So...it's been far too long, been getting my shit pushed in by school, I never realized this had any attention given to it, ain't I stupid?
But i'm extremely happy with the progress already, this will definitely get more updates, I swear to all of you.
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After all that majestic-ness, shall we do something long overdue?
It had been a few weeks after his accidental foray into the city upon his arrival, he had noticed how he had been pursued by the PDF. But they gave up after a while. He had discovered a great many things about this world, it was mostly untouched by war, it was a lush and thriving planet for the most part. It supported a remarkable amount of flora and fauna that normally only were supposed to exist in the early existence of Terra it'self, truly a gem undiscovered. He also found a type of crystal called "Dust" for some odd reason, he had found such crystals residing deep in the back of his cave that which led to a system of tunnels crystals seemed to have varying elemental capabilities, and such things intrigued him greatly. And he had figured out such elemental impacts when he threw a green one at the wall and giot knocked into a wall by a massive gust of wind that rivaled Khorn's diarrhea.
But that is were he also found the danger on this planet, they were like Khornate demons in a way, vast in number, bloodthirsty, stupid. They came from the tunnels, most charging at him with reckless abandon that got them a swift and generally brutal death from twin chainaxes being embedded into the general face area, and that usually killed everything so it obviously worked on these strange ink-like creatures. The reason for being ink-like was that they had pitch black hides and after being viciously torn to tiny bits they semi-dissolved into a pool of black liquid that quickly dissipated into the air and left nothing behind.
All this time he had assumed that these creatures were mindless and had no form of physical protection, but then he found the bigger ones, yes it indeed seemed like he had been fighting mere infantile cubs this entire time. Not that it mattered much, he would never tire of the slaughter, particularly if it was against the non human, and even if his enemies were weak they still got his blood pumping a little. But these older ones, as tall as him in armor when on their hind legs, and with armor and more deadly claws and teeth posed a much more challenging fight over the young ones, though comparatively they still weren't much.
He was currently ripping off one of said elder creatures jaw off casually while thinking about what to do to stop them, massive battles were fun fighting yes. But if they were this uninteresting was it really that worth fighting? He was rather creative for a Kornate Berserker, and it seemed like he had two options, use some of those crystals to collapse the cave system, and rid himself of the nuisance, or he can do it the fun way and kill everything in the cave to get some peace and quiet. Do we really even need to ask which one he's going to do?
So off he went, clutching one axe in his hand as he walked off into the vast system beneath him
After of hours of travelling through muck and bodies in the cave system he had finally made it to what seemed to be the nest as it were. It was a rather large cavern that had multiple small coves etched into the walls, each one looking to hold one of those dark beasts guarding a very small pool of black liquid and a smaller version of themselves, but it's not like he had gone unnoticed, not only had the ones protecting the "infants" got up and between him to guard the younglings, a decent multitude of the larger ones had come out of coves to the back to take him on, it was about forty-three if he counted correctly, not counting the infants and the ones guarding them, this was nor surprise though, he had most likely killed most of them when they assaulted his end of the cave system and when he made his bloody march through the tunnels of course but them he heard something that got his interest. A massive version of the creatures he had been murdering for the past twelve hours, taller then him by a good two feet while on all fours, this would be a great challenge, fighting all of these lesser ones to get his blood pumping to battle what he was assuming was to be the alpha of this massive pack. He was about to grab his axes and start the killing until all of the smaller ones stepped aside, the alpha coming down from it's own elevated perch and stalking towards Alken, moving until it was a mere few feet in front of the marine.
Now Alken wasn't a complete dunce, he knew a challenge when he saw one, so he did what he thought best, he took his axes out and threw them to the side and making the alpha tilt it's head as if confused before Alken raised his fists and settled into a stance. At that point all was clear, the air was tense for a moment, not one making a move towards the other until, in the span of a mere second, the two giants clashed, claws meeting metal hands as one struggled in a test of strength to push the other back, and they stayed like this for a full minuet before Alken's higher endurance and stamina made him gain ground, gaining leverage on the alpha before headbutting it and throwing it across the room.
After getting up off of the ground the alpha looked greatly stunned, never before had it been tossed aside by anything, it only hardly recovered from it's dazed state in time to dodge a fist that was mid flight in the direction of it's jaw, leaping to Alken's right and slashing with it's claws only to realize it had hardly scratched the blue and white paint of Alken's armor as the marine made a strange move while it had been doing this, instead of turning and trying for another punch, he used his weight to turn towards his left, gaining momentum and cocking his arms back, not to punch no, that would be far to simple, he let his weight and momentum carry him in a spinning motion to smash his elbow into the alpha's face, making it let out a howl of pain as it's mask cracked from the impact, some shards flying off to pelt the floor as Alken actually gave it time to recover from the blow.
