Welcome back to Operation: Outcasts.

First off, very sorry for the chapter delay, things were going a bit crazy for me since I was dealing with the usual problems. (and also for motivation, i watched the same Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer on repeat. probably a bad idea.)

Secondly, I will say that this chapter is basically going to set up the next one as well since I'm almost done with the story and i can do others. But also, I will also say that this chapter also contains something weird in it...a lot weird.

But I'll stop talking for now. Enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Call Of Duty or RWBY in any respective way or any other series in that matter, I'm just a fan.

Chapter 13

Ruby slowly opened her eyes after feeling a little weird for more than an hour or so. She expected to see the ceiling, Weiss sleeping somewhere else, or even the living room, but what she got was a dream. This was a dream that had yet to show it's full version of an unknown world that she was in, but it was going too soon. The only thing she could see was fog that was around her, blinding her vision from seeing what could happen in this mystery world and bringing her questions.

"Where am I?" She asked herself, trying to see what she was wearing just in case she wouldn't feel a little embarrassed or anything like that. She realized that she was not the same age as before, she was now a young child with a red sweater and a short black skirt, She still had a cape behind her. She began to wonder why she was posed as the young girl she used to be, and why she still had the voice of her normal age.

Ruby was not where she was before, she was not in her bed anymore and was nowhere near any signs of her friends. The fog began to clear out a little and reveal the location she was in, She stood on a bridge and it was leading her to the city of New York. The skies were grey and the rest of the surroundings were covered by fog as well, and nothing was seen that could be a good sign for the Rose girl. She looked worried and unsure about what this dream could be holding for her, she began to walk slowly and felt the sounds of her heart beat quickly.

The whole place was left deserted and all of the cars were abandoned by no one, Ruby climbed up the hood of a car and looked around the place to see if there was anything good around here, but she could only see a fog. The only thing that she could wonder was why this was all happening but the answer as to what was going to happen emerged from the smokey scene of the world.

An Atlas VTOL was flying in the air and moving as far as it could from the smoke and looked at the young girl. Ruby was afraid of this suddenly, she was weapon less and she was not sure if she was able to use her semblance properly, luckily something flew right past the bridge and crashed right into the vehicle and sent it down while it spun around into a 360 degree turn. An explosion was heard below, but Ruby decided to not check it out and tried to see what was going on in the city instead of standing here.

She started running as fast as she could to see what was happening around the place, uncertain of why it is going on in the first place or why it was starting. "What is going on here? Why is this happening?" She thought it was something that was fighting the enemy, but what could it be?

Another explosion came from a vehicle and she was pushed back to land on her face, she looked behind her to see what was destroyed, and she saw an android right next to her feet, it had a weird face and curved antennas right on the side of the face, the color of it was dark as it was destroyed and the left arm was reaching out for something, but the rest of it was gone from sight.

Ruby scattered away from it and walked back from the android thing, it wasn't anything she had seen before and it surely didn't look friendly, but why was it fighting Atlas? "What the heck is that thing?" She asked herself, "Is that a..?" She noticed that more were zooming through the sky and there was even more VTOLs trying to fly by them. But the wings were attacked by the next few seconds.

Ruby saw a part of the wing falling down somewhere close to her and then the explosion pushed her back and she landed on her back this time. She felt her hearing go deaf a little and then she could hear again, she looked at herself to see if she was injured, but she realized that she was in a different form again. She was no longer in her young age, she was actually dressed with a white cloak and her regular combat outfit, but the weapon was nowhere to be seen.

"Why is this happening to me?" She said, getting up in her feet and looked around the place, she started running and heard a lot of carnage that alerted her at something was going on. She tripped over something and then a voice was heard in her head as she moved.

"Do you think the people could be protected?" A robot/human voice started talking to her.

"W-What are you talking about?" She questioned the voice.

"I'm talking about the truth, no one is really safe. You cannot hope to fight for them when you fight them." As much as Ruby would question the guy why he was speaking to her, and what it meant, she kept wondering on why this dream was happening to her, but the voice could be connected to it as well.

