Chapter 38

Back at the abandoned city, everyone that was in the university came out yet waiting for Kali and Willow.

"What exactly are they doing?" Weiss asks.

Klein's eyes started to turn light blue right before he sneezes. Then they turn back to light brown, "I don't know. But she did say that there might be a secret room somewhere."

Ghira look at Klein, "Well Taiyang and I searched the library and didn't find such a thing."

Taiyang then says, "Although, we didn't noticed anything that looked out of the ordinary. Unless we didn't turn the torches. In some old movie cliches, you turn a torch and a secret passage way is revealed."

"But this is a magic university." Willow says while looking at the building. "The secret passages must be hidden through magical means."

"Although not quite." says Willow exiting the building while wearing her new outfit. She shows off her new outfit from Assassin's Creed 3 while wearing a hood.

"Whoa!" Yang expresses her astonishment. "Now that's a good look for you!"

Whitley is also impressed, "Where did you get that?"

"I found it through a secret switch in the library."

Taiyang feels ashamed, "It was a torch, wasn't it?"

"Nope." Kali says while coming out. "It was a secret switch on the back of the bookshelf." She looks at Ghira and Taiyang, "Which one of you overlooked the bookshelves?"

Ghira is a little embarrassed as he raised his right hand.

Kali chuckles, "Why am I not surprise." She goes over to kiss her husband's cheek. "Cheer up. It is our first time doing something like this."

"You can say that again." says a familiar voice coming from behind them. They turned around and they see Jaune that said that.

"Hello again." Pyrrha waves at them.

"We're all set." Nora says. "We got a lot of metal to work with and some new items we got from the crates." Nora pulls out a very strange bottle from her inventory. The bottle is blue yet has a black crow on it with a strange string attacked to it along with a circle piece with a crow on it. "Even found some of this weird stuff."

"I'll take that." Qrow snatches the bottle from Nora's hand.

"HEY!"

Qrow twists the head of the crow off and gulps down the entire drink. He takes a satisfying sigh until he started to cringe and drops the bottle. He place both his hands on his stomach as if he is having a stomachache.

"QROW!" Summer runs up and try to help him.

Taiyang tries to help as well, "You okay, bro?!"

Qrow feels a strange sensation on his hands as he looks at them. His vision becomes black and white as a strange, unkept crow with blood and flesh dangling from its beak lands on his left arm, looked at him, then flies away. What happens next was sure agony for Qrow as the skin of his hands started to turn pale white, his fingernails become black and turn into talons, and black feathers start to crop up from the skin. Qrow became horrified of what happened to him as the pain subsided and his vision returned to normal.

Yang looked at Nora, "What the hell was in that drink?!"

"I don't know!" Nora says in her defense. "I thought it was some sort of energy drink!"

Winter picks up the bottle and reads, "Murder of Crows." She turned the bottle and reads, "Stun and damage your enemies with a thousand needling crows. Sic a murder of crows onto the targeted enemies, distracting and damaging them. Creates a stationary trap which, upon detonation, sends out crows to attack every enemy in a wide radius."

Qrow stands back up as his hands return to normal. Still a little freaked out, he tries sicing a murder of crows onto a small stone pillar which his hand changed back into the strange form it did and the crows broke the pillar. Qrow is still a little scared, but smiled at his new ability. "I can get used to this." He look at his hand as it turned back to normal.

Jaune asks, "Can I get one of those? Except without the whole turning my hands into something from a freak show?"

Before anyone can get into the library, someone's phone started ringing. Everyone looked around until Yang pulls her's out.

"Oh." she says after looking at the caller ID. "Looks like our new communication system is up. And Salem is calling me." Yang then answers her smartphone that she got from one of the containers. "Hello, Salem... Yes... Hold on." Yang pulls the phone away from her and look at her teammates. "Salem wants us to do some babysitting while joining Team CFVY on an expedition towards the shipwrecks tomorrow with Ozma to make sure it is safe for their daughters to visit. Ozpin and the other professors are gonna do a bit of scouting here in the city."

"I'm fine with that." Weiss says.

"Guess we could assist tomorrow." Blake says. "A very simple assignment would be good."

Ruby smiles, "I'll bring some storybooks! But it has to be after morning because mom and I are gonna train with Maria."

Yang places the smartphone back to her ear, "Everyone is onboard, but Ruby says that it has to be after morning... Around ten o'clock you'll be going?... Okay... Oh, hang on." She pulls the phone away from her again. "Jade also wants us to bring Zwei."

Ruby gives her the thumbs-up with her left thumb. Although Blake isn't all that enthusiastic as Weiss is for bringing the corgi.

