Chapter 39
BICORN: WARNING! Magical scrying detected! Applying countermeasures now.
Back at Salem's palace, she is using her crystal orb to find the source of the people responsible for her, and her subordinates', predicaments. The crystal orb is shining bright, but it isn't showing anything as the thing gives off white electricity. Salem focuses her magical energy by placing her hands on each side of the crystal orb device creature thing in order to break through something that is blocking the thing's scrying ability.
"Come on!" she says with a great amount of anger. "Show me! Who the hell is responsible for this! Show me at once!"
BICORN: Countermeasures holding. Cooling systems activated.
The electricity in the meeting room, war room, or whatever because extremely intense as shocks scatter across the room. The light from the crystal orb got brighter and brighter with the huge amount of magical energy that Salem puts into it.
"SHOW ME!" Salem demanded. "SHOW ME THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT US HERE!" She keeps on getting angrier and angrier as she tries to break through the countermeasures.
The shining orb did flicker something but it is hard to see.
BICORN: Countermeasures at 79% and dropping. Emergency power systems activated. Countermeasures at 80% and holding.
Salem focus as much of her magic until she got a glimpse of something. The object is black and looks ring shape swirling around in there before the light of the orb gotten so bright that Salem was forced to shield her eyes right before the orb goes dead and the electricity dissipates from the room. Exhausted, Salem sits and leans back on her chair while panting. She then slams her right hand onto the table that cause the whole thing to crack yet surprisingly still intact despite the amount of force that Salem put on it.
"Just what was that?" Salem asks. "What does that ring mean? Is there a ring shape structure on the planet?" She does a monstrous growl while clenching her right fist. "Dammit!"
Over where Alpha Church is at, he continues to fly far from the valley where all the Halo Machinima characters are at.
"It feels so good!" he says out loud to himself. "Even though I don't have any nerves or skin, it feels great to get away from those idiots!"
He continues to fly across some redwood forest area where there are dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures that could be found in redwood forests in the ARK DLC, the Center. However, there are other creatures that thrive here as well. Some include the Amazonian armadillos, green iguanas, hyacinth macaws, komodo dragons, sumatran tigers, mutated turtles, tobi-kadachies, popos, and azure rathaloses.
"Damn." Church says as he looks at the wildlife. "Just where the hell do these aliens get these creatures? I feel like I'm in a mix of a sci-fi flick and a fantasy video game." Then flies off.
He continues to fly until he comes across some sort of alien structure that is glowing blue lights.
"What the fuck is that?"
Church flies over to investigate the high-tech obelisk that shoots some form of energy below it. He uses his camera function that he just discovered by accident.
"This is a little weird." he says to himself again while looking at the obelisk up close. "It looks similar to the ancient alien technology that I'm stuck in. But it is completely different." He examines the obelisk from the bottom to the top in order to understand more about it.
After taking a bunch of pictures, he continues his flight across this new land he is exploring. Church kept on flying until he comes across some sort of lake.
"Oh cool, a lake." he approaches.
He takes a closer look at the lake and notices the new types of fish he never seen before. He sees the Hylian bass, armored carps, mighty porgies, greengills, and reekfish.
"That is some cool looking fish." Church compliments the fish. "Some of them have even cool green spirals and waves to them." Then flies up to take in the awesome world that he lives in. "This place is truly amazing. Man, I love being out on my own." Then an eagle flew right into his face. "OW!" The eagle went down yet Church remained in the air. "Fucking nature."
Then flies off again. He kept on flying and flying yet a bit more slowly in order to take in the sights. He encountered some cherry blossom trees with canticle trees and gildergreen trees from The Elder Scrolls series along with ancestor moths fluttering around with different types of cattle just grazing around.
"Now this is pretty." Church says while taking photos. But something broke his concentration by some static through his radio. "OW! The fuck-?"
He got blasted by a wave of static from some radio frequency until it cleared up a little. It said, "He**o, e***one! It is * ********* day despi** the **** **** ** are ***pped in on this strange *****." It sounds like a woman doing some sort of radio show.
