Chapter 26

It is now morning, despite the fact that the storm still going on outside. Jaune and Pyrrha are sleeping next to each other with Pyrrha snuggling her head on Jaune's. Nora has her head on Ren's little area as Ren just sleeps. Nebula and Octavia are the only ones on night duty after rotating shifts with everyone else while having a plasma rifle and a laser rifle. Winter gets up from the floor as she stretches out and yawns.

"Morning." Octavia greets Winter.

Winter stretches out more. "Morning." Then she starts standing up from the stone floor.

Kohta, sleeping under a bookshelf tent, starts to get up from his makeshift tent. Yuri is sleeping next to the window with Toshimi, Gwen, and Dew.

Jaune and Pyrrha start to wake up as they raise their heads and see each other sleepy eye to sleepy eye. When they realize how close they are, their eyes widen as the scoot away with faces all red. Ren starts to sit up as he rub his eyes. Right before feeling something pointing at his private area.

He looks down at Nora as she says, "Something smells good."

"NORA!" Ren yelled.

Nora gets up with some drool coming out of her mouth. "Uh?" she groaned. She looked down and followed the body up to Ren's face. "Oh shit!" she got up and wipes the droll from her mouth. "I'm so sorry!"

Kohta gets up after a sound of a bubble being popped. "Uh?" he says in a groggy tone. "What's going on?"

Everyone else started to wake-up when Nora shouted. Yuri rubbed her eyes before opening them.

"What's going on?" Yuri asked.

Toshimi gets up, "Is it time for breakfast?"

"We're the ones that're supposed to make breakfast, Toshimi."

"...right." Toshimi gets up, stretches her back. "Time to get to work."

Back at Sarge's Squad 2.0 location, Sarge is doing push-ups on the sandy ground inside his tent.

He keeps counting, "23...24...25...26...27...28..."

Then he gets a call from the radio, "This is Mock Canyon Outpost #1. Simmons to Sarge. Simmons to Sarge. Everything alright out there?"

Sarge starts to stand up, "Simmons? Is that you?"

"Hello? Sorry, but things are bad on my end because of the storm. Come in, Sarge."

"I read you loud and clear on my end." Sarge replies.

"Hold on. Coming in a little clearer now. Sorry about that. How goes the hunt?"

"Bad. We got stuck in a middle of a sandstorm. Plus, I'm getting that feeling again. And that feeling is telling me to head back."

"Oh thank god!" Simmons says in relief. "Because Grif somehow, and I don't know how, managed to steal most of my crops during the storm! As for Donut, he took most of my carrots!"

Sarge has no idea how to respond to that last part. But then he asks, "But did Donut take anything else like eggplants, those daikon thingies, or any other vegetable that is long?"

"Dear god, no. Because one, we don't have any of those. Two, I have no idea where to find them. And three, I wish you didn't put those images in my head."

"Listen. I made a few locks for the doors. Keypad locks so that they won't eat our food. Check my bunk in one of the containers."

"Will do. Thank you, sir."

Back at the Remnant Vault, in what is supposed to be the training room, Weiss is training her younger brother, Whitley. Weiss is on one end of the arena made of Minecraft dirt that is 30x30 blocks. Whitley is on the other side as he prepares his wooden sword. Saeko is there as a referee.

Saeko raises her hand in the air and does a down motion with it. "Begin!"

Whitley uses the repulsion glyph in order to lung himself at his sister. Weiss uses her own glyph to repel Whitley, but Whitley uses an attraction glyph mid second as he takes a swing at his sister. But Weiss manages to parry Whitley's attack right before the two try to strike each other with their wooden swords. Both of them keep on hitting each others swords with not one of them delivering a blow to the other in their fencing style. Then Weiss uses an attraction glyph on one end of the arena as another appears on Whitley's back. This caused Whitley to be pulled all the way out o the arena. Out of bounds, if you will.

Saeko raises her right arm, "Whitley is out of bounds! Weiss is the winner!"

Weiss puts away her wooden sword as she approaches Whitley lying on the floor. "You're getting better." she complimented.

Whitley sits back up with a grunt. "Damn. I thought I had you that time."

Weiss gives him a helping hand up and he accepts it. Then Weiss looks at Saeko, "What do you think of his performance?"

Saeko looks at her cross armed. "Fencing isn't my forte, but he did last longer than a minute."

