Chapter 17
/2: Vote concluded. ADMIN declares that all subjects of Project Z will transfer to Project PHOENIX.
Teleporting new subjects for further research at Sector Z0-89I aka Splendid General Public School.
Please Standby.
Over somewhere close to the Remnant encampment, Team BRNZ are investigating the redwood forest to see if they can find anymore creature pages or some notes left behind by survivors that disappeared. Not only that, they are trying to investigate the strange green obelisk in the redwood forest. There are also two more strange obelisks in the area. On a volcanic island just southwest of the Remnant encampment is the red obelisk and the blue one is located in the west over at the mountains.
"Find anything?!" Brawnz yelled out from a rocky outcrop. He is wearing leather armor painted royalty purple with gloves and boots being gray and armed with two energy swords on his hip.
"Nothing yet!" Roy yelled back after popping out from one of the bushes. He is also wearing leather armor painted forest green with some black while wielding his metal hatchet.
Nolan pops his head from behind a tree, "Nothing either!" He is also wearing leather armor that is painted cyan and navy blue while having a baton that Team SSSN got and then he modified it to have it use electricity which is similar to his old weapon.
May Zedong, also wearing leather armor that is dyed red and white and a Nuka-World pack beanie, is on another yet higher rocky outcrop than Brawnz's. She is scanning the area with an SRS 99 Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle. May is using the sniper scope to see if she can find anything out of the ordinary.
Brawnz looks up at May and yells with his cupped hands close to his mouth, "Anything, May!?"
May keeps looking. "Nothing yet. So far, this place is a-" She notices something in the distance through her scope. "Hold on, I got something." May sees something glowing red and red in color walking around.
Actually, more like stomping its way through the woods because of its size. It looks like a Tyrannosaurus dominum (Rex) yet bigger and more angrier than the ones they've seen. It headed straight towards the carcass of a triceratops and takes big bites out of it very close to a green obelisk.
"Um, guys." May says in a soft and quiet voice with eyes widening. She jumps down and tries to tell them to get over where she is at out of fear.
Nolan and Roy looked at each other with Nolan shrugging so they just head over. Everyone gather around as May whispers.
"There is some sort of glowing T-Dom over there and it is huge."
"Are you sure?" the team leader asks. He sounds unsure about what the hell is she talking about.
Nolan then asks, "So it is basically a T-Rex with an aura?"
"T-Dom!" May correcting Nolan while trying to stay quiet. "I'm not sure, but that thing looks very aggressive and we should avoid it. We need to head back."
Roy scoffs at May and grabs her sniper rifle. "Let me see this." He pointed at the direction where May saw it and sees the creature eating the triceratops. The creature looks up and it looks like it is staring at him.
"Oh shit." Roy tosses the sniper back at May and runs. "RUN!" she shouts.
The glowing T-Dom lets out a mighty roar and starts running towards Team BRNZ
"Oh fuck me!" Brawnz screamed out, "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" The rest of Team BRNZ follow after with the giant, glowing red predator chasing them.
They all ran across the redwood forests, passing the giant trees in hopes that the predator would get stuck in some of the trees. Everyone runs as fast as they could with their auras. The predator roars as it continues to gain speed.
"DON'T LOOK BACK!" Nolan screams.
But someone screamed next to his left.
He looks and it was Brawnz screaming. "I looked!"
They all ran until they made it out of the woods and the gigantic predator got stuck between two extremely large redwood trees. It struggles to break through in order to get its little snacks as Team BRNZ runs through a small clearing towards the direction encampment. After running for what feels like two miles, the team stopped to catch their breath behind a few boulders.
"Just what *pant, pant* the fuck was *pant, pant, pant* that?!" Roy says as he rest is back on one of the boulders and panting.
"I've *pant, pant* got no idea." Brawnz is sitting on the ground in order to regain his strength.
"We should *pant* definitely head back." May suggested as she have her hands on her knees while looking down.
Nolan just passes out on the ground without making a comment. Head first.
"What about *pant* the obelisk?" Roy asks as he looks at May.
Brawnz stands back up, "We'll check another." He takes a few deep breaths to calm down. "We can't get any closer as long as that thing is there."
Nolan lifts his head after waking up, "What if the other obelisks are guarded?"
