Slayer: Well here we are once again! Sorry I took so long to update everything. But I was quite busy… and also rather lazy if I am being honest.
Judan: Yeah you have been lazy at least I still have a viable excuse.
Slayer: Shut up before I shoot you again. In anycase here is the next redux chapter. Hopefully everyone likes this version a bit more.
Shadow: As a side note… though this chapter is short. We will endeavor to keep on making the next chapters longer and longer.
Slayer: Wait… who's this we?
Courier: Yeah… isn't Slayer the one who own most of the stories on this page?
Blake: I second that.
Shadow: Shut up! I may be a fictional character but that doesn't mean I can't help out!
Everyone: Uhh…
Shadow: Um…
Modaga: Wow… that got meta. Whelp how about you take it away youthful Blake!
Blake: Please don't say that again… well in anycase we here at the Dark Guard productions own nothing but OC's and Reality building concepts. Everything else belongs to their respective owners. Now without further ado…
Everyone: Here's the story!
Thoughts
Radio broadcast
Chapter One: Cat and Cyborg
Location the Divide
Blake really didn't know what to make of the situation. In fact despite her calm exterior she was internally freaking out. It didn't help that she started to feel sick a little bit ago. And now it was slowly getting worse. Currently she was following her mysterious savior up some ruined building. He had called it the Municipal building. Suddenly her vision swam as a large nauseous feeling overcame her. Her head also felt like it was splitting open. She collapsed to her knees.
Six turned around when he heard a cry of pain to see his new companion on her knees panting. He quickly ran up to her to see what's wrong.
"Hey are you alright?" The young faunus only gave him a look, not trusting herself to speak. Thankfully the courier got the message. "I'll take that as a no…" She gave a weak smirk before grimacing again.
Thankfully Six had a theory and quickly brought his Pipboy next to her. He eyed the geiger counter and saw it rising slowly. He scowled as he knew she was in the lower level of radiation poisoning. He was actually quite surprised at this.
Most people would be extremely cautious about such things. Then again… his thoughts trailed off as he took in the slightly younger woman in front of him. She doesn't have anything that would be considered useful in the wasteland. Thinking quickly he knew what he had to do in order to fix her problem. Unfortunately he couldn't do it here because there simply wasn't enough room on the cliff. Also he didn't want to risk being ambushed. Sighing he decided on a course of action. Blake was quite surprised when she found herself being picked up bridal style by the masked man.
Stammering she voiced her objections. "WH-What are you doing?! I'm fine! I'm pretty sure I could walk by myself!" Though saying that she knew that it was mostly a lie, and that she was just complaining out of embarrassment. Though her face became more flustered as she noticed just how carefully he was carrying her. Six on the other hand, just ignored her protests. Moving quickly he made it to the large sewer entrance that connected the lower, and upper levels of the Municipal building. Luckily he had left the gates opened; now he could easily carry the poisoned faunus through the sewer quickly and up to his base camp up top.
During this Blake had stopped voicing objections in favor of holding her stomach in pain. In fact it wasn't the only thing in pain anymore. Her entire body now felt as if she was melting. Blake had never felt this much pain in her life.
Having not lived in the radiated wasteland, she had no tolerance to any of the harmful poisons in the air. As such the radiation was affecting her quicker than it would to anyone else living there. The pain was now so great that Blake thought that she was dying. Seeing her pain increasing Six increased his pace until he was finally at his temporary camp. Once there he could see ED'E flying around in circles wondering what to do.
Quickly Six called out to him. "ED'E I'm back." At that ED'E stopped flying around and turned to him. After which he gave off a few angry beeps. Six while still running shook his head a bit before answering. "Yeah sorry about leaving you like that but right now I need you to watch the entrance. Right now this girl needs a Rad-Away and a few Rad-X pills." ED'E gave a few beeps that sounded like grumbling but complied with his wishes. Nodding his head at his robot companion Six looked around for an intact chair. Seeing one next to a ruined desk he placed Blake down into it.
He then started speaking to her softly as to not aggravate the headache she was probably feeling. "Alright now currently you are suffering from radiation poisoning. Luckily I can fix that but I'm going to have to inject you with something, and I'll need you to swallow some pills." Normally Blake would be suspicious of someone who said they were going to inject something into her arm. And would normally be suspicious of someone giving her some strange pills as well. I mean wouldn't you? However at this point she realized that it would be completely fruitless to poison her. Since she was already poisoned…
So instead the black haired girl decided to trust her savior and gave him the benefit of the doubt. So nodding her head she let him get to work. He too nodded and pressed a few buttons on his strange wrist device. Suddenly with a flash of light a bottle filled with red pills appeared in his left hand, and a familiar orange bag appeared in his right. Her eyes widened as she remembered that thing being what that strange "god" had given her and her team.
