Chapter 15

It is nighttime in Dead Canyon and we cut to Splendid General Public School in the cafeteria where Saeko and Rika tell almost everyone about what happened on their way back from finding supplies. Takashi Komuro, who is the head mechanic and the leader. Rei Miyamoto, who specializes in Sojutsu which is a form of spear martial art. Saya Takagi, who is the scientist and main strategist. Kohta Hirano, who is the armory master because he is the gun otaku. Shizuka Marikawa, who is the main doctor of the surviving group. Kiriko Miyamoto, who is Rei's mother, former cop, and helps out with the defenses of the base. Yuriko Takagi, who is the quartermaster that checks inventory, former Wall Street stockbroker, and Saya's mother. Kurumi Ebisuzawa, who is the sub-strategists that help out with the cooking and gardening along with disposing zombies with her shovel. Yuri Wakasa, who maintains the gardens and grows the wheat and vegetables and does the cooking. Miki Naoki, who is the sub-quartermaster, librarian, and helps maintain the defenses.

There are others but aren't in the cafeteria at this time. Yuki Takeya, who is the energetic moral officer (unofficially) who takes care of the children and animals. Alice Moresato and Ru Wakasa, who are just children that help out from time to time. There is also two puppies that help them detect any problems known as Zero and Taromaru, which are also keeping the two little girls safe.

All who are present are sitting around a round table to discuss what has happened in the cafeteria.

"So what happened?" Takashi asked.

Rika responds, "We encountered a group from outside this canyon. They managed to take on a group of armed hillbillies by using some special means."

"They aren't natives of this world, but not from Earth either." Saeko says with her arms crossed next to Rika. She tells them about who they are, where they from, and every detail that Ruby Rose told her.

"So they are basically aliens." Saya says.

Yuriko looks at her daughter, "Hard to believe, but we are on an alien world where there are three moons. Yet these Huntsmen sound like superheroes."

Kohta gives a menacing smile, "But I do like the way they make their weapons from what you are telling me. This Remnant sounds like my kind of paradise for all sorts of weapons." Then starts to grin with his teeth showing with drool dripping from his mouth and his left hand making a squeezing motion. "Man, I would love to go there." Then starts to give off a perverted look, "Not to mention all the cute girls with animal traits."

Shizuka points at Kohta, "Kohta. You're drooling."

Kohta snaps out of it and wipes his mouth. "My bad."

Shizuka giggles.

Takashi is sitting cross-armed and looks upset, "However, I hate the fact that the RV got destroyed. I spent two weeks working on that."

Kurumi snickers a little, "Yeah. Sorry we wouldn't help."

Yuri then says with one finger on her chin, "Speaking of, you are working on the second RV. Correct?"

Takashi sighs, "I am, but I'm missing a few parts such as electrical wires, a control unit, one off-road wheel, and some new windshield glass."

Rei then says, "Can we stay on topic on what happened?"

"Fine." Takashi looks back at the two, "So what happened next?"

Saeko finishes up, "We were attacked by a horde of those Things while encountering some new variant that destroyed the RV. Seeing how strong they are, they will survive and find their way here. On that note-" Saeko places the inactive teleporter on the center of the table. "-I got something from them."

Everyone gets up and take a closer look at the strange, alien device Saeko puts on the table.

Kurumi picks it up and examine it. "Just what is this...thing?"

"It is a teleporter." Rika responds. "They are planning on establishing a base here and use it to get to and from their main headquarters. My guess is that they may be looking for supplies and looking for anyone still out here on this world."

Takashi starts to get excited, "Then what are we waiting for?! Let's activate it!"

"Not that easy." Saeko stops them. "Think about it. If we activate it and there are people on the other side, they would be expecting Team RWBY to show-up. How do think they will react if we showed-up and think we killed them?"

Saeko has a good point. How would you feel if someone other that the sent party showed-up through the method that is supposed to use? You would accuse them of killing your pals.

Kurumi sees the power button near her thumb and secretly presses it.

"What the-?!" she says in surprise.

Everyone looked at her and wonders what is Kurumi surprise about.

Kurumi presses the power button repeatedly yet nothing happens. "It's not working." She presses harder and faster out of frustration. "GRRRR!" she went.

"Hold on a minute." Miki says. "Let me look at it."

Kurumi tosses the device to Miki. Miki examines it to see what is wrong. She fiddles with it until she comes up with a conclusion.

