Welcome back to Operation Outcasts. I'm gonna spend a lot of time planning this, since I really have to do this thing, and i have a lot of stuff to bring up. There will be other stories, but I will focus heavily on this for now. There will be RT and AH references, crazy stuff, and i will even do something a bit different.
But there's not much to tell, so enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't have an affliction with any of the franchises , I'm just a fan.
Chapter 3
It was way past bedtime for anybody, but the perfect excuse was that terror had struck in New York. It was reported that an hour ago, two portals opened up in a park, and on a street and it revealed about eight outcasts, two of which were the most deadly. Since that happened, everyone had ran off to their homes.
The city has been ordered by the police, and the enforcement officers to hide in their homes until they managed to rat out the enemy. This was a part of a plan that happens when any outcasts shows up, if they were first sighted, the citizens would be ordered to head for their homes until further instructions emerge. The second part would be that if the outcasts were proven to be more of a threat, the people would have to commence evacuation.
The outcasts were nowhere to be found, so this was a good thing for the citizens, but they could only relax for quite some time. Back at Ruby, Weiss, Jaune and Pyyrha, they were hiding as well as everyone else, they were in some old apartment, not even filled with much windows, and there was a kitchen stand right near the doorway. Two entrances greeted them and gave them the option to go to two bedrooms on each side, or even give them the opportunity to use the restroom.
Pyyrha pushed the couch all the way to the door, completely blocking their entrance and exit. After being chased by police, they had to take precautions to hide and figure out where they were. Jaune and Ruby were sitting on a round desk, waiting for Weiss to give out their current location and such things.
"Guys, you're not going to believe this." The Schnee heiress finally got to the table, and placed down her scroll, it was showing a map of their location, and the rest of the city, this wasn't much of an interest, but that was because she didn't get to the other part. "I've looked at some things and I noticed that this planet doesn't have anything we use! No weapons, no dust, nothing!"
"What do you mean by that?" Jaune asked, scooting over for Nikos to come sit next to him.
"This planet is not Remnant, " Weiss said, "This is planet Earth, and we're in New York City!"
"Wait, what?" Ruby stood up, "You mean the planet where the rest of humanity came from?" She wasn't expecting the answer to be yes, but Weiss did say that. "What? Then how are we being chased by the police earlier?"
"Ruby, I did look up about that, but-"
"What are you two talking about?" the small converstation confused Pyyrha and Jaune, since they didn't understand the shock of Ruby about Earth. The red hooded girl turned to Nikos. "Well...It's a long story."
"Me and Ruby accidentally got sent to some planet that was in a middle of a war," Weiss stated, "But we got paired up with a military group, we destroyed the alien race, and we saved humanity..."
"You guys went into a war? Without us!" Jaune shouted in words, "How come we didn't get to go-"
"I don't know, okay!" Weiss shook her hands in a fit, "But yeah, we came back here, and then...you know the rest."
"So why are we being hunted down when you guys saved the entire race from being destroyed?"
"That is a very good question." Ruby replied, she can even agree to the fact that she was very clueless about this thing, and also since Jaune and Pyyrha were dragged in this, they needed to figure somethings out. "But what happened to our other friends?"
"I can't get in contact with them, their scrolls are at sleep mode." Weiss said from the chair, she did knew about the sleep mode thing the rest installed a while ago. "But I got info on us." She showed the scroll out to the trio, revealing a detailed picture. The image showed a statue of both Ruby and Weiss, in a battle pose ready to fight an enemy head on.
It was a good sight, if only the fires were out though. The picture had the statue being burned by fire and tipping down on the ground by a whole crowd of people, this was not a pretty thing to look at, and the three were a bit surprised at this. If this was how they were being treated, then they could understand it, then the page was turned slightly to show a tagline saying; The Outcasts have betrayed us.
The outcasts...oh no." Ruby shook her head. "That's us, we're the outcasts." She said those words out to the JNPR duo, "And they think we're the enemy."
"But you guys didn't do anything to deserve this." Jaune said to her, standing up "We're the good guys! We didn't do anythimg wrong!"
"Unless you count the time when the outcasts destroyed almost an entire city." Pyyrha's words wer're enough for them to look back at the scroll, "This article was made back in 2041, a year after the outcasts' little incident."