"We'll find out later. Right now, let's head back before it breaks free and chases us again."
"Agreed." the other three team members say in unison in agreement.
Over at the Splendid Public School, everyone gets ready to pack-up and leave. However, there is a strange feeling in the air. The wind is blowing hard in all directions in front of the school as bolts of lighting appear without any clouds. Everyone ran outside.
"What is going on?!" Yang says in a panic. Everyone else is frighten.
"This is new!" Blake stated.
What happens next is multiple bolts of lighting strike on the parking lot as everyone cover their eyes as the blinding flash strikes. After that, the winds die down and the lightning stopped. Everyone uncovered their eyes and see something where the lightning struck. Or as a matter of fact someone. A lot of someones with scorch marks on the grounds and some smoke.
"What the-?" Kohta, Weiss, and Yuri say together as they see the naked bodies of people on the asphalt with.
One of the bodies started to get up. It is a man who started to sit up and groan. "What happened?" he asked.
Yuriko immediately recognize the man. Her eyes widen and mouth quivering. "Dear, is that you?"
Saya looked at her father yet her face becomes flushed and cover her eyes.
Soichiro Takagi looked up and sees his family. "Yuriko? Saya?" Then looks down and sees his junk just hanging out and covers it.
"Darling!" Yuriko screamed out and jumps onto her beloved.
Saeko goes back in the school, "I'll get some blankets to cover everyone up."
Next to Soichiro getting up is Yoshioka, one of Soichiro's retainers. Next to him is Matsudo, the chubby mechanic of Takagi Estate. Kyoko Hayashi is also there and isn't a zombie along with Misuzu Ichijo and Toshimi Niki. More over; Yuri, Kurumi, and Yuki see someone with long pink hair.
"Ow!" she says. "What the hell just happened to me?! And why am I naked?!"
The three girls recognize that voice as their eyes widen with shock as the person slowly turn around to show her copper-orange eyes.
"Megu-nee?" Kurumi and Yuri say as Yuki just stood there in shock.
"Girls? Where am I?"
Kurumi and Yuri starting crying as they lunge at the un-zombified teacher, "MEGU-NEE!"
Megumi Sakura, who sacrificed herself to save her students and turned into a zombie, is now back and a human being again. Yuki starts to have flashbacks of what happened on that rainy day. She remembered Megumi getting bitten and shut the door while the zombies started to get closer to her. Yuki cried out as Kurumi and Yuri try to stop her. However, Megumi said her final words to her and completely forgot about what they were until now.
Yuki started crying and snaps out of whatever illusion she was having and hugs Megumi along with the rest of the girls.
There are also other people starting to get up. First is Kei Shindo, Miki's best friend, which Miki hugs and cries.
Next is one of Yuki's friends, Takae who is also un-zombified. "Ow, my head. Where am I?" She is suffering from a splitting headache as she places her hands on her head. She looks at the building next to her, "What is this place?" Then looks at her left arm, "The fuck is this thing?"
Up next is Akiko Kamiyama, one of Megumi's co-workers. "What just happened?" she says in a groggy tone.
And finally we have Toko Deguchi, Aki Hikarizato, Hikako Kirai, and Rise Ryogawara. Saeko came back and gives blankets for everyone, which they later head inside to get some clothes on.
Yet somewhere far away, someone is watching with a pair of binoculars far from the school's perimeter. There is some strange man with a black beard, a dirty white shirt with an ammo belt across his torso from bottom left to upper right, messy unkempt black hair, blue jeans, and has a hunting rifle behind him with a symbol that strongly resembles the Church of Scientology. But it is not. It is the symbol of Project at Eden's Gate.
"Sweet Lord in a hand-basket being launched onto the moon." He lowers his binoculars and reveal his crazed blue walled eyes. "He has sent a sign." He grins his messed up yellow stained and jagged teeth while chuckling. This strange hillbilly slammed his hand on the truck he is on and says to the driver, "Did you see that?! The Lord have given us a sign! It is a sign that we can strike now!" He laughs as the white truck starts up and moves. "Father Joseph is gonna love this!"
