Chapter 33

It is a Wednesday morning over at the old city where Team JNPR, Team NDGO, Winter Schnee, Toshimi Niki, Kohta Hirano, and Yuri Wakasa are at. The storm has passed as the shine starts to shine from the east along with streams of sunlight shone through the windows of what was once a library. Kohta, who was up for his shift to keep an eye on things, notices the sunlight as he looks outside. He starts to get real excited as he looks outside.

"HEY EVERYONE!" he shouts in his excitement, "WAKE UP!"

Winter gets up as she rubs her eyes before noticing the skies are clear with only a few small clouds. She immediately gets up and tries to see if the teleporter is working this time. Everyone else slowly start to get up as some yawn and stretch before noticing what a beautiful morning it is.

"Holy shit." Octavia says as she looks out the windows.

"Hey!" Jaune says. "The storm is gone!"

"Indeed it is." Ren says as he starts to get up.

"I'm hungry." says Nora.

"I'll start the grill."

Winter is down on the ground floor to see if the teleporter works. She presses the on switch before the teleporter flickers to life with green lights and seems to be working normally. Before she heads through, Yuki peers her head through to see what is going on.

"Oh hey...uh...Winter, right?" Yuki looks a little cheery this morning.

"Why yes. Is everything alright on your side?"

"Seems so despite the storm." yet she looks out the window and noticed the sunshine. She smiles as she sees the warm rays of the sun. "Hold on, I'll get the others!" Yuki seems excited about the storm being over and lets everyone know about it.

Winter then proceeds to the other side to report on what happened. In the meantime, everyone else then gets everything else ready. After breakfast, they all gather all the books close to the teleporter in the chests that they just made with some of the alchemical ingredients. Ren and Nora got the drafting table and carpenter's bench from the museum while the others try to get the giant slab with the dragon language outside. Team NDGO then went towards the market and try to load up on some items that they can find ranging from cloth to metal pieces to food that are surprisingly still fresh despite being abandoned for a long time. Team JNPR checked out a few workshops that still have a lot of dyes, ingots, money, and a few tools. Yuri, Toshimi, and Kohta checked out a few houses to find something that could be useful. Which they did in the form of potions, books that are still intact, and a few other objects.

Over at the vault, the door opened with everyone being blinded by the natural rays from the sun before able to see again. However, what they saw was desolating. All their structures that they had worked on got destroyed by shipping containers that crashed on some of their structures that they worked so hard gathering resources, building their homes, and decorating until almost all of their hard work ended-up getting destroyed in a hurricane. That and a lot of trash ranging from wood planks, plastic, and palm leaves that you normally see in Raft ended up scattered across what used to be a settlement.

"Ah man." Yang says as she looks at the destruction. "Looks like our home got...blown away."

Everyone look at Yang with a few angry glares at her.

"Puns?" Weiss asks with a passive aggressive tone. "Now? Seriously?"

"Well not everything got destroyed." Coco says as she looks up north. "We still got our garage with the falcon and pelican intact."

Indeed. The garage that houses the elephants, some of the smaller vehicles, and the flying crafts are still intact. But the wall, towers, gate, and defenses got destroyed though.

Ciel looks up at the cliffs, "Jaune's floating island is gone." Then looks further up, "And the castle is destroyed." Up at the top of the cliffs, the castle is wrecked with the pirate ship at the top of it upon the rubble.

Zwei looks sad as his greatest achievement got reduced to rubble along with the warehouse.

Ruby pet Zwei, "Don't worry, Zwei. We'll rebuild. And we can make it better."

Zwei starts to pat while looking at Ruby along with his little stubby tail wagging right before licking Ruby. He seems to appreciate what Ruby says before running off to get to work with a wrench in his mouth and a hard hat on his head. Although the helmet doesn't fit as it slumps onto his snout. Weiss looks at the adorable little corgi and chuckles along with Ruby.

"Well." Takashi says while twirling his gun. "Looks like it is time to get going. Don't you agree?"

"I'm afraid so." Rie says while crossing her arms.

"I'll let everyone else know that we're leaving." Saya says as she turns to get the teleporter.

"Leaving already?" In front of Saya is her mother.