She kept moving as more destruction was surrounding the area, she felt like something was making this all happening to her, nothing was right anymore, and it was only causing her to worry even more. "Why is this happening?"

"This is what should happening, this is the only step that can be achieved to save them." The voice still drew over her.

"By destroying things and killing people? That's not the right way to help anyone!"

"You don't even know what this could do, it could end everything that you've caused. It will save everyone from themselves." Ruby hit her head to get the voice out, but it didn't budge one bit.

Ruby was going to ask why this voice was talking to her in the first place and explaining why this is good, but she knew that there would be more things attacking, so she kept running and avoided the explosions that were being caused by the falling androids and broken ships.

She couldn't tell if the environment was changing in an instant because the place was changing into different parts of the city, she could see many things being torn down from the top to the bottom of any structure, but the next moment was changing the logic of this dream as she kept running and saw a Vehicle trying to advert it's course from crashing right into a television-like building, but it crashed on it, breaking apart fragments of the building and then bursting into a firey object and fell down right behind red stairs as the ship leaned on it.

Ruby stopped in the middle of the street, seeing so many things happening before her. The robot voice began to talk again, "Do you see what this world is about to witness?" It questioned her and she had nothing to reply to that so it said, "This world is witnessing what it could've accomplished before, Peace."

"This is not peace." Ruby said, "This is not...peace." She was frighten at the scene of destruction, another fragment of destruction landed on the ground, "This is not-"

"You will understand it, this is the the path you took to save the world, but you didn't know what must be done."

"Get out of my head! Get out of my head!" The Rose girl fell to her knees and put her hands around her head as carnage began to continue all around her, "None of this is right, stop it! Stop it!" There was tears forming down her eyes again, only hoping that this could all end with her waking up to the real world, back to where reality is, but this felt too real for her.

"Stop this madness, stop all of this! STOP IT ALL PLEASE!" She pleaded for it to change, but all she got was the sound of metal somewhere next to her, she noticed that she was completely surrounded by androids, they had eyes that glowed blue and in front of her was a robot that almost had a resemblance to it's allies, but instead it was red.

It's arm extended to her and grabbed her neck, lifting up from the ground and facing the one responsible for all of this, "Soon. I'm going to show you what you wanted the most-" Euby began to see the unknown face of this machine, but it began to suddenly switch into a different kind of face, not to mention the height of it was smaller than before, two faces were revealing itself and the color was changing from red to green and then repeating itself. "My friend."

Ruby suddenly felt a chill run down her spine, the voice of the robot was somehow fused with another, fused with...her. "P-p-Penny?" She was finally thrown off to the red stairs and she could see the glimpse of the robot, but then saw it in a different form before landing and then her vision broke apart easily.

She screamed at the air and looked right in front of her to do anything to resist against this, but she realized that she was no longer in a dream...she was back in the real world. Back in the same house that they came too earlier. She looked around and began to slowly smile at the sight of the house, feeling glad that she was here instead of that...alternate reality of some kind, but she immediately covered her eyes as she began to sob tears as they dropped on the floor.

"Ruby?" Weiss came out from the living room dressed in a nightgown, rushing over to where her partner was. "Ruby are you okay? What happened?" She put her arms around her and tried to get her to calm down, she didn't do it just then as she tried to speak through her crying tears.

"I'm...I'm fine...I'm." she said in a sad voice.

"No you're not, did you had a bad dream or anything like that?" The answer was anor from her.

"I was in this city...but I think everything was falling apart...Atlas...The White Fang..." She tried to explain, "Everyone lost...to that thing...To..." She couldn't finish the last sentence, even through the sobs she was making couldn't seem to stop at a moment like this.

"Ruby...it was all a bad dream, it's nothing to worry about."

"It is, it told me something...It told me soon, I just think we could be facing something worse than what we've encountered before." The poor girl stopped talking as her friend understood it.

"Come here." Ruby fell right into Weiss' arms and sobbed over her dress again, perhaps it might've been the second time today or two days in a row. "Don't worry about it Ruby, you don't need to let it get over your head."