As everyone gets dress, Saya takes Team RWBY down to the basement to not only set up the teleporter but also to show them something very important. They head down pass the generator and into some dug out, makeshift room with reinforced scrap iron walls and a vault door. Saya turns on the lights to reveal three dead bodies lying on the mattresses. The one in the left is a Peggy (Project at Eden's Gate) Hunter, the center is some woman wearing a pink shirt with red overalls with the words 'Save-Lots' on it, and the right is a biker with no shirt but a lot of tattoos on his arms with one saying 'Kings of Chaos' on his chest.
"This is something you have to see." Saya says to Team RWBY as they enter in.
"Why do you guys have dead bodies down here?" Yang asks.
Saya approach the center and closes body and shows the dead woman's left arm. "See this?"
Blake takes a closer look and notices something missing on the arm. "There's no implant."
This is a huge shock to everyone. Yang checks the left arm of the biker, "None on this guy's arm."
Blake checks the Peggy's arm, "None here either."
"But I don't understand." Weiss says. "If we're test subjects, why don't they have any implants like the rest of us?"
Blake then suggests, "Maybe they've given these guys a harder chance."
"Not exactly." Saya explains, "Shizuka, Yuri, and I did a full examination of these people. They don't have any fingerprints, they never address to each other by name nor have any. Kohta refer to these people as NPC's, non-player combatants. People who don't have any prints or implants that act like computer programmed enemies. Not sure how many they are, but they seem to appear out of nowhere with the leader having implants."
"Quick question." Ruby inquiries, "How is it possible for them to spam NPC's?"
"That is a GOOD question." Saya is a little impressed with Ruby's insight. "We're unsure how, but we do have a few theories. It is all in Yuri's little notebook in the storage room next to the book about inventory."
Blake then starts to think, "Maybe we're in some sort of video game."
"That's a good theory." Saya agreed. "But the problem is that once you die, you don't come back. We did rescue someone but he got shot sniped in the head by a group of psychopaths on motorcycles."
Everyone looked at the Kings of Chaos member.
"Like him?" Weiss asked.
"Yes. Exactly like him."
Weiss remembers something that Neptune said about some green mutants with one having heavy weapons. She looks at Saya, "Have you encountered any large green men? Any of them wearing junk armor and armed?"
Saya tilts her head and raised her left eyebrow, "Large green men? Like aliens or something? Might not be the ones who put us here. Or maybe those glowing green zombies that act like kamikaze bombers in police uniforms."
"Not really. They are called...Super Mutants? I think they are called that."
"Yeah." Blake re-ensures Weiss, "They are called, Super Mutants. But guessing by your confusion, never encountered any other than the rare type of zombies."
"Hey listen." Yang looks serious as everyone look at her. "What if there are other survivors out there and want a way out like you guys? We could use this place to help them escape."
"That sounds like a good idea." Ruby agrees.
"But where are we gonna put them all?" Weiss says with a little bit of a downer tone. "The place we have isn't exactly large enough for like a hundred people."
"What about the vault and the keep?" Blake suggested. "I'm pretty sure we can have..." Blake counts with her fingers and tries to add up "Approximately...340 people."
"But aren't we using the vault and keep as a last defense or shelter ourselves during a hurricane?" Ruby makes a point.
"We could try to make an outpost. Or outposts." Yang makes a suggestion.
"Or a new city all together." Weiss adds in.
"We may have a problem in the long run." Saya speaks. "What happens if one of those raider groups comes in and uses the teleporter? Someone might dig a tunnel or do a late night parachute to sneak in, kill all the people here, and open the gates up for whoever comes in. Or to make matters even worse, a horde of zombies might actually get through the defenses, might stumble onto the power button, and the place will be plagued with more zombies."
"Good point." Weiss agrees with Saya's statement. "We should prepare this place for any worse case scenarios."
"Anyway." Ruby leaves the room, "I'll set the teleporter up so we can decide what will happen next." Ruby heads towards the center of the basement and starts up the teleporter. "There we go."
Before anyone can celebrate, they hear what sounds like planes flying by. Everyone looks up and listens very closely.
"Is that a plane?" Ruby asks.
"Sounds like it, but there is more than one." Saya answers the question. "Come on, lets see what is going on."
Everyone ran upstairs to the ground floor to see what is going on. They see at least a dozen or two black planes with the Peggie's signature on the sides. They are AdjudiCor FBW Affirmative that are armed with machine guns, rockets, and bombs. Outside of the base's perimeter are fifteen or twenty Kimberlite TC6 series trucks with M2 machine guns mounted on it that are white with the same symbol on the sides and hood. Not to mention 30 Funaki E-716 quad bikes with armed cultists on them.