Six noticed but didn't say anything; intent on saving his new companions life. So instead he placed the bottle of Rad-X on an intact office desk while softly grabbing her wrist. Turning it so he could see the veins in her arm, he took the Rad-Away and carefully inserted the needle into the largest one. This made Blake wince a bit, however she noticed that the pain she was feeling was slowly going away, as the orange substance went into her blood stream.
They sat there for a few minutes until all of the fluid was injected into her. By that time Blake felt a little sleepy and didn't react when he took the needle out of her arm, and carefully wrapped her arm with one of her ribbons. She winced a bit when he tightened it, but noticed she was now feeling much better. The girl could only sigh in relief.
"Thanks… you didn't have to but... you saved me anyways." Six only nodded before de-automatizing a purified water bottle from his then picked up the bottle of Rad-X and handed both that and the water to Blake.
He then began lecturing Blake on Radiation. "Here drink this and take at least two pills. What you've felt right now was radiation poisoning. It is rather harmless in very small amounts but… In some places like the divide here it can be quite heavy and rather deadly. As such always take Rad-X and Rad-Away with you into areas like this." He then paused as he waited for her to finished taking the pills before continuing. "In fact it's a rather good idea to always carry both with you anywhere you go." Blake nodded her head to state that she understood.
Seeing that she did Six de-atomatized a gas mask and handed it to her. It was brown in color and slightly worn out. It consisted of two box like filters and two adjustable straps. She looked at it curiously before taking it.
She soon voiced her questions. "Um… Thanks but what is this thing for?"
Six sighed before explaining. "Well the air here like I said is actually quite toxic. So for as long as you are here you should wear the gas mask to lessen its effects."
Blake nodded her head in understanding. "I see… thank you it seems you've saved me a number times today." She then frowned while looking at him. "However I still don't even know your name, or why you're helping me in the first place."
Six chuckled a bit while rubbing the back of his helmet. "Ah yeah sorry about that, I was so focused on helping that I forgot to introduce myself." He then cleared his throat while holding his right hand out. "You can call me The Courier Six. Or just Six for short. Well at least that's what everyone else calls me."Blake raised an eyebrow at him. She was wondering what he meant by that. But she still took his hand and shook it while introducing herself.
"My name is Blake Belladonna. A pleasure to meet you."
They stopped shaking hands as Six continued to speak. "Likewise… However I would've enjoyed meeting you under and in better circumstances."
Blake sighed while consenting to that. "Yeah… well me two." She then paused a bit before speaking again. "Actually if it isn't too much trouble… I would like to ask a few questions." Six held up a finger to stop her and pulled up another mostly intact chair. After sitting down in it he motioned for her to continue. "Okay first question what is this place?" Six scratched his head sheepishly despite wearing a helmet before answering her.
"Well I don't know much but I'll tell you what I do know. But first I suggest putting on the mask." Her reply was to put it over her face and adjust the straps so it fit her snugly. Her face scrunched up as soon as she could smell the inside of it. Her Faunus senses certainly not helping with the situation. Six saw her face and gave a small laugh before continuing. "Yeah I know it smells something awful but it's better than the alternative. Now where to begin?" He paused for a bit to think about what to say before continuing. "Well you see this place based on what I've heard used to be a thriving community. Built on the ashes and principles of the old world, however because of its position and strength both the NCR and Legion wanted it."
Blake frowned behind her new mask and interrupted him. "Sorry but I'm unfamiliar with those terms."
Six looked at her with his head tilted a bit. "Which terms?"
Blake folded her arms before answering. "The things you said about the old world, NCR, and Legion. What do you mean by those?" Six was slightly confused by what she meant by this. He could understand someone not knowing about the Legion, and the NCR. Mostly because they were more known in the west than in the Far East. However everyone should know about the old world.
Though she couldn't see it because of his helmet Six was staring at her intently while he answered her. "First thing I should mention is the old world. It is the most common term when referring to things before the bombs. The bombs were nukes. High end explosives that radiated and mutated anything that they didn't kill with their large blast radius. You see just over two hundred years ago the entire world decided to attack each other with them. All at the same time, though I'm not an expert I believe they were fighting over resources. However instead they pretty much killed the planet."