He was rather enjoying this, this one was much stronger than the others, remarkable so, it was faster as well and truly a alpha for a good reason. It almost matched him in speed but lacked the strength and armor to pose too much of a threat.
After he had given it ample time to recover he charged forward and shoulder bashed the alpha into the wall and was rewarded with the resounding crack of it's ribs and a howl of pain most pleasing to the ear, after throwing the alpha into the nearby wall, making the spikes on it's back cave in on themselves as he began repeatedly punching it it the face, chest, and throat. Making it cry out in agony when he forced it's own ribs to puncture any insides it may have, it's throat felt like it had collapsed on itself, and it's face was completely devoid of armor by this point. Then, Alken delivered the final blow, while the alpha was writhing in pain he cocked his fist back, reeling the fucker in before letting it lose, connecting with the alpha's jaw a knocking it off completely, sending it flying into the large group of it's underlings as it did it's best to howl in agony while it's tongue flopped around while hanging from it's esophagus before it's legs gave out as Alken walked over and grabbed his axes, walking back over to the alpha and looking down upon it as it whimpered like a scared cub as our marine grabbed it by the snout, keeping it still as he raised the axe before bringing it down upon it's neck, putting a swift end to it's suffering as he picked the severed, jaw less head off the ground and showed it to the crowd behind it in the form of all the other creatures that had observed the fight.
"DO YOU THINK ANY OF YOU CAN CHALLENGE ME!? DO ANY OF YOU EVEN THINK YOU ARE HALF THE BEAST YOUR ALPHA WAS!? IF NOT...I SUGGEST YOU GET OUT OF MY CAVES!" His voice boomed throughout the entire cave system as he chucked the head at the main group amassed in the center of the cavern as he took out his axes and roared like an animal, this combined with the the recently killed alpha's head rolling on the floor. For the first time in their lives the monsters felt fear, fear for the creature that slaughtered countless members of their family alone, this metal behemoth that had destroyed their alpha with his bare hands like it had been nothing more than a chore.
Alken reared back his head and cackled in laughter, it felt so good to be brutal again. Even if it was on these mostly disappointing things, he might have kept laughing for hours if he hadn't heard a small noise in the now mostly silent aside from his laughter, the sound of a rock moving and a small squeak, He immediately snapped his head in the direction of the noise, it was in a small alcove where one of the infantile creatures had been and he walked around the corner expecting to have to crush a small pup, but he was instead confronted by the sight what appeared to be of four fucking children hidden in this alcove, well, children probably wasn't the best use of the word.
They were heavily armed, and by heavily armed he meant that the first thing he saw was a boy with orange skin, hair, and shirt, with white eyes, and black pants. And he also wielded what appeared to be dual arm blades.
To his left was a girl that had a massive multi barreled gun that would make a devastator veteran proud. She wore a black beret, sunglasses, some kind of waist cincher, a orange colored turtleneck shirt, and coffee colored pants with heeled boots.
On her left was a boy that was remarkably tall, though no where near Alken's height. He held a massive sword in his hands that looked to be a decently refined blade. He wore a type of shirt that was entirely strange to his memory, then again, his memory started to fail the tiniest bit in his old age. The only thing he could make out was the pants and shoes, and the massive layered armor pauldron on his left shoulder.
And behind all of them and huddled in the back of the little alcove was a girl, he wasn't even taking note of what she had been wearing as his eyes focused on own thing. A pair of large, fluffy, bunny ears.
All of them were obviously scared, the orange boy was hiding it well but he stance revealed it all. The girl with the large gun and the beret looked like her arms might have been shaking if she hadn't been holding that massive weapon. The tall one was more obvious as his sword was shaking, if only slightly. As for the bunny eared girl, she seemed terrified, she was shaking violently as the large ears seemed to droop and hang down the sides of her head.
The four of them jumped slightly as they heard the metalically tinged voice ring out of the helmeted behemoth before them.
"One. What are you four doing here, in my cave? Two. Why does that girl have rabbit ears?"