Takashi and Rie turned to face Yuriko.

"Well the storm is over and we really need to get those C.A.M.P.s. We spent most of our time learning about the Appalachia from a few holotapes." says Takashi. "Plus we also have some power armor waiting for us at the Red Rocket Gas Station at Nuka-World."

"Will Saeko go along with you? Or Shizuka?"

"Sorry, but there are only three power armor suits over there." Saya says to her mother. "Not to mention that those suits lack the proper mobility for Saeko's swordsmanship."

"Not to mention that we've already talked to them about that." Rie adds in to the conversation. "We think that Saeko's skills along with Kurumi Ebisuzawa when clearing out the island. That and someone needs to protect Ruu, Yuki, and Alice."

Yuriko takes a deep inhale through her nose as she closes her eyes and then exhale. "Alright. Take care and stay alive."

The three of them nodded and started to head back into the vault to teleport to Nuka-World.

"Yuriko." Soichiro Takagi then comes out of the vault along with Winter. "We need to talk about heading back at the school."

Yuriko smiles at her husband, "Yes dear."

"Before that." Winter says to the two. "I need to report about what has happened during our mission. You may need to hear this before your departure."

"Very well then." Soichiro says. "But lets help with the clean-up first."

Yang opened up one of the shipping containers with her bare-hands to see what is inside it. "Oh sweet!" she says with a big smile across her face. "Hey guys! I got a new Bumblebee!"

"What about your Hoverbee?!" Coco says from the top of the garage with the elephants.

"What's wrong with having more than one bike?!"

"Good point!"

Yang pulled out a Kuruhawa 450 dirt bike and really want to ride it. But has to help out with the clean-up so she puts it in the garage. Blake opened one of the containers with her weapon to find a whole lot of cardboard boxes. She checked the first box at her feet and finds some amphetamines, two set of crayons, three green poker chips stacks, four toothpastes, and a 21 pack of birth control.

"The hell?" Blake raised her left eyebrow while looking at the box of random junk.

"What's with all that junk?" Sun says while looking at what Blake found. "Are these unorganized donations or something that people just threw out."

"Not really. But they all look neat and tidy, not to mention new."

Sun looks at the boxes, "What else do they have in there?"

For Penny and Oscar's case, they checked out a red crate with the Diamond Dogs logo on it with Penny able to open the door with one of her swords. They found some assortment of containers that are all organized. They see some red boxes that says 'Fuel Resources' with a flame icon on them, purple boxes that says 'Biological Resources' with a molecular icon on them, brown that says 'Common Metals' with a rock icon, grayish with 'Minor Metals' that have a crystal icon, and an orangy-yellow colored ones that say 'Precious Metals' with diamond icons on them.

Oscar pulls the precious metal box and opens it. "HOLY!" he is in shock of what he found. "There's silver, gold, and some diamonds in this one!"

Penny checks the purple one, "Mine has livestock waste."

Ciel, along with Sage and Neptune, managed to get a blue container open and found a lot of undeployed fulton devices.

"Huh." Neptune says as he grabs one of them. "What does this do?" He presses a button, got jolted into the air and gets flown up in the air screaming.

Sage sighs while looking down. "I'll get him back."

Scarlet, Velvet, and Fox try to get things cleaned up while Yuki, Alice, Shizuka, and many others try to get some of the supplies and crafting stations needed to help rebuild. Yet everyone's implants started to go off again.

"HEY!" Weiss shouted. "I FOUND A CRATE FULL OF FRUIT AND I GOT SOME NEW ITEMS!"

Ruby checks her implant and sees an entirely new set of items that she can craft. Same for everyone else which they now can make a HUGE amount of stuff from Animallica. While at it, she found a smoker which she touches and got more stuff from another game called, Rising World. "Now that's awesome!" She touch some bamboo and got more items from Green Hell. "Sweet! It's like a crafter's shmorgishborg!"

Weiss leaned over from the left next to the container, "Shmorgishborg means buffet, Ruby." Then leans back out.

"Who cares!" Ruby seems really excited. "We're gonna make a whole lot of stuff!"

Zwei barks in agreement.