"I think I figure it out." She puts the teleporter down. "The reason why is because we don't own the other teleporter. The girls Saeko mentioned said that it only works if a person or tribe has the other teleporter in their possession. Therefore, we cannot use it because we don't own any other teleporters."

Kiriko crosses her arms as she sits down, "Then we need to wait for their arrival, agree?"

"Agree." everyone says in unison.

Kiriko looks at Yuri, "Now Yuri, about your friend, Yuki-"

Someone wearing a black cat-cap that looks like it was sown together from scratch, short bubblegum pink hair, pink with red tint eyes, a petite figure, a green sweater, a pair of blue cargo pants, and a pair of old violet and pink jogging shoes started dashing in and jumps onto the table.

"FOOD!" she shouts out while jumping on the table like a fish out of water, "I'm SOOOO starving!"

Yuri giggles and says, "Guess we should get started on making dinner."

Kiriko sighs, "I guess so."

Then Alice runs while wearing a pink checkered wool dress along with Zero, "Sorry, but Yuki just dashed off."

Ruu then enters with her hair down and wearing a similar dress as Alice except more pink and with Taromaru in tow.

Shizuka then stands up from her chair, "Guess we should make something."

Saya looks at Kurumi and whispers, "Is it weird that both Yuki and Alice look almost similar yet have the exact same voice?"

Kurumi giggles, "Yeah, like the first week we've been here three weeks ago."

AN: Here is some more trivia. Both Yuki Takeya from School-Live and Alice Maresato from Highschool of the Dead have the exact same english voice actress, Brittney Karbowski. Sorry, I only watch animes that are in english, as in dubbing. Moving on.

Back over with Team CRDL, it is close to nighttime over where they at. The team created a cyclops that would help bring in not just an abundance of resources, but also bring the raft they hope to build.

Dove finishes deconstructing the last bit of their base. "Okay, I think I got the last of it."

Russel is next to dove with a seaglider, "Good. Because I had my fill of this ocean. Fish for dinner, fish for breakfast, snack, and lunch for the past four days."

Dove turns around to face Russel, "However, my biggest concern is how the fuck do we build a raft. There isn't any palm trees or scattered wood around. The trees here don't make good material since they sink faster than a rock."

"Hey guys!" Sky says over the radio, "I found something!"

Both Russel and Dove made their way to the surface they look to their left and see sky pointing at something to the north. What they see is a large wooden ship with a purple hull color with an upside down blue skull, eight cannons, four on each side; three sails with the sails having a blue color and yellow lion, a golden lion figurehead at the bow, and a pirate flag up on the crow's nest. The standard black with the standard skull and cross bones.

Cardin then breaches the surface, "What's going on?"

"Guess we found ourselves a boat." Dove says.

Sky swims up towards the ship and touches it. What happens next is that the same sporadic holographic stuff from before happened again. However, it isn't from Sea of Thieves.

Over back at the canyon, all members of Team RWBY noticed that their implants went nuts again.

"Guess we got something new." stated Ruby.

"Gee." Weiss says in a sarcastic tone, "Isn't THAT obvious."

Blake opens hers up and notices a new tab with a 'Y' on it. She presses on it and new stuff becomes available. Stuff from Ylands.

Ruby looks at hers, "Does anyone want a bearskin rug?"

Yang smirks, "You know what?" Then looks at her teammates, "Having so much shit is un-bear-able."

Weiss shakes her head. Ruby face palms. Blake just give an unamused glare at Yang.

"Yeah. Guess that was a bit of a stretch."

"Anyway." Weiss looks around the apartment they are in. "I really do like this place. Redwood flooring, a modern refrigerator top with freezer bottom, black furniture such as the leather coaches and side tables. Whoever designed this place sure does have some taste. I just didn't noticed until now."

Yang says, "Yet still no running water."

Then they hear something outside. It sounded like some sort of fight between the zombies judging by the threatening moans the zombies are making. Almost as if they are fighting. Blake, with her Faunus night-vision, checks outside the window through the blinds.

"What's going on?" Weiss asks.

Blake looks out into the night from the window and sees what appears to be that the zombies are fighting each other. "It looks like another horde had shown up and it... It looks like they are eating the other zombies."

"What?!" Yang says in surprise. "Let me see." Yang then puts on a pair of night-vision goggles.

