It had been about a couple of months since Shade and Hunter had been accepted into Beacon, granted they both knew it was for some rather unfair reasons, but it was still a good experience.
They had been learning a lot about Remnant's history, the faunus revolution, the great war, and even some of the many myths and legends. One of which, to their surprise, told about a prophecy involving their Jaeger, Diamond Banshee.
Now Shade and Hunter along with the rest of team SPHR were spending their day hanging out in the library with team RWBY, along with Aaron and Elena.
"Hey Aaron, have you ever done scrapbooking where you're from?" Hunter asked.
"What's scrapbooking?" Aaron asked.
"It's where you take items and pictures that remind you of happy memories and put them in a blank book. Then you decorate it," Ruby responded. "Yang tried it once."
"Keyword: tried." Yang interjected.
"Let me guess, you managed to do it for about ten minutes before you got bored?" Shade asked.
"How'd you know?" she asked rhetorically.
"Eh, I tried it once when we first joined the-" Hunter was cut off by Shade elbowing him in the stomach.
"Er, when we joined combat school" Hunter corrected himself.
"What combat school did you attend anyway?" Weiss asked.
"Jaeger academy." Shade answered.
It wasn't a lie. 'Jaeger academy' was the actual name for the training program the PPDC used to train new Jaeger pilots. Besides it sounded cool, So they decided that even though it was a touchy subject, the true name for where they got their training would be a proper answer for that question.
"I've never heard of it, is it an independent school?" Weiss asked.
"You could say that," Hunter answered.
Weiss seemed content with that answer and returned to her homework.
"So how exactly did you all meet?" Elena asked.
"Well, that's actually kind of a long story…" Hunter trailed off.
Both Blake and Rona both perked up at hearing the incoming conversation, and Weiss also looked up from her homework.
Shade could have sworn that Blake's bow… twitched.
"These two woke up on The beach on patch, they had been attacked by Grimm and were hurt pretty bad." Yang answered.
"How did you get attacked by the Grimm?" Rona asked.
"We were flying an experimental aircraft from Atlas to Vale at the time." Shade said.
"Oh? What model?" Weiss asked.
"Not really sure, Atlas just asked us and a couple of others to pilot it as a skeleton crew." he answered.
"That's… odd." She said skeptically.
"Eh, we never really thought too much about it." Hunter remarked.
"Reason being, Hunter never thinks too hard about anything." Shade said.
Hunter just rolled his eyes.
"Are you sure it was Atlas that asked you to pilot it?" Blake asked.
"Who else could it have been?" Shade said dodging the question.
Blake eyed the two of them carefully before returning to her book.
[...]
The next day, Team SPHR had decided to head to the docks, Petra suggested it and the rest of them just followed.
"Ah! I love the smell of the sea!" Petra announced.
"Did you grow up on an island or something?" Shade asked.
"No, but my parents are part of the Vytal festival planning committee, so I traveled a lot as a kid." she answered.
As they kept walking Shade could have sworn he heard something like… splashing?
Then someone screamed. "HE'S DROWNING!" a voice shouted.
Before anyone else could react Shade was already diving into the water after a small boy who had fallen off the dock and drifted a good fifty feet.
Hunter wasn't far behind, with Petra and Rona following as soon as they recovered their senses.
As soon as Shade reached the kid he started to pull his head above water before swimming back to the dock. When he reached the dock Hunter reached down and grabbed the kid.
"Come on kid!" Hunter said, pulling the child out of the water.
As soon as the boy was on the docks Shade started to pull himself out of the water. Looking over he saw that the child was now coughing up water and drawing in deep breaths, a good sign that he was going to be ok.
He hadn't gotten a good look before now, the kid was probably about ten years old, and was wearing shorts and a yellow t-shirt. But the most defining trait was a pair of wolf-like ears coming out of the top of his head. He was without a doubt a Faunus.
"He just saved that kid!"
"Is he alright?"
"Why would he save an animal?"
