Chapter 13

Before we continue with Team RWBY's adventure to parts unknown (or undead), let's start this off with the day when Team CRDL tries to cure Cardin. Russel is driving the seamoth down to the mushroom forest to hunt down some fungal samples.

He stops the seamoth, "Alright, time to harvest." Russel exits out of his seamoth and prepares his heated knife.

He swims out to try to get a fungal sample from one of the trees. Russel swims closer and closer to the closet tree in front of him. When he gets close, he uses his knife to extract a fungal sample.

"Alright." he praises himself, "One piece down."

But then he sensed something coming straight towards him. Russel looks behind him and sees a boneshark about ready to take a chunk out of him.

"OH SHIT!" he says out loud through his air mask.

Russel swims as fast as he can back to the seamoth with the alien shark behind him. But to makes matter worse, it is an infected boneshark with green crystals on its flesh. He swims and he swims to avoid not only being eaten, but also avoid getting infected. But Russel managed to get inside of his seamoth with the skin of his teeth.

He takes panting breaths, "Holy shit... That was...close."

"Hey, Russel?" Dove says over the radio, "You alright?"

"Barely." Russel is still catching his breath. "I nearly...got either...eaten or...infected...because...of some...alien shark."

"Damn. But did you get the ingredients we need?"

Russel checks his inventory, "I only got the fungal sample. Just need to get the bulb sample. How's Sky?"

Sky answers the radio, "Managed to get the eye stalk from the kelp forest and the sea crown from the red grassy plateaus. Just need to get the bulb sample and ghost weed. Had to avoid a bunch of sandsharks that try to ambush and eat me."

"Right. I'm on my way to the bulb zone now."

"I thought it was called the koosh zone?" Dove says. "Because this PDA says koosh... Oh, wait. It also says bulb. Nevermind."

Russel drives the seamoth northeast of his position in order to get the last two ingredients needed to get the hatching enzymes and cure Cardin with whatever the hell they're supposed to cure them with. Russel drives until he sees something purple with blue glowing lights and large bulbs.

"Wow." he says to himself. "That is my kind of plant. I wonder if I can use it as a pillow?"

Russel drives the seamoth closer, but he isn't going after the bulbs first. He is going to search for ghost weed in the area. He searched, and he searched, and he searched but no sign of any ghost weed. So he decides to harvest the nearest bulb sample. He gets out, cut a sample, gets back in the seamoth, and heads back towards the base.

"Okay, I got a fungal sample and a bulb sample. But I couldn't find any ghost weeds."

"Shit." Dove says over the radio. "Guess we gotta head towards the Lost River. Hope we can find a portal that leads down there."

Now we cut back to Team RWBY's adventure where Yang was saved by a mysterious figure.

"Who is that?" Yang asked as everyone sees a woman with purple hair with most of it in a ponytail, tan skin, a black combat suit, a white collar, and a sniper rifle.

The womanly figure approaches with Ruby saying, "Thanks for saving my sister."

"No problem." she says as her face is revealed to have red eyes and some red lipstick. "But who are you girls?"

"Oh right." Ruby clears her throat. "I'm Ruby Rose."

Weiss then steps up, "I'm Weiss Schnee."

"Blake Belladonna." Blake introduces herself while Rika looks at Blake's ears.

"I'm Yang!" Then picks up Zwei, "And this little guy is Zwei."

Zwei does a happy bark.

"I'm Rika Minami. Ex-sniper officer of the prefecture police of Tokonosu City in Japan."

"Japan?" Blake tilted her head having no idea what that place is.

"Tokonosu City?" Weiss raises her right eyebrow.

"You're a sniping police officer?" Ruby asks with an awe-struck face.

"I was until shit hits the fan." Rika replied. "But how come you guys don't know Japan?"

Blake thinks about it and connect the dots, "I'm guessing your from another planet like us, correct?"