After an hour of cleaning up some of the debris, making three large warehouses from Life is Feudal for their new resources, and Coco took off with the pelican in order to get something large back at where the expedition team is at. While out, Winter tells everyone on what happened along with what they found with everyone sitting around her.

"Damn." Willow says with the look of shock. "That's really fucked up."

"So let me get this straight." Misuzu tries to process what Winter said. "You found an entirely underground library filled with magic books, nearly got killed by ghosts and skeletons, and found out that there are some weird watery creatures that are also undead?"

"I'm afraid so." Winter confirms. "But we also found a magic tablet of some kind that grants only those with auras the ability to use some sort of shouting depending on the language."

"Hmm." Willow went while rubbing her chin with her right index finger. "I wonder if I could use those when getting into a shouting match with your father."

"Now Madam Schnee." Klein says with his eyes colored light brown. "You shouldn't."

Willow chuckled. "I was only kidding."

"However," Winter tells them the requirement, "-we need to absorb the souls of dragons in order to do so."

Velvet does a counter-clockwise motion with her left hand, "Can we go back to the part about magic tomes?"

With the storm gone, Team JNPR and Team NDGO got the giant stone slab out of the museum with Yuri, Toshimi, and Kohta looking after it while the eight huntsmen and huntresses go out to get a few more objects to bring back. Jaune and Nora just grabbed whatever the hell they can find that isn't nailed down or too heavy such as utensils, wooden plates, platters, and a few random junk that they can find. As for everyone else, they grabbed a few essentials or objects that look important such as spelltomes that haven't been used, potions, ingots, food that hasn't gone bad due to video game logic and anything that can be useful in crafting. They kept on gathering until they made it to the harbor where there are four pirate ships that are surprisingly intact after all that happened the past two days.

"Looks like the ships are in good condition." Nora states the obvious.

"It seems so." Ren agrees. "Takashi and his group can use them to travel to some place better than here."

"Like the island we saw on the map?" Gwen adds in to the conversation.

"Possibly." Pyrrha says. "But what about the drowners and drowned dead? For all that we know, they could be guarding the island in hopes of drowning their next victims."

"Yeah, but still puzzled about the whole corpse turned into a fishy monster thing." Octavia says while looking a bit puzzled while looking at the sea. "That still bothers me."

"I just hope that Winter mentions it in her report." says the worry Nebula.

"Should we head back now?" Jaune asks. "I think that the other group should be here by now and we should tell them about the ships."

"Good idea." Gwen and Dew agreed at the same time.

They all head back to the library with a shit ton of loot in their inventory as they head back. When they arrived, the stone tablet is gone with Saeko and Kurumi are guarding the entrance.

"Oh, hey guys!" Kurumi gives them a warm greeting while still armed with a shovel.

"Hey, girl!" Nebula returns the greeting. "What's up!"

"Nothing much. Just got here after Coco picked up that stone thingy with that weird writing. Winter filled us in on what it is and gave us those spell tomes from the basement."

"That's cool. Anyway, we found four pirate ships still intact at the harbor so you guys can head off to a much safer island."

Saeko takes a bow, "Thank you." Then stands straight, "We really appreciate it."

"Sure thing." Jaune nodded. "But be careful though. Who knows what else is out there other than a few ghosts and strange fishy humanoids."

"Understood."

Team JNPR and Team NDGO head inside the library and use the teleporter to get back home...or at least the closes thing they can get to a home in this world. They teleported inside of a thatch building where all the other teleporters are at before exiting out of the tiny shack. When they came out, they were shocked when they see the disappearance of their homes and some of the left over destruction that everyone is still picking up. But not as shocked as Jaune.

Jaune looked up at the cliffs and screamed, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY ISLAND!?"

"Must've got destroyed in the storm." Ren stated.

Jaune fell down to his knees and started crying.

Pyrrha tries to cheer Jaune up. "There, there." She hugs Jaune while patting his back. "It'll be okay. You can make a new island and make it better than before."

Jaune wipes his eyes and says, "Right! I'll make a better one."

"Welcome back." Ruby is there to greet them along with the rest of her team.

"Guess that storm hit this place hard." Octavia states the obvious.