"It was all too real Weiss, it was way too real. I could still see it all."

"Ruby, please...I'm sorry, I know nightmares can be real like that, but you don't need to be all worried about it. It's a nightmare, but if we ever do see that reality happening, we will be ready for it." Weiss said to her, Ruby nodded her head silently after pulling herself from the hug and then pulled her into one again.

"Thank you Weiss." She said, Weiss pulled herself away from her softly and then said, "Goodnight Ruby."

"Goodnight Weiss." Ruby said back and covered herself with the blanket before she began to sleep again, there wasn't anything to worry about now, It was just going to be a dream, and the only thing they have to expect is what tomorrow could bring.

The night had already covered the base of the Sentinels and they were all prepared for the mission tomorrow to attack turkey, (not realizing that it was not even the correct place and it was just some hoax thing) and the outcasts would be ready to launch down there and fight the enemy once and for all. Some of them were a little worried, but the others believed that they were going to be fine like the other fights they went through against the soldiers.

Though New York was abandoned, they still couldn't get a clear location of Ruby or Weiss in any of the districts, and they were probably going to end up as MIA for the rest of the night. The outcasts were hoping that they would be found soon enough, they have been completely separated from them for so long, they couldn't even get a good connection on their scrolls. There wasn't any time left to spare to get a search party to find them since the results of finding them were nowhere near successful.

Tonight was a little windy but the group was indoors, shielding them from the cold winds was the inside hall which was next to the bedroom, and that was where Jaune was. He had a face of worry, knowing full well that this was going to be a much more difficult task than in New York, they would be facing a lot more danger that before, Atlas would be waiting for them, and the Sentinels, but that would be the chance to fight back against their nightmare.

"Jaune Arc, wasn't it?" The blonde turned to see Mitchell walking around and noticing his appearence from a few feet away, "You must be exhausted from that effort it took to get out of New York."

"Yeah, trust me, it's not as safe as it sounds anymore." He said, "Me and my friends already knew that."

"I could tell, Didn't you do any of this back in your home world?"

"We just Grimm, but this is not the kind of threat we normally deal with."

"Then you're lucky to get a taste of something much more threatening than your Grimm creatures." While Mitchell had no idea what those are since the knowledge of Remnant was still a mystery, he just agreed to that point as if he knew, he leaned on the wall of the hallway, "Atlas is very strong and yet you guys somehow took down some of their best men."

"I guess we could take some credit for that at least." Arc smiled a little before turning back to the other face from before, "But they really took some of us down easily, including Velvet, and Pyyrha."

"That must've been from one of their best men then," Mitchell knew that the outcast character was hinting towards Archangel, but he didn't need to know he was responsible for doing this while problem to them if they were going to fight tomorrow unless it was a bit necessary, but also they would perhaps need to alerted of him just in case, but now wasn't the perfect time. "Atlas really likes the guy."

"I bet they do, he must've killed other outcasts before we showed up and changed everything."

"Ironically, yes he has, but you won't need to worry about that after we get the mission done, you could still come back home when we finish it all." Mitchell's words of encouragement were doing well for him, but not too much.

"Right. We could go back home after this all ends, but then...what happens to the rest of Earth after we leave?" He asked the Sentinel with the ampulated arm.

"We'll just take care of everything else for now, you have your own world to protect with as well."

"Yeah, so does everyone else as well."

"Tomorow is really going to change things for you guys." The soldier said, he turned away from the hall and headed somewhere else, "Just be sure that you can be ready for it." Jaune had no response to say back to the soldier, but he walked over to his bed, thinking about that for more than a minute, this would truly be something a lot more different than what they've experienced so far, it was really going to test their limits on this fight.

The Sentinel was looking at a window and while he had indeed been questioning about how this could all turn out at the end, he didn't smiled, but he was hoping for something great. "Tomorrow, we will do this for you Cormack, and for you Will, I promise."

