Chapter 18

Over in the bunker in Hope County, Joseph Seed is praying at a little shrine he made where he and his followers take shelter during horde night. He is without a shirt with his tattoos and word cuts showing. His eyes are closed and hands together while kneeling. One of the Chosen then enters the shrine room, interrupting his prayer.

"Forgive me, Father Joseph." the man apologize, "But we found the scout that reported about the 'sign from god.' He ran away from the fight when the horde showed up."

Joseph opens his eyes, "Send him in." He gets back up as two Chosen tosses the scout in with his hands tied behind his back.

"Get up." one of the men says with a harsh tone. The two Chosen picks him up and get the scout on his feet.

Joseph turns to face the man with a smile. "Tell me, my son." He places his right hand on the man's shoulder, very tightly as if he is angry. "What did you see over at the school?"

The man gulped out of fear. "My men and I saw multiple flashes of lightning. We thought it was a sign of God for us to strike." Joseph's grip gets tighter, causing more pain. "But when we got there, we discover that the school now has new people inside of it. Armed with weapons and unholy powers I never seen before. As if the Devil gave them something. Gaaahhh!" Joseph's grip gets tighter.

"And you thought you can send your brothers and sisters to their deaths because of a false sign?"

The pain in the man's right shoulder is becoming more and more unbearable. "Please, Father Joseph!" the man screams out. "Forgive me!"

"You will be, my son." Joseph lets go. The man sigh in relief. "As soon as your punishment is complete."

The man then gets yanked out the door with hims screaming, "NOOOOOO! PLEAAAAAASSSE! DON'T KILL ME!" He keeps on screaming until he is taken towards the torture room.

A Chosen walks towards Joseph, "What should we do?"

Joseph gets back down on his knees to continue praying, "We'll deal with them when the Lord graces us with his light. A new dawn will shine over us as the Devil's spawns will slow in the Lord's light."

"Amen."

Now we head over towards the Splendid General Public School. The rockets and gunfire are still heard being fired at the moaning and screaming zombies with the lighting and thunder over head. Because of all this racket, it is hard for practically anyone to go to sleep. Even in the basement, people can feel the quakes caused by rocket fire with dust being shaken from the ceiling.

Ruby sits next to Ciel, who is checking on a plasma cutter from Dead Space that Team CFVY found in the wrecks, in order to get some information. She sits next to Ciel with her Crescent Rose in gun mode on her lap.

"How did you make our weapons?" Ruby asked.

Ciel puts her plasma cutter away. "Wasn't easy. First, I had to use a computer to make 3-D images of almost everyone's weapons from memory. Next, I try to construct some sort of device that allows me to create the weapons. Good thing that Team CFVY got that one fabricator that lets me use the cube materials in order to process them. Then a few more things which include cross-wiring, processing materials, and many other details which I wrote in my report."

"You wrote a report?"

"Yeah. I made a journal that details on how to use certain custom made items."

"That's handy. Is there anything else that we've missed while we were gone?"

We cut over to where Jaune, Pyrrha, and Yang are where Yang laughed at what Jaune said. He made his own floating island next to the keep.

"As if!" Yang laughs a little. "You can barely make a T-shaped house without it crashing down on you!"

"Actually," Jaune speaks, "thanks to the new pixelated stuff your team found, it doesn't require any physics."

"For real?!" Yang says in disbelief.

Pyrrha defends Jaune, "It's true. Hard to believe, but I saw what he was doing with my own eyes. Even did some experiments with a few dirt blocks and one of them was floating."

"WAS floating?"

Jaune says, "I had to remove it."

Then Pyrrha starts to look down. "Although, I do feel guilty about killing those people."

"They weren't really people." Yang tells them.

Jaune and Pyrrha look at her with stunned looks.

"What makes you say that?" Jaune asks.

"Because Saya told us that the bad guys have found a way to create their...minions. People who don't have implants like we do. Apparently, there is some type of cloning lab of some kind."

That is some disturbing news to hear.

Now we cut over towards Weiss, Blake, and Nebula who are looking at Yuriko, Kiriko, Soichiro, Takashi, and Megumi as they are having a conversation.

"What are they talking about?" Nebula asks.

"Don't know." Weiss shrugs.

"Hard to say because of all the fucking noise." Blake complains.

Nebula tries to figure out, "Probably about how to fortify this place."

"Or leave." Weiss suggests.

"That is my second guess. I mean, we should leave and then come back after like a week or two."

Blake looks back at them, "What about any other people that are trapped here in this canyon? What if they need help?"

