Chapter 53

After Halloween, the next morning, Team RWBY are flying a pelican along with Grif, Tucker, Simmons, and Agent Carolina to the island where the portal is inside a gun platform where Team CRDL found with Blake in the driver seat. Although, Ruby is a little confused.

"There is something I don't get." she says. "Why are WE going instead of Team CRDL?"

"Because my mom's semblance only works on those that she has formed a bond with and she prefer to keep her distance from those idiots." Yang explains.

Simmons asks the three ladies, "So is Team CRDL the school bullies or...?"

"Yep." Ruby and Yang responds.

Simmons rolls his head and says in a sarcastic tone, "Oh great."

Grif looks at Simmons, "Simmons, you are a grown man and they are below the age of 18. In other words, you can boss them around like a reasonable adult you are." Grif...surprisingly gives Simmons a confident boost.

"Oh, thanks! ...wait." Simmons starts to get suspicious. "Why are you being nice all of a sudden?"

Tucker looks at Grif and is also suspicious, "Yeah. Why now?"

Grif explains, "Uh, because we are gonna die."

Epsilon Church appears, "Grif, just...how many times you've been in situations where you and everyone else nearly died?"

Weiss rolls her eyes and head while crossing her arms, "Gee, wonder how." Then thinks about it and looks at the Reds and Blues, "Actually, now I'm curious."

Epsilon Church flickers in front of Weiss, "Do you want a list?"

Tucker then says, "I have something as big as..." He realizes how old the three girls are, "Wait, nevermind."

Yang snickers a little with Weiss's face being all red while Ruby is a little confuse.

"Big as what?" she asks Tucker.

"Nothing. Forget it." Tucker responds.

Ruby then says, "Just hope we can make this quick and I get to have my birthday cake."

Grif asks, "What kind of cake was it?"

"Strawberry with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream center."

"Oh my god, that is the best cake that I really want to eat."

Yang says to Grif, "Well, from what everyone told us, you're not gonna get any." Yang smirks.

"Shit."

Yang giggles.

"We're here." Blake says over the radio.

They have arrived at the island that has the big gun platform. Blake lands on the beach close to the entrance of the facility and everyone got out. They keep an eye out for any infected creatures that Team CRDL found sometime ago that got Cardin infected.

Carolna says, "Secure the perimeter! Make sure there aren't any infected creatures!"

Everyone has their weapons out and keep an eye out for anything that has green crystal shit on them.

After 10 seconds, Simmons says, "Looks clear."

Carolina then orders, "Alright, let's head inside."

Everyone heads inside the structure to find any portals that aren't related to the ones they just had before they went dead. They traveled deep into the structure until they found it.

"Is that it?" Weiss asks.

Simmons looks at the PDA that was given to him from Russel, "Yep. That's it."

Epsilon Church shows up, "Okay, let me do my magic." He floats towards the alien portal, "Since this is alien tech, it will take me a while. An hour or two at least."

"Got it." Yang pulls up her radio, "Okay, mom. You can bring everyone in now."

A red portal then appeared as Raven walked through along with the rest of Team STRQ followed by Team CFVY, Team JNPR, and Team FAME along side Sarge, Caboose (with Freckles in his assault rifle), Agent Washington, and Donut. But they are also accompanied by Winter Season, Adam Taurus, Lopez, Sanchez, and Agent Texas.

Over at the Mojave Wasteland, Salem has unleashed some of her forces over at the REPCONN Test Site and killed off the Nightkin and the ghouls guarding the area with her forces. Deep inside Tyrian is there laughing while also coughing because of the radiation poisoning in his body after he quickly grabbed a few important items.

Salem approach Tyrian at the launch facility, "Did you get the items we needed?"

Tyrian gives Salem a kneel, "Yes, my gracious Lady." He seems pleased, "I have them and did everything I can to install them. With these new rockets, we can head to the ring world."

"I suppose you install them properly." Salem glares at him yet Tyrian has his head down.

"I will check them until they are in." He gets up and starts to get to work.

Back at the gun platform, everyone waited for Epsilon Church to finish calibrating the portal until he appears.

"I'm back." he says in an exhausted tone.

Everyone gather around and are ready.

Carolina asks, "How did it go?"

Epsilon looks at Carolina, "Well...I just lost Gamma but manage to get the portal up and running." Before Carolina says something, Epsilon says, "Don't worry. I can handle it. Just don't push me with all the armor enhancements all at once."

"Got it."

Everyone ready themselves as the portal flickers and green swirls appear.

"Let's go!" Agent Carolina leads the charge as everyone heads through the portal.

On the other side of the portal, they appear at some sort of communications room that is the size of a basketball court with a giant holographic screen behind them with many computer desks with only a few on. On these computers are...Roger, correction, make that Rogers from American Dad as they try to fix the place. They stopped doing repairs and noticed the armed group.

"AAAHHH!" one of them screamed and points at them, "Intruders!"

All the Rogers from American Dad flail their arms and scream as they ran out of the three doors with big red signs over them with one saying, 'NOPE', another saying, 'DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED', and the third says, 'RUN' as they exited through these doors. Everyone just stare at gawk at what the hell just happened.