"Gee," Weiss says in a snarky, sarcastic tone, "you think."

Everyone then laugh after a few seconds of silence.

"Now come on everyone." Ruby says to everyone. "Let's finish cleaning and rebuild."

Back at the Reds and Blues bases, a warthog with two tents in front and back just appeared out of nowhere. In the small tent, Sarge emerged.

"What the-?" Sarge looks at his familiar surroundings and is confused on how he and his squad got there.

"What the hell just happened?" Pvt. John says while looking at the canyon.

"How did we ended-up back here? I mean, what the fuck?" Pvt. Theos is baffled by just how and when they appeared in the canyon.

Pvt. Alex says something in Ancient Macedonian in a more confused tone.

"Sarge?!" Griff runs up to them and is surprised. "When the hell did you get here?!"

"Griff?" Sarge turns to face his insubordinating subordinate. "I don't know how but it seems that we got teleported from the desert back to the canyon! Must've been...a teleporting sandstorm!"

"What?" Pvt. Theos looks at Sarge.

"Yeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on that one." Pvt. John calls bullshit on Sarge's claim.

"Then the sand must've swallowed us up and spit us out here back into the canyon!"

"Bullshit." Pvt. Alex says.

Overlooking the return of Sarge is Lopez and Sanchez with Lopez gave a depressive sigh.

"Esto es una mierda."
Translation: "This is fucking bullshit."

Sanchez looks at Lopez, "Você estava esperando que Sarge morresse em algum lugar no deserto?"
Translation: "You were hoping that Sarge would die somewhere in the desert?"

Lopez looks at Sanchez, "Esperaba que su estupidez lo matara."
Translation: "I was hoping that his stupidity would get him killed."

"Bem, nós estaremos indo embora em breve, então estrague-o."
Translation: "Well, we'll be leaving really soon so screw him."

Sanchez leaves while Lopez just looks at the simulation soldiers back at the canyon.

"Buen punto. Cuanto menos de estas jodidas bolsas de carne llenas de mierda con las que tengo que lidiar, mejor podré disfrutar de algo de paz y tranquilidad. Especialmente cuando habrá una gran distancia entre ellos y yo."

Translation: "Good point. The less of these fucking meatbags full of shit I have to deal with, the better I get to enjoy some peace and quiet. Especially when there will a great distances between me and them."

But then a loud explosion was heard coming from the gates.

"¿Qué diablos fue eso?"
Translation: "What the fuck was that?"

Grif: "The hell was that?"

Sarge: "The fuck was that?"

Everyone else: "The fuck is going on?"

Everyone headed towards the gate with the blues in tow.

"Sarge?!" Church says with surprise. "When did you- Nevermind! Let's get to the gate!"

Everyone looked over and see an army of people wearing Roman-style armor yet wielding modern day weapons with a man completely covered in armor leading them.

"SAVAGES!" he yells at the top of his lungs. "I AM LEGATE JUDICATOR! FOR THE GLORY OF CAESAR'S LEGION, OPEN THE GATE AND SUBMIT TO CAESAR'S WILL! BY DOING SO, YOU WILL HAVE THE HONOR TO DIE FOR THE LEGION AS THE WOMEN WILL SERVE AS BREEDERS TO MAKE OUR NUMBERS GROW!"

Grif turned to Simons, "Did that guy say kaisar?"

"I think it is the Latin pronunciation of Caesar."

"Well that explains the outfits." Grif looks back at the Legion.

"Did we just went back in time or something?" Tucker asks.

"Not really." Carolina answers. "Those guys are armed with machine guns, sub-machine guns, and hunting rifles."

Caboose goes, "I really want one of those helmets."

"Jesus!" Donut says all offended. "Those outfits are completely out of date! They may have fall colors but those outfits are completely atrocious!"

"Shut it Donut." Tucker shushes Donut.

"Men!" Sarge load his shotgun and pumps it. "We've finally got a war! Get to your stations!"

"On it, sir!" Simmons hops to it but says, "Glad to have you back, Sarge!"

"Simmons! Just get to the mortar cannon! Grif! Hand out the ammunition!"

"Huuuuuuhhhh..."