"Great, so somehow we ended up in earth, and it's been years since we saved humanity, only for our kind to go ahead and destroy stuff?" Ruby put it out loud, "This is getting crazy. What year is this?"
"November 2061."
"So people are still hating us after twenty-ones years then." Jaune said, he now fully understand what the problem was that they're dealing with. "But if you two were called outcasts, why do we have to be hunted too?" He Pointed out.
"I'm not sure, but another bunch of us had attacked before, so we have to be extra careful for the moment." Weiss put her scroll away, and yawned suddenly, "But for now...we should get some rest." She walked to the left hallway, leaving the rest to go off to their beds.
"Okay, goodnight." Nikos said, she stood up and walked over to the right hallway, the two leaders of their teams were going over to the left hallway, and were now ready to have some rest. After changing into their PJs, which were actually from the original resident's, they freshened up for bed as well.
Ruby's PJs were in the form of a onesie, a pink one with love icons on it, and Jaune's had a usual one with a blue pattern on it. The two were walking over to their bed which was in a room next to Weiss', but there was a problem.
"There's only one bed." The plain, yet comfortable bed was just laying there for someone to sleep on, Ruby and Jaune looked at each other, then back at the bed, then at each other, then the bed, and then they gave each other a face that meant competition. They lunged out for the bed, and pulled each other back and forth.
"That Bed is mine!" "I need that bed more than you!" "The pillow is calling my name!" "Then you can take half of it!" "That doesn't help!" The two leaders were now battling each other for the comfort of the bed, nearly making punches, and almost head butting each other just to get some sleep.
"I must have the bed!" Ruby shouted as Jaune pushed her aside to land on the bed, then she came and pulled him off of it.
"I need it more than you do!" Jaune managed to grab a pillow and hit Ruby in the face, right before she returned fire by getting the other pillow and bashing it right on him. Soon the two were engaging in a pillow fight. Jaune defended himself and stepped back once Ruby tried to strike at him.
Jaune hit the girl in the stomach, and then slammed it right on top of her, just as she thrusted herself right on him, then used her 'weapon' to spin around and try to get a perfect hit. It managed to hit him twice, the other three were blocked. He ran at her, but she tripped him and he rolled right on top of the bed, before landing on the other side of it, and then posing himself for combat.
He ran out to the Grimm reaper and clashed it at the same time as her. Jaune pushed her away, and he hit her with the softness of the pillow, just as she pulled off a move that involved her to spin around once, and let it miss Jaune, before sending it right to his face.
Just as Jaune was ready to strike, the door opened up and Weiss came out of it, wearing in dark nightgown, "Quiet guys, I'm trying to sleep here!" She had a pillow in her arms so she threw it right out at Ruby, and she fell from the impact, and was 'defeated.'
"I won!" The knight shouted, "Thank you Weiss." He hopped right on the bed, and pulled the covers on top of him, the Schnee heiress closed the door, and Ruby was left laying on the ground with the pillow covering her face. "Aw come on." She said under it. She turned to her side and moved the pillow to her face, before falling asleep on the cold carpet floor.
The Atlas soldiers could've been asleep by now, but some of them had work to do. the lights were flickered on and the sound of sleeping people could be heard...not Really. But anyways, Only a few people were up for the night, and they were busy trying to verify their newest weapon.
By the window, Neo was fast asleep. She made no sound and she clutched a pillow to her head, using it to cushion herself. Even though she was with a few people, she just wanted to get some sleep, so she tried to do that by heading in the office, too bad they were busy.
The Atlas and the White Fang soldiers were using the holographic table to look at a small scale of it. "Are we ready for a test drive?" Irons said through a screen, he still wasn't here so he just communicated them from somewhere.
"Yes sir, we have set things up and we're ready to try it out." A faunus said To the screen.
"Good, and Neo?" The Atlas soldiers looked to the right to see the ice cream girl sleeping on the floor with the pillow. One of them walked up to her, and kicked the side of her face, she got up and rubbed the place where she got kicked. She turned to the soldiers and gave them a glare with a Silver eye on her left and a Brown eye on her right.
"You're needed." The soldier said, the girl got herself on her feet and walked to the front of the screen, clutching her pillow and staring at Irons' eyes.