He could hear many remarks, questions, and praises coming from the crowd that had gathered. Then exhaustion finally hit him. Shade might be able to run a marathon, but he couldn't swim for more than a few minutes. Diving into the water and then dragging someone back took its toll on him. He didn't collapse, but he quickly sat down against a street lamp exhausted.
Looking around he saw everyone… except for his teammate, Rona.
[...]
Being able to camouflage yourself nearly instantaneously had its uses, especially when you get into an awkward situation. Rona had always felt awkward around Faunus, so when one of her teammates saved one from drowning… a few things went through her head.
Shade had reacted faster than she had ever seen anyone react to save a Faunus. He didn't even stop to look and see who it was, he just dived in without even thinking.
Her entire family were prejudiced towards Faunus. She never knew why, only that it had something to do with the great war. She had tried her entire life to break her family's mold, she tried with every fiber of her being not to be racist towards Faunus. But she still avoided them in awkward situations. And her current situation was certainly an awkward one. Rona had used her semblance to get away from the main crowd.
Later in team SPHR's dorm room she met up with the rest of her team.
"What the heck Rona?! You ditched us!" Petra exclaimed.
"Easy Petra, she said she didn't like crowds." Hunter said.
Among other things, Rona thought to herself.
"That still doesn't warrant ditching us like that!" she retorted.
"Just calm down, yelling at each other won't get us anywhere." Shade stated.
Petra only huffed before plopping down on her bed.
"Look, I'm sorry for ditching you guys, but I had some things I needed to take care of." Rona stated.
"Things more important than your teammate diving into the water to save someone?!" Petra challenged.
Rona only got up and walked out of the room.
She could understand why Petra was mad. Rona knew she shouldn't have rushed off Like she did.
"Hey, mind if we talk?" she heard Shade ask.
She turned around noticing Shade standing outside the doorway. She eyed the room that the rest of their teammates were in, and Shade caught on.
"Don't worry, Hunter will take care of Petra." he said.
"Sure, why not." she answered.
Shade started to walk towards the end of the hall.
"The hall probably isn't the best place to have a conversation." Shade said as he walked off with Rona close behind.
Walking into the courtyard the first thing she noticed was the fact that there were very few people out and about. The perfect place to have a private conversation.
"So," Shade said "what exactly is going on?"
"It's something I'd rather not talk about." she answered.
"So this is going to be one of those conversations, eh?" Shade asked "Tell you what, I'll give you a piece of info about me, and you answer one of my questions."
"Deal." she said.
"Firstly, what do you want to know about me?" he asked.
She thought about this. What did she want to know about him?
"I guess… where did you grow up?" she asked. The question seemed simple enough.
"A village outside of Vale." he answered "My turn."
She was dreading what came next.
"Do you have any siblings?" he asked.
The question took her by surprise. Why did he want to know that?
"Two, an older brother and sister," she answered, "but why-?"
"What do you want to know about me?" he asked, cutting her off.
The next several minutes were spent asking each other seemingly meaningless questions. What's your favorite color? Do you have any pets?
Rona may not have realized it at first, but she was actually enjoying herself. She was talking with someone who actually just wanted to talk.
"If you don't mind me asking," he started "why did you run off earlier?"
She thought about it for a few seconds.
"It's... A long story." she said.
"Trust me when I say this, my entire being, is a long story." he chuckled.
She stared at him for a few seconds. She could tell just by looking at him that he was only looking out for his team.
"Well, when you pulled that Faunus kid out of the water…" she paused "I don't know, it's just that I've never been comfortable around them."
He nodded, but didn't say anything.
"I grew up around people who hated Faunus. My parents, my siblings, even my grandparents… especially, my grandparents." she said, shuddering.
"And what about you?" he asked.
"I… I don't know what to think," she said. "My entire life I've been told that Faunus are just animals that need to be put in cages or exterminated."
"I even thought that was the case when I first heard about the White Fang," she stated, "but I've seen how Faunus act. I know they're not animals, but, I still don't like interacting with them."