"Hang on." Church flies a little to the south east until the signal became a bit clear and understands it.
"It is me, Lisa Lavender. Today, Team RWBY and their family members along with Team JNPR and the Ren Family have found some new metal resources due to the mines being depleted under the vault. They even found some more spell tomes, some special items that have enchantments for us to enchant our own gear, and other forms of metal we can use for crafting. Furthermore, Willow Schnee has found a new outfit and she looks amazing! I mean, that outfit looks wonderful! *short cough* As for the negatives today, a bunch of giant eagle creatures called argentavises, managed to steal all the livestock ranging from dodos to ovises to giant dung beetles. Hopefully we can get the new defenses up and running as soon as we can. As for the next away team, Team CFVY with Ozma and Salem are gonna use a teleporter to gather some resources over at the spaceship graveyard. In the meantime, here is a bit of a history lesson from Jinn. Jinn, what do you have to teach the children today?"
The sound of another woman appear on the radio. "Well for my first episode of History of Remnant, I'm gonna start with the first generation of humans that actually used magic and lived along side the two god brothers."
"Not sure about that, but go ahead."
"The fuck?" Church is a little confused but he found something worth investigating. "Well it's better than nothing. Best to investigate." Church then flies off to the direction where the radio signal is coming from to the southeast, "I should checkout those spaceship wrecks that chick said earlier."
So Church heads off to locate the other shipwreck area that Lisa Lavender mentioned in the hopes of meeting some new people. In which he hopes that they aren't as annoying as the ones he left, but doesn't have high hopes.
While flying away, he asks, "Why is there a color team called, Coffee? Are they all wearing brown? Well I guess it is better than being called the Dirt Team...or the Shit Team. ...I really need to learn to stop talking to myself."
Let's head back at the Northern Gate in the middle of the night where Nonan sent out three squads of eight assassins wearing Zamorian thief outfits or Stygian raider outfits that are armed with gas orbs, obsidian swords, serpent-man swords, dragonbone daggers, dragonbone bows, poison arrows, snake arrows, and razor arrows. They managed to sneak in from the right side of the cliffs two miles away from the gate that is guarded by Sarge and Carolina. The primitive yet highly skilled assassins are climbing their way up while avoiding some of the patrols that is consist of four Federal Army of Chorus soldiers that semi-blend in with the snow.
"Hold." The leader of the assassins say while extending his right arm in a whisper tone.
The four troops continue to walk by.
Fed #1: "Man, I hate night patrols. Especially in a snowy area."
Fed #2: "Well at least we get to blend in."
Fed #3: "Only a little."
Fed #4: "Back when we used to kill the Republic, how are we alive with such shitty uniforms that doesn't have any good camouflage outside of snow?"
Fed #2: "Come to think of it, I'm surprise that we're still alive."
Fed #3: "At least for now."
When the four disappear from sight, the lead raider whispers and signals, "Move, move."
The assassins climb up the cliffs and made it on the path that the troops were on. They all draw out their weapons of choice as they crouch on the ground as if entering stealth mode.
"Alright." the lead assassin whispers, "Squad A takes the four troops that pass by and any other patrols. Squad B will keep climbing to take out any watch towers. Squad C is with me to wipe out the guards at the gate. Understand?"
All the assassins silently nodded at their commander.
"Then move ou-"
"IDIOTAS!"
The assassins look at the cliffs above and notices Lopez, Sanchez, and their robots take aim at the trespassers which caught them by surprise.
"Oh shit!" the commander blurted out.
Then Lopez's unit open fires at the assassins with their battle rifles. They shower the assassins with their burst control fire bullets that penetrated their armor and killed most of them.
"RUN FOR IT!" one of the assassins screamed.
They all try to retreat but got killed off before any of them managed to take a jump. But one of them did make it out with both of his feet shot. The guy takes a tumble down the cliffs as bits of his Stygian armor gets broken off. He landed hard on the sand yet still alive. Unfortunately, the guy's bleeding out from his missing left big toe, a bullet hole from his right ankle, and a bullet hole right in the middle of his right foot. The failed assassin try to stand up with his left foot but is in horrible pain with his missing toe and falls down onto the sand again. He grab his sword and uses it to drag his body to the main camp.