It was now four in the morning, it was almost time to prepare for the fight that will change the fate of this war, whoever wins will be taking the next step towards the fight and turn it all in a new direction. It was now going to be Atlas and the White Fang versus the Sentinels and the newly recruited Outcasts, the only problem for Atlas was one of their 'allies'.

Inside one of the faunus' rooms, there was one guy sleeping right on his bed, thinking about something in his mind. He was not really expecting the fight today to be a good one and there was a possible chance that this will be it for them, if they win then they would finally be free of this job. Just then, he heard a ringing sound from his scroll on the table next to him.

He sighed, "Who could it be at this time of day?" Picking up the scroll, it was revealed to be a message sent from Neo, not expected from a silent girl, but he was curious as to why it would be her. He opened up the notification.

"Here's something that might interest you." That was what it said, under the small line of words was an audio feed that was caught sometime ago, feeling a little more curious as to what information this might obtained, the faunus activated it.

"Irons, I've been wondering about your decision," a soldier was heard first through the screen of sound waves, "We had an anti-outcast team years ago, we also killed so many of them, and yet...you allow those freaks who call themselves faunus to help us?"

"It was the only thing that we could do to help us out Magma." That was Irons, "I know that we are breaking our own rule about outcasts and our rules of hunting them down, but these people have advanced artillery and some of their best men are perfectly reliable for us."

"The White Fang is what they call an organization threating mankind, and they just so happened to come from the world where the two legends originated from. It's a perfect step for us to take to fight and save the world."

Magma said, "So you're just letting them fight with us? What about Archangel, wouldn't he be notified about this if we're compromising his outcast hunting days?"

"He's been out of commission ever since the Sentinels emerged from the shadows and they and began to hijack our plans with Manticore, but he won't surely mind when we do this." Jonathan's voice was concerning for the listener. "And besides, the White Fang won't be useful to us when we finish our job, once we deal with whatever steps in our way, we'll just terminate them in the end, just like every other outcast we see."

"Yes sir, I'll just have to wait for-" the scroll was shut off before the message could finish, the faunus was now angry when he heard this, there was no doubt about it.

"Just like the others...you're gonna kill us? We'll just have to see about that." He replied with a cold tone in his voice and a frown that was menacing-like. He was unaware that he was not the only one who sent the message, for in fact, the entire White Fang team has been received the exact same audio clip from the ice cream girl.

Reynard, who was feeling a little bored about last night, finished the whole message and gave Neo a dark look, "Oh god, you did not just..." He was a little stunned that someone like her just managed to steal some personnel secrets from the most advanced military organization in the world, but also shocked to hear about the betrayal that was going to be held today if things went well in the mission.

Neo didn't mind the look on the fox Faunus' face, nor anyone else's for that matter, she was impressed by her own work. She was almost stepping up to Roman's shoes and done an amazing job of finding out some discriminating items in the dark, exposing whatever Atlas tried to hide from them, but the audio clip was perhaps the most incredible. She just smiled with a grin and her eyes were changed as her left eye now has a silver color and a pink color on the right eye. This was going to be a perfect farewell party for them.

Today was now as normal as it could be, ever since New York was attacked yesterday, things were slowly adjusting again. As the sun shined down on them, the city was feeling a sign of hope that something will change for the greater good.

Back in Logan's home, the two residents were having the place occupied for the moment until they can decide on what to do for the moment. For now, it was just the two of the outcasts wandering in the house for a little bit.

"Almost there. Almost!" Ruby was heard through the living room, playing something as Weiss could tell. She was dressed up in the outfit from yesterday and she could see her partner wearing the same one as well. She was on a laptop that was left open, and she was playing a video game on it.

"Ruby, what are you doing?" She asked, walking towards her as she peeked behind her shoulder to see who was coming to her.

"Oh morning Weiss." She greeted her, "I'm playing this very very old game from forty years ago, people say this is a very good game." The screen had shown her in an office where only two openings were shown.

Weiss was not curious towards the game, "Hey Ruby, do you think that this computer has a good connection?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Because I think we can use it to try and deliver a message to people, we could tell the, that we're not the enemies by video." That response was very good for them. If they could show it to the people, they could see the truth and forgive them.