She looked at her team leader as he sat there, eyes looking straight into hers.
"Well, what are you going to do about it?" he asked.
"What?" she asked bewildered.
"You said that you've seen how Faunus act, you know they're not animals. So what are you going to do? Sit around all day and avoid every Faunus you come in contact with?" he asked "Or are you going to try and break your family's mold, and do something different"
She stared at Shade bewildered.
"I… I don't know," she said "the reason I wanted to become a huntress was so that I could help everyone, even Faunus. And maybe even change my family's way of thinking."
"Tell you what," he said, "There are more than a Few faunus in Beacon, you've even met one of them, so why don't you try and talk to them?"
[...]
The rest of the day was spent with Shade walking around the school with Rona most of the day while she tried to meet several of the Faunus in the school.
Rona had just finished a conversation with Velvet Scarlatina, a rabbit Faunus as well as a second year student.
"Well… that was… better I guess." Rona said.
"Hey, at least you managed to hold a conversation, that's more than Hunter can do." Shade remarked.
"Why do you say that?" she asked.
"Last time Hunter tried to interact with anyone who wasn't either related to him, or wasn't military… or I wasn't around… he got a swift punch in the gut." Shade stated.
Rona giggled a bit at the image of Hunter getting punched.
"Well, he didn't have the best-" Shade was cut off when a red blur seemed to slam into Shade.
Rona looked and saw that said red blur was a young girl, Ruby Rose, and was… hugging Shade?
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she said over and over.
"Woah woah! Slow down Ruby, What's wrong?" Shade asked.
Ruby quickly let go of Shade "I sorta, kinda… told my entire team, Cerise, Nalia, Aaron and Elena your secret" she said.
"Ok, what? Which one?" he asked.
"Secret?" Rona asked curiously.
"The big one… the really really big one…" she said.
Rona saw that Shade suddenly had a very worried look in his eyes.
"Height and weight." he asked.
Height and weight Of what? Rona thought to herself.
"280 feet, 7400 tons." Ruby answered hugging herself and wincing.
Shade groaned while putting his face in his hands.
"Wait, what in Remnant is 280 feet tall and weighs 7400 tons?!" Rona asked.
"Where is everyone?" Shade asked.
"Over at the Dragonhouse, why?" Ruby asked.
"Head on back while I get the rest of my team," Shade responded. "Looks like Hunter and I have some explaining to do." he then took off running towards his team's dorm with Rona following close behind him.
As Shade and Rona arrived at team SPHR's dorm, Shade ran inside, startling both Hunter and Petra.
"What's going on?" Hunter asked, quickly setting down the notebook he was using to help him with his homework.
"Hunter, Petra, stop whatever you're doing and head to the Dragonhouse." Shade said while digging through the dresser both he and Hunter shared, pulling out a large green duffel bag and slung it over his shoulder.
"WILL… *gasp* SOMEONE… *gasp* TELL… *gasp* ME… *gasp* WHAT ON… *gasp* REMNANT… *gasp* IS… *gasp* 280FT TALL… *gasp* AND WEIGHS… *gasp* 7400 TONS!?" Rona shouted in between deep breaths.
Hunter just covered his face and groaned, while Petra looked at both of them with a confused look on her face.
All four of them quickly left the dorm and made their way to the Dragonhouse. They found Ruby just outside the door to the building waiting for them nervously. Judging by the noises coming from inside… well, it probably wasn't pretty. As soon as Shade opened the door…
"Why is it that someone we know, who isn't clinically insane, just suddenly claims to be from some other universe?!" Weiss yelled at Yang, clearly finding the subject getting old very fast.
"Have you met Shade or Hunter? There is no way either of them is a nutjob." Yang shot back.
"Nutjob? Maybe, but clinically insane? I'm pretty sure I would know if I was." Hunter said as he entered the Dragonhouse.
"Please! Tell me this is some kind of elaborate prank!" Weiss said eyeing the duffel bag Shade had on his shoulder.