"Donut! Hand out the ammunition because you knew that Grif wouldn't get any!"

"Party favors for everyone!" Donut hands out the ammo to all the members of Red Team. "Lets blow some heads!"

"Now there's something I could agree with! Bow-chika-" Tucker realized what he was about to say and stops. "Wait! No! No, no, no, no!"

"Just kill these sons of bitches!" Tex shouts as she takes the first shot with her DMR rifle.

She hit one of the prime legionaries right through the head.

"Point one." Tex says.

"I didn't realized we were doing a kill count." Carolina says to Tex.

"Just kill these guys before they do some serious damage!" Wash says in a panic as he fires a round from his sniper rifle. He hits another member of the legion.

"ATTACK!" Legate Judicator shouts. (Cue epic battle rock music!)

All the Legion members that are armed with guns fire at them while those only armed with throwing spears just throw them as far and high as they can. The battle between the Reds and Blues and Caesar's Legion was on. The Red and Blue zealots joined in with four of them armed with sniper rifles take head shots at some of them. Some of the Legion members fire a few rounds at the zealots but have very terrible marksmanship because the zealots have the high ground. Some other Legion members try to charge straight at the gate with chainsaws yet the teeth of their chainsaws got chipped off one by one. So they all use their dynamite, grenades, and other explosions to try to break through the gate but only left a scorch mark.

"Dammit!" one of the Vexillarius swears. "The fuck is thing made of?!" Then gets a head shot...from Caboose.

"Neat. I got one!"

"Don't get cocky, just shoot!" Church yells.

"Yeah, seriously!" Epsilon yells as well.

A lot of the Legion kept on getting hit until one of the made their way through the bullet storms at the gate with some thermite. The prime legionary just pour as much thermite as he can on the door while lighting it. He committed a suicide bombing attack at the gate which was proven to be effective as it left a big hole.

"THE GATE IS DOWN!" a centurion pointed with his bumper sword. "MOVE IN!"

A bunch of Legion members charge in with some getting gunned down. Some of them made it in yet when the smoke cleared, they came across five mantis mechs.

"The fuck are those?" one of the prime legionaries asked.

"ACQUIRING TARGETS."

"Oh shit."

BOOM! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

The mantis robots took down some of the Legion soldiers that breached the gate with rockets and machine gun fire. Any that are still alive retreated out and head back.

"Hold on!" Church says. "Let me clog up that hole!" He floats on down to the breach and seals it with a boulder. "Jesus. And I was gonna leave."

"CHURCH!" Carolina shouted. "WE NEED SOME FIREPOWER UP HERE!"

Church heads back up and says, "Why?! What's going-" he looks out at the distance and goes, "...oh..."

What everyone is seeing is a titanosaur with a fortress on its back armed with primitive cannons on the front that opened fire.

"TAKE COVER!" Tucker shouted.

Everyone duck n' cover as the cannon balls hit. Two of the zealots got hit pretty badly along with another barrage coming right at them. Church then spawn in some fuel rod cannons, rocket launchers, plasma bolt launchers, and deployed a few missile pod and gauss turrets. Everyone grabbed them and started firing everything they got at them with the new weapons.

Church looks at Caboose, "Hey, Caboose! Listen!"

Caboose looks at Church, "What is it?!"

"I think it's time!"

"Nap time?! Sorry but can't take naps during a battle."

"No!"

"Lunch time?!"

"NO! The weapon that we had stashed away!"

"Ooooohhhh, that. Okay!"

"Follow me!" Church floats off to the temple with Caboose following him.

Everyone kept on firing at the dinosaur until it finally collapsed with all the damage it took.

"That was too close!" Tex says as she reloads her rocket launcher.

"You can say that again!" Agent Washington says while manning the turret.

Simmons reached to the mortar cannon and starts firing. He fired waves of energy projectiles right at the battalion of Roman Legion rip-offs with devastating results onto the battlefield.

"YEEEEE-HAAAAAWWW!" Sarge went. "How do you like superior firepower raining down on you!?"

But after a few shots, the mortar cannon stopped firing.

Sarge looks over at the mortar cannon's position. "Simmons! What the hell is wrong!?"