He replied, "Sorry to wake you up from your sleep. Did you get our animal friends the word of our mission."He did know that Neo didn't speak at all most of the time, so she instead did that by handing in papers for them. She nodded yes, and gave him a bit of a frown, he didn't mind it one bit. "Good, I've set up our coordinates and gave out the preparations for the mission. It seems like you're going to be doing a lot of work tomorrow."
Neo didn't smile, she turned away, and the Atlas soldiers went back to conversing to Irons. The Ice Cream girl looked at the holographic table, their mission was at the ocean, a perfect place to test out their 'weapon'. The one thing that she was waiting for was to see the tide turn around on the Sentinels, but they're still far in the lead and were already winning, she shrugged the thought of it. She went back to her spot and started to go back to sleep.
" good luck out there." the owner of Atlas dissappeared from the screen. the soldiers moved away from this and began to go back to work, but they moved out of the room to make sure they don't disturb the small girl. one of them, Perry was not even going to deny the fact that he was feeling the same way as Neo was. He didn't like this idea at all, but he had to do this along with his buddies. He had some bandage on his head, covering his forehead and hiding his injury. The faunus (possibly) had not much to care about except getting his work done, even though he was not expecting this to be work.
He just stayed by the table and took one glance at Neo, snoozing the night away with the pillow at the side of her head. Maybe he didn't like this girl since she had an affliction with Torchwick, he had to be honest and say that she was a little bit creepy and might be a little out of her mind, seeing that she was not even trying to be social with the other partners and much more of a loner, and yet she still follows behind Roman for any unexplained reason. he brushed that off and headed outside, Neo heard those footsteps he made, and that made her wake up from the comforts of her sleep again.
Perry heard the girl waking up and turned to her, pushing his glasses closer to his mask. "Oh sorry, didn't mean to disturb you." he said, the girl made no response as always, the faunus member said "Aren't you going to say anything?"
the girl shook her head, but she gave him an emotionless face instead of frowning, she didn't had the strength to even do it now, Perry spoke again, "Okay then, do you want me to leave now or..?" That response came out of nowhere, but he wasn't willing to stay with this girl, "I don't want to interrupt your night."
Neo sat on the floor and shook her head, she pointed at him and then at the table. Perry guessed that it was okay for him to work, and when he asked that, she nodded. "Alright then, but if i doze off," he replied once he got to the table, "I'm blaming you." He had to do this thing now, but only to keep her company for some reason, the girl looked at the faunus, then lied down next to her pillow. Perry had to work on this new weapon of theirs, but he might waste his time doing it here, "So, what do you like to do when you're not working?"
Neo answered that question by getting out her scroll and put on some peaceful kind of music out loud, relaxing the mood a little. She put the scroll next to her, and kept herself to her pillow, and Perry smiled listening to this small bit of music, but why she would play that is anyone's guess, "Where did you hear this?" he turned to look at her after inspecting their weapon a few seconds later, but only to see that she had her head turned to the opposite direction, and started to sleep. he kept on working for the rest of the night, feeling a bit weak while doing so, but didn't complain at all.
Dawn had approached New York, but that wasn't a good sign. Last night was the sudden appearence of eight Outcasts, and that sent most of the city in panic, but not enough to make them cause their evacuation. Everyone was ordered to stay indoors, but now it was free for them to get moving in some districts of the town. The other places that the outcasts were last seen was being monitored by the law enforcements and being patrolled by an armed force, the buildings weren't being inspected however, which was a good thing for the other four students of Beacon.
Inside one of the apartments, there was Coco, who was busy looking out the window for any signs of the law enforcements, Neptune and Velvet who were having breakfast, and there was Cardin, who was...doing something, but he wasn't around to have cereal with the gang.
"So right now, we got transported to this planet called 'Earth,' we're in the year 2061, and we're being hunted for doing something that we shouldn't have years ago, and we're seperated from our friends." Neptune recap the previous events last night to the bunny eared faunus, and the burnette wearing girl, "Did i miss anything?"
"Not really, but you just left out the part where we're being stuck with an asshole who leads a team that no one likes." Coco added in, she still showed those feelings out against one of their allies, if only someone had to pair up with that freak so they wouldn't deal with him.