Saya then walks in on the conversation, "Hard to say." The three look at Saya, "But I understand the predicament. Knowing my father and mother, they want to stay here to save as many people as they can. If there are any people left that isn't a fucking psychopath or NPC. Yet there are a few places that we haven't search yet." Saya looks directly at them, "Are there others that are back at whatever place you set-up as a base? Because there should be someone guarding it no matter what the defenses are."

Nebula explains, "Oscar, our head farmer, is there. So are the Malachite twins, Miltia & Melanie, who own a tavern. Both Neon and Flynt are securing the place. Amber, who is suffering from amnesia, is checking inventory for Ciel. Jaune used a lot of dirt, rock, and wood for some floating island. Still no word of Team CRDL though."

Saya notices something what Nebula says, "Hang on. What is this about a floating island?"

"Ahem!" Takashi interrupts. The conversation between five people are done. "Saya, we need you to get the others. Everyone that isn't from Remnant needs to gather at the gym."

Back at the canyon, Sarge is taken at the entrance of the canyon close to the valley along with Grif, Donut, Simmons, Lopez, and Sanchez.

"Why are we here?" Grif complains

Simmons looks at Grif, "Metaphysically or here here?"

"HERE here. It is WAY past midnight and I want my beauty rest!" Grif halfway through his sentence.

Simmons whispers to himself, "Not that you need any."

Sarge yells at them, "Quiet!" Then speaks in a normal tone, "We're here because we got some new recruits coming to join us."

"Can't it wait till morning?"

"No!"

The gate to the valley opens and shows new soldiers in red. Two soldiers in red armor with yellow accents first come through.

"Well, well, well." one of them says. "If it ain't the bastard that killed us."

Sarge immediately recognize the two. "Private Theos? Private Rick? You're alive! But I thought you two died at the Battle of Broken Ridge."

"Yeah." Rick says, "We did."

"And you got us killed!" Theos says in a very aggressive tone. "You keep getting your fucking left and right mix-up and you keep on showing up out of fucking nowhere!"

Sarge looks at the two back and forth, trying to make sense of what are they talking about. "What do you mean showing up out of nowhere?"

Rick and Theos then lunge at Sarge and giving him a beating.

"Should we stop them?" Simmons asks as everyone looks down at Sarge getting beaten up.

"No, este es el mejor momento en mi vida artificial." Lopez says.
Translation: "No, this is the best moment in my artificial life."

Lopez is enjoying Sarge being beaten up. He loves it.

Sanchez looks at Lopez, "Eu não entendo porque, mas eu tenho que concordar."
Translation: "I don't understand why, but I have to agree."

"Enough!" A voice from the entrance commanded.

The two stop what they were doing and get back up along with Sarge. They see three more soldiers in red armor wearing different helmets.

"Howdy, partners!" says the first recruit. He speaks as if he is in an old wild west flick. "I'm Private John Wayne."

"Greetings." says the second recruit that sounds like he's from an older era. "I am George Washington. That strange gentlemen there is the reason why I'm confuse and wearing red even though I'm supposed to be with the blue coats." He is referring to Sarge.

The third person, in some gladiator-style space helmet, is speaking ancient Macedonian. A pretty dead language that no one understands. But the guy coughs and passes out onto the ground.

Simmons help the third guy up, "Easy there." Then the man speaks again, but no one understands.

"That is Private Alex." John Wayne explains. "But I think you know him more as Alexander the Great."

There was a moment of silence because everyone tried to process what is going on.

Grif and Simons say, "You've got to be fucking kidding me." along with Lopez and Sanchez in their own language.

"Ooo." Donut sounds impressed, "A Greek man."

Simmons looks at Donut while trying to keep Alex standing, "Actually, he's Macedonian."

"Party-pooper."

Grif says to everyone, "Fuck this!" He turns around and walks away, "I'm going to bed! I ain't doing this shit!"

All the Huntsmen teams are waiting outside of the gymnasium, which is locked, with Blake, Velvet, Ruby, Penny, Yang, Nora, Sun, Neptune, Sage, and Reese trying to listen with one ear on the door.

Ren is sitting next to Yatsuhashi in meditative positions with Ren saying, "It is rude to listen in."

Ruby asks, "Yeah, but, why all the secrecy? Why leaving us out?"

Penny answers, "Probably voting on who stays and who gets to go."

Coco looks at a watch she picked-up. "It is two in the morning. When do those zombies stop hunting us?"

"Around four." Blake replies while still listening in.

Inside the gymnasium, almost everyone is sitting on the bleachers with a few of them still sleepy. Soichiro stands at the center with all eyes on him. Misuzu Ichijo and Toshimi Niki are sitting at opposite ends of the bleachers since they remember what they did. Yuki is hugging Megumi real tight around her waist and scared. Ru is doing the same with Yuri as does Alice with Shizuka.