Rika chuckles a little, "Well that IS obvious." Then turns her attention to Blake's cat ears, "I'm guessing you girls aren't from Earth judging by the cat ears."

Everyone looks at Blake while Blake replies, "I'm called a Faunus. One of the races that inhabit Remnant."

"What's Remnant? Your home planet?"

All the girls nodded at once, including Zwei.

"That figures. Come on." she turns around, "We need to get out of here and meet up with Saeko."

"Who's she?" Yang asked.

"A highschool girl with a katana that saved my roommate when They showed up back on Earth."

Everyone then follows Rika northeast with Ruby asking, "What do you mean by, 'They'?"

"Later. But how did you guys ended-up here."

Blake pulled out her map, "A friend of ours found a map and some scroll written in some language."

"Let me see."

Blake gives Rika the map and looks at it.

"Hmm." she goes as she looks at the map while walking. "This map is wa-ay out of date. Saeko and I went to the school, but the place is filled with Them. So this map doesn't help much."

Weiss doesn't look happy, "You're kidding me."

"Nope."

A few minutes later, they appeared close to the police station. They see an intact white and yellow striped RV with some metal sheets and barbed wire on it. Then they see a girl with long purple hair in a purple tank top, blue denim pants, a pair of white running shoes while carrying a katana on her side. She is leaning against the RV with her eyes close. But opens them when Rika, Team RWBY, and Zwei approach to reveal her blue eyes. She glares at the approaching group and stands up.

"Picked-up a few strays, I see." she says to Rika.

Rika turns to the group, "Everyone, this is Saeko Busujima."

Saeko gives a bow, "Greetings."

"I'm Yang. Yang Xiao Long."

"Weiss Schnee." Weiss gives a curtsy bow, "A pleasure."

"Blake Belladonna."

"I'm Ruby Rose." She picks-up Zwei, "And this is Zwei." Zwei gives a greetful bark.

Saeko takes a good look at them, "Guessing you girls aren't from around here."

Yang shrugs, "More or less. We came here because of some map a friend of ours found. Let's just say it...Lead us astray. Eh? Get it? Because you called us strays and we were lead astray."

Everyone is not amused.

Saeko looks at Blake and notices her cat ears. She reaches out with her left hand and tries to pull one of them.

"Ow!" Blake blurts out with her right ear being tugged. "Can you PLEASE let go?!"

"So they are real." Then she lets go. "So where exactly are you guys-" Her sentence was interrupted by the sound of a charging truck. The same red pick-up truck Team RWBY saw before.

Everyone takes cover behind a few sandbags at the front of the police station.

"You see that!?" Derrick yells out. "I told you there be bitches!"

"WOO!" Johnny screamed out while preping his crossbow. "I'M GONNA GET LAID TONIGHT!"

Deetz jumps out of his driver seat, "Alright boys! Let's get some bitches to make babies!"

Weiss uses her glyphs to blow their weapons out of their hands, leaving them confused on what just happened. But Johnny grabs his crossbow before it gets launched high up in the air and fires a round at Blake. Blake uses her semblance to dodge the shot which leads to Johnny's confusion. Ruby then uses her semblance to quickly tie all four rednecks up with some rope.

The four blinked rabidly with Deetz looking down and realized they are all tied up.

"The fuck just happened?"!" Deetz asks as he tries to make sense of what happened.

"Did, did, did we just get our asses kicked by a bunch of little girls?" Earl says as he tries to struggle out.

"Can someone tell me what happened?" Derrick tries to make sense of his situation.

Yang then proceeds to knock them out by punching them...and send them flying up to the roof of the police station.

Saeko and Rika just stand there with their eyes wide open and jaws dropped on what Team RWBY just did. Rika dropped her sniper rifle after witnessing how awesome Team RWBY did. Zwei on the other hand, has a wrench in his mouth and taken apart the red pick-up truck with his head popping up from the hood. Zwei took the car battery, a few spark plugs, and a fan belt so they wouldn't use the truck anymore.