Whitley puts his sword away, "Can we get some breakfast? I'm famished."

Weiss stomach started to growl, much to her embarrassment. Whitley started to snicker before laughing. The other two girls start to laugh as well.

Now we head back at the library where Team JNPR and Kohta decided to check out the museum as everyone decide to check the rest of the library for more stuff.

"Anything?!" Nebula shouted from one end of the library.

"I found a few more books! And they're legible!" Gwen shouted back from another end.

Lets head down to Team JNPR and Kohta to see what else they can find. They made their way through the basement and into the museum.

"Damn." Kohta says as he looks at the ship. "How did they get something like this in the museum?"

"Must've used some sort of pulley system or logs to get it all the way out here." Pyrrha answers.

Jaune is over at the display case. "Take a look at this sword!" he says in an excited attitude. "I've never seen steel such as this! I'm taking it!" He draws his diamond sword out in order to break the case.

Ren touches Jaune's shoulder before he starts to smash it. Jaune looks at Ren, who is giving him a disapproval look.

"Why not?" Jaune asked.

"Best to leave it. It is disrespectful."

Jaune sighs as he put his Minecraft diamond sword away. "Alright. You do have a point."

"Over here!" Nora shouted from the next room.

When they entered, Kohta's eyes sparkled as he sees some very familiar weapons.

He approached the sword in the middle, "That's the Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda!" He sounded excited as he looks at some of the other weapon, "That's Hal's Rifle from Fable II! A gun based on the Halo series rifle the MA5B assault rifle! *gasp* And that's the Hammerthyst! Also from Fable II! And that's the armor of the Blades from the third Elder Scrolls game!"

Team JNPR just stand there as Kohta takes it all in.

"Is it just me," Jaune broke the silence between him and his team, "or is he a little like Ruby when it comes to weapons?"

"No kidding." Nora agrees. "It almost feels like she's here."

"Same." Pyrrha nodded.

"Any ideas on how everyone else is doing back at the camp?" Ren asks as lightning strikes followed by a pretty loud thunder outside.

Ruby is sharpening her Crescent Rose with a whet stone from the Red Rocket Nuka-Wolrd station that Team SSSN brought back. She does so in the atrium as Takashi, Saya, and Rei approach her.

Ruby stopped as she notices them. "What's up?"

Takashi approaches Ruby as he clears his throat. "Ruby, listen. The three of use have been thinking about moving out."

"Moving out?" Ruby puts down her Crescent Rose. "To where?"

"Well-" Takashi is about to explained but got interrupted by Saya.

"Truth is that we need to have our own place. In order to do that, we need to have something that is akin to your settlement workshop. A special mobile device that can actually do the job."

Rei then says, "So we're gonna head northeast to find this device." Rei handed Ruby the Vault 76 Manual with a page showing the C.A.M.P.

Ruby took it and looks at the device. "Huh. Looks interesting." But Ruby looks at the three, "But how are you guys gonna get this device? Team SSSN took everything from the amusement park gas station. Except for the power armor frames and the armor on it. So how...oh...I get it." She handed back the manual.

"Exactly." Saya says. "We need to borrow your Falcon in order to get these armored suits. With the C.A.M.P., we can make the defenses needed for our new settlement."

Ruby then starts to ask, "Did you tell anyone else about this?"

"Not yet." Rei says. "We're gonna tell everyone else but we need Kohta back since he's...well..."

"He's a chubby nerd." Saya bluntly tells the truth.

"But why? Shouldn't we stay together in this weird, alien planet?" Ruby does have a point. People should stick together in this strange world filled with hostile terrors of this world. Worse still, having no idea on what the hell is REALLY going on.

"To tell you the truth." Takashi crosses his arms. "We think it is better to be separated just in case whatever force decides to come down and do something to us. Like probing our butts."

"Eww!" Ruby finds it disgusting. "Do aliens really do that?!"

"No they don't." Saya sounds a little insulted. "That's just stupid. Why would aliens come all the way from some other planet just to stuck things in our asses?"

Rei looks at Saya, "Probably might be a sexual thing?"

Takashi clenches his butt and presses his hands on it. "Okay!" he looks terrified, "Now I really don't want to meet these aliens that put us here!"

Ruby starts to feel awful as she puts her hands on her back and front. "I don't wanna get raped!"