"Alright everyone." he gives a stern look and gives a commanding, authoritative of tone voice. "I know you all need your rest, but this is important. There are many of you that wish to leave this place. I don't blame you. Many of those Things are rising from the dead along with people that come after you for all the wrong reasons. Some have to do it to survive. Some do it out of a sick sense of pleasure. With the new people from outside of the canyon bringing in some device that can guarantee to help you escape and take you somewhere safe, it is the best option for you. With their help, you can get away from it all. But who's to say that there are others that wish for the same. Or worse, someone else that would do more harm. As for that, I'm staying."

Everyone is shocked as some murmur about how insane he is. Saya is a little ticked off and thinking her father is stupid. Velvet and Blake are also a little shocked after hearing that.

"I know that some of you think I'm crazy, but there are people that need help as well and want to get out. I may be asking too much of you, but I need help. Who's with me?"

Yuriko stands up, "I'm staying here with you, my love."

Soichiro smiles at his wife's devotion.

Toko immediately stands up with her left hand raised in the air, "The Fallen Crew volunteers to help out!" The other members jumped up in agreement.

Yoshioka stands up in a more gentlemen-like manner, "I swear to follow you, even to the gates of hell. So I'm staying."

Matsudo chuckles at his seat, "I'm also gonna stay and help out with the maintenance."

"Thank you so much." Soichiro smiles at the volunteers. "However, we need to empty this structure of everything. From what my wife and daughter told me, those bastards up north will come and invade so we need to get all the supplies and equipment out of here."

With that, everyone left the gymnasium and have to back everything before four-o'clock.

Soichiro unlocked the gymnasium which all those who were listening back away and act like they didn't hear a thing.

"Listen." Soichiro says to the Huntsmen & Huntresses, "We're gonna have to-"

Ruby interrupts, "You want us to transfer everything in the building to our place."

This caught Soichiro by surprise. "Yeah. How did you-"

"They must've overheard us, those idiots." Saya says as she stands next to her father.

"Plus Zwei already got ahead start ten minutes a go." Yang says.

"Zwei?" Soichiro raises his right eyebrow.

"Our dog."

"Wait, what?!" Saya is a little stunned. "How the hell is it possible for a dog to do stuff without any opposable thumbs?"

Ruby chuckles a little, "He's good like that."

"For real?!" Matsudo says with a smile. "Guessing he's very good at being a mechanic too."

"Yep." all members of Team RWBY agree.

Some are having a hard time to believe this so they check all the rooms. Shizuka checks the infirmary and finds that all the medicine and medical ingredients are gone. Yuki, Miki, and Saya check the library and found all the bookshelves bare. Yuri, Ru, Saeko, and Alice check the greenhouse on the rooftop and found all the seeds, plants, and vegetables that didn't get bombed gone along with the undamaged solar panels. Takashi and Matsudo check the parking lot and all the cars have been completely dismantled with everything removed from them. Kohta and Rika check the lockers in the armory, which is the locker rooms near the gym, are completely empty. No bullets, no weapons. Kohta starts crying when all the weapons he made are gone. All the work stations, fuel, food, and everything around the school is gone except for the furniture.

"Damn!" Soichiro says in surprise. He stands in the basement with the turned-off generator with some of the boxes stacked high to the ceiling. "That is one skillful dog!"

Kurumi says, "That dog makes Taromaru a dunce compared to Zwei."

"Zwei is the best there is!" Yang praises Zwei for his skills.

Zwei popped out of the teleporter and lets out a few happy barks before pushing three large boxes into the teleporter at once.

It is now almost two quarters past four and all the moaning, screaming, and shooting stopped. So Team SSSN took all the guns and generators down along with taking the settlement workshop. So now, the school is completely empty. However, they try to hide the teleporter behind a concrete wall so the Peggies can't find the teleporter. Although, none of them know how to use teleporters but as a safety precaution. Once everything is done, they all head straight into the teleporter before turning it off.

Once through, everyone can see the works that everyone from Remnant made while the sun rises in the east. The first thing they saw coming out is the 60-80 block wide on all sides floating island made of dirt and stone that Jaune made with two drawbridges from 7 Days to Die, next to the cliff of the castle keep Zwei made with a four to five floor high habitat building used for storage made by Ciel that is accessible by a gravity elevator from Empyrion on the edge of the cliff with glass walls. Not to mention the large farm Oscar and Team JNPR made with a few Minecraft cobblestone blocks attached to the cliff's edge, the behemoth gate with castle walls being watched by the sentry bots. The huge adobe garage that housed the four elephant vehicles with a few smaller vehicles inside it and the falcon VTOL stationed at the top. Everyone is at awe at the base the Huntsmen and Huntresses.