Yang puts the phone back to her ear, "We'll bring Zwei over... Yeah-huh... Okay... Alright, bye." Yang hangs up her smartphone, "Guess the four of us are babysitting tomorrow."

Li walks towards the library, "Then lets head home. I need to use the blacksmith crafting station to make some new arrows."

An follows, "I told you we should've brought those backpacks in order to carry more items."

"Yes dear."

Everyone enter inside the museum to use the teleporter to get back to the Remnant Encampment.

While on the way there, Summer asks Weiss, "By the way, Weiss. What was that stuff about accidentally mistaking rubies for cherries?"

Whitley laughs.

But Weiss shout, "SHUT UP!"

As they head back towards the museum, they are unaware that two people are watching them. From the rooftops of the military barracks, there is one person is wearing Nightingale armor set while having his fox-like ears showing while the other in the same armor has a fox-like tail. Both of them are using spyglasses to watch the group that entered the museum.

"I say we found something very interesting, brother." says the one with the ears.

"Indeed." the one with the tail agrees. "Never would've expect that the Belladonna's to be here on this alien world." The two lower their spyglasses, "Along with most of the Schnee's no less."

"Indeed, Corsac. Shall we head back to the desert lands with our airship?"

"I get to fly it this time, Fennec. Because you got to fly it on the way here for almost 24 hours."

"But we should get the other one with us. What was his name again?"

"I think it was Perry Taylor I believe. The one with the newly acquired glasses and floppy dog ears."

"Right. But I do believe that the airship is called, a hornet."

Trivia: For those that don't know, Perry is one of the White Fang members that was wearing his glasses on his mask in Mountain Glenn episode of volume 2. Taylor was the last name of Perry's voice actor.

Over at the Exiled Lands, a major development has taken place. Over at the river on an island close to the jungle biome and on the river, there is a large fortress with a small town inside of it that was built within 24 hours or less since Salem and her posse came to being in these lands. The walls and the towers are made of reinforced stone along with having reinforced stone fences to keep climbers out. Every other structure in this fort village is made of adobe from ARK. There are thralls of every type that are wearing different types of armor that guard this settlement. For those under Adam's command, they wear Pictish armor sets that were dyed black and red with the markings of the White Fang on them. Those under Salem's command are given black dragon armor with the main color being black and white for a secondary color with Salem's emblem on the torso pieces. Those under Hazel's command are given Yamatai armor sets with brown and green dyes. Tyrian has no reason to use thralls other than collect as many as he can.

There are some foundations on the water that is mostly farming and connecting the island with the desert area to the northwest close to a Black Hand camp. Back at the fortified town, there are many thralls armoring, blacksmithing, smelting, and tanning all the different tools, armor, weapons, and other various goods needed for survival, leveling, and, for the case of Arthur Watts, decorating. Yet there are no shrines to any god because of Salem's hatred for gods and everything that she has been through. The whole place runs like a sweat shop and a factory to ensure that Salem's new army is well equip and fed for the long run. But on the other island above is where the main fort is. It is a castle that is also connected to the other island. That is where Salem and her followers live at along with some planning.

In the main building, in some sort of dining room, Salem is sitting at the head of the table with Hazel and Tyrian to her left and have Adam and Arthur to her right. Salem is wearing a Darfari speaker mask dyed in black and white with some red and have her symbol on the forehead while the rest is armor of a Pictish wizard. Adam is wearing a Pictish wizard mask yet painted to give it a more Grimm appearance like his old mask while wearing a Zingaran Freebooter armor dyed black and bright red with his symbol on the back. Hazel is wearing the typical light armor without the turban that is dyed dark green and blue. Arthur is wearing coarse clothes that have been dyed black with some yellow and his W on the shirt. Tyrian is using Zamorian thief outfit that has been dyed purple and black.

"Gentlemen." Salem says with her hands closed closely together. "It has been a long and dreadful 24 hours, but we managed to reach level 89. Not to mention some of the new crafting equipment that the Albain brothers that took that strange aircraft away from here along with Mr. Taylor."

Tyrian chuckles evily as he simply does a squating position on his chair.

Salem looks at Tyrian, "Tyrian, thank you for providing enough thralls in order to make our army."

Tyrian bows his head, "I am to please, my queen. *evily chuckles* My goddess."

She then looks at Hazel and Arthur. "Hazel. Arthur. Thank you both for being the main architects of our new settlement."

Hazel bows his head, "Anything for you, Salem."

Arthur bows his head as well, "Thank you, madam Salem."