"Nope," Hunter said, emphasizing the 'P'.
Weiss just stared at both of the pilots. Shade facepalmed at Hunter's lack of subtlety but otherwise didn't react.
"What is everyone talking about?" Petra asked.
Shade sighed "Okay, Rona, Petra you both may want to sit down for this." He stated.
As both Petra and Rona sat down in comfortable spots next to the two dragons, Hunter closed the door so no one could interrupt the conversation that was about to take place.
"Well. This will get awkward fast." Hunter said.
"You think?" Shade deadpanned.
"So." Weiss said skeptically "I have heard something impossible from my team leader, and I would like it if you could please confirm or deny her claims."
"Ruby, what, exactly, did you say?" Shade asked as he set the duffel bag on the ground.
"Well… Weiss was asking about the two of you, and when she asked how we met, I told her you had washed up on Patch," she explained "And I… accidentally mentioned your really cool armor and it kinda just snowballed from there."
"Schnee-balled?" Hunter attempted.
"Hunter! Now is not the time for German puns!" Shade said.
"German?" Nalia asked, confused.
"Long story. One that actually intertwines with our current situation." Shade said flatly.
"I'm still lost on what you're all talking about." Aaron stated.
"Okay, to understand what you're about to hear, you have to believe the impossible." Hunter said. "Personally, I would prefer to show you but my phone has died and there is no charger that is compatible with it on remnant and Shade's doesn't have the app that will help with this explanation."
"Can I see this 'phone'?" Weiss asked with a confused look on her face.
Hunter reached into his pocket and pulled out a large rectangular object and handed it to Weiss.
"It's their world's version of a Scroll." Yang stated while Weiss looked over the iPhone in her hand.
"I may be able to help with this." Weiss said as she grabbed her Scroll of her spare charger she had for the Dragonhouse and put Hunter's iPhone on it. The phone suddenly turned on and started charging its battery surprising both Shade and Hunter.
"How the heck did you manage to get it to work?" Hunter asked with a shocked look on his face.
"It has the same charging port as my scroll so I just plugged it in." Weiss stated, showing her scroll. A large Schnee Dust Company snowflake was on one side of said Scroll.
"Well, while we wait for Hunter's phone to charge I guess we should start explaining." Shade sighed.
Over the next two hours Shade and Hunter explained what Jaegers and Kaiju were, and how they got to Remnant. Ruby and Yang remained quiet while Shade and Hunter were talking. Blake and Weiss just stared at them in shock. Both Petra and Rona stared at their partners while covering their mouths with their hands. Aaron, Nalia and Cerise followed along with interest. Elena on the other hand had asked a few times for the pilots to help explain some things a bit better for her to understand.
"And that's when we got to Beacon." Shade said.
"So… what do you think?" Hunter asked
"I…" Weiss stuttered.
"Yes. The answer is yes." Hunter said.
"Am I dreaming?" Blake asked. "The legend is coming true."
"No, you're not dreaming." Hunter said.
"Wow." Rona said "that was… different."
Petra just sat in silence for a few seconds.
"AWESOME!" she shouted "You two are from a different world just like Aaron, Nalia, Cerise and Elena!"
"Yeah we are." Hunter said.
"What's it like there? Do you have movies? Ooooooh what kind of Grimm are there?" she asked.
"Whoa. Slow down, first, yes we have movies, second, we, actually don't have Grimm." Shade said.
This shocked all the Remitarians in the room. "No Grimm? That place must be heaven!" Petra exclaimed.
"Still, it's worse there than here in some ways." Shade said.
"What do you mean?" Rona asked, slightly wary now.
"For one, up until twelve years ago, and even now to an extent, wars were all over the place, both world wars, Vietnam, the civil war and plenty more." He said listing off several.
"And that was before the Kaiju attacked. Now entire cities have been wiped off the map thanks to them." Hunter said
"And it's only been getting worse, the Jaeger program is losing funding so it's getting harder to build them, and the Kaiju are getting bigger every time they come through the breach." Shade said.