"Where did you get those?" Ruby asked.

"I checked one of the rooms and found them in one of the kitchen cabinets." Yang then looks outside with the night-vision goggles on.

Both girls see one horde of zombies close to their building attacking another horde that was approaching from the desert. Yang and Blake see zombies eating each other. The ram zombie tries to run down the other horde yet comes across a large zombie in a biker outfit yet managed to whack it. Causing it to knock down and get eaten by the other zombies. Then the biker zombie gets eaten by other zombies.

"Okay." Yang is a little perplexed. "Why are there zombies eating other zombies?"

Blake makes a hypothesis, "Maybe those are infected with a different zombie virus. When a zombie of one virus comes into contact with another zombie with a different virus then they attack each other. That is just my guess."

"Possibly." Weiss stated. "Well to me, it almost sounds like cannibalism."

Zwei nodded his head in agreement.

"Hard to say with this crazy place." Ruby stated. "But here's an idea. A risky one, but I think it might be worth it."

Everyone looks at Ruby and wonder what she is gonna say.

"I think we could use this opportunity to get past the zombies and head towards the school. With the ender pearls Yang has, we could put some major distances between us and the zombies below."

"Problem." Weiss says to the red team leader. However she looks a little embarrassed, "I'm not that good of a thrower."

"Can you still use your glyphs?" Blake asks.

"I can, but I'm afraid that I would over shot it and may ended up in. Not to mention that I still need Dust for other variants."

Yang gets an idea. "Then how about I give you a piggyback and I'll throw my pearl?"

Weiss takes a deep sigh, "Very well. But we'll use my glyphs in order to stay above the zombies when things get hairy."

Yang smiles, "Just be careful with my hair."

"Was that supposed to be a pun?" Ruby ask.

"Doesn't matter now." Blake stated. "We need to move to the roof and prepare to throw."

Everyone make their way through the roof with Yang punching holes in one of the top apartments. Ruby carries Zwei in a blue backpack she found in order to carry the little corgi up. Blake and Yang can see the zombies running and sprinting down below as many are eating each other. We have Dead Island zombies devouring 7 Days to Die zombies and vice versa. Some of the zombie dogs are killing some of the other zombies and eating the remains. A Zombie bear then shows up and started tearing some of the zombies apart.

Yang takes a deep breath and looks at Weiss. "Ready?"

Weiss hops on and says, "Ready."

Blake and Ruby prepare to throw their pearls over at the mountains to the direction of the school. Yang throws hers first with Weiss on her back and throws as hard as she can.

"Just hope it works." Yang hopes after she throws it. Then once it landed, she disappeared along with Weiss.

"Wow." Ruby is impressed. "They really do work."

Blake holds her pearl, "Well this is a crazy world." Blake smiles and throws her pearl. Not as far as Yang, but close. Which she disappears from sight.

Ruby takes a deep breath. "Okay, here we go." She swings her right arm around and around before throwing it since she isn't really that strong like her sister.

Ruby throws as hard as she could and almost as far where Blake is. Just a few feet away and teleported with Zwei in tow.

"Whoa!" Ruby says when she is close to Blake after being teleported. "So that's what it feels like."

Blake cringes a little, "Yeah. Feels like my insides got twisted inside out and put back together."

"No. It feels like I was cotton candy being tossed around while being made of taffy that has been stretched and reformed back to my old self."

"Yet I feel like I wanna vomit."

"Cut the chatter." Yang tells the others. "We need to get moving."

Everyone runs as fast as they could with Yang holding onto Weiss since Yang has the night-vision goggles with Blake holding onto Ruby since Blake is a Faunus and is naturally born with night-vision. The four ran through the woods, with Zwei in tow, as fast as they could with the hopes of finding the teleporter and maybe find other people in this horrible place. They ran as fast as they could through the mountain forest while avoiding any signs of the undead. Even though Ruby has her semblance, she can't leave her teammates behind. Especially when the dead are running around in the dark.

They keep on running to nearly the point of exhaustion until they see the school along with dispatching many zombies in their path, an approximate total of 200. There are a few lights on through the window which means they are in the right place. However, the place is surrounded by spikes, mines, and a wall of stainless steel behind a chain-link fence with barbed wire along with steel metal sheets.

"Shit." Blake says after looking at the defenses but trying to catch her breath. "How the fuck do we get past that?"