Tucker says, "What just happened?"

Grif says, "Was that, or, were they Rogers from Family Guy?"

Simmons corrects, "No. That would be Brian Griffin. Those guys are from American Dad."

"Who?" Qrow asks.

"It was a popular television cartoon with a lot of adult humor back in the 21st century."

"Oh."

Everyone just stood there in awkward silence.

That is until Caboose says, "They are nice people."

Raven looks at Caboose, "You just met them."

Epsilon appears and says to Raven, "Ignore him. He's...you know."

Raven sighs, roll her eyes, and just head towards the nearest terminal, "Fine." She checks on one of the computers and see if there is anything useful. She press a few buttons, "Well, the language is still the same. I'm already logged in since those guys were working on these computers."

Simmons sings, "Sloop-ppyyy."

"Can it, Simmons." Sarge orders. "Lopez. Sanchez." He looks at the robots, "You two are with me and guarding the door."

Lopez gives a dull, "Por supuesto."
Translation: "Sure."

"Tanto faz."
Translation: "Whatever."

The two robots secure on of the doors with Sarge telling them, "And show more enthusiasm! Today's a good day to finally achieve the glorious death we've all been waiting for!"

"As if!" Grif argues. "I don't wanna die!"

Sarge then orders Grif, "Grif! Check to see if there is a mini fridge filled with booze in this room!"

Grif gets excited, "On it!" Grif is now more motivated because of that one order he gets to do.

"Found it!" Qrow says behind one of the consoles. He pops up and show he has an arm full of mini alcohol bottles.

Adam looks a little confuse, "Why would they- Nevermind. Team FAME and I will secure those three doors."

Simmons then says, "We'll check to see if we can figure out what the hell is on these computers."

Those that aren't on guard try to access on what is on the computers. Yet they also noticed something.

Winter Season asks, "Isn't there supposed to be some alarms going off?"

Adam checks, "Turns out that some of the systems on this place is out of whack and on maintenance. Yet the repairs are taking longer due to Salem's scrying."

"Wait." Taiyang says. "What do you mean, 'Salem's scrying'?"

"Turns out the 'dark' Salem, the one I told you about, has been doing some scrying yet their anti-magic defense systems were preventing that until they overloaded."

"Guess that makes sense."

Weiss's eyes started to widen as she found something. "Everyone. I found something." She presses a few buttons and a hologram of Halo started to appear.

Everyone looks at the hologram and the people of Remnant were astonished by the strange alien world in a shape of a ring. Yet those that know it, are not impressed.

But Agent Carolina says, "We're on a Halo ring?"

"What's a Halo ring?" Ruby asks.

Agent Washington explains, "It is a weapon of mass destruction on a galactic scale."

Qrow was about to take a sip from his new flask but drops it on the floor after hearing that.

Summer says, "Wait, we're on a weapon?!"

"Super weapon, mom." Ruby corrected.

"I got something!" Amber says as she presses a few buttons.

What happens next is that a bunch of holograms appear with a bunch of them look like planets. Correction, they all look like Remnant with some of them look like they went through an apocalyptic event with some looking like molten lava and some are shattered/destroyed. Then a bunch of names appear on blue holograms.

They read:

Team SLVR - Status: Destroyed

Simin Megistus - Status: Deceased

Lycan Arcadia - Status: Deceased

Vella Moisia - Status: Deceased

R-

Team NYON - Status: Destroyed

Nyx Alset - Status: Deceased

Yuko Magenta - Status: Deceased

Orion Asterphos - Status: Deceased

Nero Jiang - Status: Deceased

Team DGTL - Status: Destroyed

Diana Fritillary - Status: Deceased

Gaea Buckwheat - Status: Deceased

Terres Couronne - Status: Deceased

Leila Souris - Status: Deceased

The people from Remnant look at horror as they see the names of people from other duplicates of Remnant getting killed as they notice the 'Destroyed' and 'Deceased' statuses. They are shocked and horrified to see such things. Adam gets upset as he draws his swords and tries to destroy the results...but then realizes they are holograms after he tries to slash them.

"Oh...right. Shit."

"Wait, a minute." Emerald says in disbelief, "We're all part of some sick twisted experiment on that planet?"

Taiyang punches on the computer before saying with some hostility in his tone, "Looks like it."

Alarms start blaring and red lights start flashing as some troops wearing red and green tek armor started firing at Lopez, Sanchez, and Sarge. The three fire back as Agent Tex fires a rocket at them yet they had shields. One of them threw an electric prod like a spear at Lopez which pierced through his left shoulder and cause electrical surges on him.

"OW!" Lopez says in English with a Hispanic accent, "That almost fried my circuits!"

Tex fired another round and got them this time and slams the door controls which, you know, causes the door to seal shut.

Simmons looks at Lopez after the door sealed and Lopez removes the prod, "Did you just spoke English?"

"Yeah I... Holy shit!" Lopez realizes, "I can speak English!" He tosses the prod at Sanchez and electrocuted Sanchez.

"OW!" Sanchez says in English with a Portuguese accent. "That really... Oh shit! I can speak English too!"