"That doesn't even sound important." The blue-haired guy moved his orange juice away.
"If you were me, you'd understand." the bunny girl noded to the reply Neptune made, she was not even dome being bullied by Winchester, it still happens most times. "But anyways what are we going to do now? The police are after us."
"We have to get back to Remnant, although we have a few problems with that." Coco knew that the portals wouldn't magically appear, because that would not make sense at all, or something like that. Someone knocked on the side of the door, revealing to be Cardin.
"Good morning everyone." He briefly said, he walked to the table to have his breakfast, and Velvet moved away from him just as he did, Neptune just sat there with him. "What's up?"
"Nothing much." Vasilias replied, "We're just going to try and think of a plan to escape the city." Truth was that they were nearly thinking of that idea, but luckily he brought that up so now they can start planning out ideas. Velvet pulled her scroll out and showed the map of the city of New York.
"We only have a few options to choose from," she said, "We could either take the subway route, which might have us endure with a lot of problems. We could go find ourselves a dock and steal a boat so we can sail away, but that could get us exposed out in the open as well. Or we can go out and run across one of the few bridges they have, but then again, we'd be exposed to the world."
"What do you suggest we pick?" Neptune asked the bunny eared faunus.
"Well, I vote for going to the train station," she answered, "It's a little bit safer to go there, plus it relaxes me a little."
"I like your suggestion Velvet, but I vote that we should go to the bridge." Coco said, liking the fact that their would be danger once they go on there, she could take care of them no problem thanks to her minigun.
"I'll have to agree with you on the bridge route." Cardin said, "We wouldn't want to go ourselves lost that way."
"Then I'll have to go with the bridge too." It was Vasilias' turn to talk, "I think trains might be a bad idea for traveling out of a city." Velvet let her smile go away, but she understand what they were dealing with.
She replied, "Okay then, We're almost done, all we have to do is vote for our leader."
"I'll be the leader!" Coco and Cardin shouted out, raising their hands in the air, but they turned right to their faces, "No, I want to be leader! Stop saying that!"
"Yeah, that's what I thought would happen." Neptune said to Velvet, the two sane people were now thinking of a better solution, so they headed over to the kitchen part of the apartment, and got out a bunch of weird straws. "Both of you, stop for one second."
The two leaders of their separate teams stopped arguing, and looked at Neptune with his straws, "Instead of arguing about this, let's just settle this the simple way." He put the pack down on the table, "Whoever gets the shortest straw will be the leader of the day."
"For a whole day?" Coco replied in question.
Cardin replied, "Seriously, we're just going to settle this in an old kind of way? By voting on straws?"
"Well, that's the only thing I can think of that doesn't involve us getting hurt."
"Fine, whatever!" Winchester walked over to the bunch of straws, and didn't inspect it, he just waiting for Coco to come over here to settle this easily. "So we just have to follow the leader, whoever that will be for the entire day?"
"Yeah, that's it, " nodded the blue-haired boy, "Just don't get your hopes high for this." The four students gathered over the small stack of crazy straws, and each one of them took a piece at the same time to determine their leader, (and yes, I used some random thing ). The other three of the students were not fortunate to get the short straw, but only one of them did and that was...
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Velvet. She had the small straw in her hands, and looked around the group, a bit stunned to see this, "Wait...this has to be a mistake."
"NO! There is no way!" Cardin shouted, angry about the final choice "I am not going to team up with a freak like HER!" Coco just pushed him aside, she walked over to her partner, "congratulations my friend." She gave her a hug and moved back to her other position to get her weapon. "Now it's time for us to get going."
"Alright then." Velvet was a bit shy hearing that she was going to be their leader for only one day, but she had to follow the rules, so she needed to do the best she can, but there was a small problem she had, specifically her weapon. She forgot to mention that she didn't had it along with her, but Coco must've noticed.
They didn't say anything about that as the brunette wearing girl walked out of the room, with Neptune coming beside her, and giving the faunus a pat on her shoulder, "Do your best, okay?"
She nodded yes, before letting him pass by, and then Cardin came by. He passed by her, completely avoiding eye contact since she was his least favorite person. Velvet hoped that he could change soon enough, she hoped that it could happen, but how could a bully become a good person? That is a question she wanted to see answered, "Well...here we go."