"Nice idea, but hang on, someone's coming." Ruby clicked on a button.

"Ruby, just turn off the game, as much as I would want to know where you found that game, we have to do some-" As weiss was going to explain the reasons for using this computer and broadcasting themselves online, a sudden jumpscare happened and both of the girls screamed out loud, Ruby fell off of the chair, and Weiss fell on the floor after nearly getting a heart attack.

The game over screen was shown and the two girls were left with scarred looks. "What the heck was that thing!?" Weiss shouted.

"I-I have no idea, my heart just stopped at that moment." Ruby slowly got up and then exited out of the game quickly so that they won't get scared by it again. "Okay Weiss, let's try your plan." She checked on a web server and clicked through some things before she found something useful. "Here we go." She clicked on it and a window showed up and she and Weiss were now on the screen.

Ruby cleared her throat and replied to it, "Um...hello world, my name is Ruby Rose, and this is my partner Weiss Schnee. As you know, we're the two legendary outcasts who have saved your species from the Cryptids about forty years ago, but now, we have heard that you hate us because we destroyed one of your cities before. What I want to tell you, is that we are-" a slap on the back of her head stopped her, "Ow!"

"Ruby, the face camera was NOT even recording the entire time!" The Schnee heiress pointed that out, the red button was not pressed at all.

"Oh, whoops." Rose rubbed the back of her head, and chuckled a little after hearing this, she even had a perfect speech, "My bad." Before she had any chance to try again, there was a knock on the door that halting their plan for a short moment, "I'll get it." She walked over to the wooden door and opened it up, "Hey Logan, heyyyyy...?"

It was Logan indeed, but he was also alongside with Archangel, who was still dressed in the Atlas uniform, he looked pretty tired, but it didn't stop him. Ruby was a little concerned as to why he was here, and why he was with Logan in the first place. "Uhh...Fredrick...I didn't think-"

"Good to see you still feeling well Ruby." He said as if this was just a good reunion, "Where's Weiss?"

"She's in the living room, trying to film herself that we're not enemies to the people."

"Good luck with that one, it failed over four times back before." Archangel moved in the house and Ruby just let him pass, giving Logan a look of confusion.

He knew what she was trying to ask from that expression, "He's just a friend i found last night, he told me he was done fighting for Atlas, and he was worried about you and your friend. So i came to his place for the night, and he said he has a plan." He explained to her, The Ex-Atlas soldier walked to the room Weiss was i, and she was struggling with half of the technology problems.

"They had decades of technology improvements, and yet they don't know how to properly program a video correctly without having bugs in it." She muttered, pushing a few keyboards with her hand in frustration, she turned her head and saw Archangel, his appearence made her back up from the chair, "Wha!? You're the guy from yesterday!"

"Hey Weiss, did you think i was going to let you two stay in this abandoned city after what happened?" He said to her, she was not feeling the guy acting hostile, but he wasn't really planning to in front of the heiress.

"Look, Thanks for saving Ruby back there, but what do you want?"

"I came to help you two out, we're going to kill Irons today." the words didn't seem to worry her, but from his expression, it only meant that they would have to deal with Atlas yet again, and they were just enjoying some time off too.

"You're wanting us to get sent out to one of the bases of an evil PMC who is still hellbent on trying to kill us?"

"You could say that, but there's a plan for that, it's going to be very simple if you trust me on it." Archangel sat down on another chair, Weiss was sort of giving him a stern look to signify that she was not sure that whatever plan he had was even going to work out, Plus Irons was much more of a threat than Atlas had ever made him since he tried to kill everyone once to save the world from itself.

"Fredrick has also made contact with the Sentinels, he said that they were planning to attack in turkey, but he informed them quickly that they should head to Iraq instead." Logan announced, "And the good news for you girls, is that they have your friends."

"All of our friends?" Ruby and Weiss both said, not expecting this message to be heard.

"Yeah, all Six of them."

