AN: Hello again. Got this new chapter up. I took the advice of a reviewer (TopHatGuy) and changed the formatting to the dialogue. Let me know if this makes it easier to read. Here Krauss gets to go though Initation. While most people tend to put OCs on team RWBY, Krauss gets a team ... Closer to home. Well read, review, and don't let the Reich Bite.
By End of the week Krauss was cleared to undergo Beacon's entrance exams. Ozpin gave Krauss a small speech at the cliff edge.
"Those who wish themselves to be Hunters must prove their worth. Through whatever means possible they show their duty to the people of Remnant. The Grimm feed off your fear and sadness, do not let them, or you will die."
Krauss pulled at his webbing ensuring it was tight. He had placed his rifle away in its bag and ditched his machete in favor of a nasty 10 inch Bayonet. After verifying his gear as in order he gave Ozpin a thumbs up and said
"A wise man once said to me. 'We all feel fear but some of us just say 'fuck it.' "
And with that Krauss tapped the latch with his foot and was launched in the air.
He spun a bit on the launch but soon stabilized his flight. At the apex of his flight he pulled the ripcord and let the chute unfurl. As his descent slowed to survivable speeds he looked for the temple. After Steering himself as close to the temple as possible he landed in a small clearing. He quickly ditched the parachute and weapon bag, marked it for pickup, checked his bearing and walked off into the forest.
After a five or six minutes, Krauss met his first opponents a small pack of Beowolves. The Grimm had yet to notice him.
"Let's give you a bit of freedom."
Aiming down the sights he centered them on the largest wolf. The trigger was squeezed and a 7.62 rocketed out of the barrel with a crack, Milliseconds after leaving it collided with the bone mask of the grim. The Jacketed round shattered the bone and tumbled through its brain pan and left out the back taking a large portion of its skull with it. This gained the attention of the other three Beowolves. With a roar they charged Krauss. His aim snapped to the farthest creature and fired twice. The pair of rounds streaked down range and struck true blowing good sized holes in its chest and throat. Letting another pair of rounds at the second wolf , the two killed it instantly. The third Beowolves was upon him befor he could bring his rifle to bear on it. Taking a back hand to the chest Krauss stumbled back a few steps. As the wolf wound up for another strike, Krauss recovered and slammed his bayonet into the neck of the beowolf. He fired once to help pull the blade out.
"Nice try asshole"
. Realigning himself with his objective he pushed on.
Out of all the blue he heard something wrong. Gunfire. 'I know Ozpin said I'd be taking this alone, better go check on this.' He toggled his radio to the frequency that Ozpin told him was Beacon's E band
" Ozpin I thought you said I was the only one in the forest. I'm hearing gunfire and lots of it." Ozpin's distorted voice came back.
"You were the only one I sent, though group of eighteen have found themselves half a mile from your position. You need to link up with them, they are facing increasing bad odds."
"wilco"
With that Krauss took off at a fast jog. As he ran he could swear he heard the ping of en-bloc clips. Within two minutes he spotted the source of the noise.
Krauss POV
I whisper"what the fuck?" And nearly dropped my rifle in disbelief. Standing in the middle of the large clearing where six soldiers in olive drab and field grey. Several bodies lay among them. They were firing into a small pack of Ursa. I had already been transported to some fantasy world so how hard could time time traveling nazis and G.I.s really be. I ran to the group to assist but before reaching them an Ursa got a German and flung him into a tree, well through a tree that is. A paratrooper bought it before we brought down the Ursa inside there line. I was quite happy to see the 1919 and MG42 the were using. They were probably the only reason why they were holding their ground, bolt actions just wouldn't cut it. I yelled
"Fire on my target! "
hosing down the largest of the demonic bears with automatic fire. An American Lieutenant slapped his Machine Gunner and got him to redirect his fire, the 30-06s quickly shredded the Ursa. This left two targets. We quickly tore the bears apart. The remaining personnel were two Lieutenants and two machine gunners.
"So that was a thing." The American gunner said to no one he turned to me. "So uh who are you?"
"That would be a long story. look we're going to attract more of those creatures if we stick around, I can get us a ride out of the fore."
I was interrupted by a gunshot. I turned to see the German Lieutenant. Dead on the ground, missing his face from the exit wound, and the MG man with a C96 pointed at his head.
(German) "What the fuck did you just do that for!"
He simply pointed at the man's collar tabs. Looking closer I could pick out the twin lightning bolts on it. "My actions are completely justified! You have have no idea the sins that man committed!"