Back on the cliffs, Sanchez pulls out a sniper rifle and is ready to take fire.
"No." Lopez says as he lower's Sanchez's weapon. "Mejor dejarlo vivir."
Translation: "No. Best to let this one live."
Sanchez lowers his weapon. "Melhor deixar o líder aprender sobre o fracasso e ser morto por recuar?"
Translation: "Best to let their leader learn about their failure and gets killed for retreating?"
"En efecto. Realmente estás aprendiendo."
Translation: "Indeed. You're really learning."
Sanchez looks at Lopez, "Eu aprendo com você."
Translation: "I learn from you."
The assassin continues to drag his body through the cool sands while leaving a small blood trail behind. However, Locus came out from wherever he was hiding as he uses his camouflage armor ability to follow the wounded assassin. To learn where the hidden base is. Once their, he can take care of the source of the problem.
That was close.
BICORN: Affirmative. But analysis predicts that Test Subject: Salem will attempt clairvoyance again when her strength returns.
Should we send in the Cleaners?
ADMIN: Negative. The local purge events will take care of them if she continues to be a problem. Just keep an extra eye on her. As a matter of fact, raise the difficulty level of the Exiled Lands up by two. That should keep her busy.
It is now Friday morning over at the Remnant Encampment with Summer and Ruby at the beach with Maria. Maria just got done telling the two about silver-eyed warriors that she learned from her father. Maria went on and on about how this power works and how it mostly work on Grimm. Summer and Ruby were surprised to hear this.
"That is a lot." Summer says in surprise.
"I didn't know my eyes were that special." Ruby says just as equally shock as her mother.
"Indeed. But Jinn told me more about the silver-eyed warriors and what we were born for. We were meant to be warriors for the God of Light against his brother's creations."
"The Grimm." Ruby answers.
"Correct. But there have been people that were hunting us down like animals." Maria looks at Summer. "That's probably what happened to you."
"But I can't remember." Summer says. "I don't remember how I died or if I was still alive to protect my family. I can't remember at all."
Ruby turned to face her mother, "Well that's a bit of a theme for some people. All the members of Team FAME lost their memories when they got here."
"Yet mine are intact with a few pieces are missing."
Maria then says, "Well, we'll figure it out when we get the chance."
"Why's that?" Ruby asks.
"RUBY!" Yang yells from the top of the cliffs which got all three of their attentions. "IT'S ALMOST TIME! DID YOU PICK A STORYBOOK YET!?"
"Oh my gosh!" Ruby says as she jumped up, "I forgot!" Ruby looks at the other two silver-eyed women and says, "Later mom! Later Maria!" Then she uses her semblance to get up to the top quicker.
In the meantime, Maria and Summer have a conversation.
Maria looks at Summer, "Quite the energetic child you have."
Summer smirks while looking at Maria, "You have no idea."
"Well, at least the future is looking bright back on Remnant. Although she is a bit too naive and innocent."
Summer giggles a little, "She is." But then her smirk turned into a worried look, "But I'm pretty sure that won't last for long."
Maria then pulls out her new staff, "I'll be checking on the farming youngsters. See if I can get any red tea."
Over at the shipwrecks, Church spent a whole night traveling in order to find the shipwreck graveyard Lisa Lavender said over the radio.
"Finally." Church says. "Let's see if I can find people here."
Church flies around the shipwrecks to see if he can find any people here that might be friendly. He checked on some of the ships to see if he can find an explorer or some scavenger anywhere in the area. He flies through many ships until he sees something glowing and green reflecting off of a piece of metal plating from one of the ships. He cautiously flies towards the corner of one of the ships to see what is causing the green glow. When he takes a peek, he can see a teleporter. But coming out of a teleporter is someone that has long brown hair with bunny ears.
Church whispers to himself, "Are those...bunny ears? Are those real?"
Velvet turned her head to the direction where she heard someone talking. Church quickly hides himself to avoid getting detected.