Blake's eyes kept widening as he explained what had happened to the planet. Well at least to the best of his ability that is. She was quite appalled by this but still interrupted only when she wanted some clarification on something. He then went on to explain the NCR and the Legion.
While the NCR sounded like a corrupt coalition of people the Legion was much worse. In fact she was completely mortified by what she heard. She felt sick just hearing about it. Six noticed this and felt rather guilty for having being the one to tell his new friend this. However he knew that she would've found out eventually. Besides what he'd told her was actually a rather down played version of what they actually do. He had seen firsthand what the Legion actually does. And looking at Blake he knew she probably wouldn't be able to handle that. Already telling her about the slavery and crucifixions were enough to make even Six sick to his stomach.
As for Blake if she wasn't already wearing a mask she would've covered her mouth with a hand. But because she was she settled for hugging herself.
But that didn't stop her from voicing her disgust. "How could people do that to others and not feel anything? Do they have no shame, or even and regret for what they've done?"
Six sighed and shook his head before answering. "No they don't, Caesar certainly didn't. He kept professing the rightness of his cause, proclaiming himself a god. Saying that he deserved better, even when he was dying from all the wounds I gave him."
At this Blake looked at him quizzically. "You killed Caesar? Didn't you say he was the leader of the Legion?" Six nodded at this. "How did you ever get close enough to kill him?!" Blake was both surprised and slightly impressed with his claim. Even though she didn't really condone the killing part, she knew that killing Caesar was indeed the right thing to do. For all the evils that the man… no monster had committed. He needed to die, for every second he lived… even more atrocities came to fruition.
As Blake thought on that, Six just shrugged before answering. "To be honest I'm not quite sure how I pulled that off. I guessed it helped that I had my friend Boone and ED'E with me. But still a tiny robot…" He paused while pointing to ED'E behind him and then continued. "And also an elite sniper and a package Courier march into Caesar's main camp… And simply fight their way up to the big boss of the place and take him out along with his body guards. Yeah I got nothing on how we pulled that off. In fact during the entire thing I kept thinking about how stupid we were... While also freaking out with all the bullets heading towards us."
Blake really couldn't dispute what he said about that being stupid. "Yeah well I can't really disagree with you there. However it was a brave thing that you did. A deed I doubt will be forgotten soon. But now that I know all that you still haven't explained this place."
He sighed as he began again the sad tale of this fallen place. "Well like I said before both the legion and the NCR wanted this place. The NCR managed to get a small foot hold here. They even managed to keep pushing the legion back every time they attacked. However some time ago, and I'm not exactly sure. But a bunch of smaller nuclear warheads were reactivated underneath the soil. The poor people who lived here had no way of knowing what they built their town upon."
Six took a deep breath before continuing. "The bombs were activated by an old package carrying an old world symbol on it. A package Courier saw it and it reminded him of his home here. However when he brought it, the package opened and spoke out across the valley. The voice was some sort of code for activating most of the warheads here. I say most because I accidentally set one off earlier, and have been blowing up quite a few of them in order to make my way through here."
Blake could only stare at him in disbelief. Because really why not? After all he had just finished telling her about how dangerous these nukes were. Then he goes and says he's been blowing them up nilly willy. Slowly she was starting to wonder if he was "all there". Despite most of her face being covered by a mask though Six could see the look she was giving him.
So throwing his hands up in defense he explained his actions. "Hey don't look at me like that! These weren't the huge kill everything nukes. They were just small-scale blow up a bunch of rubble type nuke. Besides this place is already a radiated cesspool. Blowing up a few small nukes won't make that much of a difference." Blake sighed while relenting to his words. Seeing that Six dropped his hands before also sighing. He then cleared his throat before talking once again. "Anyway after the bombs underneath exploded and well… I'm pretty sure you can see the end results for yourself." Taking another look around Blake couldn't help but agree with him.
The place was an absolute mess in more ways than one. Yet that doesn't explain why he's here. Following up on those thoughts she voiced them to her masked savior. Following up on those thoughts she voiced them to her masked savior. "I can tell this place has been through a lot over the years. However… that doesn't exactly explain why you're here."
Six leaned back in his chair while giving out a long sigh. He knew this would come up eventually. So clasping his hands together he began his story. "To be perfectly honest it all started a few months back when I was shot in the head…"
As this was going on a certain God of Chaos couldn't help but smirk as he watched. All the while nursing his black right eye with an icepack… yep the god who had beat up team RWBY was injured. But that was his fault for causing a scene at the interdimensional god meeting he just came back. Now despite his injuries he couldn't have been happier. His plans for the waste land were going smoothly. Soon he would be truly entertained.
