view. What she sees is gigantic waterfalls at the base of the mountains that goes all around the canyon that are at least 10 miles down. "Man! That is really cool."

Blake gets a whiff of something from the waterfalls. "Is that...salt water?"

Weiss looks a little puzzled, "So this is a canyon surrounded by sea water?"

"This is a bit bizarre."

Coco then sees something up ahead. "Hang on. Got some more mountains up ahead." Coco flies over the mountains until they come across a valley 10 minutes later. Then she sees something up ahead. "Got visual on a structure. Time to get off." Coco hovers close to the structure that turns out to be some old abandoned cafe called Bob's Cafe.

Team RWBY (and Zwei) got off and ready to start exploring.

Ruby waves to Coco, "Take care!"

"See you guys back at the settlement. Just make sure you use the teleporter to get back."

"We will!"

Then Coco takes off and heads back.

Ruby looks back at her team, "Alright, let's get started." She looks at Zwei, "Do your best."

Zwei does a happy bark and starts sniffing. Ruby follows him.

Blake pulls out the map and looks at where they are at. "Let's see here. ...Hmm..." She looks close to the edges of the map to her left. "There we are." Weiss and Yang lean close to look at what Blake is pointing. "We are here in this cafe. There is a mariner southeast from here and a town called Perishton far up north. And there are also some form of docks on this island to the northeast."

Yang then points at the red circle east of Perishton, "What about that place? It's important, right."

"It says that its a school and football stadium."

Yang then gives off a smirk. "I bet there are plenty of strong guys." Then starts to purr.

Weiss pushes Yang over and points at certain areas on the map. "Look at the names of these towns. Diersville? Gravestown? Departure? Days End Suites Hotel? AMIGONE Funeral Home? I know this place is called Dead Canyon but give me a break."

Blake eyes Weiss, "But ever thought the reason why it is called Dead Canyon?"

"Don't know. I never thought about that."

Then they hear Zwei barking and Ruby screaming in a panic, "EVERYONE! COME QUICK!"

Weiss and Yang ran while Blake puts her map away and head towards the direction of the screaming. They all went inside Bob's Cafe to see what has happened. They ran straight towards the kitchen and see the frighten Ruby with her hands covering her mouth. In front of her is a corpse on the ground against the wall. Zwei is giving off an angry growl at it while baring his teeth.

"Ah, dude." Yang says as they look at the corpse of a man. "That is fucked up."

Weiss looked away and puked.

Blake shakes her head. "What happened to him?" Blake then notices that Zwei keeps growling at the corpse.

"Can we bury him?" Ruby asks with a worried face.

Zwei gives off a few angry barks that everyone notices.

"What's wrong, Zwei?" Yang asks.

The corpse started to moan and gets up. Much to Ruby's horror as she screams, "ZOOOM-BIIIEE!"

Yang screams out, "HOLY SHIT!"

Weiss gives off a high-pitch scream.

Blake pulls out her sword and immediately stabs the zombie right in the forehead and killed it. The zombie then drop dead.

Ruby runs around and shouts, "Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!"

Yang grabs Ruby, holds her tight and tries to calm her down. "Shh!" she went as she pets her little sister's head. "It's okay. The zombie is dead. No need to scream. Just calm down."

"Calm down!?" Weiss says furiously at Yang with a look of fear in her eyes. "How can we calm down when there are ACTUAL zombies running around?!"

Blake puts her sword away, "I don't know, but now we know why this place is called Dead Canyon." Then looks at Weiss, "And screaming about it won't help."

Zwei rubs his head on Ruby's legs to help calm down the frighten team leader.

"Yang." Ruby says with her voice muffle in Yang's chest. "You can let me go now. Can't breath."

Yang lets go, "Sorry."

"It's alright. And thank you. I really needed that."

Yang then looks at the others, "So what now?"

Weiss says, "Now we should use the teleporter to get out of here!"

"Not quite." Blake says calmly. "We need a secure location so we can use the teleporter."

"Sure." Weiss says in a sarcastic tone. "We can find a secure location-" then yells, "-IN A ZOMBIE HELLHOLE!"

"Wait a minute." Blake pulls out the map again as she walk towards the diner table. She spreads it out as everyone looks at it. Blake points at the red circles. "These areas here are safe zones. If we can find one of these zones, we could set up a safe place and find other people."

Before they decide to do anything, they hear what sounds like tires screeching on the asphalt. They all look up as they see a red pick-up truck facing north with some weirdos coming out of the truck that are armed with hunting rifles.

They see a fat man with a white baseball cap that has an eagle on it while holding an M41 that says 'True Patriots of America' with its body being blue and wings of red and white stripes, wearing a dark green t-shirt, a pair of greenish brown jeans with yellow straps and brown army boots along with having a scruffy black beard. He says, "Anyone heard a few bitch screamings a moment ago?"

Then they see another man with an army vest with the same symbol on the back and on his right chest and a strange collared shirt that makes it look like it would help blend in the grasslands. He is bald with a scruffy black beard, dirty blue jeans, and black combat boots. "I don't know, Derrick. I mean, I mean we haven't seen any bitches in forever."

Then another man comes out that has a small mohawk with no shirt but has an open tannish vest with two black belts on it across the chest. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the same eagle and "true patriots" logo with his right hand having a red wristband while wearing desert camo army pants and brown boots. "Well except that blonde hair lady with the big boobs at the school. Not to mention some sexy female high school students."

Next they see is an older man with gray hair and beard with a red, white and blue cap with the same eagle and "true patriots" logo on it along with wearing a dark green hunting vest with a matching badge, some shotgun shells in the left pocket sticking out with a forest camo shirt, tan cargo pants with a gun holster on the right pant leg and army boots. "Can it you three idiots. If it is a man, we kill him because that man is either a liberal, pansy, foreigner, or socialist. Possibly all at once."

The fat man says, "Yep. And we're ganna make Amerika great again, Deetz. Because we are good Amerikans as apple pie."

The mohawk man says, "True that, Derrick."

The bald man then says, "You bet we can make America great again. Even, even though we should find some bitches to collect. Ain't that right, Johnny?"

"True that, Earl. We need to populate." Then Earl swings his hips, "Man, I love to fuck me a good blondie!"

Inside the cafe, three members of Team RWBY look at Yang who has a disgusted expression.

Yang then says while disgusted, "I think we need to leave."

"You bet." all three of the girls say.

So Team RWBY run out of the cafe through the back door before the four rednecks try secure the place. The four crawl through the tall grass to avoid being seen by the rednecks that want to rape and impregnate them.

Weiss whispers as they crawl through the grass. "Like I said, insane people who have been trap here too long."

"Sshh." Yang shushes Weiss, "Let's just focus on finding that safe zone and keep going."

They continue to crawl until they come across the river. With no choice they have to cross the river...via bridge that was next to them by the road. When they did, they come across a horde of slow moving zombies that somehow surround them. All members of Team RWBY fire at the heads of the zombies as each of their heads explode for every shot they fire. They shot down 30 zombies with their range weapons.

Yang chuckles a little, "That was way too easy." as another zombie tries to sneak up behind her.

Ruby turned her head and noticed the zombie. "Yang!" she shouts as she prepares to fire her sniper, "Get down!"

A sniper rifle shot was fired through the zombie's head, but it didn't come from Ruby's sniper. They all look at the direction where the shot was fired and see a human figure on a hill with purple hair with some of it tied to a ponytail, tan skin, a white collar around the person's neck, and some combat suit while carrying a sniper rifle.

"Who is that?" Yang asked.

/2: Team RWBY has now entered Dead Canyon. Continuing monitoring.