Simmons starts to panic, "The mortar cannon's not working! Something's jammed in it!"

"SHIT!" Sarge yelled right before looking at Donut. "Donut! I need you to take as many grenades as you can and throw them like a mortar cannon!"

"You got it!" Donut stands up and starts throwing grenades. "HEY ASSHOLES! HERE'S SOME BALLS FOR THIS SAUSAGE PARTY!" Donut kept on throwing grenades and managed to get a few hits.

"Grrr!" the Legate growls at the constant failures. "SEND IN THE WYVERNS!"

One of the legionaries raised a blue flag up in the air to signal the wyvern riders.

Tucker kept on firing while saying, "Yeah! We got this!"

Grif looks up at the sky. "Uh... Tucker?"

"Yeah!"

"Look up."

Tucker looks up and sees the flying wyverns coming straight at them. "Ah shit."

Washington screams, "DRAGONS!? FUCKING DRAGONS?! YOU GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!"

Legate Judicator then takes up a fat man launcher while saying, "I was hoping to use this on Ronan, but desperate times call for desperate measures." He fires a mini nuke over the gates that exploded into a mushroom cloud at Caboose's mantis.

"THEY GOT FUCKING NUKES TOO!?" Grif screamed. "WHAT TYPE OF PLANET IS THIS?! THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!"

"FRECKLES! FLUFFY! EVERYONE ELSE! NOOOOOOOO!" Caboose screamed while holding the new weapon that he has.

"Caboose!" Church says to Caboose's left. "Time to get angry."

As the dragons approach, a green energy ball that was shooting green energy beams at them exploded along with the dragons.

"The fuck was that?!" Epsilon says.

Everyone turned around and sees a very pissed-off Caboose holding the most devastating weapon in his hands.

"Is that a BFG from Doom?" Washington starts geeking out. "THAT'S THE BFG FROM DOOM!"

"Holy shit." Tucker says in amazement with a small hint of jealousy.

Tex and Carolina just dropped their weapons when they realized what Caboose is holding is the Big Fucking Gun.

Caboose runs and jumps down from the gate while angrily screaming. He crashes down while saying in a voice remeniscent to O'Malley. "My name is Michael J. Caboose! And, I, hate ramens!"

"IT'S ROMANS, YOU RETARD!" Tucker shouts from the top of the gate.

"That too!"

"Oh shit!" Legate Judicator takes cover as Caboose fires the BFG and the Legion and their animals. Reducing them to bloody messes that now litter the sands of the desert. He poked his head out from the rock he's been hiding behind, "FALL BACK! FAAAALLL BAAAACCCKK!"

The remaining forces of Caesar's Legion retreated back into the desert while everyone at the gate just stare at the retreating enemy forces. Then they look at Caboose who just stands there like a badass.

"Damn." Carolina swears. "Caboose would've been a damn good Freelancer if it wasn't for his broken brain."

"I'll bet." Tucker agrees.

"Do you really think so?" Caboose, somehow, appeared right behind them.

Everyone goes, "Whoa!" as they turned around.

"Okay, that's it." Washington says. "Caboose, how would you feel about being trained, as a Freelancer?"

"...Neat."

"You've got to be fucking kidding me." Tucker says out loud. Then he looks at Church, "Hey, Church."

Epsilon shows up, "Yeah, what's up?"

"No not you, the floating eyeball."

"My bad." then Epsilon disappears. But then reappears, "But you should be more specific on who're you addressing to." then disappears again.

Alpha Church turns his attention to Tucker. "What?"

"We're you gonna go out and leave to do some bullshit?"

"Well I was..." then he turns his attention towards the dead bodies and blood scattered across the desert battlefield. "But I think I should stay until this matter is dealt with."

A few rounds from the mortar cannon was fired that made it worse.

"Mortar cannon's working again!" Sarge says over the radio.

"They retreated, Sarge. And no you're too late."

"Dag naggit!"

Over at Splendid General Public School, the school still stands yet its glass windows are still shattered. Aki and Hikako are using brooms to clean-up all the shattered glass on the floor on the second floor.

"I'm surprise this school is still standing after everything that was thrown at it." Aki says while still sweeping.