Yang pulled out an ender pearl. "Damn, Blake." she says in a sarcastic yet out of breath tone, "To think a cat has a photographic memory."

Blake look at what's in Yang's palm. "Oh."

Everyone gets out their ender pearls and prepare to throw them. Weiss jumps on Yang again and Yang throws the pearl. Blake and Ruby throws theirs after. Then the four are teleported inside the schoolyard.

"We made it!" Ruby declared...right before falling back on the ground while removing her backpack. "Sooooo, tiiii-rrreeed." she moaned. Ruby is unable to move. She is too tired to move and just lays down on the asphalt of a parking lot.

Weiss passes out on the ground. Blake and Yang soon follow after. A few seconds later, Kiriko and Yuriko arrive at the scene wearing tactical vests, riot helmets, tactical arm guards with marksman gloves, tactical leg protectors, and combat boots. Kiriko is armed with MK5's with suppressors while Yuriko has a silenced 9mm pistol. Both women look over the passed out girls.

"These must be the Team RWBY Saeko and Rika met." Yuriko says as she takes a good look at them.

"Definitely." Kiriko agrees. "They are as described."

Zwei, who is in the blue backpack, unzip the zipper and comes out. He surprises the two women and gives off three happy barks.

Yuriko smiles and pets the surprise corgi.

Kiriko then says, "I'll get the others and see if we can get them in the infirmary."

Back at the canyon, in the middle of the night, Caboose is lurking around in the canyon as if he is up to something.

He whispers, "I am sneaking I am sneaking." to himself.

Caboose sneaks past Grif who is so drunk that he went behind a boulder and started puking after taking his helmet off. Then Caboose sneaks up towards a cave in where he comes across something.

"There you are." he says to himself. "Let me help you out of there."

Caboose goes to work on getting something out of the boulders with blue sparks illuminating the dark area. Working on something that he wishes to keep secret.

Over at Red Base, Sarge continues to finish his mortar cannon into the night with the sound of a socket wrench echoing in the night air.

"There." Sarge says as he drops the socket wrench. "Finished. Now for a test run."

Sarge uses his binocular function of his visor and aimed at the area where the sandworms are as the mortar cannon starts to move in that direction. Sarge's visor detected two sandworms that are close to the surface. The mortar cannon takes aim with the sound of something reving up and blue lights start to shine in the barrels. Then Sarge's visor shows in big bold letters 'FIRE' right before the mortar cannon fires at the direction where the sandworms are. Large volleys of blue plasma energy are launched at the worms that hit and caused the same explosions as what a wraith tank does, except bigger. The place outside the gate is now a large sand pit with pieces and bits of the two worms in many parts of the area.

"Hell yeah!" Sarge celebrates. "Now that's a huge success!"

"SARGE!" Donut screams from the door of his dome. "KEEP IT DOWN! I WANT TO GET AS MUCH BEAUTY REST AS POSSIBLE! IT'S NOT EASY BEING GORGEOUS YOU KNOW!" Donut slams the door and tries to get some sleep.

Washington then comes up. "Sarge!" He yells in shock, "What the fuck are you doing?! You woke up the entire canyon!"

Sarge turns to face Wash, "I was just test firing my new mortar cannon and it turns out to be a great success."

"Can it wait until morning?!" Wash says in a more upset attitude.

"Nonsense. Best to strike the enemy now while they are in their weakest moment, such as sleeping."

"I thought you wanna fight your enemies when they are awake and not take them out like a coward."

Sarge is completely silent after Wash's statement. "Dammit!" he swears, "Why am I forgetting that crucial part?!"

"Anyway." Washington changes the subject, "Have you seen Caboose? He's gone missing and he is definitely up to something."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. This is Caboose we're talking about. He could have found a three ring circus under a rock. Might've found a new tiny civilization on a patch of moss, ended up in another dimension again, or a huge collection of guns with nukes attached to them."

"Yup, that does sound like Caboose." Sarge then chuckles a little before sounding serious, "No, I haven't. But we better find him before he gets into trouble."

"Hope Caboose is gonna be okay." Caboose is right behind Sarge when he said that.

Sarge turns around when Caboose was talking, "Where the hell have you been?"

"Yeah, Caboose." Washington says, "What the fuck have you been doing?"

"Ooooohhhh. You know."

Sarge and Wash look at each other then look at Caboose.