"Okay." Rika picks-up her sniper rifle as her mind tries to process what just happened. "I have a few questions."

Saeko points at Zwei, "How is your dog the mechanic if he doesn't have any thumbs?"

Rika looks at Saeko, "That's your first question?"

Yang says to the two, "We'll explain once we get out of here."

Everyone gets into the RV and take off. They head their way to the base with the members of Team RWBY explain Remnant, the kingdoms, Huntsmen, Grimm, and how they got there. Especially the part about how everything went monotone. Ruby even let Saeko check out the teleporter device they have. Before they know it, the forest changes into a desert after twenty minutes.

"That's what happened to us." Rika says while driving. "Everything turned black and white while time stopped and then we got transported here."

Yang then asks, "And you guys appeared naked?"

"Yang!" Ruby blurted out out of embarrassment.

"We were." Saeko answered. "But we found this school with a bunch of other students that came here the same way."

Weiss then says, "I also think I understand why this place is called Dead Canyon. Because of all the zombies around here."

Yang then says, "Just hope we don't encounter any, zoom-bies on the way over. Eh?" Then they past by the city of Departure

No one responded.

"Oh come on!"

"Anyway." Saeko skips over Yang's pun. "Just how did you guys get here? I mean here in this canyon?"

Before they had time to answer, Rika stopped the RV at some gas station on the borders of the desert and another forest near the mountains.

"What's going on?" Blake asked.

Rika tapped the fuel gauge. "We're running low on gas. We have to fuel up. Also, we need to pick-up a few more essentials at some of the nearby stores."

"Got it." Saeko exits out of the RV first to get the vehicle fueled up.

Rika looks at her watch and the time says: 1:39 pm. Then looks at the team, "Alright, we got until nightfall. Because They aren't like the ones we're used to back home. During the day, they walk around. But at night, they can run like an olympic champion. If night does fall, we need to take shelter at a secure location. Got it?"

"Got it." the girls say at once. They are unsure, but decided to take her word anyway.

But Weiss has a question, "When you say 'They aren't like the ones we're used to back home.', does that mean you guys have zombies back home?"

"I'll explain later. Right now we need to get supplies such as food, some medicine, and a few lady stuff."

So everyone got off and looked at the nearby buildings near the gas station. There are four buildings such as a Shamway Grocery Store, what looks like an apartment building, an old general store, and a clinic. There are also more buildings behind the four with some street lamps still shining.

Ruby looks at the group, "Alright, we should search in teams of two with Zwei coming with me. Blake and Yang will check the grocery store to the left while Weiss and I check out the general store. Clear?"

"What about me?" Rika asked.

Ruby looks at Rika, "To provide Saeko support and protect the RV."

"Alright. Clear."

Then the others say, "Clear."

Ruby, Zwei, and Weiss head over towards the Shamway Grocery Store while Blake and Yang head towards the general store.

Saeko gets the gas hose from the pump and put it into the gas socket of the RV while asking Rika, "Why did you let the youngest girl like her take charge?"

"Have you seen the way they fight?" Rika replies. "You saw it. Not to mention where they came from."

"I get it and-" Saeko notices there isn't any gas doing into the RV. "Crap, need another pump." So she switches out the hoses. This time there is some gas going in. "Where was I? Oh yeah. I get it and I'm just saying. Its awkward to have a 15-year-old giving orders and being some team leader. Although I would like to know more about those devices over their implants. Pip-Boy something?"

"Must have found it somewhere outside the canyon. Although we should ask what they have seen since they aren't from this canyon."

"You're right. And who knows." Rika then leans against the RV with a smile and arms crossed, "Maybe there are places where They won't show up."

Saeko then cracks a smile, "You're probably right."

Zwei smells the area at the entrance of the doorless grocery store to smell any zombies in the area.

Ruby then says to Zwei, "One bark for clear and a growl for no."