"Not to mention things have been getting bad ever since Gypsy," Hunter remarked "we've been losing Jaeger's left and right."
Everyone in the room went dead silent. The world that both Shade and Hunter came from was this bad?
So… You said it's been getting worse since 'Gypsy,' what do you mean by that? Nalia asked.
"Five years ago a state of the art Jaeger was taken down by a category three Kaiju," Shade answered "Up till then, only two or three Jaeger's had gone down, and those were older less reliable ones."
"The ones that had gone down before were Mark ones, Gypsy was a mark three." Hunter clarified.
Petra, Cerise, Nalia, Aaron, Ruby, and Yang had a blank look on their faces, while Rona, Blake, Elena and Weiss just stared in horror at the two pilots.
Ok, so what's German? Cerise asked, breaking the silence.
"German is a language where we are from, originating in the kingdom of Germany. Which also brings up the fact that the name 'Jaeger' is German for 'hunter'." Hunter said with a grin on his face.
"Technically, Germany hasn't been a 'kingdom' since the middle ages." Shade stated.
"Really? I'm pretty sure it's some kind of kingdom." Hunter said.
"No, now, it's a democracy." Shade corrected "How could you not know that?"
"Eh, I'm not a geography buff." Hunter said simply.
"That's politics!" Shade exclaimed.
"Eh, same difference." He retorted.
"So… the German word for Hunter is Jaeger." Yang stated.
"Correct." Hunter answered.
"Then your name is a pun!" Yang exclaimed gleefully.
This statement was followed by a chorus of groans from everyone in the room, both mental and verbal.
"Wait, so what did you mean by 'Schnee-balled' earlier?" Yang asked.
"As a matter of fact, Weiss' full name actually means, 'White Snow' in German," Hunter answered "Hence why I tried to make a snowball pun."
This sent Yang to the ground laughing, and caused Weiss to groan.
"Well in any case, for me and Nalia, your story is believable." Aaron said "Its length alone gives it credibility."
"That's what Ozpin said." Shade stated.
"Wait, you told Ozpin about this?" Weiss asked.
"Well, He, kinda found out on his own." Hunter said.
This surprised everyone in the room. They knew the professor was perceptive, but finding out that the two were from an entirely different universe was very unique.
"Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, he is the headmaster for a reason." Weiss stated.
"True enough." Blake agreed.
"So… what's in the duffel bag?" Petra asked.
"I felt like not all of you would be completely convinced with our story, so I decided to show everyone here our armor." Shade said eyeing Weiss.
Hunter immediately grabbed the zipper and opened the duffel bag to reveal two sets of cyan colored Jaeger Drive-suit armor. Blake, Weiss, Petra, and Rona gasped when they were handed pieces of the armor. Some of the pieces were still damaged, but most of the armor was still intact.
"What is this?" Elena asked, pointing to the symbol on the shoulder piece of Hunter's armor.
Everyone quickly looked over at the symbol Elena was pointing at. On the shoulder piece, a large winged bird with a single star above its head and between its wings was shown.
"That," Shade said with a ton of pride in his voice "Is the Pan Pacific Defense Corps' emblem. My aunt was the one who made it in the first place. She made it to help the PPDC rally everyone together and make it the Jaeger program's symbol of hope."
"Speaking about Shade's aunt, she is also the leader of the weapons and J-Tech division of the Jaeger program." Hunter stated.
"Wow your aunt must be really cool if she can do all of that!" Petra exclaimed.
"Yeah she is." Shade sighed.
A very loud beeping noise interrupted shade before he could say anything else. Everyone turned and saw it was coming from Hunter's iPhone.
"Yes it's done charging." Hunter said grinning from ear to ear.
Hunter quickly grabbed the phone off of Weiss's spare charger and set it down on the floor in front of everyone in the room. After quickly unlocking it, he pressed a small button that allowed the screen to be projected into a hologram large enough for everyone to see. After that Hunter pressed a small app that had appeared on the holographic screen. The screen quickly changed to the same symbol on the pilot's armor and a large circle appeared around it.