Back at the others, Ruby and Jaune had formed a plan. If they were going to get out of the city, they needed to cover more ground, and the best way to do that is to split up, (that is obviously a bad idea, but why not?) and find their friends since they were not contacting them easily. Since the four huntsmen were most wanted by the authorities, they had to remain undetected so they needed to be in disguises for the time being.
Weiss had a buttoned up shirt, with a vest on top of it, and her long hair to make sure she didn't get any second glances. Her black jeans helped her as well, and so did the old heels but she could still move around without tripping over something. She turned to see Ruby finsihing up her disguise.
"So, what do you think?" She asked, smiling. Her kind was wearing a long sleeve shirt with a grey color and blue pants and some red sneakers. She still had her hood and cape on her.
Weiss said, "It looks good on you Ruby, but...you might need to lose some things." She walked to the Grimm Reaper and she forced herself to take off the cloak and then take her weapon which was tucked on her back.
"Hey, give that back!"
"I'm sorry, but these items," The Schnee Heiress stuffed all of Ruby's huntress gear in a grey bag, and zipped it up. "Are gonna get us exposed out in this city! So we must not wear them." She got to the closet, and looked over a few clothing items before finding the right one, "This one's perfect for you." She began to put on the coat for her partner.
"Hey, W-Wait!" The coat was now on her, and it was zipped up to her neck. "There we go." Ruby's new coat was in a black color with a thin red line down on her left side, it's sleeves were too long so it completely covered her hands, and it was a little uncomfortable thanks to it being completely zipped up. "You just need one more thing." Weiss, being the fashion type all of a sudden, got to the closet again and took out a knitted scarf that was in a blue color.
She wrapped it around Ruby's neck while she was unzipping the top of the jacket so that she wouldn't let it get in the way. "There you go." Weiss smiled at her work, while the young huntress just gave her a glare.
"You could've gave me a hoodie to hide my face instead of this." She complimented to the Heiress. "I look completely weird in this!"
"Fine, i'll give you something else." Instead of taking off everything, she just got out some sunglasses and put it on Ruby, before she even had a chance to deny them, "How about that?"
"Uh...That's not helpful either." Ruby tipped her new sunglasses just like Coco does when she encounters an enemy. "But Thanks." She grabbed her bag, which had all of her stuff, and left the room, hoping to not get a different look by the Heiress. Jaune and Pyyrha were outside the apartment and were wearing their own 'disguises.' Jaune wore a hoodie that was light blue, and he had it covering his face. Pyyrha had loosen her hair to wear a long slim jacket that was brown and she wore some shorts, despite the fact that it was going to be winter soon. They both had their regular outfits in their bags.
They noticed Ruby and Weiss carrying their bags as they stepped out of the apartment, "We're ready." They both said.
"Okay, everyone remembers what we're going to do." Nikos said.
Jaune reprised their plan, "We have to find a way to regroup with our friends, to get back to our home planet and not die while doing so."
"Which would explain why we're splitting up and heading over to different parts of the city." Weiss finished, "If we ever need to contact each other, we need to do it at night." The team nodded, understanding their plan. "So are we ready."
"Yeah, good luck." Ruby was the first to start off the mission, so she walked to the left side of the abandoned street, and Weiss tagged along with her, Jaune and Pyyrha headed the opposite direction and headed to the lower right districts of New York. They had one mission to do, and this was their time to start it, but they would only question what to do next if they had the time to do so. They had to focus on the task, and hope that they wouldn't fail it.
Weiss stopped walking to see Ruby pull out something from the bag before zipping it up again. It was a pillow and she was now aiming it at Jaune from a far distance. "Oh no you're not!" Weiss grabbed the pillow from Ruby's hands, "This is no time for that!"
"Aww, okay then." Ruby picked up the bag again and continued walking to the upper parts of the city, while Weiss threw the pillow down at the street and following her to begin their search for their friends.
This took a long while to finish up, but it's now here. So I'll keep trying to get this thing done, but not rush it, since there's a lot to cover at this point.
I'm sorry if there wasn't any Call Of Duty action much, but I promise that it'll happen in the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed, please review, compliment on some things, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.