She then turns her gaze at Adam, "And thanks to you, Adam. For keeping the thralls in line."

Adam bows his head, "Thanks."

"With all that out of the way, I would like to introduce my newest device." Salem snaps the fingers of her left hand and the door opens to reveal a strange crystallized device.

The strange being looks similar to the observer Grimm from Remnant except it looks more like a crystal ball with other crystals floating under it that form a ring. The crystal creature floats slowly towards Salem slowly with the men being impressed.

"What is that?" Arhtur asks out of curiosity.

"I call it, the crystal communicator. With it, we can communicate avast long distances."

The crystal being gave each of them a crystal from its three rings that float above their hands that started to turn round. Round like a small crystal ball.

"Use them well. Once the other three return, we will learn more about this new planet. If our enemies are here, we will strike them down along with the new ones."

"Like who?" Adam asks.

Hard to tell from the masks, but Salem was glaring at him and Adam can feel it.

Tyrian looks at Adam, "Don't. EVER. Question our lady."

Adam clears his throat. "Right. Right."

"In the meantime," Salem continues, "we need more troops if we are to survive in this strange world."

Hazel stands up, "My lady, I did make a bit of a discovery when scouting."

Everyone turn their attention towards Hazel.

"There is a city far to the west that may take a while to get there. We may find a city full of warriors there."

"Excellent work, Hazel." Salem praise Hazel's efforts but Hazel doesn't look all that happy. As for Salem, she smiled under her mask. A very toothy smile if you get what I mean. "Send in a few scouts. Have them send us a report on the city." She then looks at Tyrian, "And you will lead them."

Tyrian laughs a little.

But then Salem says, "Only to observe. Do not attack."

Tyrian then makes a whinny groan.

"Go."

Tyrian jumps from his seat and heads right out the door.

Adam looks at Tyrian exiting the door, "What a freak."

Arthur then says, "But he does have his uses."

Adam scoffs, "Bet I can take him."

"There is a fine line between arrogance and confidence." Hazel says. "It is best that you know your limits."

Adam sulks as he turns his head away from Hazel and cross his arms.

Arthur gets up from his chair, "If you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my research." Arthur then leaves out the door.

Hazel then gets up from his chair, "I'll get some sleep. It's been a long day."

"I don't need to sleep." Adam proclaimed.

Before Hazel leaves, he looks at Adam and says, "You might need to to keep your strength up."

"Fine." Adam gets off from his chair and leaves.

Salem, left all alone, looks at her new observer creature device thing. "Let's see if I can use my powers to see what else is out there."

At the Headquarters at the center of the valley made of a bunch of shipwrecks, Church is there at the center of a spotlight with a bunch of different people that lead the people. High ranking officials are sitting around Church while keeping their appearance hidden in the shadows. First off, we have General Vanessa Kimball sitting in front of Church to the left. General Donald Doyle is sitting in front of Church to the right. In the middle, we have General John from The Forgotten Spartans. Yet sitting to the far left is General Vollin from Spriggs and to the far right is Brigadier General Mark Summers from Prophecy. There is supposed to be a High Cleric from the Sangheili but he won't be attending to this meeting to due some...*ahem* circumstances about sending holy alien artifacts to parts unknown.

"Leonard 'Alpha' Church." General John began to say, "It has come to our attention that you requested to scout out areas beyond the valley."

"Yes." Church says. "I would like to go out and see if there are other people stuck here like us. The attack at the Northern Gate was proof of that."

"Are you sure this isn't an excuse to get away from your unit?" Kimball asks.

"Well...there is that."

"But you are a monitor." Doyle pointed out. "You can spawn in vehicles, weapons, and-"

Church interrupts, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that."

"Not to mention that the strangers from the desert aren't dead yet." Vollin says before naming the list of things the enemy can do. "They can use nukes, giant dinosaurs, dragons, magic, and who knows what the hell else they have."

"But here's the thing. The first group that attacked us was wearing Roman Legion armor that launch nukes at Caboose's robot pets. They seem to use brute force over smarts. They never use any magic. All they had were guns, and not exactly the best guns. The second group that attack seem to use strategy and magic. They managed to slip in a small force that Lopez took out without us noticing. The second group also seem to use brute force as either a distraction like what happened before the assassin group came in or as a last result."

"Isn't that why you should stay?" Summers asked a valid point. "Who ever this second group is, they seem to be smarter and more cunning. That attack must've been to test our defenses."

"That maybe true." Church agrees. "But they seem to rely on old fashion, medieval weaponry with a bit of sorcery. A bullet, on the other hand, can still kill a person instantly if hit at the right place. That's why guns are more efficient than arrows or melee weapons."