If you were to ask her right now, Coco Adel was scared shitless, her and her team had been sent here as a routine mission given to them by Ozpin during the middle of their first year, so they weren't wet behind the ears, but this was far more than they could ever hope to handle. Upon their arrival they had found the entrance to the cave system Ozpin had told them to find and clear out, but they had found a very ramshackle looking bed and a small altar in the cave, as well as a ample supply of un-refined Dust crystals that were presumably picked up from deeper in the cave. But how could there have been anyone living here if they had been sent to clear out a Grimm nest? So they decided that with how wrecked and un-cared for the place was is that whoever it was that had attempted to live here had been run off, or worse.
But they had to do what they were sent to do, they went down through the back end of the cave and traveled down into the cave systems, and it was unsettling, not because it was a dark cave, or filled with Grimm, it was the noises, the sounds of beowolfs roaring and yelping, as if they were being shredded to pieces. And as they got closer and saw the mangled and slowly disintegrating Grimm bodies which made them increasingly nervous, there were no bullet holes or bullets themselves in sight in the cave, so this meant that all of this was being done up close and personal, but what or who really had the skill to do it? If Ozpin had already sent a veteran huntsman, why did he have to send them? Did he forget the huntsman was here? Or maybe this isn't a huntsman, but what other kind of person could cause this much destruction among the Grimm?
Well, as the bodies piled up and lessened in their state of decay they found the answer, and the truth of it terrified them. it was massive, easily taller that Yatsuhashi and covered in more armor than a tank, and whether it was human or machine it was incredibly powerful, visible as it swung a extremely old, powerful, and large alpha beowolf around like it weighed nothing. And they watched with slight horror as the equivalent to a metal demon beat it mercilessly before punching it's jaw clean off and leaving it to writhe in pain as the giant walked over and picked up two axes, they looked to be the most brutal weapons any of them had ever laid eyes on. They were massive, riddled with saw like teeth and generally looked horrifying. And just like the thing they wielded them they were painted a strange white and blue paint job that seemed much less like the calming colors they would normally be when splattered with dissolving Grimm blood.
They quickly moved into a nearby alcove to get a better look of the whole scene since they were a good enough distance away that none of the beowolfs seemed to notice them as they were too focused on the fuck-huge metal thing that was absolutely mortifying. And the four teens watched as the metal giant walked over to the whimpering form of the alpha beowolf and held it's head in place before he raised one of the brutal weapons and brought it down swiftly, severing the head before standing slowly and turning to the other beowolfs that had been watching the two massive combatants fight in the center of the cave as the head was slowly raised into the air before a horribly loud and metallic voice echoed throughout the cave.
"DO ANY OF YOU THINK YOU CAN CHALLENGE ME!? DO ANY OF YOU THINK YOU ARE HALF THE BEAST YOUR ALPHA WAS!? IF NOT I SUGGEST YOU GET OUT OF MY CAVES!" It was one of the loudest and angriest voices they had ever heard in their lives, but this -apparent- man must have been stupid, beowolfs or just Grimm in general almost never run, even when they are out numbered 3 to 1 they almost never turn tail unless almost all of them were killed. And there was one thing that stood before them, not an army, not a group of elite hunstman, no, just one presumable psycho in armor that screamed at them. Thry thought they would have to step out and help him kill off Grimm before their collective jaws hit the floor harder than the alpha beowolfs, ever single one of the beowolfs in the cave ran like bitches. It was the funniest thing they had seen and they would have laughed themselves if it wasn't for the bone chilling cackle that rang throughout the room and dug into their very souls, if had such an affect on Coco she almost fell and kicked a rock that tumbled down the slope that went up into the small alcove they were hiding in and their sweet, bunny eared teammate Velvet made a strange squeak of fear as he turned towards the alcove and Velvet pulled the other three, those being Coco, Yatsuhashi, and Fox away from the entrance as they got ready to defend themselves if necessary but froze up when the armored man stepped around the corner, he was huge. He waseasily the tallest non-Grimm thing they've encountered so far, and he stared down at them with a calculating gaze through his helmets visor, sizing them up before he settled his eyes on Velvet, the look of moderate distrust in his eyes changing to curiosity as he stared at her ears before speaking in a very deep and mechanical tone that felt like it went through them.
"One. Why are you in my cave? Two. Why does that girl have rabbit ears?"
The simplicity was the most shocking thing about it, but it seemed easy enough to answer, and he seemed non-hostile for the moment. But they didn't really say anything for a bit because their brains had promptly stopped working and collectively they had about as much processing power as a toaster between the four of them for a few seconds before they even realized that they had drawn their weapons out of instinct, quickly stowing them away as to not risk getting thrashed around by the man in front of them. So Coco, being the leader and all took a step forward towards him and put on the bravest face she could manage and spoke up.