"Welcome to the Pan Pacific Defense Force information app." An AI Voice said.
The circle split into 5 equal pieces, with each piece quickly changed different colors.
"So who here wants to see what Jaegers looks like?" Hunter asked.
Everyone quickly nodded their heads as Hunter pressed the top center part of the circle. The holographic screen quickly changed to a group of 23 different pictures of robots.
Above the pictures was a quote which read,
"There are things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."
-Raleigh Becket, Pilot of Gypsy Danger.
"Whoa," Yang said as her eyes widened as she read the quote. "Is that true?"
Both Shade and Hunter nodded their heads. "I still remember our second time we were deployed." Hunter stated "The Kaiju just had to appear during hurricane season. That is one fight I will never forget."
"Yea it's one thing to fight a Kaiju in normal conditions, it's a whole other story when you have to fight it in a Typhoon." Shade sighed. "I'm just glad we had Striker Eureka to back us up during that fight."
"I thought they were called Hurricanes?" Hunter said eyeing his partner.
"Where you grew up they are, but not off of the coast of Sydney." Shade retorted.
Who's Striker Eureka? Cerise asked.
"Ruby can you press the second to last picture for her please." Hunter asked the young Rider.
Ruby pressed her finger on the holographic projection and the picture quickly expanded showing a giant robot with the words 'Striker Eureka' on the right side of the holographic screen. At the bottom of the screen it showed a total of seven different looking creatures and two men standing next to the bottom of the foot of the Jaeger. Ruby went starry eyed as she carefully examined the Jaeger.
"Feel free to look at everything on that app," Hunter stated "We are going to head off to the gym."
And with that both pilots left the room, glad they were out of that situation they found themselves in.
[...]
"Man, I was not expecting that to happen today." Hunter deadpanned.
"I have to agree with you there." Shade said with an exhausted look on his face.
"You know what I miss right now." Hunter said as they entered the locker room to the gym.
"What?" Shade asked, eyeing his partner.
"Your Aunt's chocolate chip cookies!" Hunter exclaimed.
Both Hunter and Shade's stomachs started rumbling loudly at the mention of said cookies.
"You just had to mention those cookies, didn't you?" Shade said glaring at Hunter.
"They're just way too good!" Hunter shouted.
"I have to agree with you there." Shade said remembering his childhood memories. "But you do remember what happened to you the last time you had them. RIGHT?"
Hunter just nervously scratched the back of his head. He knew all too well what happened that day.
Flashback…
Shade's aunt, Miss Sheppard, had just made a giant batch of her famous chocolate chip cookies to celebrate both Shade and Hunter's first ever, and solo, Kaiju kill. She also had put the entire kitchen and mess hall into lock down while she baked due to the almost destruction of the entire Jaeger launch zone, mess hall and kitchen last time she baked the cookies. But there was just one chocolate chip cookie left on the serving tray and both Hunter and Cherno Alpha pilot Aleksis Kaidonovsky were fighting tooth and nail over that last cookie.
"Hey, Hey! PUT ME DOWN!" Hunter screamed as Aleksis picked up Hunter and held him high in the air making him face the ceiling. At that moment the Cherno Alpha pilot threw Hunter at full strength towards the Wei Tang brothers, knocking all three of them over as they tried to dash for the final cookie. Hunter got up as fast as physically possible and jumped Aleksis, knocking them both to the floor. Shade's aunt quickly exited the kitchen holding a pure black and white katana in her right hand, pointing the white blade at both Aleksis and Hunter's heads, while holding the final chocolate chip cookie in her left. The look on her face said it all. She was pissed. Sword or not it scared everyone in the mess hall.
"KITCHEN, NOW!" Miss Sheppard shouted, looking at the two pilots.