"They're going to attack Atlas too, because they believed that it could be the only way to go back to their home." Archangel informed them.

Ruby thought, "If that's true, then we could finally get out of here." She smiled, this was their perfect chance to get back to Beacon.

Weiss looked at her and knew what she was thinking thanks to Fredrick's response, "Ruby, You do realize that if we do this, we'll be risking our lives again and this time, it'll be for our friends and the entire world that we're trying to save." While that did bring back memories about the Cryptids war, and how they saved everyone from that event, it was just a test for them, this one could be the real deal. Atlas wasn't sitting back and letting this pass, they were definately adapting, changing up useful machinery such as the Atlesian Paladin and upgrading things to get the job done quickly.

And while they weren't able to kill them even though they had the upper hand a few times, The outcasts have been taking many hits from them, causing them to know pain and suffering from their scars. This was not a regular enemy they were facing, they were dealing with a military more deadlier than the military itself. The only good thing to that was the fact that they were teaming up with the White Fang and (they didn't know this) they apparently hate each other now.

"Don't also forget that if we fail this, all will be lost for you, your friends, The Sentinels, our world and yours." Fredrick said to the two, "I've seen what the Atlas base has looked like, but if we're going to get in there, you have to do what i say and then you're free to engage them."

"Just remember that this will not be so easy, as you'll be dealing with all types of Exo soldiers, and a shit ton of Paladins and Goliaths along the way," Walker informed them, "The sentinels might be around by the time you get there, but just be warned that you could still be alone when you get down there." Ruby and Weiss looked at each other with a worried and concerned look, both of the girls were not wanting to get each other killed in this, but this was so far, the only option they could take to get back to Remnant. This mission was going to require a whole lot of firepower and they all had that, but Atlas would be waiting for them and they won't give up without a fight.

Weiss moved closer to Ruby and said to her, "Ruby, are you ready for this?"

Ruby didn't say it immediately, she just pouted her head for more than a second, and then looked at the heiress with a soft smile, "If this does get us back home, then I'm in." Weiss nodded back as a response, then turned to Logan and Archangel, "Okay, we're both in." The two soldiers were glad to hear that, especially since the two were most needed for this kind of mission to get back home and forget about this whole thing.

After making sure they had everything they needed, and checking on how they were going to get to Iraq since it's on the other side of the world, the outcasts and the soldiers headed out to an Atlas VTOL, which was still in mint condition after all this time, Archangel was going to pilot the vehicle and fly them there. The two outcasts were now ready to leave.

"Weiss, Ruby." Logan said to the two, he looked at them and said, "Just so you know, if this is the last time we'll see each other, I want you to know that there are still many worlds you'll see someday. And when it does happen, it'll be for a reason that only you can find out."

"So, we might not come back here if there's a reason for us to go to another world?" Weiss asked.

"Yeah, you could say that, everything's going to change if you ever get back here." Ruby turned to him and gave him another hug, Weiss hugged him as well, knowing full well that if they came back here, it'll be a lot different than it was before, many things will change around them.

"Good bye Logan." They said.

"Good bye." He said back to them, once the two girls separated from each other they walked right in the VTOL, as it began to start up, they looked back at Logan who had his back turned and walked back to his home. The hatch closed on the two as they were now in the vehicle and were just going to wait a little before they got to the destination.

Weiss and Ruby knew what they would be facing when they get there, but this was not going to go well for them once it does happen.

Like i said, very sorry for the delay, it was kind of hard to get this one done compared to the others.

Credit goes to Evincio for your help on this chapter, thanks for the help.

Anyways, about Ruby's dream, that was a foreshadowing moment that i was actually planning to do ever since Avengers: Age of Ultron was revealed, but I'm actually saving that up for later in the year, and If it was kind of a weird way to introduce that, then i can understand.

And another thing, I will warn you about the next chapter, it might end up being delayed for a little while or it might show up at the right time, because it probably could almost reach about the same number as Chapter ten did, but i don't want to try and achieve that since it might be too long again.

As always, hope you enjoyed, please review, compliment on some things, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.