"We were sent to this cave to clear out the nested Grimm-" Alken interjected. "Grimm?" "Yeah, you know, Grimm. The things you were turning into chunks? Anyway you seemed to take care of that for us, and as to her ears. She's a faunus, why else would she have those ears?" Alken just went along with it and nodded while still looking at Velvet's ears.
"But, I answered your questions. Can you answer mine?" Coco met the gaze of Alken and did her best to stand tall as he slowly nodded his head. "You may ask your question." She took a crossed her arms.
"Why are you in this cave? And will you come back with us to Beacon?" He sighed through his helmets while wishing he could rub his head.
"I've made my home here, not any other reason, it has plenty of room and runs deep into the ground. It's similar more so than anything. And what in the name of the imaterium is Beacon?" The four's collective eyes widened at what he said, who didn't know what Beacons was? It was the most recognizable name in all of Remnant, but it was also where a majority of the area's huntsman, including Coco and her team being trained there themselves.
"You don't know what Beacon is?! It's the local huntsman academy on this side of Remnant? How could you not know?" Alken just shrugged his massive shoulders like an impassive man-child at what Coco said. "Not the slightest idea of what you are talking about child." He could see her face visibly twitch as she looked like she was about to screech like an angry child before Velvet stepped up, looking up at the intimidating form of Alken as her ears drooped slightly before she gained a uncharacteristically brave face.
"Whether you know what Beacon is or not, we still need you to come with us sir. If you'd kindly agree, we could probably even get the headmaster to grant you a better place to live, big, not to isolated in case you want to talk to someone, and withing range of the academy in case we, or you, need something. Does that sound ok?" Coco, Fox, and Yatsuhashi's jaws collectively smacked off of the floor. How in the hell did Velvet even know this stuff?! Did she even know if what she was saying is true? What the actual fuck...
Alken would never admit it, but the forwardness of the girl, in line with the change of actually having a fucking "house" made him one extremely happy berserker/marine. He may still be a mentally fucked sociopath and psychopath, but he sure as hell wouldn't turn down a deal. He learned at a very short time in training to never turn down the hospitality of a planets inhabitants unless they were trying to get you to spare them, or in chaos terms, were fucking groveling pussywipes, you always accepted. And these children, and in particular this girl with the weird ass bunny/rabbit/whatever the fuck ears was brave enough to look him directly in the eye and treat him as an equal in a straight up talk instead of treating him like he was shit or making him out to be some god she should get on her knees and suck for. It was honestly refreshing compared to the other two, and yes, a cultist chick asked him if he wanted a blowjob once, let's talk about something else.
So, with the situation at hand. He could be a tremendous shit shack and deny her offer and come off as a hostile turkey basting fucktard. Or he could accept and be a nice turkey basting fucktard for once, and this would be his first chance to actually be nice after he arrived in this world instead of doing as his fucked up gods (Aside from Khorne, he's still pretty chill) say, and do what he fucking wants.
Velvet's three other teammates where still having a shirt filled storm in their heads as Alken slowly stuck out his hand towards Velvet, which the bunny girl promptly shook with a kind smile as she turned towards her team. "So, when can we take him back?" Her question seemed to knock them out of their stupor as Coco shook her self slightly before nodding to Vel and Alken, as sign that they could go immediately.
"We can go now, if there isn't anything you need first sir?" Alken shook his head as he walked passed them and back towards the surface.
"No, i'd much rather we get a move on, now, if possible." He could tell the metallic, grating tone of his vox made them almost shiver every time he spoke, but he wasn't about to go that soft just for some kids, even if they are giving him a nice deal. But they didn't say anything about it, in fact, they didn't try to talk to him at all, they mostly crowded around the bunny girl and spoke in hushed voices, asking her questions about how she "got so brave so fast" and such other things, which made Alken think that she wasn't always so forward and down to business, especially around people she didn't know, let alone giant death machines like him. Though she almost made him chuckle with the simple and shy sounding answer of "Someone had to."
After around 10 to 12 minutes of walking through the tunnels, which were clear of Grimm, both dead and alive, and made it out into the open while the children were a few steps behind him as he waited for them to get out of his makeshift home. "Are we walking? Or is something going to bring us to this Beacon place?"