The five girls go at the top of the walls with Kohta having a refrigerator box filled with rocket launchers and LMGs with plenty of ammo. He is holding a rocket launcher and is ready to take aim alongside Rika and Yuriko using sniper rifles.
"What is going on?!" Saya asks as they made it to the top.
Yuriko explains, "When the others arrived, they started showing up."
"We just set up the teleporter." Ruby reported. "One of us needs to go back and get reinforcements."
A voice from behind says, "We're already here."
Everyone turns around and see an unexpected surprise. It is Ciel Soleil in metal armor.
"CIEL?!" Weiss screamed out loud.
Ruby then asks, "What're you... How did you.. When...?"
"Just a few seconds ago." Ciel replied as she smiles. "And I brought something you girls might like." She checks her implant and drops a few items on the ground.
Ruby checks hers and gives a very big smile. She screams in delight. "YES! So good to have you back!"
"Alright." Yang says as she looks. "Something familiar."
Weiss looks at it, "But I don't have any Dust."
"We're still working on that." Ciel complies. "But you can still use your white and black glyphs."
"True."
Blake looks at hers, "But when did you built these and how?"
"I'll explain later." Ciel then looks at the grim site. "But can you explain what is going on?" Then looks at the new people looking at her, "And who are they?"
Yang says, "Long story short, we found people that want out of this zombie infested canyon, we're up against NPC raiders so they aren't real people, and we're about to fight."
"Non-player combatants. Guessing they don't have implants."
"Yep. And there are a lot of them."
Ciel smiles, "Good thing I brought help."
Teams CFVY, NDGO, ABRN, JNPR, and Penny are there as Penny says, "We're combat ready."
Ruby then readies her old weapon, Crescent Rose and targets one of the cultists. Everyone else then gets their weapons ready with Velvet using a Halo 2 rocket launcher since it has heat-seeking capabilities which makes it easier to take down the planes. Kohta's jaw drops as he looks at the custom made Huntsmen weapons everyone has out and is in total awe to the point where he drops the rocket launcher he has. Rika, Yuriko, and Saya are a little shock to see such weapons.
"Alright, Huntsmen & Huntresses of Remnant!" Jaune says with his pixelated diamond sword in the air, "Let's show these raiders what they're dealing with! Open fire!"
Everyone fire their weapons in range mode and started shooting down the many cultist that started to take cover. Velvet aims at one of the planes up in the air and fires. The rocket follows the black plane and hits it.
Over at the RVB canyon, Sarge pokes his head out from his mortar cannon and feels something in the air.
"Hmm?" He looks up in the air frantically as he tries to make sense of what he is feeling.
Tucker walks up to him. "Uh...Sarge? Are you okay?"
"Do you feel that?" Sarge turns his head at Tucker, "There is a battle in the air. Not sure where, but I can sense it." Sarge sounds pretty serious of what he is sensing.
"You sure it isn't a stroke?" Tucker isn't taking Sarge seriously.
"I don't know what it is, but there is something happening right now."
Tucker scoffs, "Whatever dude. I heard we got some new recruits today. And they are in red armor. Wanna see 'em?"
Sarge then turns to face Tucker directly, "Sure. Red Team could use some fresh faces. But I just can't shake the feeling that there is combat somewhere and I'm not in it."
"Yeah, yeah." Tucker walks off with Sarge following. "Just get Simmons, Donut, and Grif and meet us at the entrance to the valley."
One of the cultist took a shot to the head and falls down dead. Bullets hailing from the school shooting down on them with a few hitting some fuel tanks of the vehicles that causes them to explode. One of the cultist try to drag his buddy to safety but gets sliced in half in a gruesome way by an airplane wing slicing him down the middle from head to privates. Some of the solar panels have been hit hard by airplane bullets and the greenhouse got bombed. A few traps have been hit by some of the bombs with many stainless steel walls being cracked to the point where it becomes reinforced scrap metal blocks. Many of the spike traps got tossed up in the air and destroyed. Some of the mines went off a few times after getting blown up.