"I know about the damn death camps and the other bullshit it does not mean you get to execute someone!"
The Lieutenant spoke up
"Sergeant I'm pulling rank you need to get us the hell out of here."
I turned to him, about to give him a piece of my mind.
"Now Sergeant! that is an order!"
fine fuck it, we're all probably going to die here anyway.
"Beacon hammer 2-3 We need medical evac now."
the radio squawked back to life
"Krauss, we don't understand."
I chose that moment to facepalm, I asked.
" Was I?"
"Ja"."
"Beacon this is hammer 2-3 requesting Medevac. I found your new guests, be advised were going to need a quite a few bags."
With a slight sigh the responder replied
"Shit, all right we're sending a bullhead to your location. ETA five minutes, you be safe soon."
Precisely three minutes later life decided to screw them over. This time it was in the form of a large nevermore. It was maybe half the size of the one RWBY and JNPR killed during their initiation, but it made it no less deadly. As implemented by the sudden appearances for feathers in the ground. One had hit the corpse of a GI and cut him clean in half. Unfortunately for the bird, the soldiers were quite pissed and happened to have a M67 90mm rifle with them. The two G.I.s pulled the gun from under its former user, and loaded the weapon. Meanwhile Krauss and the German unleashed as brilliant display of tracer fire from the two MGs. The nevermore hovered just outside the effective range of the two MGs but well within the AT gun's. The Sergeant cried "JONATHAN! LIGHT THAT FUCKER UP!" The rifle went up and settled its crosshairs on the winged menace. A small click was heard, followed by an ear splitting crack as the round flew to meet the nevermore. The HE round flew into and blew most of its lower chest out in a impressive fireball. As the smoke cleared In A blast of wind. They saw the nevermore was still flying. The bird was now VERY angry, oh and it was on fire too. Lovely. The bullhead came to the rescue though with its Chaingun and shooed the flaming monstrosity off. The dead were quickly wrapped in sheets and loaded in the waiting transport.
"Sergeant. You have some explaining to do."
Krauss let out a sigh. "You guys are from 1944 right?"
"Yes that is correct? Why, are you from the future?" Asked Wilham the remaining German Fallschirmjager. He held that classic Aryan look and was the youngest of the group at 17. "Um yes. 2020." " so we're in the future?" "Eh no.. I think we're in a completely different world." Jonathan, the American MG man, looked down at the white sheets between them. "What killed them then? We didn't stand a chance."
"Ozpin told me there called The creatures of Grimm, there a problem infesting this world like wars infest Terra. Oh and before I forget, I'll need to fill you in on several years of human idiocy and innovation."
And so Krauss filled them in on the Cold War, forwards. As they arrived at Beacon. They found a not too happy landing party.
Goodwitch was absolutely livid. The first year students had just watched several men get mutilated and killed thanks to Krauss and his damned helmet camera. She had told Ozpin that having the students And that Wilhelm had executed one of them! And for some reason they were ok with it! She found the arriving bullhead And shouted
"What the hell were you doing! And you!" She pointed at Wilhelm. " You just Executed one of your men!"
Krauss moved to intercept the raging teacher from his new allies. "It may not seem like it but what Wilhelm did was completely justified, that bastard was SS."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean!"
Thankfully Ozpin showed up at that moment and save the soldiers from a messy death."It means something incredibly important to The people of earth and for very good reason too."
"There is no reason to"
Ozpin interjected with steel in his voice."Yes there is. I will explain it in private. As for you three welcome to Beacon academy, I am it's headmaster, Ozpin. I understand you are from a different era entirely. I would like to offer you a place here so you could learn about the world you inhabit. You would have been assigned a team but you already seem to work well together."
He turned to our Sargeant." Krauss how do you feel about a promotion? "
Krauss paled"No. not after what happened with Sun Knife."
He turned to Adam. "Lieutenant, are you willing to lead these three? "
Adam Saluted."Don't know about the kruat but I'll do my best sir."
The gears in Ozpin's head had finally come full circle" What are your names?"
" Adam McCarthy 2nd Lieutenant of the 101st airborne." said Adam extending a hand.
"a pleasure." said Ozpin as he shook his hand.
" Jonathan Browning. PFC of the 101st airborne." Ozpin shook his hand. finally Wilhelm was left.
"Oberjäger(Sergeant Equivalente) Wilhelm Studet of the 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division.
Ozpin smiled "Gentlemen, I believe I will enjoy the next four years immensely. I will arange that your dead are properly cared for, and honored suitably."