"Still though." General John says with a little worry, "They can still use surprise attacks on the Northern Gate. Not to mention that giant serpent."

"Don't we have like a ridiculous amount of troops to patrol the areas? I mean we really do have a lot of troops that are either standing around doing nothing or just dicking around."

"He does have a point." Kimball agrees. "Most of our troops are just sitting around doing nothing while others are mining, farming, ranching, or doing maintenance."

"I concur." Doyle agrees with Kimball. "Some of them have gotten a little lazy with no assignments other than doing drills and training."

Church then says, "Plus not only that, I am small, fast, and can fly! I could get to places faster while flying along with being able to zoom pass anything. Since I am small, the possibility of me getting hit is 7,899 to 1."

General John then says to Church, "Give us a moment."

The generals take their time to discuss about Church's proposition in another room. Church waits there by spawning in a giant soccer ball and play with it while waiting. He just bounce it around while waiting patiently as he can for his answer. After five minutes, the generals came back out and assume their seats.

"Leonard 'Alpha' Church." General John speaks. "After much consideration, we would like to grant you your request. However, you will need to place a teleporter back at Northern Gate. Then you get to be our scout."

Over back at the canyon, Church place a two-way teleporter close to Blue Base. "There we go."

Church then turns around and sees the Reds and Blues behind him.

"So. Going off to see what is out there?" Washington asks.

"Yep."

"Seriously, Chur- I mean Alpha!?" Tucker says in disbelief.

"Sorry, but I just want to see if there are other stragglers out there that are in the same situation as we are."

Epsilon then pops up, "Well good luck to ya'."

Grif looks at Epsilon, "Seriously?!" He is a bit pissed off. "What do I have to do to get the hell out of there?!"

Simmons then says, "Maybe you can do some actual work every now and then."

"But work is hard." Grif whines.

Carolina says to Alpha, "Well, good luck. Just make sure you have your radio on at all times when we need you."

"I will."

Sarge then says, "I just hope that your scouting mission went better than mine." Then he did an ambiguous grunt.

"Church." Caboose steps up. "Please take me with you."

"Sorry Caboose, but I can't. It is a solo mission."

"But you don't have any hands! How can you do a solo mission with a guitar without hands!?"

"Not that kind of solo."

"You can't do drums either."

"Not a musical solo, Caboose."

"Oh thaaatt. I highly doubt your that kind of singer."

Alpha raises his voice, "CABOOSE!"

"Do you need any packing?" Donut asks. "Because I have a stylish suitcases with fluffy pink handcuffs so that you won't loose them. Plus you don't need a key. All you need is the safe word."

"Umm... Thanks, I guess?" Alpha has no idea how to respond to that.

Doc says, "Take care man."

"Yeah, you too."

Tex then says, "Church, before you go-"

"Let me guess, don't say goodbye. Because of what Carolina told me or Epsilon, whatever: Never say goodbye. If you don't say goodbye then you aren't really gone, you just aren't here right now. Right?"

"Close. But actually, I want you to find me some pretty jewels if you can find any."

"Seriously?!" Alpha says in disbelief. "Man, you are such a bitch."

"Well screw you too, asshole!"

Alpha just flies off while saying, "I'm off then! LATER! I'LL SEE YOU GUYS AGAIN... HOPEFULLY NEVER!"

Caboose waves goodbye, "PLEASE COME BACK SOON!"

Then Alpha disappears from sight over the southern horizon to find new people in this bizzaro world.

"Welp." Grif says while looking at the sky. "He is gone." Then walks away, "Lunch time!"

"It's only eleven fifty!" Simmons pointed out. "Lunch doesn't start for another 10 minutes!"

Donut looks around and notices something's off. "Hey! Where's Lopez?"

"Still working. I told him to make a new footrest for me to use while watching my stories." Sarge says before walking away.

"Oh. Oh well. I'm pretty sure Lopez doesn't mind missing out on the goodbyes."

Kaikaina then shows up, "Oh man! Did I miss Church's send off? FUCK!"

Free from the people that he hates the least, Alpha Church flies off to a new adventure.

"Oh finally!" he says with some relief. "I'm fucking free! Free from those assholes! FREEEEEDDDOOOOOOMMM!"

Back at the Remnant Encampment, everyone that went to the city return.

"We're back!" Nora proclaimed.

"Although we may need to do some more trips." Summer says.

"Welcome back." Ciel greets them at the teleporter hub at Lisa Lavender's home. But something is different about her appearance.

"You have your old outfit back." Blake says as she notices that Ciel has her normal clothes before appearing on this strange world.