"This is your base?!" says the shocked Yuki.

"DAMN!" Kohta shouts. "THIS PLACE IS AWESOME!"

"Holy shit." Saeko, Kurumi, the Fallen Crew, and a lot of others say in unison when taking in the sites.

Ciel whistles at everyone that made it in. "Everyone, may I have your attention please?!" Everyone looks at her. "Would you all please follow me please so we can get you all some rooms and furnishing while staying here."

Yang stretches her arms upwards and yawns. "Welp, if anyone needs me, I'll be in bed for four hours or more."

Weiss covers her mouth as she yawns. "Can't argue with that."

Ruby walks off while looking like a hunchback. She groans, "Soooo tiiii-eeerrreeed."

Blake rubs her left eye, "I think I'm gonna have zombie nightmares for a fucking week."

"At least we're home." Yang says.

"Bed time?" Ruby asks.

"Absolutely." Weiss says before yawning again.

"Yes, for the love of gods." Blake sounds a little cranky when she said that.

"Speaking of, we need to chose one and work on our house once we get up." Yang pointed out.

"Later." The rest of the team are too tired to do so.

It is now seven past four at Hope County, and many of the Peggies are preparing for war. Jacob Seed, one of Joseph Seed's brothers, is at the front stairs of Eden's Gate Outreach Center while polishing his hunting knife. He smiles at his reflection on the knife right before continuing to polish. The door of the center opens to reveal Jacob Seed coming out.

"Are you prepared?" Jacob asked.

John puts his knife away to stand up, "I've been prepared for a while now. But some of our men are busy with clean-up. Believe me, there is a lot of cleaning up after a horde."

Jacob nodded and hummed. "But at least we'll get a surplus of bone, flesh, fat, and whatever supplies the spawn of Satan have carried."

"Well now, we get to focus on those assholes who are hold-up at the school. We can get our hands on supplies and women. I think I'm ready to start a family with that big-breasted blonde nurse I've been eyeing on. Not to mention that pregnancies last a month rather than nine, so I'm gonna get a dozen kids. Teach the young ones how to fight. How to hunt. And probably help them to become soldiers for our brother."

Jacob chuckles a little. "But don't forget the most important thing. We must teach them the power of 'Yes'."

John also chuckles a little, "Sure thing, big bro. I'll make sure to find you a wife as well."

"Not sure about that."

"Trust me. Your life will be complete again. After what that bitch harlot, Holly, did to you because of her treason. She went with Will Boyd over at some cabin then got swarmed on the first week here."

A heavy gunner of the cult approaches the two men. "Herald John!" he says in a militant voice while giving a salute, "We are ready!"

"Guess I'm off." John walks down the stairs. But he turns around to talk to his brother, "I'll be back. Just be ready for more recruits."

"I'll keep my schedule open for the lost lambs."

Around eight-o'clock, John is piloting an airplane overhead across the canyon. He looks down and sees the school.

John picks-up the plane radio and gives the order, "Drop the bombs!"

The three dozen planes under Johns command started dropping bombs on top of the defenses of the school's perimeter. Yet a few bombs managed to hit the rooftops that completely destroyed what was left of the greenhouse and the shattered remains of the destroyed solar panels. A few zombies got exploded to bits and bloody chunks around the fences. Most of the glass of the building got shattered with many pieces scattered both inside and out of the school. Luckily this is a pre-made building and not a custom made building or otherwise the whole place should've collapsed from all the bombs being dropped.

John then says via radio, "Alright troops, move in!"

Dozens upon dozens of cultist vehicles such as trucks, jeeps, and quad bikes start to appear from the north with many Peggies armed to the teeth and judges (dogs with red crosses on their faces) immediately start to run off into the school. Everyone charges in at the school armed to the teeth and through the gate. However, once inside, they noticed something is wrong. A few heavy gunners busted down the front doors and see nothing.

"Where are they?" a Berserker says as he looks around.

"Beats me." one of the Hunters say.

Both men went inside and turn left. They walk by until they hear something beeping. After five seconds, BOOM! They both died because of a landmine placed on the floor.

Five cultist members head down stairs to the basement then BOOM! Killed by a landmine hidden at the bottom of the steps.

Eight check-out the infirmary to find any drugs for them to use, or abuse in their case. But the entire place is empty.

"Where the fuck are the drugs, man?!"

"I don't know, but something just feels wrong."

One of them checks the medical crate for anything, but triggers a trap that caused a bouquet of grenades to fall on them and BOOM! The entire infirmary is a mess as black scorch marks fill the room.

A few cultists went to the library to check things out. But the bookshelves are completely bared.

"Hey?!" one of the Hunters shouted. "Where the hell are all the books that need burning?!"