"Yeah." Hikako responds while still sweeping.

"With the bombings, the storm, and all the zombies that came through here; I'm amazed that this place is still holding up."

"Mm-hmm."

"Yet it would be good to have help cleaning this place up. We only got a small number of people with us."

"Well some of the survivors from here didn't want to come back after a while."

But they stop doing what they were doing because they heard some car honks outside. Both of them take cover under the windows unsure what is gonna happen. Aki takes a peek through the window and sees a modern black pickup truck with six strangers. The first person looks like an old man wearing glasses, having a black beanie on his head while wearing a hunting outfit. He exits out of the truck and waving his arms. The second person looks like she's aboriginal with dreadlocks hairstyle while wearing a purple tank top in the passenger seat. The third person in the back seat looks like someone wearing medieval armor that is in mint condition. The fourth person is a woman with short blonde hair while wearing a brown leather jacket over a yellow shirt. The fifth person looks like a teenage girl with a dark complexion wearing a jean jacket, regular blue jeans, and an old, worn out blue and white baseball cap with a blue D sown on it while armed with a sniper rifle. The sixth and final person in the back seems to be a Turkish man with very short haircut, a mustache with some hair below the lip, a blue tank top, canvas pants, and is armed with a gardening hoe and a pistol with a silencer on it.

Soichiro with Yoshioka and Matsudo approach the strangers armed with a katana, an M4A1, and a monkey wrench. She sees them talking to the old man and things seem smooth for now. However, she is unsure about the whole situation yet it the people look friendly enough. So things maybe alright. Maybe.

At sea, Yuki and Alice are on the seats of the helm singing with Miki sailing the ship and Kurumi in the crow's nest with a pair of binoculars.

"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me." Alice and Yuki sing. "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot. Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!" Both of them then laugh after the first verse.

Miki smiles while keeping both hands on the helm. Although she is not a fan of some of the stuff they sang since they did went through some of that, but smiles nonetheless.

The second boat behind them is where Saeko, Shizuka, Kyoko, and all the other characters from Highschool of the Dead with Saeko taking the helm. They all set sail to find the island in hopes of being free from the undead for good while also carrying a teleporter with them.

Over at the wasteland area, Takashi puts on the last bit of power armor which is a helmet that he just twirled in the air before he puts it on. He is wearing an T-51 power armor with Nuka-Cola paint on it. Rie is wearing the Quantum X-01 power armor with jetpack and Saya is wearing a T-60 power armor with military paint and a built in stealth boy.

"Are we all set?" Saya asks while pulling out a heavily modified gauss rifle.

Rie pulled out a Chinese officer sword, "I'm set."

Takashi pulls out a minigun with tri barrel, gunner sights, and shredder. "Yep. Now lets get going."

The three of them head northwest to the Appalachia area in hopes of finding a few C.A.M.P.s in order to ensure the safety of their new settlements. With the Storyteller's Wasteland Codex tapes, they know what to expect from such a harsh wasteland they are traversing.

Back at the so-called 'ARK' area, some lightning struck the grassland areas multiple times among the shrubs, grass, and other plants yet nothing is set on fire.

A man with graying black hair, spiky hair with a slight stubble along his jawline and dulling red eyes started gasping for air. "Holy shit!" he says as he scratches the right side of his head. "The hell have I been drinking last night!?" He looks down at his body, "And where the hell are my clothes?"

BICORN: New test subjects have arrived.

AN: The next chapter is up! Just so you know, there will be no chapters during December but will resume on January 9th. Plus work is a little crazy so things might be a little slow. Now for a little Q&A.

Bomberguy789: I know about that part, just wanted to add a little extra to Octavia's questions. But the whole corpse turning into a fishy monster is still confusing to me. Last I check, corpses that have been placed underwater gets pruney and changes color that is greenish-black and covered in blisters. Then the gases escape which causes it to sink further right before becoming food for some of the aquatic creatures. The drowners have grayish skin coloring, have a fin on their backs, and have bluish hands and feet. Either the drowners are monsters from another world like many during the Conjunction of Spheres or some mistake made through magic or alchemy. Hard to tell.

See you guys later!