"Something wrong, Velvet?" Coco asks.
Velvet turned around to face Coco, "I thought I heard someone whispering."
"For real?" Coco tilts her head.
Velvet looked back where she heard it, but doesn't see anyone or anything. "I don't hear them, but I hear a weird sound of some sort."
Ozma steps out of the teleporter and looks at what were once great machines that took people across the stars. "Whoa." he says while his mouth slowly opens at the sight of such machines.
Salem exited next before taking a good look at the spaceships. "By all that is holy." Salem is equally amazed as Ozma as she sees the ruins of the starships.
"We should've brought the kids here." Ozma says while still amazed.
Salem looks at Ozma, "But is it safe?"
Ozma looks back at Salem. "As long we don't encounter anything...explosive. Especially around someone who can't ride alien vehicles."
"THAT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE!" Coco yells in her defense.
Both Ozma and Salem giggle a little at Coco's expense.
"How are you feeling?" Ozma asks Salem.
"Physically, I'm alright. But..."
"But what?"
"I still feel like a piece of my soul has been ripped out." Salem clutches her right hand close to her heart. "It has been bothering me since we got here. If Qrow and Raven are right about a dark version of me somewhere on this planet then-"
Ozma places his right index finger on Salem's lips. He looks just as worried as Salem does before removing his finger. "I think it's best if we talk about this matter in private." Ozma whispers. "Because of..." he points at Velvet who is talking with Fox.
Salem realizes that Velvet's ears can hear practically anything. "Oh." she whispers. "Right."
Ozma puts on a smile and extends his hand to Salem. "Come on. Let's see if we can find anything that would help out."
Salem smiles back as she nods, "Right." then takes his hand.
Velvet and Coco checkout a UNSC Phoenix-class colony ship, Harvester, to see if the ship has anything that could be beneficial since it is a colony ship. They enter into the hole in the hull to the factory module of the ship.
"Are you sure about this ship?" Velvet asks Coco.
"Well, it is supposed to be a colony ship so there should be some materials we need. Colonies need agriculture supplies, mining equipment, construction materials, medical equipment, and all sorts of goodies."
The two of them walk down the dilapidated halls of the ship in order to find some supplies needed for the Encampment. They searched the medical bay for any cold medicines for the winter.
"Found anything?" Velvet asks while Coco scavenges.
Coco checks a medical crate, "Only a few health kits and eight canisters of biomedical foam."
Velvet then hears a noise that whooshes by outside of the door. She quickly turn around yet sees nothing.
Coco notices Velvet looking at the door, "Hearing something again?"
Velvet turns to face Coco, "I did."
"An animal, maybe?" Coco gets up and take a peek out the door.
She takes a look and check both directions. She looked at the ground to see if there is any rodents, but instead, found something else. Coco sees a strange orb of some kind with glowing blue lights. "What the hell is that?"
Velvet sees what Coco sees and notices the strange orb on the ground. "That wasn't there before."
Both girls walk up to it, kneel down, and take a closer look at it.
"What is it?" Coco asks as she removes her sunglasses.
"Don't know." Velvet says. "But it looks out of place with everything else." Velvet picks it up and examines it. "Hmm... It looks like its brand new. No rust marks on it at all. Feels light. A camera probably?"
Coco then takes the orb from Velvet and examines it. "Seems to be intact. This thing must've been valuable for an archaeologist to study."
"So, do we take it with us?"
"I guess so." Coco tries to put it in her inventory, but it won't go in. "Well that's strange."
"It won't go in?"
"No, it won't."
"You think it might be junk then?"
"I don't think so." Coco takes a closer examination at the strange orb. "But we should take it nonetheless."
Everyone then gather around the teleporter with Ozma and Salem carrying a few bags full of strange cubes used for the fabricator at the crashed space station along with full inventories of weapons, ammo, and some strange gear that are actually rigs from Dead Space. Fox and Yatsu managed to get their hands on some more food and something about a growth formula that could be beneficial for Oscar's farm.
"Are we all set?" Coco asks.
"I believe so." Salem replies.