Another Hunter takes a whiff. "Hang on. *sniff, sniff* I smell gas."

The third Hunter walks past the third bookshelf row and triggered a landmine. The place was lit on fire as they screamed while being burned alive.

A dozen cultists went up to the roof to raid the greenhouse, or what is left of it. One of them triggered a tripwire and BOOM! Two bombs went off and killed most of them while one is critically injured. Two cultists went towards the generator, but the generator exploded in their faces and ended up being in a bunch of gory pieces. There are some that got chopped up by a saw-blade trap in the shed. A few more got burned alive by a flamethrower trap in the storage room. Then a few more got killed by landmines over at the wrecked helicopter pad that Takashi's group try to make earlier, but got sabotaged during the first horde night and was never finished. A few more got killed by whatever trap was left behind.

"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND?!" John yelled through the radio.

"Most of our members are getting killed by traps of all shapes and sizes here!" one of the cultists says through the radio. "All those fuckers are gone and left behind only the traps! There is no food, no books to burn, no women for us, nothing! It's like they just disappeared over night!"

"Keep looking. They've can't have gotten far. Not after what happened last night. Search in ever direction. My fly boys and I are gonna search from above and get a fix of their current location."

"Yes, sir!"

Back at the Remnant encampment around ten, Ruby is in the living room of Team RWBY's house drinking coffee while wearing her cloth shirt and pants for pajamas that are dyed red with a bit of black. She yawns before drinking more of her coffee as she looks outside of her window.

"Morning." Yang says as she woke-up.

Ruby looked at her sister, "Morni-" Ruby snickers a little at Yang.

"What?" Yang asks.

Ruby points, "Your hair."

Yang looks up and feels her hair hair raised like crazy.

"Nice bed head!" Ruby laughs at Yang's crazy sticking up hair-do.

"Well that's what happens if you only get five hours of sleep!" Yang tries to pull her hair down. Ruby continues to laugh a little.

Blake jumps down from the bedroom and looks like she's in a foul mood. Both Ruby and Yang look at the sleepy catgirl Faunus with some bags under her eyes. She walks up to Ruby and snatches Ruby's coffee from her hands. Blake gulps down the whole thing before heading out to do her business as she slams the door.

"What was that about?" Weiss asks.

Yang looks at Weiss, "Just someone who woken-up from her cat nap."

"Was that supposed to be a pun?" Ruby asks. "Because it sounds like a pun."

"Not really." Yang ensures that it wasn't a pun. "But let's start our day with a Yang!"

"There it is." Ruby says in a not that interested expression. "It wasn't funny the first time and it ain't funny now."

"I agree." Weiss agrees with Ruby. Weiss looks at Yang, "Oh and Yang."

"Yeah."

Weiss yells, "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, YANG! WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP SLEEPING AND WALKING AROUND NAKED!?"

Over at SSSN's house a few minutes earlier, Sun is waiting for a pine tree to grow from a patch of dirt on top of the house. Neptune then shows up.

"What are you doing?" Neptune asks as he finishes climbing up.

Sun looks at Neptune, "Oh, morning Neptune." Then looks back at the dirt patch, "Waiting for my tree to grow so I can try out making an alpine tree-house."

"So what level are you now?"

"I'm at 87. You?"

"85 so far. Although I am worried that once we get to level 100, we can't get the shit we need or want."

"Yeah I know. I've been worried about that, too."

Everyone has the exact same worried in the back of their minds. If they level up to 100, then how are they gonna get all the perks they want to do some experiments in this new world of theirs. However, to lighten the mood, Sun pulls something out of his inventory.

"Hey." he says to Neptune as he pulls something out. "Ta-da!"

"Is that a spyglass?" Neptune asks as he is impressed. "Sweet!"

"Yeah, I know. We can take a quick peek at the girls when they are-"

"FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, YANG! WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP SLEEPING AND WALKING AROUND NAKED!?" Sun's sentence got interrupted by Weiss' shout. After hearing that, Sun and Neptune's eyes widen.

"Oh come on!" Yang says. "It's not like anyone is watching."

Neptune tries to take the spyglass from Sun, "Gimme that!"

"No way, dude! I wanna look!"

Both boys do a little tug a war over the spyglass.

"I wanna see Yang's goodies!"

"I made it! I'm team leader! So I get first dibs!"

"Fuck that! I wanna see, so give it!"

"Fuck-off! I already call dibs! So let go!"

"You let go!"

"You first!"

Sun managed to get the spyglass free from Neptune and use it to spy on Yang. But unfortunately for him, Yang isn't anywhere near the windows.

"Dammit!" Sun swears as he lowers his spyglass. "She's nowhere near the windows."