Grif sighs, "There goes all that wasted effort learning to speak Spanish."

Lopez looks at Grif, "I wouldn't say that."

"FOCUS!" Carolina shouted.

Someone on the intercom, one of the Rogers, says, "Heads-up people! We have a few ships heading in from the planet! It's Grimm Salem and her minions! Any and all available personal get ready! Because all our anti-ship weaponry and platforms are down! Also, how is everyone doing?"

Caboose says at the PA, "I'm doing great! How about you?!"

"Shut up, Caboose!" Grif and Tucker yell at Caboose.

"Did that guy say 'Grimm Salem'?" Qrow asks.

In a location not too far from where our heroes are at, three rockets from the planet crash land on the surface of Halo. The terrain is an alpine mountain close to the sea and a few large buildings of Forerunner origin just a few miles away. The rockets open up to reveal minions, thralls, Uruks, and undead as they try to claim a beachhead. Salem exits out of one of the rockets while surveying the area. When the notices the structures, she smirks as she raises her hands with her body emitting a dark purple aura. Portals started to open up close to the rockets with waves of her troops coming through. Hundreds of thralls, trolls, Uruks, undead, minions, beasts, reprogrammed robots, super mutants, and a few enthralled Legion members came through to declare war on the people responsible for their predicament.

Back at the communications room, everyone watch as Salem unleash her forces through the portals.

Epsilon Church pops up and orders, "We need to get moving! NOW!"

Everyone stops what they were doing and head through the middle door. They ran as fast as they could as they hurry to find the ADMIN.

Epsilon says through everyone's radios, "The guy in charge, the ADMIN, is on the top floor of this facility. That's where we need to be."

"Assuming we don't get killed." Grif says while trying to catch his breath.

But as they turn at a corridor, "There they are!" Some of the tek soldiers spotted them. "Blast them!"

The group fire their range weapons and gun down the tek soldiers. Approximately eight of them in red armor got killed.

One of them retreated and shouted through his communications, "Falling back to regroup!"

Tex ordered, "Let's move people!"

Everyone keeps running down the hallways that are twenty feet long and forty feet high in order to find the ADMIN.

Back at Salem's landing site, Salem's forces are putting up one hell of a fight against the highly advance, tek wearing soldiers as many appear on tek ATV's, Tapejaras wearing tek saddles, tek meks, rock drakes wearing tek saddles, enforcers, and T-Doms wearing tek saddles. These defenders are up against a large scale force of primitives, mutants, creatures, demonic creatures, mystical creatures and undead creatures that prove to be a challenge.

Despite his radiation sickness, Tyrian gleefully kills anyone that gets in his way as he slices some of the tek troops from behind and pierced his tail through some of the helmets Mortal Kombat style. He laughs while saying, "I love a good war!" as he continues to laugh like a maniac that he is.

Super Mutants throw mini nukes at some of the meks which causes their shields to go down with some riding on mammoths and elephants to tip over the colossal robots. Yet some on the Quetzalcoatlus that have platform saddles have some tek turrets that rain fire down upon the invading forces. Grimm Salem uses her powers to stop them, have their bodies twisted and broken before they all come falling down. Many thralls throw demonic fire orbs at some of the soldiers to set them on fire before the archers shoot their arrows for the killing blow. Some of the soldiers armed with tek railguns try to take on some of Salem's snipers before they can land a hit while hiding on the cliffs. The whole area has become a bloody battlefield.

By some rocks, a tek soldier in purple armor hides with two other soldiers with one in blue and another in black.

"Fuck!" says the purple soldier as he takes cover with bullets and arrows being fired at the rocks. "This is not what I signed up for!"

"You can say that again!" the blue soldier agree through all the chaos. He then takes a few cover shots with his tek rifle to get a few hits. "I signed up because I get to see naked women! Then probably have sex with clones of them when given a chance."

"Hang on!" says the black soldier while having her hand on the left side of her helmet. She looks at the other two, "Shit! We got intruders heading for the ADMIN's office!"

"Ah shit." the blue soldier says. "Well, there goes my job!" He looks at the two, "I don't know about you guys but I'm getting out of dodge and look for a new job! Anyone interested?!" he raises his hand.

Both purple and black soldier raise their hands in agreement.

"Okay, let's get the fuck out, get into the nearest ship, and then go to the nearest TGI Fridays in another system to celebrate that we're alive!"

The purple soldier says, "I'm up for that!"

"TGI Fridays?!" says the black soldier, "Let's go!"

Then the three use their jets to get the hell out of the battlefield to steal a ship.

AN: Hey, I forgot to load up some Q&A earlier so this part here is an update.

Guest #1 & #2: Those are good suggestions but I have some other ideas in mind for the sequel but I will try to add in your suggestions. Although, there is something I would like to ask: Does Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid an isekai anime? I know that the characters are in our world but Torhu and Kanna are dragons from anther world so I wonder if it does count.

Mitch: XD That is a good one! But I wonder if that is a reference to that one horrible horror movie called ThanksKilling. The one about a killer turkey. If not better check-out Phelous' review of it on YouTube.