"Good to hear."
"What's that?" Yatsuhashi pointed at the orb Coco holds under her left armpit.
"Don't know." Coco shows the orb to everyone. "But it seems valuable. Like some sort of alien projector or some sort of alien camera. Just need to figure out how it works." Then she puts the orb back under her arm. "Let's go."
"Actually, can I have it?" Velvet asks. "Since it might be a camera, I would like to have it and study it. After all." She pulls out her camera, "I do photography in order to create weapons for myself."
Coco tosses the orb to Velvet. "Here you go."
Velvet holds her new 'camera' tight between her arms. "Thanks. This will make up for what happened to my Peter."
Coco looks away with a dirty look on her.
"Alright." Fox activates the teleporter. "Let's go."
Fox is the first to enter followed by Yatsu, Ozma, Salem, and Coco enter through the teleporter. Velvet then goes through while holding onto the orb.
When entering, the orb says, "Here we go."
"Wait, wha-" Velvet enters the teleporter after hearing the voice from the orb.
On the other side of the teleporter, Velvet raises the orb up with her bunny ears twitching.
"So they are real!" the orb says.
Velvet lets go and freaks out as she lands on her butt.
Coco pulls out her handbag that transforms into a minigun as she points it at the hovering orb.
"HOLY SHIT!" the orb starts geeking out at Coco's weapon. "THAT THING IS A MINIGUN!? DAMN! REMIND ME NOT TO TAKE YOU SHOPPING TO A MALL!"
Velvet gets back up, "Mr. Xiao Long? Is that you in there?"
The orb looks back at Velvet. "Who the fuck is Xiao Long? My name is Leonard Church! Although some call me Alpha, but mostly Church."
Salem takes a good look at Church and goes, "What exactly are you?"
Jinn comes down the elevator, "What happened? I heard screaming." Then she notices Church in his monitor body looking at her.
"Whoa." he says after taking a good look at Jinn. He whistles, "Damn. Looks like there are more aliens that are ACTUALLY attractive in this shit hole."
Ozma looks at Jinn, "Do you know what this thing is?"
"Not sure." Jinn responds. "Remember, I only have knowledge about Remnant."
Church says, "Oh yeah! You were the lady from the radio! I did pay some attention to it, but it is good."
Fox approaches Church, "Okay, hold it. Just what are you? Where did you come from? Are there more like you? And what exactly can you do?"
Before Church can answer any questions, Taiyang shows up. "Is everyone okay in here?" He steps in, "Because I heard some..." he then notices Church, "...screaming..."
"Who the fuck is this guy with my voice?" Church asks.
"Are you some robotic version of me made by the aliens that put us here?" Taiyang asks.
"My question first."
"Well, I'm Taiyang Xiao Long. I'm a Huntsman and a teacher at Signal Academy on the planet Remnant. Father of two. You know what that is right? I mean, you sound like me so you could be me in a robotic shell."
"Well I hope not! Because I don't remember being a blonde! Or have a great body! Because I am an artificial intelligence based on a guy who was...kinda a dick. I mean a huge dick."
"Bow-chika-bow-wow!"
Everyone looked around for someone who made that comment.
Then Church looks back at everyone, "Anyway, perhaps I should explain things to everybody at this...place." He looks around and realizes he is inside of some building. "Where are we?"
Salem then says, "I'll get the kids and Team RWBY."
Over at Salem and Ozma's house, Team RWBY are busy babysitting while the two are out. They are are gathered at the dining room table as Ruby reads from a storybook. Blake is sitting on Ruby's left as Lapis sits on her lap. Yang has Morgan and Citri sitting on her lap while listening to the story. Weiss and Jade are on the floor with Zwei, who is napping on Jade's lap, while sitting close to Weiss.
Ruby reads the last page, "Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!' The end."
Everyone claps at the end of the story as Ruby closes the book.
"That was a good story." Lapis complemented.
Morgan gets off of Yang's lap, "That was a good story! Pirates! Treasure!"
Citri then gets off, "Argh!" she says in a pirate voice, "Shiver me timbers! Walk the plank!"