Pyrrha uses her Miló to shoot down some of the Peggies that try to get close alongside Rika, Kohta, and Yuriko that try to defend the main gate.
When she sees a rocket, she shouts, "LOOK OUT!"
The three notices the rocket heading towards them. Pyrrha runs up towards the incoming rocket and uses her semblance to repel it and shot down a plane which crashes down on the group of Peggies responsible for the rocket.
"DAMN!" Kohta shouted in amazement, "NOW I WANT A SEMBLANCE!"
Over at the rooftop, next to the bombed greenhouse, Velvet and Coco shoot down the many planes in the air to prevent further bombing. Coco has her old gatling gun back as she grins on shooting down the NPC planes. Velvet does her best to shoot down as many planes as she could since she only has the Halo 2 rocket launcher that takes some time to aim, shoot, and reload in order to use heat-seeking rockets.
If you are wondering where the non-combatants are such as the kids, dogs, Yuki, and many others; they are in the basement taking cover until the fight is over.
Yang is defending the eastern wall by firing flare rounds from her new and improved Ember Celica that set things on fire. Team RWBY is defending the east alongside Takashi with his Steyr AUG Rifle with 40Rnd 5.56mm magazines, Saeko with her Glock 19, Rei with a Winchester Model 70, and Soichiro using an AK101 with PSO-1 scope. The Fallen Crew are wearing SWAT armor and armed with MP5-K's and riot shields at the gate just in case.
"I don't like this!" Hikako is scared with her hands shaking.
"Just hang tight!" Toko says to Hikako. "Hang in there and hope that they don't come through!"
However, all this noise is attracting all the zombies in the area that are closing in. One of the sniper Peggies have someone in their sights, until she was grabbed and bitten on the neck. More and more zombies are starting to gather around from all directions with a few planes crashing down on them. The sun is about to set with the sky turning red and the middle moon glowing red.
Weiss looks up at the sky, "That can't be good." as lighting and thunder strike.
"No it isn't." Takashi says before firing some rounds. "Tonight's a horde night and these guys have terrible timing."
"Horde night? As in all the zombies are gonna come at us at once? We read that in a journal we found."
"Damn right!" He fires a few more shots. "And they just took out most of our defenses!"
Neptune then shows up, "Did somebody say defenses?!" He places a rocket turret between the two with Sage hooking it up with a fusion generator.
Sun is down with the generator and gives the thumbs-up with his right hand. There is a settlement workshop next to the fusion generator which happens to be the Remnant encampment's workshop. When powered-up, the rocket turret started firing at everything that moves. Many Huntsmen started putting down defensive turrets to secure the place. The new turrets manage to repel the many zombies and cultists within 10-15 feet away from the school. However, the last plane got it and the pilot aims towards the school to crash land on everyone.
Jaune looked up and noticed the incoming plane. He turns to Nora, "Nora! Smash that plane!" he pointed his sword.
Nora jumps up in the air with her new Magnhild by using a blast. She goes as high as she can while laughing and takes a big swing at the flaming plane. The plane gets swung over to a large horde of zombies that were getting closer. Nora lands right next to Ren.
"Nice work, Nora." Ren praises his teammate. Nora grabs Ren by the collar of his leather armor and gives him a big kiss right before shooting her grenade rounds.
With the last of the planes destroyed and turrets set up, things are going smoothly. However, horde night has begun and everyone can't take it easy just yet. No one is going to get any sleep tonight because of all the zombies rushing in and making moaning and screaming sounds, the sound of machinegun and rocket fire, and the sound of thunder all around. It is going to be a long night.
/2: Project Z is a complete success.
Progression of Project PHOENIX: 43%
Transferring Project Z subjects to Project PHOENIX.
AN: Hey guys. Here's another chapter for ya'! Now for the questions, or question since there is one for now.
Duke: There maybe other groups that may threaten everyone, but that may not happen for sometime since many areas are in ruin. And by the by, you may need to work on your English a little.
And TehArbitur53, thanks for following. Your side project, RWBY: Survival Evolved has been an inspiration for me to make this series. But rather than doing ARK, I decided to bash-in a lot of survival games into this series. So thanks for the inspiration and keep up the good work.
As for my house, got done with most of the repairs. Just need some good old spit shine, some paint, and it will be good as new.
Later!