"Enough with the aliens that may or may not do horrible things to our prostates!" Saya stops everyone from imagining such things. "Right now, we should focus on expanding." She looks at Ruby, "The reason being is because we need to see what else is out there and locate other survivors. You found us and got us out of that nightmare canyon. So why can't we do the same for any other unfortunate souls on this planet?"

Saya's intention maybe good, but Ruby is a little worried. Even though it is true that Ruby and her friends helped save the group, but it is still dangerous. But Ruby just smiles and nods her head in agreement.

"Good." Saya nodded.

Back at the museum, Pyrrha looks at the tapestry that shows the very levels of the city with one civilization placed on top of another.

'What is the purpose of this?' Pyrrha thinks as she curiously looks at the tapestry. 'Was this some sort of experiment of some kind?'

Jaune approaches Pyrrha, "Hey!"

Pyrrha snaps out of it and looks at Jaune.

Jaune stands next to Pyrrha as he looks at the tapestry which Pyrrha looks back at. "What do you think?" he asks.

"Not sure. Must've been some sort of experiment. Must've taken them years. Centuries even for them to accomplished this."

"Got something!" Kohta shouted.

Everyone headed over to the next room and see what Kohta found. In the next room, they see many strange and bizarre artifacts that relate to the many cities underground. In this exhibit, they see artifacts relating to the Forerunners, Archons from Fable, Dwemer, Aen Undod (Elves from the Witcher series), Daedric, Ayleid, and Ancient Nord.

"Oooo!" Nora went as she looks at the Forerunner artifacts. "Shiny!" She presses her hands and face on the glass as she admires one of the alien artifacts.

"Hmm." Ren went as he has taken an interest in the Varla and Welkynd stones.

Jaune looks at the many artifacts related to the Dwemer. Especially the Dwemer Centurion that looks imposing that forces Jaune to gulp.

Pyrrha takes a good look at some of the Nordic artifacts and noticed a few strange stones with some form of writing. From them, she hears a strange chant coming from these stones as they start to radiate with energy. The energy tries to touch her, but the glass prevents her from doing so. She looks at the lock to see if it would be easy, but not.

Then Kohta says to everyone, "Hey, guys. I think I have an idea on what was going on with the undead ghosts. All these artifacts maybe the reason why all the ghosts try to kill us last night because of all these magical artifacts that give off, well, magical energy." Kohta starts to explain his theory.

Over at Blue Base, Tucker is laying around as Church comes in.

"Hey, Tucker." Church speaks bluntly.

"Yeah?" he looks at Church.

"Have you seen Tex or Carolina anywhere? Because I'm starting to get worried that their competition may go too far."

"About that..." Tucker starts to sit up. "Both Tex and Carolina found themselves a new enemy for them to compete against."

"Really?" Church is surprised to hear that. "Who?"

Both of them went over to the temple as they see five zealots passed out on the ground with Tex, Carolina, and Caboose are doing push-ups. Caboose is easily doing push-ups without breaking a sweat.

Caboose repeats, "33...33...33...33..."

Carolina seems to be struggling. "246...247...248..."

Tex seems to be going fine, but a little slower than Caboose. "249...250...251..."

Carolina collapsed and Tex's arms sound like they're short circuiting. Caboose keeps on going.

He keeps going as he looks at the two. "Did I win?"

Carolina struggles to get back up. "I'm not..." she grunts, "...gonna lose...to a...moron."

Epsilon pops up, "For some reason, I'm not surprised. I'll activate the healing unit."

Tex says with her face on the ground, "Does anyone know where I can get a mechanic? A good one."

Both Tucker and Alpha are amazed that Caboose has beaten two of the most feared ladies in the galaxy.

"Damn." Alpha is impressed. "Maybe Caboose should've been a Freelancer."

"Yeah. Too bad he doesn't have the brains to go with that strength."

Alpha looks back at Tucker, "So any idea on when the storm will end?"

AN: Hey guys. If you guys have been living under a rock for the past week, I got a new story out already. Next week is a new chapter for that story. And here's an answer to a question:

Rayman: Tommen Lannister II was ruler of The Rock after the Doom of Valyria. He went on an expedition to the Valyrian Peninsula to obtain any remaining Valyrian steel while holding the Lannisters prized sword, Brightroar, a Valyrian steel sword. But died on the way over.