"Fuck!"

Over at another location in the encampment, there are four rectangular structures being suspended with wooden pillars over what appears to be a dung beetle farm and stairs leading to the structures. Saya, one of the survivors of Dead Canyon, looks at them as she noticed that they have hatches underneath. Jaune then shows up.

"Whatcha' think?" he asks.

Saya turns to face Jaune, "Just what is this?"

Jaune looks at the structures as he is proud of his work. "A little something that is better than compost bins and will give us enough fertilizer for a while."

Blake is seen going up the stairs of the structure of the left. She heads up the stairs and goes up towards whatever that structure is. One of the hatches open and they can see yellow liquid coming down along with some feces. One of the giant dung beetle walks towards the pile of shit and eats it. Saya is completely disgusted as she watches the dung beetle eat Blake's shit. Her mouth is dropped open and her left eye is twitching by such a disgusting sight. Then the dung beetle shits out fertilizer.

"Welp." Jaune says as she claps his hands and rubs them. "Time to get to work." Jaune hops over the fence and grabs the fertilizer and happily walks off to the farm.

Saya is completely disgusted at what she saw and wishes she never saw that.

Jaune makes his way towards the farm where he uses the freshly made fertilizer for his spinach farm.

"Morning!" Oscar shouted and wave.

Jaune waves back, "Good morning!"

Arslan approaches Saya, "Ah, Saya, there you are."

"Did you see what I just saw?" Saya says in disgust while pointing at the dung beetle farm. "That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!"

"Well it is a lot better than going around all the outhouses and collecting poop for the compost bin. Trust me." She says that as she crosses her arm and sounds serious at the end.

"Then why can't you guys make a toilet?"

"That is for the vault area. And we need the fertilizer for our crops."

"Can't argue with that logic."

"Anyway. Pyrrha and I need your help to translate some scroll Nora found a few days ago. You seem to be the smartest person in your group, so maybe you can help us."

Saya smirks, "That I will assist."

In the warehouse Zwei built; Kohta, Takashi, Yatsuhashi, and Ciel are transferring some of the stuff that was dropped off by Zwei last night to the new storage warehouse up top where Ciel built next to the keep.

"Why are we carrying these up there again?" Takashi asked as he carries a box of toilet paper. Everyone can tell because some toilet paper is sticking out.

Yatsuhashi explains as he carries a crate with Kohta, "Ciel wants all your stuff next in the storage tower next to the keep. Since you guys are living in the castle now, its best to have your stuff close by."

"That's right." Ciel says. "Even though your housing is temporary, we should get all the supplies at the ready."

Kohta is sweating like a pig as he says, "We sure do have a lot of shit. I regret collecting all the supplies now. Just how does a little corgi does this?"

"Don't know." Ciel shrugs. "But he did built this warehouse."

Takashi and Kohta stop as they say, "Wait, what?"

Over at the farm, Penny is watching Oscar working hard at the crops. She feels nervous as she tugs the left sleeve of her new outfit. She is wearing a flowery dress that Team SSSN found at the gas station outpost at Nuka-World. The top was originally yellow yet she dyed it green with her emblem painted black on the back. Penny nervously tugged the left shoulder on her shirt and takes a few deep breaths. She stands proudly to muster the courage to talk to Oscar.

As Oscar checks the azulberries as Penny approaches. When she is next to Oscar, she nervously says, "Sal-sal-sal-u-tations, Oscar."

"Oh, hey Penny." Oscar stops what he is doing. "What can I-" as he looks up, he sees Penny in a new dress and is in total awe with his mouth gaping open as Penny blushes with him staring.

"So." Penny twist her right leg nervously as she has her hands behind her back. "Do you like it?"

Oscar snaps out of it, "I really love it."

Penny gasps in excitement, "You do?!"

Oscar blushes, "Well, yeah." He rubs the back of his head with his left hand. "You look really pretty and it really looks wonderful on you."

Penny smiles in delight and asks, "When you got the time, would you like to go out on a romantic excursion?"

"You mean..." Oscar gulps as he starts to sweat, "A date?"

"Affirmative."

"Sure." That's what he said with his mouth, but his mind is going, 'Wait, what did I just say!? Did I just say yes to a date?! Oh shit! I never been on a date!'

"See you tonight at the tavern." Penny skips happily with her heart a flutter.

As Ren, in farmer's clothes from Life is Feudal, checks on the cashews so he wouldn't have to suffer any more punishments from Nora. Such as the 'drowning in love potion' from earlier. Oscar grabs Ren's shirt collar.

"I need your help!" Oscar says with a look of terror. "I need tips on dating!"

Ren looks terrified, "Wrong person!"