He then winced while rubbing his ribs. "Sheesh… Maxos still knows how to throw a punch…"
Omake: Antics-one
Hosted by: Hunter Infinium
Guest star: Thalia Grace
Hunter really couldn't believe what has happened here at this meeting. Sure everything was fine in the beginning. But then Modaga had started laughing at something. When prompted to share he explained without really thinking. He was laughing a bit too hard to try and not tell Maxos anything.
At that moment he teleported to the side of the god of chaos and punched him in the face! Thus leading off to this current predicament… all the gods right now were currently fighting each other. Well most of them, Sheogorath unsurprisingly summoned up a guitar along with a few other musicians and started to play fighting music. The biggest problem was Goku. Currently he was fighting against War, Death/death scythe, and surprisingly truth. How he got involved is anyone's guess really.
Artemis ended up fighting as well, getting into a fight with "god" and the mysterious force, and Beerus and Ophis were currently trying to blow each other up. However the Outsider ruler of the void, and Malchite ruler of the Aether where this meeting was taking place, were both sighing in both irritation and exasperation. At times it was hard to remember that these were some of the strongest beings in this reality. However what irritated Hunter the most right now was the annoying so called huntress Thalia.
Currently she was trying to shoot a bunch of arrows at him. Hunter however just kept shooting at them with his revolver. The pistol was blue and was designed for accuracy and power. While at the same time using electricity to cause even more damage. Despite the thing being a 60mm hand cannon using quick silver bullets. Hunter was also very purposely missing the girl. Because… well again 60mm electric bullets.
He really wasn't in a mood for this and stated such. "You know you really don't stand a chance here. Plus I think we need to start playing damage control soon." The girl just laughed at him all the while mocking him.
"What sacred that you'd lose to a girl? I'll show you what happens when insult true hunters!" The real hunter just groaned in annoyance. That was when Thalia put her bow away and got out a silver hunters knife. She then charged at Hunter who sighed and blocked a swipe with one of his arm guards.
While this was happening Malchite turned to the Outsider. "Well I guess this is another failed meeting between gods."
The Outsider grunted in agreement. "And I seems as though it was once again caused by Modaga. Why do we even invite him?"
Malchite sighed but answered anyways. "You know as well as I that we don't necessarily invite anyone. Besides no matter what we do he shows up anyways..."
Nodding his head the Outsider spoke once again. "At least this isn't as bad as when he puked on Amaterasu's kimono." Both of them gave an involuntary shiver at that thought. That year was by far the most destructive. Hearing a yelp of pain they both turned towards Hunter who had recently kick Thalia in the face. The poor guy had enough of the girls attitude.
Raising an eyebrow Malchite gave his opinion. "I feel slightly bad for Hunter here. After all he didn't exactly want to get involved in a fight." The Outsider only sighed in agreement before going back to watch the ensuing fight. The lieutenant was obviously outmatched by the speed and power of the Voidwalker. Unfortunately that just made her even angrier. So doing what he does best he decided that he had enough. So sighing one last time, he used his full speed to get behind the girl and easily knocked her unconscious by hitting the back of her neck. Unfortunately for him Artemis saw this action from him.
"Thalia no! I'll avenge you!" his eyes now twitching as he had the angry goddess charge him he could only sigh and slump over.
"I really hate my life sometimes…" After saying that he was then punched in the face by the goddess of the hunt.
Slayer: Alright another chapter done. Again sorry that this one was shorter than before, but I think it works a little better for the story. Especially with the expansive nature of the Dark Guard Reality.
Modaga: I say it was still youthfully fun! Some gods just can't keep their cool…
Slayer: Don't remind me… But in anycase we should have the next chapter for the next story out a lot sooner than before.
Shadow: For now just enjoy the stuff we have.
Slayer: Ugh… I really hate the Sierra Madre the most! And the oldworld blues is just way to tedious sometimes. Despite having the best tiny robot ever! Give a shout out to Muggy!
Shadow: Yeah… Anyway not much happened here besides showing a heavy weakness for Blake along with getting her up to speed on the new world she's in.
Judan: Okay stop with that and end the chapter.
Slayer: Fine… Leave a comment to tell us what you think, for we won't be stopping until all of these stories are done… And with that this has been a Dark Guard production signing off.
Everyone: Goodbye!