"No." Wash says, "We don't know."

Caboose then looks at Sarge, "Hey Sarge. Do you have any power tools I can barrow?"

Sarge then replies, "Not if you tell us what it is first. And don't say that it is a surprise."

"But it is."

"Okay. A new body for Freckles and his new friends.

They both look at Caboose, "Wait, what?"

Over at the Remnant settlement, Ciel is working the nightshift in the warehouse as she looks over her little book and drinking coffee. Ciel takes a sip as she looks over to check the supplies. However, she takes a good look around and noticed that the warehouse is getting cramped.

"Hmm." she went as she looks around. "We're gonna need more space. Perhaps something more technologically advance warehouse might work. Problem is, where to build it?"

Ciel then looks at the table and see where to store the extra resources. She looks at the maps Penny made, both above and underground, to see where the new warehouse could be at. The storage at the vault and underground mine are at max capacity. The one at the castle Zwei made is full as well. After taking a good look at the map, she decided to build the new warehouse next to the castle. However, it will be a custom building using a multi-tool from the crash site that Team CFVY went. It will be four floors high with an elevator at the center.

Ciel puts the book down and holds the multi-tool that was on the table, "Maybe I should do my own crafting for a bit. I think this will help out."

/2: Progression of Project Z: 98%

Progression of Project PHOENIX: 25%

WARNING!: Subjects of Project ARES are scouting at Sector 56-21

Send in a Cleaner.

/2: Affirmative. 1 Cleaner ETA: 0:00:30

Two men wearing what appears to be Roman outfits yet had a few modern clothing such as black army boots along with wearing cloth hoods are in the desert and looking over what was a crater caused by Sarge's mortar cannon. These two men are Legion explorers of Caesar's Legion that had come a long way from whatever place the Legion is at.

"Man." one of the explorers says in awe. "This is probably the most defended base I've ever seen. We've been fighting these worms for nearly a month now and now we found a new base that can repel them. We must claim it in the honor of Caesar (kaisar)."

"Indeed." says the second explorer. "But we need greater numbers to gain control of it. The meatbags here would make excellent slave warriors for the Legion. We lost thirty of our men and twelve Brahmin coming here. I doubt we will survive the trip."

"Then let me help you with that." says the robotic voice behind the two explorers.

The two quickly turned around with one having a hunting rifle and the other a machete.

"The fuck?!" the one with the machete went.

Before he knows it, a sudden stab through the chest killed him with blood gushing out where the heart is. The other with the hunting rifle tries to run away, but ended up getting decapitated. Blood started spilling out from the clean cut neck. The person responsible for it is wearing blue full body Tek armor and armed with a Tek sword while remaining invisible.

This strange person presses his right fingers on his helmet with putting away his sword, "The subjects are dead." He says over the radio. Or is this person a she? "Next time, send me down here where there is a real problem. Not because of two primitives." This person's voice may sound robotic, but it sounds arrogant yet annoyed. "Yeah, yeah. I know. Just get me the fuck out of here."

Then the mysterious person vanished.

/2: Escaped subjects of Project ARES are terminated.

Continuing monitoring.

AN: Hey guys. How have you all been? Finally moved in, but there are a few...complications at my new home. Turns out that there is mold under my office carpet which I have to remove as soon as I can, some gophers dig through some of the foundations which I need to repair very soon, and have to find a way to keep any more rodents out. Luckily peppermint can keep many species out so I'm gonna have to grow some so I won't have to worry about snakes in the future. Now to answer a few questions.

Guest: Yes. Rozhok is from PUBG and it is added into this series.

Jet-133: Don't know about the first one, but I will make a poll for it. The second question, there will be a lot of characters.

Uya: Maybe.

Kill Hill: They will be coming up soon and yes it would be awesome to have Far Cry 5 on here.

So for Jet-133, I will make the poll for everyone to vote on whether or not to put everyone from Project Z to Project PHOENIX. In the meantime, I'm gonna be busy with reservations so the new chapters won't come out after a while.

And for those that want a sequel for my side project; GATE, Thus a Cyber Empire Fought There; there won't be. Sorry, but it is more of a one-shot thing. Glad many enjoyed it. Yet I am gonna work on another side project in celebration of the upcoming English Dub version of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, I'm gonna make a Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover story of my own. So prepare for twist and turns for that upcoming story.