Now we head over at the library where Pyrrha, Saya, and Arslan look over at the scroll Nora found on the table. Saya looks at it and tries to decipher it.

"The script is Chinese." she stated. "This was written by...Mei-Yin Li. Three Kingdoms Dynasty. Possibly from the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The hand writing is definitely feminine."

Arslan and Pyrrha looked at each other and have no idea what she is saying.

Pyrrha looks at Saya, "Sorry, but can you tell us about what you just said? We have no clue what China, the Three Kingdoms, or anything from your world."

Saya glares at Pyrrha, "Do you want me to translate or not?"

"I'm sorry."

Saya then pays close attention towards the scroll. "Let's see... According to this, there is some town or city that has catmen, lizardmen, magic, and people with pointy ears. Probably elves from the sound of it. They don't really exist, but since we have a bunnygirl and two catgirls, I'll have to accept."

"Okay." Arlsan is agreeing, but is a bit more dumbfounded. "But where is this place?"

Sun comes running in. He seems to be in a hurry for something. The three girls look at the excited monkey Faunus.

"Hey guys!" he shouts, "Team CRDL is back! And they brought something with them!" Then Sun runs out the door.

Everyone is at Jaune's newly constructed docks with two elevators from Conan Exiles and one from The Forest with sandstone ramps going down towards a sandstone dock. Everyone sees the purple ship with royal sovereign sails, a royal sovereign figurehead, and a pirate's flag on top of the crow's nest. They also noticed the ship is tied to some sort of giant submarine that Russel, Cardin, and Sky cut loose from while Dove prepares a seabase for it. Cardin drives the ship towards the docks.

"Prepare to drop anchor and raise the sails!" Cardin ordered as he takes the helm

Russel does a salute, "Aye, aye Captain!" He heads towards the anchor.

Sky raises the sails, "All set, Captain Cardin!" He giggles a little before whispering to himself, "This is actually kinda fun."

"Drop the anchor!"

"Got it!" Russel lets the anchor set before the ship hits the docks.

Cardin looks up at the cliff where he sees all the familiar faces...and some new ones. "Ahoy there!" he waves at everybody.

Back on top some people wave back.

But Weiss asks, "Where the hell did they find a pirate ship?"

"I don't know." Coco responds yet disgusted at the ship. "Those sails and figurehead with that hull? That's atrocious!"

Velvet giggle a little. "Leave it to Coco to talk about fashion statements."

Kurumi points at the water, "Look there!"

They see something light blue in an appearance of a structure yet starts to become an actual structure that is slowly building up.

"What is that?" Octavia asked.

"Don't know." Ruby says with amazement. "But it looks cool!"

Blake isn't amazed and looks frustrated. "No it's not!" her voice is filled with anger. "They just built on my fishing spot!" All the members of Team RWBY look at her.

"Are you on your period or something?" Yang asked. "Because you're being irritable today. As a matter of fact, you've been like that since we got back from that school surrounded by zombies."

Blake looks directly at Yang's eyes with an aggravated glare, "...No."

Cardin walks up the ramp with Russel and Sky behind him. "Hey, hey, hey!" he greets everyone with a smile. "Team CRDL is back, baby!"

Everyone claps for their safe return. Although some aren't as enthusiastic.

"Who're they?" Kohta asked Fox.

"That would be Team CRDL, the bullies from Beacon."

"Oh great." Kohta isn't as enthusiastic now.

Neon approaches the team, "Where they hell have you guys been?"

"Long story." Cardin says. "I'll explain later." He looks at Arslan and approach her. He pulled something rolled up in his inventory and gives it to her. "Here."

Arlsan takes the rolled up piece of paper and unrolls it. It reveals to be a map of some kind. A map of a pirate hideout and some sort of town or city.

"What is this?" Arslan asks.

"Some map onboard the ship we discovered along with crates of spices, sugar, silk, and tea."

Blake dashed up towards Cardin, "Did you say tea!?" Blake is real chipper now. "Please tell me you have tea on that ship." Blake starts to get twitchy with her left eye twitching.

Cardin is a little creeped out by Blake. "Um...yeah."

Blake immediately heads down the ramp to get onboard the ship.

"Well that explains it." Weiss says. "Blake hasn't had any tea for two or more weeks."

Yang then says, "Kinda like Ruby without any coffee for a whole week. Which includes all the times dad grounded her."

Ruby looks upset, "Don't remind me, my big sister."

As Dove finishes what he was doing, Blake pushes him out of the way so she can get to the ship. She went down to the lower decks and found one of the chests filled with dried tea leaves.

"Yes." she says to herself with sparkles for eyes and drools over it. She grabs a bunch in her hands and take in a deep whiff before sighing in relief. "I really needed that."