They still didn't think he was being serious about not knowing about Beacon, but Coco stepped up beside him and looked toward the sky. "There should be a Bullhead coming to pick us up here." Alken nodded and took a few steps away from them as looked out into the woods, on alert for any sign of danger in the surrounding area. The children were doing the same as well, but three of the four, the beret wearing girl, whose name he heard was Coco, the blind one called Fox, and the big one called Yatsuhashi, were staying a good distance away from him, obviously not too trust worthy of him, which was understandable, but where was the bunny girl, Velvet? He was answered with a light tapping in his arm which made him look to his right and see the meek girl looking up at him.
"U-uh, hello?" Real charming this one. "While we were in the cave back there I never asked your name, mine is Velvet by the way." Even though he already knew her name, her relatively kind treatment towards him was shocking, he was a complete stranger, a dangerous one at that, even though no one on this planet probably knew what a space marine was since that geeky fuck Tzneetch had dropped him on a random planet in god knows where But it was an extremely welcome change.
He thought to himself for a good few seconds before deciding that no one on this planet had ever even heard about the chaos gods obliged her. "You may call me Alken child, but surely you are here for another reason than to ask my name, no?" He was slightly surprised when she shook her head, causing him to raise his brow behind his helmet before she quickly walked off and to her teammates, probably sharing his name to them, not that he cared much, he'd probably make a name for himself on what he does, or the public would do it for him. Either way it did not matter.
He slowly lifted his gaze as he heard propellers and saw a somewhat small craft above them and quickly descending towards their position, and as is got withing a certain distance from the ground, himself and Coco's team approached the craft and he watched with amusement as the pilot of the craft did a double take to look at him as Coco stepped on to the craft and he heard the pilot jabbering about what the hell Coco had brought with her. And while all this was happening, Alken saw a problem. He wasn't sure if he could fit in the damn thing.
It had been about thirty minutes after they had managed to fit Alken's fat metal ass in the bullhead after some slight bending of the ships frame, much to the displeasure of the pilot, but he decided not to say anything for obvious "might die" reasons. But, back to what was happening, they were within seeing distance of Beacon academy, and it truly was a sight, a tall and towering spire amidst architecture that was unlike the normal Gothic type on most worlds, he'd seen spectacular works of art in building for ranging from gold, to guts, to both at the same time, but this had a strange off world charm that he always found nice, even when he was murdering the innocent for giggles.
As they made it to one of the many landing pads surrounding the place Alken spotted two figures presumably waiting for them A relatively tall man with grey hair, green clothes, and old man spectacles. Though Alken could tell he wasn't as old as it all let on. The other was a woman of rather tall stature as well, she had curled, blonde hair, a blouse, a skirt of some kind he couldn't remember, and a strange looking cape. And he got more and more of an uneasy feeling that his meeting with them would go awry for him in some way.
As the doors to the Bullhead opened and Coco's team, which he had figured out had the strange acronym of CFVY (Coffee) based on the letters in their first names, which seemed unique in a way. But to the matter at hand. As he stepped of off the Bullhead after team CFVY he looked at the two who were there to greet them, the man's only reaction was to almost drop the cup of what was probably Recaf, while the woman immediately took to a battle-Esq stance and pulled out a riding crop, Slannesh would love this one, and pointed it at Alken as the warrior stood there with an impassive glare under his helmet. The air was tense as no one moved for a minuet, not Alken, the woman, the man, or any of team CFVY made a move, but the tense wait was stopped when the man, seeming to think it was enough, lifted his hand and moved Glynda's hand away and walked up to Alken, looking up at the marine with a mostly impassive, but one could also tell highly intrigued face.
"If you would kindly come with me sir, i'll gladly explain everything." Alken saw no problems with this, he could just kill the man if he tried anything and followed him past the speechless woman and team CFVY and followed him towards the massive tower in the middle of the collection of structures.
'For the love of everything golden and pure, let this be quick, I want to fucking sleep.'
Yes, i'm cutting this off here, yes, this is me cucking you guys. Sorry but I need time to recuperate after typing this all in the span of one and a half hours after jumping the fuck on and try-harding more than any Dark Souls player.
Holy fucking shit...this is the biggest chapter i've ever made, it could have been bigger if I really wanted to go through the meeting with Ozpin, but i'll save that for next chapter don't worry.
And once again i'm sorry for cucking you, and taking way too fucking long to update. I'll do my best to do it more often guys.
I'll see you all next time, and unlike Alken, I can actually get some sleep right now. -w-