"Y-Yes ma'am" they both said as they rushed into the kitchen awaiting Miss Sheppard's punishment. Hunter noticed a single white rose petal floating behind Miss Sheppard's back as he went inside. "Shade, Mako, can you both get the triplets to the infirmary?" she asked while turning back to the kitchen, sheathing the black and white katana. Both Mako and Shade rushed over to the triplets, carrying them on their shoulders to the infirmary.
In the kitchen, both Hunter and Aleksis were giving each other death glares. Miss Sheppard stepped up right in front of them, angrily looking at both pilots. "WHAT ON RE...EARTH WERE YOU TWO THINKING!" she yelled at them. Both pilots tried explaining themselves but were cut off when Shade's Aunt unsheathed her katana. "Both of you are to clean every dish in here for the next two weeks starting today." she said pointing the white blade over to the sink full of dishes. "And as the second part of your punishment you both will be helping me with weapons maintenance on both of you Jaegers."
"Yes ma'am." they said to Shade's aunt.
"If any of you skip out on your punishment, I WILL Dismantle your Jaeger."
This statement shocked both pilots. But they knew that she literally meant every word. Miss Shepherd was one of the only few people in the entire Jaeger program that knew the ins and outs of every Jaeger. Hunter and Aleksis both ran to the sink and started washing the dishes.
...Present day
"Yea I'd rather not suffer her wrath again." Hunter said.
Shade just laughed as both he and Hunter walked out into the gym to do their usual training session.
[...]
Petra, Rona, Aaron, Elena, team RWBY and the dragons were still back in the Dragonhouse, discussing what they had just found out about Shade and Hunter.
"So, what do you all think?" Rona asked.
"Well, the two of them told me and Ruby as much before we came to Beacon, But they never said how bad it actually was." Yang said.
"To be honest, the whole prospect of their world is… horrifying." Weiss said.
"LOOK AT THIS JAEGER!" Ruby squealed, pointing at the holographic screen. Everyone looked and saw a huge military green Jaeger kill a Kaiju with just its fists by punching its head clean off.
"Whoa!" Yang exclaimed.
"It fights just like you do Yang." Elena stated.
"Yes it does. Kinda reminds me of when I did that to a Beowolf last week." Yang said.
"Have you found the guy's Jaeger yet?" Petra asked.
"Not yet, I'm still looking." Ruby answered going starry eyed at every Jaeger she looked at.
Ruby flipped the screen page to the next Jaeger showing Diamond Banshee. "FOUND IT!" she shouted showing the Jaeger. Sure enough on the bottom right corner of the Holographic screen was both Hunter and Shade, fully dressed in their armor.
"I… I can't believe it," Blade said with eyes as wide as dinner plates. "It's the Cyan Metal Giant from the legend."
"That makes three, right Blake?" Weiss asked.
Blake simply nodded as she continued to stare at the Jaeger on the holographic screen.
"Okay, now I see why the guys wished they had their Jaeger during that fight with Rosemary," Petra stated. "That thing looks like it can eat Awakened Beings for breakfast."
"Agreed," Team RWBY, Rona and even Elena said while nodding their heads.
Ruby started scrolling through another part of the app labeled Jaeger Program Heads of Staff. The first picture showed the Marshall standing next to the window overlooking the Jaeger launch bay with his hands behind his back.
'Marshall Stacker Pentecost, head and leader of the PPDC's. Former Pilot of the Jaeger Coyote Tango, he and his co-pilot Tamsin Sevier took down Kaiju Onibaba in Tokyo Japan on May 15th, 2016. Later Tamsin Sevier was told that she had cancer, they both retired from being pilots while Stacker Pentecost stayed in the PPDC training new pilots of what they might face when fighting Kaiju. Eventually being promoted to his position in the PPDC today.'
"Wait, so that's who they were talking about when I first met them?" Petra asked.
"They were talking about him?" Yang asked back.
"Yea, they said he was being all up-tight or something like that."
Ruby flipped to the next page on the holographic screen where it showed Tendo Choi standing in front his station at the LOCCENT operations center.