Let's cut back towards the cliff to where Team CRDL meets everyone and Arlsan checks out the map.

"Hey, Pyrrha! Saya!" she shouts. "Take a look at this!"

The three women look at the map Cardin and his team brought back.

"Take a look at this." Arslan pointed the map. "This area here looks similar to the large mountain area to the west 50 miles from here."

Pyrrha takes a good look at the map and is familiar with that area. "Yeah. That area is past the redwood forest biome not too far from here. Way past the green obelisk."

"You sure?" Saya asks as she looks at her.

"Yeah. I'm positive when I was using some binoculars I found when . It matches."

Arslan puts the map away, "So, who's going? Other than Team BRNZ who came back from the redwood forest. Because they found a large creature emanating an aura guarding the green obelisk and are scared to go back there. Or even going through that area, whether by land or air out of fear."

"We're going past the area with the falcon. We're not going towards the obelisk."

"Why not go around? You guys have a boat now, so why not?" Saya suggests.

"That will take a full day." Arlsan states. "Flying would take less time."

Pyrrha suggests, "We should vote on this once things settle down."

Over at the Reds & Blues canyon, Tucker has gathered everyone for something special. They all meet at blue base to hear what Tucker has to say. While there Pvt. George Washington switched his red armor for blue.

"Is there a reason why you called us here?" Grif asks

Sarge looks at George, "Other than Pvt. George committing treason by switching over to the Blue Team."

George looks at Sarge, "That is because I fought against the Red Coats in order for the colonies to be free from the tyranny of the British Empire and their taxes."

Alpha says, "Sounds just like the IRS when they screw our taxes."

Lopez says, "Al menos no tendremos que preocuparnos por el dinero."
Translation: "At least we won't have to worry about money."

Tex looks at Simmons and Doc, "How's the new patient."

Doc says, "Pvt. Alexander the Great is fit as a fiddle now. He had a bad case of malaria but with some cold medicine, a dozen vitamins, and six antibiotic pills, he's good to go."

Simmons then says, "Who would've guessed that."

Alexander says something in Macedonian that sounds like gratitude.

"Everyone! Shush!" Tucker demanded. He clears his throat before speaking, "I have some good news everyone. I checked one of the computers and found a bunch of old movies. So tonight, we're watching Reservoir Dogs!"

Many groaned and complained about it with Grif going, "Oh come on!"

And Donut, "Not again!"

Carolina goes, "Not another action flick."

Epsilon then shows up, "Yeah. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm getting sick of action flicks."

"What the hell is Reservoir Dogs?" John Wayne asked.

"What the blazes is a movie?" George Washington asked.

Agent Washington says, "I'll explain later. What it's about though is about a bunch of criminals stealing diamonds and one of the guys becomes an author."

Epsilon and Alpha look around, "Wait a minute." they say in unison. "Where's Caboose?!"

A bunch of mechanical stomping noises can be heard as the ground quakes. Everyone look behind them slowly as they see five Mantis mechs with Caboose at the top of the middle one who turns out to be Freckles.

"Hey everyone!" Caboose greets everyone with his new...friends. "I got myself my own hunting pack! We can hunt down those giant snakes and bats so they won't get near us ever again!"

Grif looks at Simmons, "I'm glad we don't have to worry about those giant bats. But I'm more terrified by Caboose's new pets."

Simmons goes, "Ehh...umm...yeah..."

"Let me introduce you to my pack!" Caboose says as he introduces them from middle to left then right. "You all remember Freckles. Here is Spot, Shadow, Fluffy, and Donald Albert Nautical II."

Everyone just stares at them and a little scared.

/2: Progression of Project PHOENIX: 44%

Subjects at Sector 01-HJ are now voting on who travels to Sector 78-IO.

Need info on one of the changes. Phase 2 of Project ARES has changed. It was supposed to start at 90% not 50% of Project PHOENIX.

/2: Complying. ADMIN suggest that we would get better data if Project PHOENIX is only half-completed rather than near-completed. Confirm?

Not much to go on, but confirm. Prepare the "spies" of Project ARES about data on other locations of Project PHOENIX as soon as progression reaches 50%.

/2: Affirmative. Synths standing by. Preparing to send signals to all synths when the time comes.

Preparing new subjects now.

Already? Who?

Somewhere just a few miles north, someone with long black hair and golden eyes started to wake-up in an open field. She sat up and rubs her head as it is pounding. Another girl with dark-skin, long mint green hair and red eyes started to wake-up. There is also a boy waking up just a few feet away with silvery-gray hair and gray eyes. All three looked at each other and have no idea what is going on.

The three say to each other, "Who're you guys? Who am I?"