Morgan then joins in, "Avast me hearties!"
Everyone laughs at Citri and Morgan's play acting.
Yang then gets up, "I think it's time for lunch. Does anyone want anything?"
Blake raises her left hand, "I'll have chicken dumplings with a side of salmon steak."
Lapis says, "How about garlic bread with tomato soup and chicken dumplings because we don't have any salmon."
Blake makes a sad face with her ears tucked down.
Lapis rubs Blake's right cheek, "Cheer-up. At least we have chicken...somehow."
Ruby gets off from her chair, "Then, after lunch, we can make those crostatas."
The four little girls threw their arms in the air, "YAY!"
But before anyone can do anything, the sound of a door being open at the entry way.
Jade stands up, "Mommy and daddy are home!"
The four girls went over to meet their parents the four of them jump them and snuggle their parents.
Lapis says, "Mother! Father! So good to have you home!"
Morgan snuggles her mother's left cheek, "I'm glad your home!"
Citri looks at her father, "How was your trip?!"
Jade looks at them both, "Did you get some souvenirs?!"
Team RWBY and Zwei greet them.
Salem chuckles, "The trip was alright but we didn't get any souvenirs."
Ozma speaks, "But we brought someone new with us. We need to get everyone at the keep." He looks at Team RWBY, "You girls, and Zwei, need to come with us."
Over at Penny and Oscar's house, Penny is busy with her laptop and found something strange.
"Hm." Penny went as she noticed something when looking at her screen. "Curious." she says as she looks at a strange new icon that had just appeared.
The icon is in the shape of a space soldier's helmet with one side being red and the other being blue. She clicks on it and it opens up a social media site. It shows the first three pictures of people in space armor with one being pink with the words 'Faboulous_Light_Red' underneath. Next to it is a picture of someone is wearing purple armor with the words 'Doc_Meds'. Another one in blue armor says 'CabooseXD'. But above it all is a logo that says 'Basebook'.
"What's Basebook?"
"Say what now?" Oscar enters the room.
Penny looks at Oscar, "I found some sort of social media site of some sort."
Oscar takes a closer look. "Oh really."
Vernal then enters the house, "HEY LOVE BIRDS! WE HAVE A MEETING AT THE KEEP! WE GOT SOMEONE NEW!"
"Coming!" Oscar says.
Penny then closes her laptop and takes it with her.
Back at Salem's fort, Salem is still at her seat as she tries to fix her crystal ball. However, she got interrupted by Arthur Watts.
"Please pardon my intrusion, but there is someone that wish to see you."
Salem looks at Arthur and waves her right hand, "Let them in."
The person that enters the room is a woman that has green scaly skin that is patchy with her head shaved yet has a dark green mohawk and yellow eyes.
"Hello boss." she says. "Nice to meet you again." The woman then smiles with her teeth showing. Her sharp, metal teeth with two screws on them.
BICORN: Progression of Project ARES Phase 2: 36%
Progression of Project PHOENIX: 74%
AN: You guys finally get to have RvB meet RWBY. Well only Church gets to meet them so there is that. And Penny discovers Basebook. Hope you guys enjoy this series so far. Just to let you know that I checked the stuff from Fallout 76 and I did not like what I just saw. So I'm gonna have to change some shit. The things that Fallout 76 have that are in Fallout 4 are replaced with the stuff from Fallout 4. Cooked food won't have any radiation to it because that's just dumb. (Not a fan of the survival mode of Fallout anyway) As for the newer stuff that didn't appear in other games will have some health to them. For example, any raw food that has 5 rads or less will give 10 health points. So a frog leg that has 10 rads will give 20 health points.
In otherwords, food that just gives radiation rather than health will now give health. Too bad the game sucks though, but hey, there are a few tiny things that were good. Still gonna keep some of the other shit from survival games but I like to think that the Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and any other games that doesn't have any hunger or thirst meters are fine where they are. If I wanna play a game that has those things, I would be playing those games and not the others. But that's my opinion. If you want to die in Skyrim faster than you do in the Dark Souls series, be my guests.