Zwei lifted his nose in the air and tries to smell any trace of zombies. But gives a bark which means all cleared.

Weiss walks up, "Alright, lets get looting." Then pulls out a torch.

"I prefer the term 'scavenging' because 'looting' makes us sound like raiders or bandits." Ruby pulls out her own torch.

Weiss rolls her eyes, "Fair enough."

They all check to see if they can find something that is edible or at least isn't rotten. Many of the shelves are bare with barely anything or nothing on them. Ruby found a sack of rice, a box of protein bars, three packets of nuts, and a box of condoms.

Ruby is a little confused on what condoms are and says, "What are these used for?"

Weiss looks around to find something until she comes across fifteen shampoo bottles and thirty bars of soap. "Yes!" she says to herself in a whisper. "Score!" She grabbed all the shampoo and soap and loaded them into her inventory. Then she sees twenty plastic bags of sanitary pads for women and stocks up.

In the general store, Blake and Yang check the old general stores while Yang is using one of her torches.

"Hey Yang?" Blake says, "Can we talk while searching?"

"Sure."

Yang check one of the first row of shelves while Blake talks.

"Do you ever wonder what is the whole point?"

"About what?" Yang then check the next few shelves.

"I mean everything on this planet." then Blake counts with her fingers on the details she is about to say next. "Giant pre-historic beasts. Wrecked spaceships. Soda-themed amusement parks. Green mutants. Zombies. Not to mention the abductions and time stopping." Then stops counting, "Just what is the whole point of everything in this world?"

Yang then checks the next row of shelves. "Never thought of it, but now that you mention it." Yang then starts to look serious, "You're right. What is the whole point of this? Are we part of some big experiment or something? Oh-!" Yang found something on one of the shelves. "I found a grooming set! Yes! Finally I can brush, or combe, my hair!"

"Can we get back on topic?"

Yang looks at Blake while holding the grooming set. "Right. Sorry. But you have no idea how hard it is maintaining my hair."

"I know but lets stay focus."

Yang and Blake check the next row of shelves.

Blake then says, "Yet I also wonder how many groups there are in this canyon. Are they all hostile?"

"I think they want our bodies since there aren't many women here."

"But are they all like that?"

"Ooo." Yang went as she found something. She grabs it and says to Blake while giving it to her, "Hey Blake, found something."

Blake look at what is in Yang's hand. "Cat food? Really?"

"Just a joke." Yang retracts the canned cat food. "Anyway, I found something else." Yang pulls out a magazine. But it is a porno magazine with naked men on it.

"Seriously?!" Blake says with her face all red with a serious glare.

"Well I need something." Yang puts the magazine in her inventory. "Besides, I need something for MY morale. Plus I've seen the way you were looking at Sun's-"

Blake places a finger on Yang's mouth while looking down with her face completely red. "Would you please not say it out loud?"

Yang pushes Blake's finger while chuckling, "Alright. But lets just-" Then she notices something behind the register counter. She leans to her right to see something strange. "What is that?"

Yang walks up towards the strange object with Blake following her. What they see before them is a strange chest that is blocky, black, pixelated, and have some sort of green eye on it.

"What the hell is this thing?" Yang says while looking at the strange chest that is giving off purple pixelated sparkles.

"Some sort of chest?" Blake has no idea either.

Yang then places her torch on the wall and checks the chest. She opens it, but there is something inside. Then she bashes the chest which caused it to become a miniaturize version of itself. She picks it up then the strange holograms from their implants again.

"Oh cool." Yang says as she notices the holograms. "Some new stuff we get to do." She checks her inventory and the object she picked up is called, 'Ender Chest'.

Then they heard a loud crash from outside that sounded like a large vehicle being tipped over as they turned their heads toward the exit.

"That can't be good." Yang says.

"Come on." Blake then dashes towards the exit with Yang picking a few more stuff before running out.