Ciel has her golden symbol back on her forehead along with her blue beret, a plain gray button-down shirt with an asymmetrical collar and matching leggings, a blue combat skirt, and fingerless, elbow-length black gloves, and black shoes

"Close." Ciel says. "I haven't made some of the more metallic pieces of clothing like my wristwatch." She shows her left hand. "But with the new metal resources you have gathered, we may be able to make them. Including armor. Through the fabricator from the shipwrecks Team CFVY brought."

Jaune approaches, "Actually, can I have a different set of armor than the one I had? I would like to try out some armor defenses."

"Very well."

Then Qrow asks, "Make sure I don't get to wear a skirt again." He looks at Taiyang, "Because a certain someone told me that it was a kilt."

Winter covers her mouth and snickers away. Whitley giggles a little. Ruby snorted then snickers.

Nora laughs, "You thought skirts were kilts?!"

Qrow says to Nora, "Hey, I was tricked into wearing one!"

Raven leans over to Summer and whispers, "You have to admit, it was funny."

Qrow gets angry, "Would you guys cut it out!?"

With all that out of the way, Qrow head over to the Encampment's blacksmith, Disqui Irons, with some more steel ingots he found in some of the containers along with some fire salts. He found the blacksmith in the keep with his own forge that he custom made for modifying everyone's personal weapons.

"Hey there, Irons." Qrow greets the Faunus blacksmith.

Disqui is bellowing his forge, "Just a second." He stops bellowing his forge as the fire starts to light to life with crackling sounds from the coals and firewood. He then looks at Qrow as he stands up. "Hello there, Qrow. If your here about your Harbinger, just need some more metal to make all the gears since most of them are being used for creating those defense turrets."

"Luckily I got some." Qrow pulls out six steel ingots from his inventory.

Disqui takes the ingots. "Thanks. I should be able to make your weapon within a few days."

"Actually." Qrow pulls out ten fire salts from his inventory. "I got something for your forge." Qrow approaches Disqui's forge and sprinkles it onto the small pyre.

The forge started to glow bright red as it flickers with heat. Disqui places his right hand close to the heat of the forge and feels an intense heat from the forge and it feels like lava despite the fact that there is barely any fire coming from it. He pulls his hand away from the forge and is shock.

He looks at Qrow, "Just what the hell did you do?"

"I added a little life to your forge. Happy?"

Disqui is actually impress by this new life to his forge. "Actually, yes. I love it! As a matter of fact, I may be able to get your weapon ready really soon. But I may need more steel ingots in order to do so."

Qrow then pulls out another twelve. "Here you go."

Disqui takes the rest of the steel ingots, "I'll have it ready far sooner than my original schedule."

Progression of Project PHOENIX: 70%

AN: What's up motherfuckers! How are things? About what I asked back at Chapter 34 in the beginning. The ARK mods I was asking to add in or not involves the Eco Decor mods, Dragonpunk: Tribe of Gods, Bridges, Structures Plus (which includes NPCs), and possibly Godzillark. However, if you do want them, I need a lot of information for them since there is barely any. Like how to craft the items, structures, and other stuff. But still got nothing on Fallout: Miami or Fallout: The Frontier although might not add them in. Can you guys help out? Thanks! And thanks for being fans! Hopefully I would get enough info for a sequel...whoops! Did I say that? But oh well. You guys love this and you will get more. Love ya'!

Here is a bit of a Q&A:

FanGirl01: I love the Fallout series as well. Although I never had the chance to play Fallout 1, 2, or Tactics but I manage to play 3, New Vegas, and 4. But not Fallout 76 due to many reasons. Yet I still need some info about settlement objects and items so if there is anyone that does play that mistake, please help out the Fallout wikia site. Same that goes for the Creation Club portion of Fallout because I'm still missing a few things. Pretty please?

Junior VB: Well there has to be in order to keep up with the amount of students that flock in and ranging from novice to master.

Victor John Foxfire: Thanks, I got the whole "stabbing an enderman in the crotch to get two ender pearls" idea from a machinima called: Minecraft: N00b Adventures. As for Warframe, sorry but I never played it and the first time I heard of it. Sorry but Warframe will not make an appearance in this series.

Also, does anyone know what the hell happened to my Minecraft story? I checked and for some reason it is gone. I don't know how but hey, which means I'll be focusing more on this story. Yeah I was starting to doubt myself about having that story which only a tiny amount of people like.

And by the way, new chapters will come out every two weeks instead of once a week from now on because of work. Plus, I may do some traveling around February or March so don't expect any new chapters for a while. That's all!