'Tendo Choi, Loccent Chief and J-Tech second in command, Tendo is the man who oversees major operations when Jaegers are deployed and the person who names and classifies every Kaiju that emerges from the breach. When he is not working in the LOCCENT, he is helping the J-Tech Chief fixing and maintaining the Jaegers.'
"Wow, he must have a lot of work on his hands if he does all of that." Rona said
"He has my respect if he can do all of that." Weiss said.
"Of course you do." Yang said as she and Blake rolled their eyes.
Ruby flipped to the next page showing Dr. Hermann Gottlieb standing in front of his chalk board and a model of the breach off to his side.
'DR. Hermann Gottlieb, the mathematician of the PPDC's science team. He is the one who wrote the code for all the mark-1 Jaegers. He is currently researching the exact nature and physics of the breach, even recently coming up with the model for when the next Kaiju emerge from the breach and where they will attack.'
"Looks like we just found the guy for Professor Peach's next date." Yang said jokingly.
"I doubt it Yang. It says here he already has a wife." Aaron said.
Everyone laughed at the statement. "Well let's see who's next." Ruby said as she flipped the page showing Newt. Newt was standing next to an autopsy table with a giant Kaiju organ on top of it, that he was dissecting with smaller pieces scattered around the table and floor.
'DR. Newton (Newt) Geiszler, part of the PPDC's science team. He studies the Kaiju themselves by dissecting Kaiju organs and remains to find out how they work and more importantly, what their weaknesses are. Also, his research saved millions of people and millions of dollars by finding out how to treat and neutralize the toxic factor of the Kaiju blood, also known as Kaiju Blue.'
Both Petra and Rona's eyes widened in surprise.
"He did that?" Rona asked.
"Looks like it." Petra responded.
Weiss just looked at Newt's picture before getting up and ran to the nearby bathroom in the Dragonhouse to empty her stomach. Yang, Petra and even Cerise laughed at Weiss's predicament.
"HAHAHA ohhh, so it looks like Weiss can't handle gross stuff all that well." Yang said, wiping a tear from her eye.
"She will have to get used to it if she wants to be a Huntress." Blake said. "Coco did say that next semester professor Peach is making us dissect some frogs."
"Please don't remind me." Rona said with a disgusted look on her face.
"So Ruby who is n…" Yang paused as she looked over to her sister. Ruby's eyes had widened in shock, tears flowing down her cheeks and her right hand covered her mouth. Ruby's entire body was trembling as she looked at the next person on the app.
"Ruby what's wrong!" Yang said with deep concern in her voice. She turned to see who her little sister was looking at and got the biggest shock of her life.
"M...Mom?"
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A/N: Surprise cliffhanger!
I have to admit a couple of things here.
First off I have been actually looking forward to this chapter ever since I started this story. I rewrote most of this chapter to test my writing skills when it was originally in Jaegers and Grimm. After showing it to Rocket, he made me the beta reader for that story which has been crossed over into this one since chapter 3. It brings back a lot of memories rewriting this chapter again so it can fit into RWBY - Warriors of Remnant with the involvement of Elena, Aaron and both Nalia and Cerise.
Second, after reviewing the source material and how long it is. I've decided that instead of the original planned rapid fire chapters I mentioned last chapter, I'm combining the four chapters into two chapters.
Anyway onto the Reviews!
barrera2009: I have two answers. The Reds and Blues timeline is from between seasons 12 and 13 as it is in the original source material. As for the TF2 mercs yes I will. They are not as fun to write if they don't have those abilities.
ErrorSans13: First, Thanks. Second, Happy Birthday, even though it already happened by the time this chapter is uploaded. Third, thank you. I'm sure you're going to enjoy the rest of the story as it comes out.
TheSilentChloey: Yes I agree, but after this chapter it is well worth it.
Hamm1999: Hahaha, That is already going to happen with some very funny results.
Ultimatrix bearer: Thank you.
I hope you all enjoyed this new chapter and I can't wait for everyone to read the next one. Get ready. The long wait is almost over.