Team RWBY made it outside where they see the RV has been completely tipped over with Rika and Saeko fighting some huge zombie that is dressed in a large black straight jacket that has an opening in the back, a prison-issue restraint mask, and wearing some pants with boots. The thing roared as Rika tries to take a few head shots, but keeps hitting the shoulder instead. The RV is tipped onto its side as Saeko use it as a spring board to slice zombie's head off. But misses as it charges right at her. Causing her to be knocked down to the ground as the mutant zombie roars.

"What the fuck is this thing?!" Rika tries to help Saeko up.

"I have no idea!" Saeko says as she gets up. "But that thing seems to be calling in a horde." She points her sword at the direction where everyone can see a huge horde of zombies slowly walking straight towards them.

There must be at least hundreds of zombies stumbling, walking, crawling, or whatever coming from the forests across the street. There are even more coming from the buildings, desert and the mountains trying to surround the six women and dog.

"This isn't good." Weiss states the obvious.

Rika and Saeko have no choice but to run as fast as they can into the mountains. Team RWBY and Zwei try to follow but ended up getting blocked by a pack of zombie dogs.

"Oh fuck!" Yang says out loud as the dogs run towards them.

Blake quickly pulls out her pistol and starts taking head shots that causes the dogs to drop dead. But more and more zombies are closing in.

They look around until Ruby has an idea, "Head towards the apartments! Yang, prepare to smash some stairs!"

They all run as fast as they could, although Ruby uses her semblance to clear a path by turning into a red twister. They all make their way towards the apartment complex up to the second floor. Yang then destroys the stairs by bashing them with her fists. They make their way towards apartment 206 and take shelter as they wait for the zombies to pass by and forget about them. They all take panting breaths as they lean against the door.

"Ruby?" Weiss says as she looks at her.

"Yeah?"

"Do you still have the teleporter?"

"I think so. Let me check." Ruby checks her inventory to see if she still has it so they can get out. She checks until, "Uh-oh."

"What is it?" Yang asked.

"I think I let Saeko have it since I let her check it out."

Blake closes her eyes, "Oh gods sake."

"Well thats not good." Yang says with a worried look.

"We're fucked." Weiss says out loud. "And we don't have ear plugs to shut out the moans and groans."

"Yep." Yang agrees. "We're fucked and its gonna be a long night if they don't move."

Weiss then tries to say, "By the way, is that-" Everyone covers Weiss' mouth.

Blake then says, "Don't jinx it." as the straightjacket zombie still roars and screams. Blake then looks at Ruby, "By the way, Ruby. If you can do what you just did by creating an opening, why didn't you use your semblance to open a path towards the same direction as Rika and Saeko."

"I panic okay! I can't think straight when I get scared!"

"That's believable." Blake can understand that. Everyone can't think straight when scared.

Yang goes to the bathroom, "I'll take a shower." Yang the tries turning the faucet but nothing comes out of the bathtub. "Great. We have electricity yet no water. Fuck."

Weiss then says, "And I found some shampoos and soap."

Yang then says in a depress tone, "How ironic."

Ruby then says to the team, "Speaking of supplies," she pulls out a box of condoms, "can you guys tell me what these condoms are used for?"

Caboose is looking up at the sky near blue base with Tucker approaching.

"Something wrong, Caboose?" Tucker asked.

Caboose looks at Tucker, "Do you ever get the feeling that someone forgot about you in a certain part of the story and continue focusing on something else?"

"N-...What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Don't know."

"Whatever dude. I'm going to find a place for some...privacy." Then Tucker walks away.

"Can I come?"

Tucker then yells, "NO!"

/2: Progress of Project Z: 97%

Progress of Project Phoenix: 21%

All projects are on schedule.

AN: Hey guys. How's it going? Just to give you guys the heads up is that I am going to move soon to a new house. So expect a few days or a week or two without any new chapters coming up. Just to let you know. Later!